Kay Leigh Hagan papers, 1955-2012

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Summary

Creator:
Hagan, Kay Leigh
Abstract:
Kay Leigh Hagan is a writer, teacher, and feminist. Much of her early career focused on raising women's consciousness by teaching how to recognize various forms of internalized oppression in private classes she called "Feminars". In addition to her writing and teaching, this collection documents Hagan's many public speaking appearances and workshops, including those at womyn's music festivals (1988-2000). Her published works include Fugitive Information: Essays from a Feminist Hothead (1993), Internal Affairs: A Journal Keeping Workbook for Self-Intimacy (1990), Prayers to the Moon: Exercises in Self-Reflection (1991), and Vow: The Way of the Milagro (2003) with photographer Richard Downing. She was also the editor of Women Respond to the Men's Movement: A Feminist Collection (1992), and co-author of A Peculiar Alchemy (2007), a centennial history of the School for Advanced Research, with Nancy Owen Lewis. She has been active in Atlanta, Georgia, where she was affiliated with Forrest Avenue Consortium (later Nexus Contemporary Art Center) and Charis Books & More; and Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she worked with Los Alamos National Laboratory and the School for Advanced Research, among other organizations.
Extent:
27 Linear Feet (21,375 items)
Language:
Material in English
Collection ID:
RL.00490

Background

Scope and content:

Collection consists of art objects, artists' books, video recordings, audio recordings, research files, drafts of published works, writings, journals and correspondence, materials documenting Hagan's political activism and private teaching, materials documenting her work with the School for Advanced Research, and graphic materials.

Collection was acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.

Biographical / historical:

Kay Leigh Hagan was born in Winston Salem, North Carolina, in 1949. She grew up there until attending the University of Georgia in Athens, where she earned her B. A. in journalism in 1971 and met Jack Leigh, a photographer from Savannah. They were married from 1972-75. In Atlanta, Georgia, she became active in the alternative arts movement in 1977 as co-director of Forrest Avenue Consortium, and the women's movement in 1980 as a partner at Charis Books & More. She taught private classes and workshops across the country for women on keeping journals and identifying internalized oppression, then wrote and published several books. She was active in the independent press and feminist bookstore movements, self-publishing two books later reissued by mainstream publisher HarperCollins. She lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, from 1992-2013, then moved to Washington, DC, and married Pamela D. Coleman.

Acquisition information:
The Kay Leigh Hagan Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 2013.
Processing information:

Processed by Megan Lewis, October 2013

Encoded by Megan Lewis, February 2014

Accession(s) described in this collection guide: 2013-0163

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

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Hagan's journals and correspondence are closed to research until 2043 or the death of the donor, whichever is later.

Original audiovisual materials are closed to use. Use of these materials may require production of listening or viewing copies. Please contact Research Services before coming to use this collection.

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