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   Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 08:13:46 JST Jessamyn

   New year, new #Wikipedia list.

   Billy Craigie was an Aboriginal Australian activist who was one of the original people creating the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra protesting the government's Australia Day statement on land rights (supporting leasing of the people's ancestral lands). They set up a beach umbrella, camped out, got arrested, started a movement. We had a photo of him in Flickr Commons so I wrote this up.

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Craigie

   Last year's list is here. https://glammr.us/@jessamyn/111715750451779186

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     Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 08:13:39 JST Jessamyn

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     Occasionally someone just pings me on social media and says "Hey this person really should have a Wikipedia page, don't you think?" and I can assemble one. Laverne Jacobs is a law professor and disability rights expert who is the first Canadian member of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. She wrote the first Canadian disability law textbook. I'll be honest, this article mostly wrote itself.

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laverne_Jacobs

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     Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 08:13:40 JST Jessamyn

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     I've been reading a book about Native Americans in comedy and there was a whole chapter on Paul Littlechief who played the Vegas Strip in 1970 and was an excellent self-promoter. He was a Kiowa-Comanche man from Oklahoma. Hard to verify some of the other parts of the story from the book (his second wife was only known as Baby Rae in all sources I could find) but it was a lot of fun trying to track down his old music and photos.

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Littlechief

     Mr. Bill repeated this.
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     Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 08:13:42 JST Jessamyn

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     A friend just finished the book The Lost Boy of Santa Chinonia and learned that the book was inspired by the work of Ann Cornelisen. She wrote a book about poverty and power in rural Italy in 1969 when she was living there and working as an aid worker for Save the Children. Her history is all private schools, society mentions, and marrying (tho not staying married to) the "right" men, but she got attention where it was useful, helped where it was needed.

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Cornelisen

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     Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 08:13:43 JST Jessamyn

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     The Lucasie Family were three, maybe four people, with albinism who were from Europe. P.T. Barnum said they were "white Negroes" from Madagascar (the place one of them was born) and spun a whole tale about them, playing on racist sentiments. It was so over the top, he had to take some of it back when he published his next sensationalist pamphlet about them. They were photographed by Matthew Brady and were the subject of Currier & Ives lithographs. Hard to research.

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucasie_Family

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     Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 08:13:44 JST Jessamyn

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     Meroë Morse was a scientist at Polaroid and oversaw their black and white research lab. She worked closely with Edwin Land and Ansel Adams. She died young in 1969 and many of her accomplishments are buried in the Harvard Business School's Polaroid archive. They're doing an exhibition about her, now her story can be told. Because of umlauts and a middle name, this article has three redirects. I also added her to the Polaroid Corporation template, where she deserves to be.

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mero%C3%AB_Morse

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     Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 08:13:45 JST Jessamyn

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     Anafesto Rossi was an Italian opera singer. He toured the world with fourteen trunks of costumes and a diamond ring given to him by the Kaiser. His career spanned two decades and ended with the implication of mental health issues (I could not find sources). I just found his photo and was like "Who is THAT guy?" and now I know. And you do too.

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anafesto_Rossi

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     Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 06:16:35 JST Jessamyn

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     Early American photographers usually have interesting stories. Also, it's fun to track down selfies because most photographers have a picture of themself. Alvan Harper moved from PA to Tallahassee where he took a lot of photos of day-to-day life of both White and Black people. Much of his work was lost but some was found again. I did not write this article but I polished/expanded it AND found the picture of him. Easier to research once I realized he was also A. S. Harper

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvan_S._Harper

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     Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 06:16:36 JST Jessamyn

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     Another day, another "Gosh I should be working" day writing a Wikipedia article. This one is about Carol Lashof, a playwright who likes to look at classic texts and turn them around, make them more feminist ("What if Eve were created first?") or more socially justice oriented ("What if Tituba was the one telling the story of The Crucible?")

     I swear I had not seen this picture of her until after I'd written this article.

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Lashof

     Adrianna Tan repeated this.