![]() ![]() “It was hard to write about Susan’s death, even as it was cathartic,” Brier said. Jennifer Brier, her cousin and literary executor, told the Mendocino Beacon writing the play resulted in mixed emotions for Dykewomon. The play is part of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. It was written was about her long time partner Susan Levinkind who died from a form of dementia. ![]() It is highly possible I may recover but I am content either way.”ĭykewomon died just 20 minutes before a performance of her first play How to Let Your Lover Die was due to be live-streamed. Prior to her death she shared a note on Facebook talking about her cancer, writing: “I have had a lucky, full, wonderful life. H er brother David Nachman told the Mendocino Beacon that Dykewomon had been diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in September last year.Ī statement from her family, given to the same publication, said Dykewomon’s work addressed themes of “lesbian love, Jewishness and identity, being butch, fat oppression, mental illness and incarceration”. The trailblazing writer died on Sunday (7 August) in Oakland, California. ![]()
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