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Dorothy Allison grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, the first child of a fifteen-year-old unwed mother who worked as a waitress. Now living in Northern California with her partner Alix and her teenage son, Wolf Michael, she describes herself as a feminist, a working class story teller, a Southern expatriate, a sometime poet and a happily born-again Californian.
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Dorothy Allison please visit
www.femmecollective.com.
http://www.femmecollective.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=46&Itemid=69 Our
Call for Submissions is now open. Deadline for submissions is May 1st, 2008.
http://www.femmecollective.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=43&Itemid=65 Following our Femme2006 conference in San Francisco, where over 400 femmes and allies gathered for three days of workshops, panels, and performances, we again invite community members, artists, academics, homemakers, geeks, techies, activists, femmes of all kinds, and their allies to continue the conversation by participating in Femme 2008 in Chicago as presenters and participants.
Registration is now open! The early registration rate is $60.00 until May 30th, 2008.
http://www.femmecollective.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=32