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Katherine Cummings (1935–2022) was an Australian librarian, writer, editor and transgender activist.[1]
She transitioned at age 51 in 1986 and in named herself after Katherine Hepburn.[2]
Career[edit]
Librarianship[edit]
Cummings worked as a librarian at the Sydney College of the Arts while transitioning and subsequently held positions at Macquarie University and UNSW.[1]
Prior to transitioning, she did a Master's degree in librarianship in Canada and worked at academic libraries in the United States, Queensland and NSW.[3]
Writer[edit]
Cummings published the following two books:
Katherine's diary: the story of a transsexual.[3]
The life and loves of a transgendered lesbian librarian and other essays, stories and verse[4]
Katherine's diary was a winner of the Australian Human Rights Non-Fiction Literature Award in 1992.[5]
Media[edit]
In the late 1980s, Cummings had a series on ABC Radio's the Health Report describing her transition.[6]
Cummings started working as the editor of Polare, the Magazine of the Gender Centre, from around 2001 and continued to work in similar roles at the Gender Centre for eighteen years.[1]
Cummings appeared in the documentary Casa Susanna.[7]
Politics[edit]
Cummings stood for Parliament of Australia with the Australian Democrats in 1998.
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Riseman, Noah. "Is being trans a new thing?". TransHub. Retrieved 2024-06-22.
- ^ Wolfgramme, Katherine (2019-01-16). "'I transitioned when I was fifty-one': trans elder Katherine Cummings". Star Observer. Retrieved 2024-06-22.
- ^ a b Cummings, Katherine (1992). Katherine's diary : the story of a transsexual. Port Melbourne: William Heinemann.
- ^ Cummings, Katherine (2014). The life and loves of a transgendered lesbian librarian and other essays, stories and verse. Woy Woy, NSW: Beaujon Press.
- ^ "1992 Human Rights Medal and Awards Winners | Australian Human Rights Commission". humanrights.gov.au. Retrieved 2024-06-22.
- ^ "Katherine's diary, the story of a transsexual, revisited". ABC listen. 2013-12-23. Retrieved 2024-06-22.
- ^ "Casa Susanna". Casa Susanna (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-06-22.
Category:Australian librarians Category:LGBT history in Australia Category:Transgender history