- Collection:
- Archives for Research on Women and Gender
- Title:
- Faughn Adams oral history interview, 2017-06-15
- Creator:
- Adams, Faughn
- Contributor to Resource:
- Schroeder, Ilene
- Date of Original:
- 2017-06-15
- Subject:
- Psychotherapists
Gender-nonconforming people
Anarchism
Political activists
Gay youth--Services for
Jane (Abortion service) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, 41.85003, -87.65005
United States, Kentucky, 38.20042, -84.87762 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Faughn Adams is a licensed psychologist, practicing in Decatur, Ga. They are a Fellow of the Georgia Psychological Association and a member of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS), the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF), and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). With WPATH. Adams is also on the organizing committee for the Global Education Initiative (GEI) where they serve as part of the national teaching faculty and as master onboarder for the professional mentor program. Established in 1974, the original mission of Karuna Counseling was to provide high quality, compassionate care for women. Over the years the practice has grown, developed and expanded its focus, and it now provides holistic psychotherapy services to men, women, adolescents, families, couples, businesses, and organizations in the Atlanta, Ga. area. The Karuna Counseling Oral History Project aims to document the history of the counseling practice through peer interviews with its therapists.
In this interview, Faughn Adams describes growing up in a small Kentucky town, where they were part of an underground queer community. They describe the trajectory of their career and their involvement in radical political action after moving to Chicago in the 1980s. Adams discusses various relationships, their matriarchal family background, their lifelong interest in motorcycles, and the various places in which they have lived. They end the interview with a discussion of their experience researching the Jane Collective, an underground network of women who provided abortions in Chicago before abortion was legalized. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/arwg/id/20485
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/arwg:20485/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to this item is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made this item available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Adams, Faughn, interviewed by Ilene Schroeder, June 15, 2017, Karuna Counseling Oral History Project, Archives for Research on Women and Gender. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 01:31:39
- Original Collection:
- Archives for Research on Women and Gender
http://research.library.gsu.edu/karuna
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Karuna Counseling Oral History Project - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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