Black Women Fight with Words and Action

Lujira Cooper is an African American 75-year-old lesbian activist who lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York. Her interests include writing, photography, and advocating for LGBTQ persons of all ages. She facilitates a writing playshop at SAGE, a center for the LGBTQ older population. Playshop because writing should be fun. Spoke at the opening ceremony for World Pride 2019 as a SAGE member. She has been featured in two coffee table photography books Grace Bonney’s COLLECTIVE WISDOM: Lessons, Inspiration and Advice from Women Over 50 and THE WATERMARK’s NOT ANOTHER SECOND which speaks of the lives of fourteen LGBTQ seniors and is a touring exhibit. She has published one book Theft of Trust and is currently working on a space saga and a second in the Theft of series about strong women. Two unique things are that she returned to school in 2016 and by 2020 she had gotten a BA and MA in English and Creative Writing and a BS in Criminal Justice and she did a presentation in 2022 for the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) on creativity to ease tortured LGBTQ seniors. She is a board member of the Brooklyn Society of Ethical Culture.

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