Editing Joan Baez (section)

==Early and personal life==
Baez was born in the [[Staten Island]] borough of New York City on January 9, 1941.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://joanbaez.com/chronology.html |title=Chronology |publisher=Joan Baez official website |access-date=January 13, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150506020524/http://joanbaez.com/chronology.html |archive-date=May 6, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Her grandfather, Alberto Baez, left the [[Catholic Church]] to become a [[Methodist]] [[Minister (Christianity)|minister]] and moved to the U.S. when her father was two years old. Her father, [[Albert Baez]] (1912–2007), was born in [[Puebla]], Mexico,<ref>Liberatore, Paul (May 20, 2007). [http://www.marinij.com/ci_5484248 "Noted scientist was father of Joan Baez and Mimi Farina"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304034135/http://www.marinij.com/ci_5484248?source=rss |date=March 4, 2012}}. ''Marin Independent Journal''. Retrieved May 8, 2010.</ref> and grew up in [[Brooklyn]], New York, where his father preached to – and advocated for – a Spanish-speaking congregation.<ref>Baez, Rev. Alberto (October 11, 1935). [https://web.archive.org/web/19990220062124/http://newdeal.feri.org/texts/406.htm  Clergy letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, FDR Personal File], newdeal.feri.org; New Deal Network. Retrieved May 10, 2007.</ref> Albert first considered becoming a minister but instead turned to the study of mathematics and [[physics]] and received his PhD from Stanford University in 1950. Albert was later credited as a co-inventor of the [[X-ray microscope]].<ref>Baez, Albert V. [http://www.ndt.net/abstract/ios_rt/data/v7n2a1.htm "Anecdotes about the Early Days of X-Ray Optics"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120152635/https://www.ndt.net/abstract/ios_rt/data/v7n2a1.htm |date=November 20, 2018 }} ''Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology''; {{ISSN|0895-3996}}. Volume 8, number 2, 1998. Pages: 90 ...</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hispanicphysicists.org/recognition/bioBaez/|title=Recognition of: Albert V. Baez|publisher=[[National Society of Hispanic Physicists]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726151557/http://www.hispanicphysicists.org/recognition/bioBaez/|archive-date=July 26, 2011|access-date=November 3, 2013}}</ref><ref>Albert V. Baez (June 7, 1952). [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v169/n4310/abs/169963b0.html "Resolving Power in Diffraction Microscopy with Special Reference to X-Rays"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110919071438/http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v169/n4310/abs/169963b0.html |date=September 19, 2011 }} ''Nature'' 169, 963–964; {{doi|10.1038/169963b0}}</ref> Joan's cousin, [[John C. Baez]], is a [[mathematical physicist]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/interview1.html|title=Interview by David Morrison|website=Math.ucr.edu|access-date=May 24, 2009|archive-date=December 1, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201004744/http://www.math.ucr.edu/home/baez/interview1.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Her mother, Joan Chandos Baez (née Bridge), referred to as "Joan Senior" or "Big Joan", was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the second daughter of an English Anglican priest who claimed to be descended from the [[Duke of Chandos|Dukes of Chandos]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/duke-forced-on-defensive-over-wind-turbines-7577552.html|title=Duke forced on defensive over wind turbines|date=March 19, 2012|website=Evening Standard|access-date=October 18, 2019|archive-date=October 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191018131614/https://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/duke-forced-on-defensive-over-wind-turbines-7577552.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Davison |first=Phil |date=April 25, 2013 |title=Obituary: Joan Bridge Baez, anti-war activist |url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-joan-bridge-baez-anti-war-activist-1577788 |work=The Scotsman |access-date=May 26, 2021 |archive-date=May 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210526054324/https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-joan-bridge-baez-anti-war-activist-1577788 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="PAO2013" /> Born on April 11, 1913,<ref>National Records of Scotland 685/1 357.</ref> she died on April 20, 2013 aged 100.<ref name="PAO2013">{{cite web|url=http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=29411|title=Mother of Joan Baez dies at 100|last=Boyce|first=Dave|date=April 25, 2013|publisher=Palo Alto Online|access-date=November 3, 2013|archive-date=June 2, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130602162131/http://paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=29411|url-status=live}}</ref>

