Scope and Contents
The collection consists of material created and collected by Lisbet Tellefsen. Many of the materials center around the creation of Aché, which was first issued in 1989 as a journal and existed as a collective in the Bay Area until 1994. The rest of the materials generally relate to allied groups and other events that Tellefsen participated in and helped to organize, such as the National Black Gay and Lesbian Conference's Video Project.
Dates
- circa 1980 - 2008
- Majority of material found within 1988 - 1994
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Box 8 (floppy disks): Restricted fragile material. Reference copies of electronic files may be requested. Consult Access Services for further information.
Conditions Governing Use
The Lisbet Tellefsen Papers is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Bolerium Books in 2012.
Arrangement
Arranged roughly in the order received.
Extent
7.67 Linear Feet (8 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
The collection consists of material created and collected by Lisbet Tellefsen. Many of the materials center around the creation of Aché, which was first issued in 1989 as a journal and existed as a collective in the Bay Area until 1994. The rest of the materials generally relate to allied groups and other events that Tellefsen participated in and helped to organize, such as the National Black Gay and Lesbian Conference's Video Project.
Lisbet Tellefsen
Lisbet Tellefsen, political activist, feminist, and community organizer, is a Bay Area native. Tellefsen co-founded the journal Aché, along with Pippa Fleming, and she has worked as an editor, recording engineer, and producer, receiving a number of awards for her service to the lesbian and gay community.
Aché : a free publication for black lesbians.
The journal Aché was co-founded by Lisbet Tellefsen and Pippa Fleming in 1989. The organization was originally headquartered in Albany, California. The publication utilized a few varient subtitles throughout its lifetime (1989-1993), including "A journal for lesbians of African descent," and it was distributed to subscribers in eight different countries.
In addition to Tellefsen and Fleming, there were many other collaborators who helped to run Aché until the time that it was dissolved officially, in 1994, as a non-profit organization. In 1990, the Aché leadership was listed as:
- DeeAnne Davis
- Reatha Fowler
- Winn Gilmore
- Rebecca Hall
- Amana Johnson
- Teri Lethridge
- Lisbet Tellefsen
- Janet Wallace
- Skye Ward
- Jean Wesinger
- Erica Wilson
See Aché material (box 3, folder 143) for a full narrative overview of the group.
Separated Materials
An additional two boxes of printed materials arrived with the collection and have been cataloged separately. Those materials can be found by searching ORBIS for the phrase: "From the Lisbet Tellefsen papers".
Processing Information
Collections are processed to a variety of levels, depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived research value, the availability of staff, competing priorities, and whether or not further accruals are expected. The library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit.
Information included in the Description of Papers note and Collection Contents section is drawn from information supplied with the collection and from an initial survey of the contents. Folder titles appearing in the contents list below are often based on those provided by the creator or previous custodian. Titles have not been verified against the contents of the folders in all cases. Otherwise, folder titles are supplied by staff during initial processing.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
- Title
- Guide to the Lisbet Tellefsen Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- by Beinecke staff; encoded by Leigh Golden and Rebbeca Smith
- Date
- 2013
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Opening Hours
Access Information
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