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Marie Cartier (b. 1965) is a teacher, poet, writer, healer, artist, activist and facilitator. She also has a first degree black belt in karate. She currently teaches at the University of California Irvine in the Film Department, and at CSU Northridge in the Women's Studies Department. The materials include student projects from her Queer Studies class at CSUN, her dissertations and research, LGBT and feminist materials, and resources and research on abuse.

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Patricia (Pat) Gargaetas was a photographer who lived in California. The bulk of this collection includes prints and negatives of Gargaetas's photography, featuring primarily portraits of women from the 1970s. Other materials include personal documents, poems written by Gargaetas, interview transcripts and questionnaires for her master's thesis, articles and clippings, books on lesbianism, buttons, clothes, and various ephemera.

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Katherine (Kate) Rosenblatt (1922-2009) was a lesbian, playwright, poet, and activist for older women. This collection includes her play scripts, published poetry, organizational materials for the West Coast Old Lesbian Conference, and various periodicals, newsletters, and lesbian and feminist writings.

Abstract Juanita Sanchez was a celebrated poet who organized writing spaces for other women and the elderly community in Albuquerque. The Juanita Sanchez Collection houses Sanchez’s personal journals spanning over 40 years, a published essay by Sanchez featured in the anthology HardHatted Women: Life on the Job, and photographs of Sanchez. Sanchez (1948-2014) was raised and spent a majority of her life in and around the rural areas of Sun Valley and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Sanchez wrote about her...