Bert Wylen interviews Alix Dobkin on May 6, 1995 about the political roots of her music, her time in Greenwich Village in the 1960s, and her journey toward lesbian identity through feminist consciousness-raising groups. Dobkin discusses her early political engagement with the Communist Party in Philadelphia, performing during a miners’ strike in Kentucky, and her commitment to women’s empowerment. Wylen and Dobkin also address her controversial stances against the inclusion of transgender women in women’s spaces and against sado-masochism, as well as her forthcoming memoir. Material used in broadcasts of WXPN’s Gaydreams.
