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DECEMBER 3 2010
PROFILE
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until January 1, the couple is spending the
rest o f the year living in the RV at the Jewell
Meadows Wildlife Area, where they serve as
volunteer camp hosts. While much o f the
work involved is familiar to Jacob, it’s new
territory for Diane.
“The work is stuff that Jake has done a lot
as a park ranger but it’s not stuff I excel at or
do very well,” Anderson-Minshall admits.
“So I’m definitely having those moments
where I break down and I’m like, ‘I’m a
magazine editor!’ Because it’s really hard go
ing from something you think you’re really
good at to doing something you think you’re
incompetent at.”
The remoteness o f the couple’s wilderness
post— about two hours outside o f Portland
but with limited phone and internet ac
cess— is not only helping to prepare them
for the trip ahead, it’s also giving them time
to finish one o f their joint writing projects, a
relationship memoir titled Queerly Beloved.
The memoir explores the couple’s 20-year
relationship, including the impact o f Jacob’s
transition from female to male. Diane and
Jacob also co-author a series o f queer murder
mysteries called Blind Eye.
All things considered, it makes sense that
the couple would take on this project to
gether also. The timing seems foretold well.
Anderson-Minshall says she knew the
time was right to make the shift from maga
zine editor to roving environmental report
er/activist when it became apparent over the
course o f the year that Curve would be sold
to Australian publishing company Avalon.
“I’ve had this project sort o f on the back
burner,” Anderson-Minshall says. “So I was
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to let Merryn Johns, who’s been the editor at
[Avalon’s lesbian publications] Bound and
LOTL, take over the reins at Curve and kind
o f take myself out o f the equation.’You don’t
need multiple editors-in-chief.”
She says some wondered, though, why she
didn’t step up to buy the magazine herself.
“I promised to do this [Greening Ameri
ca] project for a year and then we’ll see ...
what things look like,” she says, “’cause it’s
really hard for me to take a year away from
publishing.”
For now, Anderson-Minshall will get her
journalistic fix by telling the stories she finds
as part o f the Greening America Tour and
through investigative pieces on the intersec
tions o f race and gender with the environ
mental movement.
“There’s outgrowths o f groups that are do
ing stuff that we don’t hear about,” Ander
son-Minshall says. “We want to go investi
gate those things and make some links there
as well.” JM
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