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PASSAGES Feminist writer, activist Jeanne Cordova dies
by Gretchen Rachel Hammond
2016-01-11
Pioneer feminist, activist, journalist, publisher and LGBT media figure Jeanne Cordova passed away Jan. 10 at the age of 67.
According to Frontiers Media, Cordova died peacefully at her Los Angeles home in the early hours of the morning. Her spouse Lynn Ballen and friends were at her side.
"I have always been fascinated by how a noisy swelling called a social movement arrives on the doorstep of an individual's life and how she responds to it," Cordova began in her 2011 memoir of love and revolution When We Were Outlaws. "Most ignore the calling of the unfathomable energies of our times. For the rest of us—how does one recognize a social movement when it comes calling at your door? And what greatness or despair might follow should you open the door and invite it into your life?"
Cordova's life served as the quintessential answer to that question—one seeded from the moment she joined the Immaculate Heart of Mary order of nuns immediately out of high school and was inspired by the social justice work of the Sisters to become a community organizer and activist for the lesbian and gay communities.
FULL ARTICLE HERE: www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/PASSAGES-Feminist-writer-activist-Jeanne-Cordova-dies/53909.html