Conwill, Lena

Authors

Lena Conwill
Maddie Shappley, University of Mississippi

Document Type

Audio

Publication Date

8-31-2019

City

Tupelo (Miss.)

Abstract

In this interview, Lena Conwill discusses her life as an out lesbian in the state of Mississippi. Conwill talks about her childhood in Itawamba county, a troubling home life, her battle with addiction, and her career in a treatment facility. She later discusses a tumultuous relationship with her ex, her marriage to Julia “Star” Newsom, the Starting Over coffee shop, Rumors bar, and LGBTQ life in Tupelo, Mississippi. This interview was conducted as a part of the Queer Mississippi Oral History Project through a grant from the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies at the University of Mississippi, in partnership with the Invisible Histories Project, in 2019.

Relational Format

audio recording

Extent

1:32:45

Comments

Additional files include: abstract, data sheet, field notes, photo, audio file. Transcript is available on request.

Rights

In copyright. For permission to duplicate, repost, or otherwise re-use these images, please contact the Invisible Histories Project: Mississippi.

Recommended Citation

Conwill, Lena and Shappley, Maddie, "Conwill, Lena" (2019). Queer Mississippi (Complete Collection). 9.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/queerms/9