"Old Lesbian Memory Quilt" is a memoir of a Lesbian born in 1937, only 18 years after women were "given" the right to vote.
Edie is a member of: Old Lesbians Organizing for Change (OLOC)
Women in Black, a worldwide organization of women standing for peaceful and nonviolent conflict resolution; and Southerners on New Ground (SONG), an organ.
In 1995 she boarded the Women\'s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) "Peace Train," traveling across Europe and Asia to Beijing for the United Nation\'s Fourth World Conference on Women, which marked a significant turning point for the global agenda for gender equality.
In 1993 her activism toward peace in the world took her to Bosnia, to engage in popular diplomacy during the wars there, and to let the people of Sarejevo know they were not forgotten.
Edie is a retired intensive care nurse. also produced a monthly feminist publication, Womyn\'s Words, for over 30 years.
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In 1981 she moved to Florida, her home state, opened a women\'s bookstore on Madeira Beach, and within a year co-founded a Lesbian feminist organization called Women\'s Energy Bank (W. 1937), a self-described Old Lesbian Feminist, arrived at her activism by way of her coming out in 1974.
About the Author Edie Daly (b.
Starting with her "coming out" story, Edie recounts formative experiences in her birth family, her youth, her marriage to a man, raising three children as a single parent, her radical Lesbian activism and, at age 60, finding love with Jackie Mirkin and joyfully beginning a shared life of activism.
They are organized into chapters like pieces of a quilt, stitched together with pictures to illustrate the chapters of her life.
Edie Daly\'s Stories are harvested from journals that she has kept throughout her lifetime.
The idea for this book began by the author\'s creation of a lovingly hand-crafted quilt, pictured on the cover, for her 80th birthday. "Old Lesbian Memory Quilt" is a memoir of a Lesbian born in 1937, only 18 years after women were "given" the right to vote
