Myke Johnson is a white working-class lesbian activist and theologian, whose ancestors are German, Frisian, Austrian, Canadian French, Scottish, and Innu. She holds a Doctor of Ministry degree in Feminist Liberation Theology from the Episcopal Divinity School.

I dedicate this paper to my German-American paternal grandmother, born Mary Lucille Hailer, who died March 9, 1995, at the age of 98.

Copyright 1995 by Myke Johnson

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