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Alix Dobkin, Who Sang Songs of Liberation, Dies at 80 She broke new ground in 1973 with her album “Lavender Jane Loves Women,” recorded and distributed by women for women, which sketched out a lesbian separatist utopia. The singer and lesbian activist Alix Dobkin in 1975. This image of her  exploded on social media 40 years later and introduced Ms. Dobkin to a new generation of young women.Credit.Liza Cowan May 28, 2021, 1:53 p.m. ET Long before K.D. Lang transformed herself from a country artist into an androgyne pop idol and sex symbol, smoldering in a man’s suit on the cover of Vanity Fair being mock-shaved by the supermodel Cindy Crawford; long before Melissa Etheridge sold millions of copies of her 1993 album, “Yes I Am,” and in so doing came out as a gay rock star; and long before the singer-songwriter Jill Sobule’s “I Kissed a Girl” hit the Billboard charts, the folk singer Alix Dobkin chopped her hair off, formed a band and recorded “Lavender Jane Lov

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