Celeste (Celestia) Yamma (Nuwamba 24, 1942 – Janairu 3,2008)marubuciya ce ta Ba'amurke kuma marubuciya 'yar madigo,wacce aka sani da madadin ra'ayoyinta a cikin ɗakin karatu da marubucin littattafanta game da jima'i na madigo da yawan aminci . Ita kanta tayi polyamorous .

Tarihin Rayuwa gyara sashe

An haifi West a Pocatello, Idaho.Ta sami BA a aikin jarida daga Jami'ar Jihar Portland, da master's dinta a Sabis na Laburare daga Jami'ar Rutgers a 1968.Daga nan ta koma San Francisco, inda ta yi aiki a hedkwatar Cibiyar Magana ta Bay Area a ɗakin karatu na Jama'a na San Francisco .[1]Ita ce edita na biyu na mujallarta,Synergy,wanda ya lashe kyaututtukan ALA guda biyu amma ya rasa kudadensa a cikin 1973 bayan West ya buga wani hoto mara kyau na Richard Nixon .[2]

A cikin 1972,West co-kafa Booklegger Press,mace ta farko da ta mallaki ɗakin karatu na Amurka,tare da abokin aikinta a lokacin,ma'aikacin ɗakin karatu Sue Critchfield, da Valerie Wheat. Buga na farko na 'yan jaridu wani tarihin tarihin ne da West da Elizabeth Katz suka gyara mai suna Revolting Labrarians.Kundin tarihin,wanda ya bayyana son zuciya a cikin ayyukan laburare na zamani da kuma samar da madadin laburare,ya sayar da kwafi 15,000 a cikin shekaru uku. Ta kuma buga mujallar ɗakin karatu ta mata ta Booklegger Magazine daga 1973 zuwa 1976.[3]Tsakanin 1989 da 2006, West ya yi aiki a matsayin darektan ɗakin karatu a Cibiyar Zen San Francisco .

A cikin 1977,West ta zama abokiyar Cibiyar Mata don 'Yancin Jarida (WIFP). WIFP ƙungiyar wallafe-wallafen sa-kai ce ta Amurka.Kungiyar tana aiki don haɓaka sadarwa tsakanin mata da kuma haɗa jama'a da nau'ikan kafofin watsa labarai na mata.

Bangaren littafi mai tsarki gyara sashe

  1. West, Celeste (2003). "Introduction: Revolting Librarians Rides Again". Revolting Librarians Redux: Radical Librarians Speak Out. Repr. in She Was a Booklegger, p. 226.
  2. West, p. 228.
  3. (2008, March). "Celeste West [obituary]". American Libraries, (73).