Special thanks to Stathis Yeros for all the conversations and collaborations about queer sites in the Bay Area. Kate Coleman, “Country Women: The Feminists of Albion Ridge,” Mother Jones, April 1978, 30.
T’ai Farm was named by Goodyear after the I Ching hexagram (Chinese diagram with six horizontal lines) for “peace.”
Carmen Goodyear, “Pathways: ‘We Met in Berkeley... That Heady Summer of Love,’” in West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California, ed. Iain Boal et al. (Oakland: PM Press, 2012), 137–72; Sasha Archibald, “On Wimmin’s Land,” Places (2021), ➝.
Cal Winslow, “The Albion Nation: Communes on the Mendocino Coast,” in West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California, ed. Iain Boal et al. (Oakland: PM Press, 2012), 137–72.
Carmen Goodyear, “Country Women Herstory,” Country Women, no. 8 “The Women’s Movement in the Country,” October 1973, 25.
Carmen Goodyear, interview by Chandra Laborde, March 2022, video recording.
Scott Herring, “Critical Rusticity,” in Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism (New York: NYU Press, 2010), 63–98.
Archibald, “On Wimmin’s Land.”
Carmen Goodyear, interview by Chandra Laborde, March 2022.
Carmen Goodyear, interview by Chandra Laborde.
The collective’s name “Seven Sisters Construction” may be referencing the Pleiades in Greek mythology.
Priscilla and Jean, “On the Larger Scale,” Country Women, no. 9, “Structures,” January 1974, 24–29. It was a common practice for women to not use patronymics in “women’s land.” Archibald, “On Wimmin’s Land.”
Françoise Flamant, Raising the Roof: Constructing a Sisterhood (Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir, 2005).
Jean O’Malley is the same Jean from Seven Sisters Construction mentioned earlier.
Kate Thomas, “Lesbian Arcadia: Desire and Design in the Fin-de-Siècle Garden,” lecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design, February 18, 2021, ➝.
