![]() She went on to teach for eleven years at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where she was passed over for promotions because her research on lesbians was deemed "too narrow". Her first teaching position was at the University of Georgia in Athens, in 1968. ![]() ![]() She then earned a BA in English and linguistics from City College of New York in 1966, followed by graduate work at the University of Texas at Austin where she received a doctoral degree in English in 1971. She transferred to the University of Miami, where, eight weeks later, investigations of the Charlie Johns Investigating Committee on Communism and Homosexuality led to her expulsion on the grounds of suspected lesbianism. In 1959, she was asked to leave Florida State University in Tallahassee because of her lesbianism. Julia Penelope Stanley was born at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida to Frederick William Stanley and his wife, Frances. A self-described "white, working-class, fat butch dyke who never passed," she started what she called "rabble rousing" when she was a young woman. She was part of an international movement of critical thinkers on lesbian and feminist issues. Julia Penelope (J– January 19, 2013) was an American linguist, author, and philosopher. American author, linguist, academic, philosopher lgbt and feminist activist ![]()
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