From a press release - Lambda Legal's Bon Foster Civil Rights Celebration returns on Friday, at The Art Institute of Chicago. Lambda Legal to celebrate 50 years with Bon Foster Civil Rights Celebration May 19 Sorry you had to go as your first play aired."Īccording to Sinister Wisdom's website, there will be a celebration of Dykewomon's life on Sunday, Sept. Writer, activist, teacher, lover, leader, warm and sensitive person. Franeta wrote, in part, "Look at her name and it says so much. Writer Sonja Franeta was among those remembering Dykewomon on social media. One of the watch parties took place on the day Dykewomon passed away.
As her partner slips away, Mich finds support in a group of other elderly lesbian women.
The play follows the character of Mich as she navigates her partner Susan's diagnosis of Lewy body dementia, a progressive disease that causes a decline in cognition, movement and function. Other works include Risk, They Will Know Me By My Teeth and Fragments from Lesbos.Īccording to The Jewish News of Northern California, the 2022 Bay Area Playwrights Festival premiered Dykewomon's first play, How to Let Your Lover Die. She received the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction in 1998 for Beyond the Pale, and was well known for her work editing Sinister Wisdom, an international lesbian feminist journal that covers literature, art and politics. Tributes have poured in following the death of Oakland-based esteemed lesbian writer/activist Elana Dykewomon, who passed away Aug.
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