{"id":627,"date":"2009-11-08T22:05:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T03:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rainbowlist.wordpress.com\/?p=627"},"modified":"2009-11-08T22:05:20","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T03:05:20","slug":"my-red-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/archives\/627","title":{"rendered":"My Red Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-626\" title=\"my red blood\" src=\"http:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/my-red-blood.jpg?w=200\" alt=\"my red blood\" width=\"140\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/my-red-blood.jpg 400w, https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/my-red-blood-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/>Dobkin, Alix.\u00a0 <em>My Red Blood:\u00a0 A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement. <\/em>2009.\u00a0 272p.\u00a0 Alyson, $16.95.\u00a0 (978-159350107-5).\u00a0 Gr. 10-12.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first artist to record an openly lesbian album (1973), this famous women\u2019s music legend chronicles her 25-year struggle to acknowledge her feelings for other women and her determination to be a feminist.\u00a0 A teenager during the McCarthy witch hunts, Dobkin grew up with surveillance on her family because of their political activities and stayed under the watchful eye of the FBI while she participated in the New York folk scene of the early 1960s, meeting such rising stars as Bob Dylan, Bill Crosby, Flip Wilson, and Buffy Ste. Marie.\u00a0 As she says in the preface, this memoir covers her \u201cpre-lesbian\u201d life.\u00a0 Perhaps she will write a sequel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dobkin, Alix.\u00a0 My Red Blood:\u00a0 A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement. 2009.\u00a0 272p.\u00a0 Alyson, $16.95.\u00a0 (978-159350107-5).\u00a0 Gr. 10-12. The first artist to record an openly lesbian album (1973), this famous women\u2019s music legend chronicles her 25-year struggle to acknowledge her feelings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[19,180],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","tag-alix-dobkin","tag-my-red-blood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}