Jennie Boyd Bull's memoir weaves a life from her Southern roots into the center of some of the most liberating movements of the past century....
Jennie Boyd Bull's memoir weaves a life from her Southern roots into the center of some of the most liberating movements of the past century. Raised in Knoxville, Tennessee, the came out as a lesbian and feminist activist in Baltimore in the 1970s, led MCC congregations in the LGBTQ community in Washington DC and Baltimore MD during the 1980s at the height of AIDS deaths, managed a feminist bookstore, served in the ashram of an Indian yogic spiritual tradition for 15 years, and today teaches Tai Chi on her return to the mountains of Western North Carolina. Her detailed and emotionally rich writing paints a vivid picture of each of these communities and her woman-loving spiritual seeking of embodied Truth--"still like a mountain, flowing like a river."
Author: Jennie Boyd Bull
Publisher: Mountain River Press
Published: 08/08/2021
Pages: 110
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d
ISBN: 9780578943671
About the AuthorBull, Jennie Boyd: - Jennie Boyd Bull retired to the mountains of Western North Carolina in 2015 at age seventy, following careers as an editor at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, pastor with Metropolitan Community Church of Baltimore, manager of the feminist 31st Street Bookstore, librarian with Baltimore County Public Libraries, and editor, archivist, and department head in an ashram in the U.S. She received a B.A. in English Literature from Swarthmore College in 1967 and an M.Div. from Wesley Theological Seminary in 1982. In 1992, she received the Passages Community Service Award for 20 years of service in the Baltimore and Washington lesbian communities. Raised in Knoxville, TN, Jennie is grateful to have returned home to the Appalachians, where she volunteers with the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival, the NAACP, Dig In! Yancey community garden, MY Neighbors eldercare network, and Celo Friends Meeting. A Tai Chi instructor, she teaches Qigong and Tai Chi in the Toe River Valley. Her poetry chapbook, Where I Live: Coming Home to the Southern Mountains, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2018, and her poetry has appeared in several North Carolina periodicals. When she is not writing or weaving, she's hiking mountain trails, weeding out back in the garden, or curled up reading with Lily the cat.
