Contents • • • • • • • • • • Personal life [ ] Judy Rae Grahn was born in 1940 in Chicago, Illinois. Her father was a cook and her mother was a photographer's assistant.

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Grahn described her childhood as taking place in 'an economically poor and spiritually depressed late 1950s desert town near the hellish border of.' When she was eighteen, she with a student named Yvonne at a nearby college. Grahn credits Yvonne with opening her eyes to.

Soon thereafter she would join the United States Air Force. At twenty-one she was (in a 'less than honorable,' manner, she stated) for being a lesbian. Grahn experienced a fair amount of homophobia during the odd jobs she did to earn money for school, trying to find housing, and was beat up for her butch attire.

'These jolts taught me everything I would ever need to know about the oppression of Gay people,' she mentioned in an interview with Tongue. At the age of 25, Grahn suffered from Inoculation lymphoreticulosis, or Cat Scratch Fever, which led to her being in a coma. After overcoming her illness, she realized that she wanted to become a poet.

This realization was partially due to the abuse and mistreatment Grahn faced for being an open lesbian. Of the incident, Grahn stated 'I realized that if I was going to do what I had set out to do in my life, I would have to go all the way with it and take every single risk you could take. I decided I would not do anything I didn't want to do that would keep me from my art.'

Grahn then moved to the west coast where she would become active in the movement of the 1970s. Les Miserables Piano Pdf Scribd Documents more. During this period, many rumors surfaced pertaining to Grahn's weight and a possible eating disorder. Grahn attributes her thin frame to poor eating habits, smoking cigarettes, and drinking coffee.

She earned her from the. Until 2007, Grahn was the director of the Women's Spirituality (MA) and Creative Inquiry (MFA) programs at the. Today, Grahn lives in California and teaches at the California Institute for Integral Studies, the, and the. There she teaches women's mythology and ancient literature, Metaformic Consciousness (a philosophy created by Grahn), and Uncommon Kinship - a course that uses theories from her Metaformic philosophy. Career [ ] Grahn knew she was a poet by the time she was nine, and had written poetry until she was sixteen when she took a break, but it wasn't until she was twenty-five that she consciously committed herself to her work after overcoming her illness.