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Activism
Sandra S. Cole, former director of the University of Michigan's Comprehensive Gender Services Program and retired professor of the universities school…
Activism
Ann Arbor activist and massage therapist David Rosenberg organized Michigan's first Radical Faerie gathering at a camp in Watervliet. Celebrating…
Books
Sarah Emma Edmonds served as a male nurse in Company F of the Second Michigan Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. Her memoir became a best…
Military
Born in Nova Scotia, Edmonds began posing as Frank Thompson at age 15. She moved to Flint where she became a Bible salesman and was considered "quite…
D.H. Forsyth
Couples
Women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries sometimes tried to pass as men for economic reasons. Some couples like the one pictured…