Gloria Ida Joseph was a Crucian-American academic, writer, educator, and activist.
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Gloria Joseph was a self-identified radical Black feminist lesbian writer who synthesized art and activism in her work.
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Gloria Joseph is known for her pioneering work on Black feminism and her activism on issues concerning Black women across the diaspora, including in the South Africa, Germany, and Caribbean.
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Gloria Joseph was a strong student and played basketball and field hockey in school.
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Gloria Joseph was the great-niece of philanthropist and racketeer Casper Holstein.
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Gloria Joseph went on to receive her doctoral degree in educational psychology at Cornell University in 1967.
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Gloria Joseph worked at Hampshire College as a professor in the School of Social Sciences, where she was a founding faculty member, who co-founded the school's Black studies department in 1969.
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Gloria Joseph worked for COSEP, a committee where she helped recruit and retain Black and Latino students to the school.
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Gloria Joseph founded Sisterhood in Support of Sisters in South Africa, an advocacy group for women in Soweto.
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Gloria Joseph founded the Doc Loc Apiary for local honey production.
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Gloria Joseph used Kickstarter to help fund the writing and publication.
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Gloria Joseph was a life partner of prolific Black feminist writer Audre Lorde.
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Gloria Joseph later had a long-term relationship with Afro-German Helga Emde that lasted over 20 years until Gloria Joseph's death.
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Gloria Joseph died on August 16,2019, at age 91 at her home on Saint Croix.