After watching new BKR video on Barbara Stanwyck, I’m like..she would’ve been amazing as the shark hunter in JAWS.

“Notable deaf queer women during this period in DC include: Ann Silver, artist and member of the lesbian separatist collective the Furies; Barbara Kannapell, linguist and co-founder of Deafpride; Betty G. Miller, co-founder of CMRA and pioneering artist; and Elizabeth Aviles, head of Deafpride’s Project AIDS.”

“By 1993, facing competition from a growing array of competing lesbian organizations, the demands of running a major social organization, and the group's inability to meet speakers' and performers' growing requests for payment (GWA had from the outset determined not to pay such fees), the board of Gay Women's Alternative decided to close down the organization following its final Spring Cotillion in May 1993.”