Artist, author, teacher and researcher Tee A. Corinne has been hospitalized twice since her diagnosis with inoperable liver cancer earlier this month. Corinne, who has been residing in Oregon for the last 20 years or so, is surrounded by a community of women in the arts and academia who are assisting her in many ways. In early March, she was admitted for a CT scan after exhibiting jaundice. She was diagnosed with a relatively rare cancer (only 600 cases a year in the U.S.), cholangiocarcinoma, deemed inoperable due to the proximity of the tumor to a vein. Friends are setting up a blog to report on her condition.
In the last 30 years, Tee Corinne presented a number of slide shows in Chicago on various aspects of lesbians in art and photography; her first at the Lesbian Writers Conferece in 1976, and most recently at Big Chicks a few years ago. Her tweflth book is due out this fall. Tee’s Oregon friends say that she would like it very much if people would add their memories of her, especially the ways in which she has influenced their lives, to the collection of her papers held at the University of Oregon.
— M. J. Kuda