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In 2021, Eastern Michigan University Archives lecturer Matt Jones began documenting the story of Ypsilanti’s Human Rights Ordinance #1279 in an effort to explore the ways in which local queer activism has evolved multi-generationally in Ypsilanti. What began as a refusal of service by a local print shop to a small EMU student group quickly turned into a years-long battle over who was deserving of basic human rights. To the LGBTQ activists and community members documented here, they had always been present in the community: working, paying taxes, painting their houses, mowing their lawns, attending council meetings, and even serving on council. This ordinance battle was about more than just LGBT rights—it was about protecting the human rights of all Ypsilantians. On January 20th, 2022, Jones met with activist, creative, and mother, Dawn Richberg. Originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Richberg moved all across the country with her family before making her way to Ann Arbor in the 1980s. While attending graduate school at University of Michigan, she got involved with the American Friends Service Committee's LGBT Issues Program, which led to her participation in the ordinance campaigns. Richberg's experiences as a Black lesbian meant she brought an important perspective to the campaigns that was needed to help bridge the gap between Black communities and queer communities in Ypsi. In this interview, she shares those personal experiences, her work with the AFSC, and her passion for social justice. Richberg also reflects on the process of making change in the community.

Dawn Richberg, Oral History Interview, 2022

[Intro: STARBOI.]
Wait, hold up, we doing this shit
Okay? Leave (fuck is you doing?)
We in the trap-house cooking up (alright bruh)
Fucking bitch, fucking leave okay?
Get the fuck out

[Chorus: STARBOI.]
They been tryna function, in the fucking party, and it's lit
They brought molly, to the party, they been tryna catch a blick
All my bitches love to hate so I'm gon catch em with a stick
My chop gon' go crazy, bitch they just wanna ride out with a flick
They been tryna function, in the fucking party, and it's lit
They brought molly, to the party, they been tryna catch a blick
All my bitches love to hate so I'm gon catch em with a stick
My chop gon' go crazy, bitch they just wanna ride out with a flick

[Verse 1: STARBOI.]
They be sellin all this weed, got me flying high
If you ain't got no problems with me then why you actin' shy?
I just caught a brodie, tryna sell some coke, lemme do a line up
Yeah we chillin' in the trap-house, yeah lil' bitch I'm next up

[Chorus: STARBOI.]
They been tryna function, in the fucking party, and it's lit
They brought molly, to the party, they been tryna catch a blick
All my bitches love to hate so I'm gon catch em with a stick
My chop gon' go crazy, bitch they just wanna ride out with a flick
They been tryna function, in the fucking party, and it's lit
They brought molly, to the party, they been tryna catch a blick
All my bitches love to hate so I'm gon catch em with a stick
My chop gon' go crazy, bitch they just wanna ride out with a flick

[Verse 2: DREAD]
You know I ride out with a flick, I got guns, yeah, I got sticks
And I'm out, yeah she a bitch, call the pound, I hear em' big
I got pounds, yeah I'm the shit, I got shit
Take a bomb? Yeah, take a hit
I'm the drug, I'm in your bitch
I'm a ?, I been above, still the shit
I'm still a thug, real shit, cut me off, I'm dealing it
I been on some manifest, hittin' on my penjamin
The money ain't the talk, they say I ain't even gon' pass the bitch (bitch!)

[Chorus: STARBOI.]
They been tryna function, in the fucking party, and it's lit (bitch!)
They brought molly, to the party, they been tryna catch a blick
All my bitches love to hate so I'm gon catch em with a stick
My chop gon' go crazy, bitch they just wanna ride out with a flick
They been tryna function, in the fucking party, and it's lit
They brought molly, to the party, they been tryna catch a blick
All my bitches love to hate so I'm gon catch em with a stick
My chop gon' go crazy, bitch they just wanna ride out with a flick

[Outro: STARBOI.]
Yeah, yeah, yeah

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