This collection of writings by and about Tangren Alexander spans a range of publications from juried academic journals like Hypatia and Teaching Philosophy to independently-produced writing from/for the counterculture that was the Women’s Movement, in particular the lesbian-feminist culture that produced writing, music and art in the days before the internet.
Anthologies
The Womanly Art of Teaching Ethics
Teaching ethics using a circle and an orange; learning the many faces of truth.
Pub: Teaching Philosophy. University of Cincinnati. December 1987. Vol. 10, No. 4.
ReadLesbian Slip
How our brains find words.
Pub: Adventures in Lesbian Philosophy. Claudia Card. 1994. Indiana University Press. Bloomington & Indianapolis, Indiana.
ReadHow Lesbian Music Changed My Life and Lesbian Art Sustained It
How lesbian music changed my life and lesbian art sustained it.
Pub: Lesbians and Music, Drama, and Art. Fran Day. 2005. Sinister Wisdom. Berkeley, CA.
ReadTangren Pearl Time’sChild
Another life of Tangren Pearl Time’sChild.
Pub: Other Lives. Tee Corinne. 1983.
ReadWho’s Who’s in the Cosmos
Tangren on the concept of “other lives.”
Pub: Other Lives. Tee Corinne. 1983.
ReadFor Sandra
Lesbians and books, a dream.
Pub: Adventures in Lesbian Philosophy. Claudia Card. 1994. Indiana University Press. Bloomington & Indianapolis, Indiana.
ReadEst Et Non: The Dream Body
Mind/body dualism, true magic involving Descartes, lesbian imagery for resolving it all.
Pub: Adventures in Lesbian Philosophy. Claudia Card. 1994. Indiana University Press. Bloomington & Indianapolis, Indiana.
ReadThe Feminist Existentialist State Song
“Amazing leap, how fine the point…”
Pub: Adventures in Lesbian Philosophy. Claudia Card. 1994. Indiana University Press. Bloomington & Indianapolis, Indiana.
ReadThe Answers in the Back: A Song
Dualism complexified.
Pub: Adventures in Lesbian Philosophy. Claudia Card. 1994. Indiana University Press. Bloomington & Indianapolis, Indiana.
ReadThe Omniscient Point of View
A philosopher thinks about this crafty concept.
Pub: Steering the Craft. A memorial document of writing produced from a 1996 Flight of the Mind workshop led by Ursula LeGuin.
ReadOnomatopoeia
Pub: Steering the Craft. A memorial document of writing produced from a 1996 Flight of the Mind workshop led by Ursula LeGuin.
January
Two 11-year-old girls are murdered in our town. How it affects us all.
Pub: Our Lives: Lesbian Personal Writings. Frances Rooney. 1991. Second Story Press. Ontario, Canada.
Read2:00am, Valentine’s Morning
I come out in class for the first time.
Pub: Our Lives: Lesbian Personal Writings. Frances Rooney. 1991. Second Story Press. Ontario, Canada.
Pub: Adventures in Lesbian Philosophy. Claudia Card. 1994. Indiana University Press. Bloomington & Indianapolis, Indiana.
ReadFirst Kiss
My first kiss at 16, from a minister.
Pub: More Kisses. Ed: Marilyn Hammer and Tee Corrinne. 2005. J Mar Publications. Medford, OR.
ReadWriting as Pearl Time’schild
Alexa
A bitter-sweet ending to an affair.
Pub: The Body of Love. Tee Corinne. 1993. Edward-William Publishing Company. Austin, TX.
ReadThe Box
An erotic meditation on lesbian separatism and sinsemilla.
Pub: A Woman’s Touch. Cedar and Nelly. 1979. Womanshare Books. Eugene, OR.
ReadReadings from the Southern Oregon Women Writer’s Group
The Day of Tee’s Dying
Tee Corinne chooses the day and time of her dying and carries it out surrounded by the love of her women’s community.
A reading by the Southern Oregon Women Writers’ Group at the University of Oregon Knight Library, December 9, 2008, as part of Woman Love: The Life, Art, and Legacy of Tee Corinne, a conference/celebration and an exhibit at the Knight Library. Compiled by Helen Laurence.
ReadKristina, So Far
Excerpt and journal vision of Kristina.
Pub: Writers’ Group in Eugene. April 29, 1990. Tee Corinne.
ReadSex and Death
A remembrance of Tee Corinne at her most wonderfully outrageous.
Pub: A Celebration of Women’s Words. 2016. Ed: Helen Laurence.
ReadTribute to Mariah Hegarty
My dear friend the poet, editor and Writers’ Group member Mariah Hegarty had died that year.
Pub: A Celebration of Women’s Words. 2016. Ed: Helen Laurence.
ReadThe Changeling
A what-if story. The full story will be in Magic and Philosophy, forthcoming.
Pub: Writers’ Group in Portland. 1991. Southern Oregon Women Writers’ Group.
ReadTangren’s Story
About Writers’ Group history and spirit.
Pub: The Southern Oregon Writers’ Group, Gourmet Eating Society and Chorus at Twenty-One. Tee Corinne. 2002. Pearlchild. Wolf Creek, OR.
ReadWomanSpirit Words
Letter to the Editor
Issue #11 – Winter ’76
ReadSelene, the Most Famous Bull-Leaper on Earth
Issue #12 – Summer ’77
A review of Z. Budapest’s children’s book.
ReadThis Is Really a Spoken Work
Issue #14 – Winter ’77
An eclipse of the moon from Women’s Land. Old Lesbians, and enlightenment
ReadGoing Mad/Sane
Issue #22 – Winter ’79
ReadThe Raga Dianne
Issue #30 – Winter ’81
ReadKali Lullaby
Issue #34 – Winter ’82
A round.
ReadCelebrating Sixty
Issue #37 – Fall ’83
ReadBlessing for Women’s Land on Hallowmas
Issue #37 – Fall ’83
A song.
ReadSacred Stories of Our Lives
Issue #38 – Winter’83
A review of Ordinarily Sacred by Linda Sexon.
ReadBiography, History and Mentions
About
About Pearl Time’sChild.
Pub: A Woman’s Touch. Cedar and Nelly. 1979. Womanshare Books. Eugene, OR.
ReadVigil
A friend witnesses and gives support during a difficult time.
Pub: The Wild Good. Ed: Beatrix Gates. 1996. Anchor Books, Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group. New York, NY.
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