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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Organization and Arrangement
Biography
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UCLA Catalog Record ID
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Related Material
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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Marie Cartier Papers
Creator:
Cartier, Marie, Ph.D.
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1953
Physical Description:
5.6 Linear Feet
(12 boxes)
Physical Description:
111 Born-digital Carriers
(101 unprocessed optical discs, 10 unprocessed flash drives)
Date (inclusive): 1988-2010, undated
Abstract: Marie Cartier is a teacher, poet, writer, healer, artist, activist and facilitator. She also has a first degree black belt
in karate. She currently teaches at the University of California Irvine in the Film Department and at CSU Northridge in the
Women's Studies Department. Her poetry is widely published. She has written and published five plays, all originally published
by Dialogus Press. An active and accomplished performer, she has gained notoriety with her one woman show Ballistic Femme
which explored the identity politics and history of butch femme dynamics and communities. Another project of Cartier's, MORGASM
(The Museum of Radical Gender and Sex Matrix), was conceived as a consortium and educational group devoted to exploring and
displaying unexplored aspects of women's sexual pleasure and bodies. Included in the collection are published and unpublished
examples of her academic work, materials pertaining to her incest survivors' rights activism, and documentation and promotional
items for her performances.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Marie Cartier, 1991. This collection is part of an outreach and collection-building partnership between the June L.
Mazer Lesbian Archives, the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) and the UCLA Library.
Organization and Arrangement
Arrangement reflects original order.
Biography
Marie Cartier is a teacher, poet, writer, healer, artist, activist and facilitator. She also has a first degree black belt
in karate. She currently teaches at the University of California Irvine in the Film department and at CSU Northridge in the
Women's Studies department.
She has a BA in Communications from the University of New Hampshire, an MA in English and Poetry from Colorado State, an MFA
in Playwriting from UCLA, an MFA in Film and Television from UCLA, an MFA in Visual Art (Painting and Sculpture) from Claremont
Graduate University, and a PhD in Religion from Claremont Graduate University. Her dissertation "Baby You are My Religion"
explores the butch-femme community in the Pre-Stonewall era. Much of her academic and performative work focuses on the butch-femme
dynamics both in historical context and as an erotic force.
Her poetry is widely published. Many of her poems have been included in publications such as Sinister Wisdom, Heresies, Colorado
State Review, Culture Concrete and Central Park as well as being included in several poetry anthologies including Wanting
Women and Poetry of Sex.
She has written and published five plays, all originally published by Dialogus Press. Stumbling into Light incorporates monologue,
poetry and Greek chorus to explore a woman's healing path from sexual trauma and abuse. Leave a Light on When You Go Out utilizes
both drama and humor through the style of performance poetry to deal with issues of violence against women. Freeze Count is
adapted from original oral histories conducted with inmates at the Wyoming Women's Center. Close to Home is a more traditional
play, humorously exploring the attempt for a mother and daughter to find common ground.
An active and accomplished performer, she has gained notoriety with her one woman show Ballistic Femme which explored the
identity politics and history of butch femme dynamics and communities. Another project of Cartier's, MORGASM (The Museum of
Radical Gender and Sex Matrix), was conceived as a consortium and educational group devoted to exploring and displaying unexplored
aspects of women's sexual pleasure and bodies.
General Note
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive , the
UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) and the UCLA Library. These collections expand the pool of primary source materials available to researchers and to the community
at large. This partnership was initiated by CSW and is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to inventory,
organize, preserve, and digitize more than eighty Mazer collections pertaining to lesbian and feminist activism and writings.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
CONTAINS UNPROCESSED DIGITAL MATERIALS: Digital materials are not currently available for access and will require further
processing and assessment. If you have questions about this material please email spec-coll@library.ucla.edu.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Marie Cartier papers (Collection 1953). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Processing Information
Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user
interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides
a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive
processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
Processed by Stacy Wood, 2011.
Related Material
Terry Wolverton Papers also housed in UCLA Special Collections.
Scope and Content
The Marie Cartier Papers contains her academic work emerging from her time as a PhD candidate at Claremont Graduate University,
published and unpublished creative writing projects including plays, short stories, poetry and fiction, flyers from performances
for area artists as well as for Marie herself, ephemera from performances, documents relating to the Dandelion Warriors incest
survivors work, and personal papers relating to job searches, grants and project proposals.
Also included is a large collection of published books on a variety of subjects as well as a selection of periodicals and
organizational publications and calendars.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Women performance artists -- California -- Archives.
Lesbian authors -- California -- Archives.