WINGS
Thursday November 14th, 2024 with WINGS Series Producer, Frieda Werden
In Memoriam, Dorothy Allison - Author, Lesbian, Working Class Escapee

American author and activist, lesbian, teacher, anthropologist, and working-class escapee Dorothy Allison died November 6th, 2024. She was 75 years old. In her honour, Arlene Zaucha shared the radio program she produced featuring Allison's 2013 talk to the newly-formed Working Class Student Union, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It originally aired in the program series Her Turn, on local community radio station WORT-FM. Among Dorothy Allison's published writings are a book of poetry titled Women Who Hate Me, a book of short stories titled Trash, and the semi-fictional novel Bastard Out of Carolina, which became a best-seller and was made into a film directed by Anjelica Huston. Allison talked of her experience of the class divide in America, and the effect it had on her own life and university experiences.