Marie Cartier Papers, 1988-2010, undated

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Summary

Creators:
Cartier, Marie, Ph.D.
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 Included in the collection are published and unpublished examples of her academic work, materials pertaining to her incest survivors' rights activism, and documentation and promotional items for her performances.
Extent:
5.6 Linear Feet (12 boxes) and 111 Born-digital Carriers (101 unprocessed optical discs, 10 unprocessed flash drives)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Marie Cartier papers (Collection 1953). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Background

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contains her academic work emerging from her time as a PhD candidate at Claremont Graduate University, published and unpublished creative writing projects including plays, short stories, poetry and fiction, flyers from performances for area artists as well as for Marie herself, ephemera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.

Biographical / historical:

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.

Acquisition information:
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.
Processing information:

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Processed by Stacy Wood, 2011.

Arrangement:

Arrangement reflects original order.

Physical / 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.

Physical location:
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Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

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Restrictions:

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Marie Cartier papers (Collection 1953). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Location of this collection:
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