Persimmon Blackbridge

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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

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Inductee: Persimmon Blackbridge. Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives.
  2. ↑ "20 Questions: Persimmon Blackbridge". Philadelphia City Paper, December 18, 1997.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Persimmon Blackbridge". section15.ca, May 30, 2008.


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