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Partial Transcript: ANDY REISINGER: What -- What sort of books did you gravitate too?
Segment Synopsis: Stephanie Coffin discusses the activities she engaged in when she was younger as well as her experiences as a teenager and drug use.
Keywords: Drug use
Subjects: Hallucinogenic drugs; New York (N.Y.)
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Partial Transcript: ANDY REISINGER: And so what, what sort of, as you said like -- this is on the cusp of something, a momentous watershed in -- in the postwar era the early 60's and the coffee houses and intellectual ideas right in the middle of all sorts of different social movements -- was there anything you were being exposed to that were turning on light bulbs for you?
Segment Synopsis: Stephanie Coffin discusses the lack of influences that were strong enough to click with her. She also talks a little bit about her boyfriend at the time as well as meeting her husband.
Subjects: Mexico
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Partial Transcript: ANDY REISINGER: You mentioned that you attended a couple of demonstrations -- STEPHANIE COFFIN: Yeah, I don't have very clear memories of those, but I'm sure they were anti-war demonstrations.
Segment Synopsis: Stephanie Coffin talks a little about the demonstrations she took part in and then later discusses the falling out of her family and her father leaving.
Subjects: Families
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Partial Transcript: ANDY REISINGER: But you got out and you and Tom -- worked your way across the country, got married?
Segment Synopsis: Stephanie Coffin discusses marriage and her financial struggles after moving to Atlanta. She also discusses the differences between the South and Seattle.
Keywords: Decatur; The South
Subjects: Atlanta (Ga.); Racism
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Partial Transcript: STEPHANIE COFFIN: So, um, Tom -- you know we had a pretty good time. We met all these people very early. We met all these activists.
Segment Synopsis: Stephanie Coffin talks about meeting activists groups and becoming involved with the anti-war movement.
Keywords: Ted Brodek
Subjects: Political activists
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Partial Transcript: ANDY REISINGER: And so the big American review is starting and quickly is evolving into the Great Speckled Bird --
Segment Synopsis: Stephanie Coffin discusses the sorts of people who were first involved with The Bird. She also discusses how the Bird was established and her role in its establishment.
Keywords: Ted Brodek
Subjects: Underground newspapers
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Partial Transcript: STEPHANIE COFFIN: So um.. the layout at the very beginning then -- within about four or five issues, it developed into a certain pattern in some ways.
Segment Synopsis: Stephanie Coffin discusses the efforts made to market the Bird and make it accessible to their audience.
Subjects: Marketing; Underground newspapers
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Partial Transcript: ANDY REISINGER: How do you remember the Bird... encountering or responding or interfacing with the social movements that existed at the time and that were quickly -- becoming bigger and more noticeable?
Segment Synopsis: Stephanie Coffin discusses the movements that existed at the time and how that impacted the Bird.
Keywords: Agnes Scott College
Subjects: Gay liberation movement; Social movements; Underground newspapers
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Partial Transcript: ANDY REISINGER: So how did the women's movement -- you said that it had a huge impact on you personally and on the Bird -- can you talk some more about that?
Segment Synopsis: Stephanie Coffin discusses the women's movement and how that impacted her and the Bird.
Subjects: Abortion; Atlanta (Ga.); Underground newspapers
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Partial Transcript: STEPHANIE COFFIN: I did participate in the Atlanta women's liberation. Atlanta women's liberation did not last long and one of the major things that happened and that kind of goes into the next movement was the gay movement.
Segment Synopsis: Stephanie Coffin discusses the clash between the gay liberation movement and the women's liberation movement in Atlanta. She explains how Atlanta's women's movement was split when the gay movement became prominent.
Keywords: Anti Monogamy; Black Lives Matter; Lesbian separatism; Political lesbianism; Rubyfruit Jungle
Subjects: Atlanta (Ga.); Gay liberation movement; Lesbians
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Partial Transcript: STEPHANIE COFFIN: I, to this day, think that we did nothing -- I don't think we did anything unique. The Bird was not a unique paper.
Segment Synopsis: Stephanie Coffin discusses her thoughts on the Bird's accessibility and how it presented its contents in a way that encouraged people to get involved in the social movements of the time.
Subjects: Underground newspapers
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Partial Transcript: ANDY REISINGER: You mentioned Steve Abbott earlier and his participation in the Bird and also in politics at Emory and then the issue of gay liberation comes up that we were talking about, can you talk a little bit about Steve's role in the paper?
Segment Synopsis: Stephanie Coffin discusses what she knew about Steve Abbott and his role in the Bird.
Keywords: Steve Abbott
Subjects: Gay liberation movement; Underground newspapers
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Partial Transcript: ANDY REISINGER: I wanted to follow up on a couple of things. Can you explain what the Atlanta Workshop for Nonviolence was?
Segment Synopsis: Stephanie Coffin talks a little bit about the Atlanta Workshop in Nonviolence as well as profanity in the Bird and how religion played a role.
Subjects: Draft registration; Religion and politics
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Partial Transcript: ANDY REISINGER: Also to go back and follow up, you had mentioned um, I don't know if confrontation is the right word, but some representatives in the Black Panthers making some demands of the Bird. What's the story there?
Segment Synopsis: Stephanie Coffin discusses the Bird's relationship with the Black Panthers. She discusses how there was a division between the Bird, being a predominately white organization, and the Black Panthers, a black organization. She also discusses the hippie scene and drug scene and their relationships with the Bird.
Keywords: Black Panthers
Subjects: Drug abuse and crime; Underground newspapers
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Partial Transcript: STEPHANIE COFFIN: We didn't get hung up in this whole thing about "everybody's got to agree with something" before we can function. You know, we took votes.
Segment Synopsis: Stephanie Coffin discusses how the Bird decided what issues to publish. She also discusses the reception from other liberation movements and organizations.
Subjects: Underground newspapers
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Partial Transcript: ANDY REISINGER: So when you left the Bird, say maybe 1973, um, what's your life been since then?
Segment Synopsis: Stephanie Coffin discusses how her life has been since working on the Bird. She also discusses going back to school and attending Georgia State University.
Subjects: Georgia State University
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Partial Transcript: STEPHANIE COFFIN: And so I went out to Georgia Perimeter College and got a job out there teaching ESL.
Segment Synopsis: Stephanie Coffin discusses working at Georgia Perimeter College as well as some textbooks she wrote during that time. She also talks about the issues she became involved with at the school and the conflict with the Presidents of the school.
Keywords: ESL
Subjects: Citizenship; College presidents
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Partial Transcript: STEPHANIE COFFIN: (Clears throat) I also became an arborist and did an awful lot with trees when Tom went back to graduate school.
Segment Synopsis: Stephanie Coffin discusses working as an arborist as well as a mosaicist. She also talks about her other family members and children and their career paths.
Subjects: Art; Families
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Partial Transcript: ANDY REISINGER: In what ways do you see the Bird continuing to inform or matter in your life? In the years after?
Segment Synopsis: Stephanie Coffin discusses the Bird and how it might continue to matter. She talks about how that experience -- being involved with the Bird -- has affected her life.
Subjects: Underground newspapers
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Partial Transcript: ANDY REISINGER: So where you're at in life now, what are the things that are most important to you -- ideas, politically, otherwise?
Segment Synopsis: Stephanie Coffin discusses the things that are important to her now and how the shift in politics (since the Bird) has affected what she cares about.
Keywords: Bernie Sanders
Subjects: Social action