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CZM Book Club: The Barrow Will Send What it May: Chapter One Mar 09, 2025

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Margaret reads Robert the second novella of the Danielle Cain series,

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Part Two: Lesbian Mutual AID During the AIDS Crisis Mar 05, 2025

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Margaret continues talking with Andrew Ti about the mutual aid and solidarity offered by lesbians in the 1980s.

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/ward-5b-documentary/

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/14/us/ward-5b-a-model-of-care-for-aids.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/06/26/736060834/1st-aids-ward-5b-fought-to-give-patients-compassionate-care-dignified-deaths

https://www.reddit.com/r/Actuallylesbian/comments/16uyn8i/are_there_more_nuanced_accounts_of_lesbians/

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/gay-bisexual-men-can-donate-blood-new-fda-rules-rcna83937

https://gcn.ie/lesbian-blood-sisters-crucial-1980s-aids/

https://womensmuseum.wordpress.com/2019/04/10/the-blood-sisters-of-san-diego/#:~:text=Wendy%20Sue%20Biegeleisen%2C%20Nicolette%20Ibarra,in%20at%20least%20130%20donations.

https://www.thebody.com/article/candy-marcum-therapist-since-aids-early-days

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Wellness/nurse-cared-aids-patients-1980s-epidemic-explains-fight/story?id=63970606

https://onlineexhibits.library.yale.edu/s/we-are-everywhere/page/why-are-women-invisible-in-the-aids-pandemic

https://onlineexhibits.library.yale.edu/s/we-are-everywhere/page/lesbian-aids-activism

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/07/us/aids-definition-excludes-women-congress-is-told.html

https://www.acon.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Ann-Maree-Sweeney-today.pdf

https://inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/the-lesbian-blood-sisters-who-helped-save-gay-mens-lives-235100?srsltid=AfmBOorQfWpzL-6iOSpigFOpkO8TeyPRA03Z7I1qPQELuO1cW9hVbTPy

http://www.thedallasway.org/stories/written/2017/11/24/howie-daire

https://www.texasobituaryproject.org/081983daire.html

https://time.com/archive/6703557/guerrilla-drug-trials-the-underground-test-of-compound-q/

https://www.quietheroes.net/about

https://www.cscsisters.org/holy-cross-quiet-heroes/

https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/aids-epidemic-lasting-impact-gay-men/

https://www.workingnurse.com/articles/the-nurses-of-ward-5b/

https://www.npr.org/2019/12/01/783932572/how-the-catholic-church-aided-both-the-sick-and-the-sickness-as-hiv-spread

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Part One: Lesbian Mutual AID During the AIDS Crisis Mar 03, 2025

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Margaret talks with Andrew Ti about the mutual aid and solidarity offered by lesbians in the 1980s.