After Southern Sisters Bookstore closed, Teer took a step back from activism and began working as a real estate agent. Married and divorced twice, Teer had three children. With a group of other women activists and radicals, Teer founded a writing collective called Women Against Sex.
bookstore "by, for, and about women." By the late 1980s and 1990s, Teer was heavily involved in advocacy efforts around child custody, divorce, and domestic abuse, and frequently had "mothers on the run" living in her home. A 1987 conversation led to her co-founding of Southern Sisters Bookstore, a Durham, N.C. In the early 1980s, Teer became an overnight radical feminist, activist, and speaker, giving over 400 slide shows around the United States on pornography, sex role stereotyping, and child pornography. After taking some courses at Duke Divinity School, she joined the committee that founded Triangle Hospice. After a stint in New York, she returned to Durham in the 1970s. The photographs include at least one image of a hermaphroditic woman who appears in some of the accompanying stories.ĭorothy "Cookie" Foster Teer was born on Augto Dorothy and Nello Teer, Jr. The collection's photographs and magazine clippings appear to have been used as models for some of the sketches and artwork. There are also loose, miscellaneous illustrations in the collection with no correlating story. All include accompanying hand-drawn illustrations. Most stories are handwritten in the style of a graphic novel some are typed.
Two of the four sketchbooks include drafts of multiple storylines. The stories included in the collection range in length from one page to 46 pages. Also includes some amateur pornographic photography and magazine clippings. The stories and illustrations appear to be the work of a single individual, with nearly all narrative told from a female's point of view.
This collection contains an archive of original illustrations, four sketchbooks, and erotic stories, depicting transgressive sex acts including (but not limited to) lesbian and heterosexual sex, incest, pedophilia, sadomassochistic behavior, and copulation with objects as varied as sex toys, produce, and household appliances. An archive of original illustrations, sketchbooks, and erotic stories, depicting transgressive sex acts including (but not limited to) lesbian and heterosexual sex, incest, pedophilia, sadomassochistic behavior, and copulation with objects as varied as sex toys, produce, and household appliances.