Oral History Interview with Kendra Morrigan
- Title
- Oral History Interview with Kendra Morrigan
- LC Subject
- Lesbianism Lesbian community
- Local Collection ID
- Coll 520
- Repository
- University of Oregon. Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
- Interviewee
- Morrigan, Kendra
- Interviewer
- Long, Linda, 1956- Raiskin, Judith L.
- Description
- The Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project collection consists of interviews of 83 people for the Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project, conducted by Professor Judith Raiskin and Curator Linda Long at the University of Oregon starting in the summer of 2018.
- Abstract
- Kendra was born in March 1950 in Vancouver, B.C. She grew up in Tacoma, Washington and attended Washington State University, where she recognized her lesbianism. She discusses the women’s consciousness-raising movement in 1969. In 1971, She left for the Bay Area and lived in a lesbian collective, learned the printing trade, and became involved in the counterculture movement. She moved to Eugene and became involved with the lesbian community there and continued her work as a printer. She was involved in the effort to defeat Referendum 51, which would have removed protections for lesbians and gay men. She describes Eugene at that time. She describes her efforts to get pregnant in Ireland with gay sperm donors in 1979. She describes her feminist spirituality, her time spent at the southern Oregon lesbian lands, and her work as a nurse. Kendra concludes her interview by describing the joy of being a lesbian and by talking about marriage equality.
- Subject
- Alternative insemination; Artificial insemination, Human; Ballot Measure 9; Cabbage Lane; Collectives; Cooperatives; Counterculture; Dashu, Max; Eugene School District 4J; Gertrude’s Café; Grahn, Judy, 1940-; Ireland; Jackrabbit Press; Lesbian identity; Lesbian mothers -- United States; Lesbian separatism – Oregon; Nursing; Ordinances, Marxism; Municipal -- Oregon – Eugene; OWL Farm; Parenting; Parker, Pat, 1944-1989; Riviera Room; Self-insemination; Spirituality; Transgender people; Vaden, Paula Jo; Wild Iris (restaurant); Wicca; Zoo Zoo’s (restaurant).
- Location
- University of Oregon >> Lane County >> Oregon >> United States
- Date
- 2018-11-03
- Identifier
- Coll520_do038
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- University of Oregon Libraries
- Local Collection Name
- Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project
- Type
- Collection
- Format
- application/xml
- Set
- Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project
- Primary Set
- Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project
- Institution
- University of Oregon
