When I picture JEB — Joan E. Biren — she’s in motion, journeying across America with her infamous “Dyke Show” in tow. She’s making images of lesbians at home, with lovers and raising babies. She’s in on the action of marching and mourning, sleeping and singing, protesting and partying.

Officially called “Lesbian Images in Photography: 1850-the present,” the “Dyke Show,” as it was popularly known, offered an alternative history of photography. It included JEB and others like her. At once pedagogical, political and practical — JEB typically paired her slide show with workshops — the show offered new ways of looking and of being seen.

Accessibility was always crucial to JEB, a self-taught photographer with a DIY drive. She never made photographs with gallery walls in mind. “Too reminiscent of the closet,” she said. “And you can’t build a movement from inside a closet.”