Life's a Gamble: Penetration, The Invisible Girls and Other Stories

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Johnston, Flo (July 13, 2012). "Durham's Pauli Murray to Be Named Episcopal Saint". The News & Observer. Raleigh, North Carolina. Archived from the original on July 15, 2012 . Retrieved July 14, 2012. Azaransky, Sarah (2011). The Dream Is Freedom: Pauli Murray and American Democratic Faith. New York: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199744817.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-974481-7. Inspired to attend Columbia University by a favorite teacher, Murray was turned away from applying because the university did not admit women, and she did not have the funds to attend its women's coordinate college, Barnard College. [23] Instead she attended Hunter College, a free women's college of City University of New York, where she was one of the few students of color. [24] Murray was encouraged in her writing by one of her English instructors, from whom she earned an "A" for an essay about her maternal grandfather. This became the basis of Murray's later memoir Proud Shoes (1956), about her mother's family. Murray published an article and several poems in the college paper. She graduated in 1933 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. [23]

Kujawa-Holbrook, Sheryl A., ed. (2002). "Anna Pauline 'Pauli' Murray (1911–1985)". Freedom Is a Dream: A Documentary History of Women in The Episcopal Church. New York: Church Publishing. pp.272–279. The 1930s were also a time in which Murray began to struggle with their gender identity. Murray changed their birth name from “Anne Pauline” to “Pauli.” Murray also began looking for gender-affirming treatments, including hormone therapy, but was denied. Murray seems to have mostly internalized this struggle; Murray’s autobiography omits any mention of their sexuality, gender orientation, and quest for medical treatment.All words by Robin Boardman. More writing from Robin for Louder Than War can be found at his author’s archive News Coverage – Read about the July Celebration of Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray at St. Titus' Episcopal Church". Pauli Murray Project. July 1, 2013. Archived from the original on March 17, 2015 . Retrieved May 5, 2015. a b c Kerber, Linda K. (August 1, 1993). "Judge Ginsburg's Gift". The Washington Post . Retrieved April 16, 2017. Fisher, Simon D. Elin (2016). "Pauli Murray's Peter Panic: Perspectives from the Margins of Gender and Race in Jim Crow America". Transgender Studies Quarterly. 3 (1–2): 95–103. doi: 10.1215/23289252-3334259. ISSN 2328-9260 . Retrieved December 26, 2019. Pauline Murray was born on 8 March 1958 in Waterhouses, County Durham, England, and her parents later moved to Ferryhill. She left school at age sixteen, studied art at Darlington College and then worked at odd jobs. [2] In May 1976 the 18-year-old Murray saw the Sex Pistols perform, and she and her Ferryhill comrades became Pistols devotees, earning for themselves the title of "Durham Contingent" (coined by the NME).

The ten songs on ‘Elemental’, all in minor keys were written by Pauline Murray, originated on acoustic guitar and electronically, with full production by Robert Blamire. Their subject matter includes topics such as the power of nature, emotional ties, reflections, depression, missing persons and ancestors. In early 1940, Murray was walking the streets in Rhode Island, distraught after "the disappearance of a woman friend". She was taken into custody by police. [37] [a] She was transferred to Bellevue Hospital in New York City for psychiatric treatment. [37] In March, Murray left the hospital with Adelene McBean, her roommate and girlfriend, [38] and took a bus to Durham to visit her aunts. [ citation needed] Pauli Murray died of cancer in Pittsburgh on July 1, 1985. Murray’s autobiography, Song in a Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage, was published posthumously in 1987. Beyond the autobiography, Murray wrote two other books: a book of poetry, Dark Testament and other poems, and Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family (1956). The Episcopal Church sainted Murray in 2012, Yale University named a residential college after Murray, and Murray’s childhood home in Durham was designated a National Historic Landmark. Due to Murray’s dogged work and courage, s/he is regarded as one of the most important social justice advocates of the twentieth century. Three-year-old Pauli Murray was sent to Durham, North Carolina, to live with her mother's family. [14] There, she was raised by her maternal aunts, Sarah (Sallie) Fitzgerald and Pauline Fitzgerald Dame (both teachers), as well as her maternal grandparents, Robert and Cornelia (Smith) Fitzgerald. [15] She attended St. Titus Episcopal Church with her mother's family, as had her mother before Murray was born. [16] When she was 12, her father was committed to the Crownsville State Hospital for the Negro Insane, where he received no meaningful treatment. Pauli had wanted to rescue him, but in 1923 (when she was 13), he was bludgeoned to death by a white guard with a baseball bat. [5]

And as we channel our inner sense of positivity, we look forward to seeing Pauline on tour with a full band in 2021 both as a headline act, playing the Invisible Girls album in full alongside other favourites both old and new, and as support for the Psychedelic Furs at the following dates: Rosenberg, Rosalind (2017). Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-065645-4. Proud Shoes: The Story Of An American Family, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. ISBN 0-8070-7209-5. Antler, Joyce (2002). "Pauli Murray: The Brandeis Years". Journal of Women's History. 14 (2): 78–82. doi: 10.1353/jowh.2002.0034. ISSN 1527-2036. S2CID 144692960. Through a combination of activism, intelligence, unshakeable determination and a prolific work rate, Murray set about laying the foundations for ending racial, gender and economic inequality in the US. Long before intersectionality was part of the language, “Pauli confronted the sexism within the civil rights movement and the racism within the women’s movement”, says Cohen. Murray pushed the ACLU to take on cases of gender inequality, for example, and criticised the sidelining of women at the historic 1963 March on Washington. “Would the Negro struggle have come this far without the indomitable determination of its women?” she asked. By the same token, Murray grew disillusioned with Now for its centring of white, middle-class women.