Persimmon Blackbridge
Persimmon Blackbridge (born 1951)[1] is a Canadian writer and artist.
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Blackbridge moved to British Columbia with her family as a teenager, and has worked and resided in Canada ever since.[2] Along with artists Susan Stewart and Lizard Jones, she has been a member of the Vancouver-based Kiss and Tell collective.[3]
Although predominantly a non-fiction writer, whose work focuses on lesbian, disability and mental health issues, Blackbridge has also published two novels.[3] Her novel Sunnybrook won a Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction in 1997, and her novel Prozac Highway was a shortlisted nominee for the Lambda Literary Award in 1998.
Her work as an artist has been in a variety of domains, including performance art, installation art, video art and sculpture.[3] She was also a frequent contributor to Rites, one of the major Canadian LGBT publications of the late 1980s.
A portrait of Blackbridge, by her Kiss and Tell colleague Susan Stewart, is held by the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives' National Portrait Collection, in honour of her role as a significant builder of LGBT culture and history in Canada.[1] She is also featured in the 2006 National Film Board of Canada documentary film Shameless: The Art of Disability.
Works
Novels
- Sunnybrook: A True Story with Lies (1996)
- Prozac Highway (1997)
Non-fiction
- Drawing the Line: Lesbian Sexual Politics on the Wall (1991, with Susan Stewart and Lizard Jones)
- Still Sane (1985, with Sheila Gilhooly)
- Her Tongue on My Theory: Images, Essays and Fantasies (1994, with Susan Stewart and Lizard Jones)
- Slow Dance: A Story of Stroke, Love and Disability (1997, with Bonnie Sherr Klein)
References
- ^ a b Inductee: Persimmon Blackbridge. Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives.
- ^ "20 Questions: Persimmon Blackbridge". Philadelphia City Paper, December 18, 1997.
- ^ a b c "Persimmon Blackbridge". section15.ca, May 30, 2008.
- 1951 births
- 20th-century Canadian novelists
- Canadian non-fiction writers
- Canadian sculptors
- Canadian performance artists
- Canadian video artists
- Canadian installation artists
- Canadian women artists
- Canadian women novelists
- LGBT artists from Canada
- LGBT writers from Canada
- Lesbian artists
- Lesbian writers
- Artists from British Columbia
- Writers from British Columbia
- Living people
- LGBT novelists
- 20th-century women writers
- 20th-century Canadian sculptors
- 20th-century women artists