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Alix Dobkin (1940 - )
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with Lavender Jane by Alix
Dobkin and Kay Gardner
At long last, releasing in winter '97: two
absolute and essential Women's Music classics on a single,
double-length CD! Lavender Jane Loves Women, within weeks
of its 1973 release, swept women off fences and out of closets.
With delight and disbelief, they passed the records from hand to
hand, or sent them speeding across oceans and continents.
Everywhere women listened, amazed, to songs which actually
verbalized the previously unthinkable joy and pride of Lesbian
consciousness and identity. Alix's equally wonderful Living
With Lesbians soon followed. This appearance of women-centered
culture signaled the end of women's historical isolation and
silence, and provided structures to voice the exuberant spirit and
outlaw perspective of an idea long overdue. You've been needing to
replace that vinyl anyway -- treat yourself and loved ones to this
piece of Herstory!
 Yahoo
Australia! Live from Sydney by Alix
Dobkin
This wonderful release was recorded live in
concert when Alix toured the world's oldest continent in January
of 1990. Uniting Alix's identity as a world folksinger (that's how
she began her career, before she came out) as well as one of the
most lesbian-affirming musicians performing today, it includes Yahoo
Australia, Women of Ireland, Women Singing in Zimbabwe, plus Lesbian
Code, Intimacy, Shameless Hussies, The Girls Want To Be With the
Girls, New Ground, Crushes (the last, one of our favorites for
years). Simply produced, it's an intimate experience with Alix and
her guitar, humor, honesty, warmth and love, and a moving
celebration of the world-wide community of women. Very highly
recommended!
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This site contains a biography, quotes by
Dobkin, what others have said, a discography, a personal
statement, music for sale, and more.
Excerpt:
Long, long ago, maybe even before you were born,
way far back in the late 1950's... Philadelphia was a hotbed of
do-it-yourself culture, magnetizing folk music on the East
Coast... and I was a teenaged guitar-totin', card-carrying comrade
grounding myself in mushrooming crowds of progressive Jews,
self-taught musicians and other local subversives...
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By Alix Dobkin, originally published in Off
Our Backs
Excerpt:
You know that glazed look certain born-again
Christians get in their eyes when they're not listening? Or
how voices of loud mouthed Republican politicians and TV pundits
get even louder to out shout the opposition? To foreclose
debate defends the fainthearted against attack, even when no
attack is intended. Beloved tactic of cowards and bullies
everywhere, shutting down discussion stymies challenges to the
firmly held, vulnerable doctrine of the True Believer. Thus
does insecurity unite with bluster to frustrate education's
advance...
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By Alix Dobkin, originally published in Girlfriends
Magazine, August, 1999, reprinted in Femme
Magazine.
Excerpt:
Whenever I talk about women, as I often do while
touring at universities, I can count on at least one female
student asking, "But what about men?" This happens
whenever nonfeminist women are asked to prioritize themselves as
women. So it's not surprising to me that young lesbians who came
of age after the feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s are now
identifying as "queer." It's also not surprising that
many lesbian activists now are describing themselves as part of a
"lesbigay" or "LBGT" movement, thereby
identifying themselves with men and men's issues.
I have a problem with that, not because I don't
think it's important to make coalitions with other groups. I have
a problem with lesbians identifying as "queer" or
working in a "queer" movement because a movement run by
men has no use for examining power relationships between men and
womenónor respect for sacred women's space. These lesbians who
identify as queer, gay, or LBGT always want to include men in
lesbian events. Gender studies is replacing women's studies in the
academy, and "queer" is replacing "dyke" in
the streets...
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by De-Anna Alba for Femme
magazine.
Excerpt:
Although Alix didn't write her article in the
August '99 issue of "Girlfriends" Magazine to address
Femme (or Butch) issues, she did take Lesbians in general to task
for adopting the term Queer and abandoning the term Lesbian as a
self-identifier. She fears that Lesbian lives and issues will get
short shrift in the Queer movement because there are men involved
in it. By her definition feminism - and Lesbianism - means
"being deeply loyal to women and our interests?" Really,
Alix? What about Femme women? Where is the Lesbian loyalty to us -
and to our Butches?
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Excerpt:
We, Alix and Ricki, come from overlapping
communities, difficult to define, especially among ourselves. We
believe that Lesbians and transexuals understand that changing old
assumptions and making new definitions is far from simple. We also
know that it's easier to lash out at each other than to do the
hard work of creating autonomous, satisfying lives and communities
in which to make a place for ourselves. But we want to do it
anyway...
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By Michael Elkin, originally appeared in the
Jewish Exponent, Philadelphia.
Excerpt:
Alix Dobkin is gay and anything but carefree.
"We are the greatest outsiders," says Dobkin, 55, who
came out of the closet as a lesbian 23 years ago, of what it means
to be gay and Jewish...
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