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JEB (JOAN E. BIREN) (1944 - )
Barbara Smith and Beverly Smith, Roxbury, Massachusetts. Silver print on RC paper, the image measuring 117x178 mm; 4 5/8x7 inches, the sheet 203x254 mm; 8x10 inches, with JEB's signature, title, negative date, and the date the print was signed, in ink on verso. 1978.
This vintage print was made by JEB. Barbara Smith is a groundbreaking and lifelong Black feminist writer, activist, scholar, and organizer. As one of the original founders of the influential Black feminist Combahee River Collective, Barbara continues to be a key figure in the creation and realization of modern intersectional feminism. Beverly Smith is a Black Feminist health advocate, writer, academic, theorist and activist who is a co-author of the Combahee River Collective Statement. They are twins.
Reproduced: JEB, Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians (Washington, D.C.: Glad Hag Books), p. 49 This image was included in The National Museum of African American History and Culture's documentary tribute to the liberation movement of African American women.
