October 22, 1952 – December 12, 2012
Whatever did, she did intensely – high femme, political activism, SM flamboyance, bodywork therapies. Many in the Bay Area remember seeing her march in gay Pride parades, wearing outfits designed to reveal what she called her "de-breast," to raise funds for breast cancer awareness.
For the past 20 years had a successful bodywork practice, with offices in San Francisco and the East Bay. She was fluent in a large number of healing modalities, including massage, craniosacral, and lymph drainage therapies. Over the past decade, she became a devotee of Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, and was given the name Rajeshwari by Amma. The strength of her faith led her to courageously orchestrate reconciliation with her biological family.
died of pancreatic cancer less than a year after her diagnosis. She will be missed by many friends and clients; her brother Peter Dannenhoffer; her close friends and caregivers Zoe Balfour, Rajani Venkatraman Levis, and Sora Counts; and her beloved cats, Fetch and BBC.
A celebration of 's life will be held at the Women's Cancer Resource Center, 5741 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland 94609, on Saturday January 26 from 2 to 4 p.m. Everyone is welcome.