18 Facts About Maxine Feldman

Maxine "Max" Adele Feldman was an American folk singer-songwriter, comedian and pioneer of women's music.

In later years, Maxine Feldman embraced a gender-fluid identity, according to partner Helen Thornton.

Maxine Feldman was born on December 26,1945, in Brooklyn, New York.

Maxine Feldman had a bit part as a Girl Scout Brownie on The Goldbergs in 1956.

Maxine Feldman attended Emerson College in Boston to study theater arts.

In 1963, Maxine Feldman began performing on the vibrant Boston music circuit, at Beacon Hill and Cambridge coffeehouses such as the Turk's Head, the Orleans and the Loft.

Openly lesbian, Maxine Feldman was described as attracting "the wrong crowd" by a local DJ.

In 1968, Maxine Feldman moved to Manhattan and then to Los Angeles.

Maxine Feldman attended El Camino College in Los Angeles County and helped to found the campus women's center.

Maxine Feldman wrote the consciousness raising song "Angry Atthis" on May 13,1969, prior to the Stonewall Riots.

Maxine Feldman joined Harrison and Tyler, performing for colleges and once at a state penitentiary, the California Institute for Women.

In 1974, Maxine Feldman shared the stage at the Town Hall in Manhattan with Yoko Ono.

Under police protection from Ku Klux Klan protesters, Maxine Feldman performed comedy at the 1977 National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas.

Maxine Feldman performed at the first Michigan Womyn's Music Festival in 1976 and returned to the festival 14 times.

In 1986, Maxine Feldman gave the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival the rights to the song.

Maxine Feldman's music was featured in Jan Oxenberg's 1975 film about lesbian stereotypes, A Comedy in Six Unnatural Acts.

Maxine Feldman, who did not have health insurance, became ill in 1994 and died on August 17,2007, in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the age of 61.

Maxine Feldman was recognized as one of the founders of women's music in Dee Mosbacher's 2002 documentary film, Radical Harmonies.