Joy, Drew

Interviewer

Andrew Volkers

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Description

Drew Joy is a 37 year old living in Portland, ME. They are the executive director of the Southern Maine Workers Center. They have been organizing and participating in activism since early adulthood. They have participated in public housing activism with Survivor's Village in New Orleans, anti-racism work in San Francisco with People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER), and now working class issues such as healthcare for all with SMWC.

Drew has a very 'do it yourself', anarchism grounded ideology in their political beliefs. Their peer environment was in punk music, specifically the radical political sub-genres of queercore punk music.

Citation

Please cite as: Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer+ Collection, Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine, University of Southern Maine Libraries.

For more information about the Querying the Past: Maine LGBTQ Oral History Project, please contact Dr. Wendy Chapkis.

Publication Date

Winter 12-1-2017

City

Portland, ME

Keywords

Punk, Anarchism, Hurricane Katrina, Survivors Village/Fight back, POWER, Worker's rights, Southern Maine Workers Center, Anti-rascism, Healthcare for all

Disciplines

History of Gender | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies | Oral History | Women's Studies

Recommended Citation

Volkers, Andrew, "Joy, Drew" (2017). Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection. 22.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/querying_ohproject/22

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