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Oral Interview History with Toby Finkelstein: Video, Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project

Interviewee
Interviewer
Date
  • 8/1/2018
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
  • Toby was born in 1946 in Brooklyn, New York. She grew up in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood, Crown Heights. She discusses the constraints of the neighborhood and racial tensions. Toby attended Hunter College from 1963 through 1969. She discusses traveling around the United States and settling on a lesbian communal farm in Missouri. There, she met Clare Kinberg, and together they travelled to the Pacific Northwest and visited Eugene. Toby discusses the City of Eugene anti-gay Referendum 51. She talks about moving to Eugene, lesbian social life, and alternative businesses in town. She discusses her interview at Starflower Natural Foods & Botanicals and describes the difficult consensus meetings there. She describes the butch/femme dynamic in the lesbian community, sexual relations, the practice of non-monogamy, marriage equality, and how women communicated with each other within the community. She discusses her work at Lane Community College. Toby married her longtime partner, Aggie Agapito, and talks about parenting with her. She concludes her interview by talking about aging and about the range of jobs lesbians had in Eugene.
Subject
Keyword
  • Collectives
  • Dragon Wagon
  • Mother Kali’s Books
  • Springfield Creamery
  • Rainbow Rascals (Lesbian parenting group)
  • Baleboostehs
  • Amazon Kung Fu
  • Feminist bookstores
  • Marriage equality
  • Shit jobs
  • White flight
Location
Rights Holder
  • University of Oregon Libraries
Identifier
  • Coll520_do017
Repository
Local Collection Name
Local Collection ID
  • Coll 520
Finding Aid
Related URL
Institution
Modified
  • 01/22/2024
Collections

APA

Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project, University of Oregon. (25 Apr 2024). Oral Interview History with Toby Finkelstein: Video, Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project Retrieved from https://oregondigital.org/concern/videos/df73c2054

MLA

Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project, University of Oregon. "Oral Interview History with Toby Finkelstein: Video, Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project" Oregon Digital. 25 Apr 2024. https://oregondigital.org/concern/videos/df73c2054

Chicago

Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project, University of Oregon. "Oral Interview History with Toby Finkelstein: Video, Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2024-04-25. https://oregondigital.org/concern/videos/df73c2054

Wiki

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Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
1 Finkelstein, Toby http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/FinkelsteinToby
2 Raiskin, Judith L. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95069466
3 Long, Linda, 1956- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2001035121
4 Corinne, Tee, 1943-2006 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87876359
5 Oregon http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021953
6 Closeted gays http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93006732
7 Lesbians http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85076160
8 Lesbianism http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85076157
9 Lesbian separatism http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009003403
10 Sheklow, Sally http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/SheklowSally
11 California--San Francisco http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018452-781
12 Art http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85007461
13 Communities http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029195
14 Girl Scouts of the United States of America http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79123998
15 Rootworks (Or.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2020058519
16 Homophobia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88006552
17 Communal living http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029011
18 Cults http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85034719
19 Non-monogamous relationships http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00003586
20 Religion http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85112549
21 Bars (Drinking establishments) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93000452
22 University of Oregon >> Lane County >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5758196/
23 University of Oregon. Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003116678
24 Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/localCollectionName/EugeneLesbianOralHistoryProject
25 University of Oregon http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126183

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