My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
Bio: Aileen Osborn Webb was an American patron of crafts. She was a founder of the organisation now known as the American Craft Council, which gives an annual award named for her.