Baez was the second of three sisters, all of whom were political activists and musicians. The eldest was Pauline Thalia Baez Bryan (1938–2016), also known as Pauline Marden, and the youngest was Margarita Mimi Baez Fariña (1945–2001), who was better known as [[Mimi Fariña]]. The Baez family converted to [[Religious Society of Friends|Quakerism]] during Joan's early childhood, and she has continued to identify with the tradition, particularly in her commitment to [[pacifism]] and social issues.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.postcity.com/Eat-Shop-Do/Do/November-2011/Q-A-Joan-Baez-on-activism-performing-in-TO-and-the-Quaker-tradition/|title=Q&A: Joan Baez on religion, the Occupy movement and her rare T.O. concert appearance|website=Postcity.com|date=November 2, 2011|access-date=October 18, 2019|archive-date=March 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329161333/https://www.postcity.com//Eat-Shop-Do/Do/November-2011/Q-A-Joan-Baez-on-activism-performing-in-TO-and-the-Quaker-tradition|url-status=live}}</ref> While growing up, Baez was subjected to racial slurs and discrimination because of her Mexican heritage. Consequently, she became involved in social causes early in her career. She declined to play in any white student venues that were segregated, which meant that when she toured the Southern states, she would play only at black colleges.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://womenshistory.about.com/od/joanbaez/a/joan_baez.htm?ad=semD&an=google_s&am=broad&q=joan%20baez%20autobiography&dqi=Joan%2520Baez%2520ethnicity&o=22856&l=sem&qsrc=999&askid=730a6619-e22f-47c0-96a8-27f54b54e0c0-0-ab_gsb |title=Biography of Joan Baez |publisher=about education |access-date=November 10, 2015 |archive-date=January 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121031241/https://www.thoughtco.com/joan-baez-biography-3529421?ad=semD&an=google_s&am=broad&q=joan%20baez%20autobiography&dqi=Joan%2520Baez%2520ethnicity&o=22856&l=sem&qsrc=999&askid=730a6619-e22f-47c0-96a8-27f54b54e0c0-0-ab_gsb |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Owing to her father's work with [[UNESCO]], their family moved many times, living in towns across the U.S. as well as in England, France, Switzerland, Spain, Canada, and the Middle East, including [[Iraq]]. Joan Baez became involved with a variety of social causes early in her career, including [[civil rights]] and [[nonviolence]].<ref>Jackson, Ernie (2007). ''The Everything Guitar Book''"Joan Baez". Adams Media; 2nd ed. p. 236. {{ISBN|1-59869-250-X}}. Retrieved June 17, 2010.</ref> [[Social justice]], she stated in the [[PBS]] series ''[[American Masters]]'', is the true core of her life, "looming larger than music".<ref name="American Masters">{{cite episode
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}}</ref> Baez spent much of her formative youth living in the [[San Francisco Bay area]],<ref name="badass">{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/joan-baezs-fighting-side-the-life-and-times-of-a-secret-badass-129051/|title=Joan Baez's Fighting Side: The Life and Times of a Secret Badass|last=Browne|first=David|date=April 5, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180708191522/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/joan-baezs-fighting-side-the-life-and-times-of-a-secret-badass-129051/|archive-date=July 8, 2018}}</ref> where she graduated from [[Palo Alto High School]] in 1958.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://patch.com/california/paloalto/paly-grad-joan-baez-to-perform-benefit-concert-for-college-fund|title=Paly Grad Joan Baez to Perform Benefit Concert for College Fund|last=van der Kleut|first=Jennifer|date=February 4, 2013|work=Palo Alto Patch|access-date=April 4, 2017|publisher=Patch Media|language=en-US|archive-date=April 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170404215927/https://patch.com/california/paloalto/paly-grad-joan-baez-to-perform-benefit-concert-for-college-fund|url-status=live}}</ref> Here, Baez dated Michael New, a fellow student described as "[[Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidad]] English" whom she met at her college in the late 1950s, and occasionally introduced as her husband.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=November 23, 1962 |title=Folk Singing: Sibyl with Guitar |language=en-US |magazine=Time |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,829501-4,00.html |access-date=October 3, 2022 |issn=0040-781X |archive-date=October 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221003115914/http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,829501-4,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Baez committed her first act of [[civil disobedience]] by refusing to leave her [[Palo Alto High School]] classroom in [[Palo Alto, California]] for an [[Civil defense#History|air raid drill]].<ref name=":1">{{cite news |date=February 7, 1958 |title='Conscientious objector' stays at school during test |publisher=Palo Alto Times (archived w/clipping at Conelrad.com) |url=http://www.conelrad.com/atomicsecrets/secrets.php?secrets=10#newspaper |access-date=September 12, 2012 |archive-date=February 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180228110148/http://www.conelrad.com/atomicsecrets/secrets.php?secrets=10#newspaper |url-status=live }}<br />{{cite web |last=Sweeney |first=Louise |date=November 13, 1979 |title=Joan Baez on the hunger front |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/csmonitor_historic/access/187036832.html?dids=187036832:187036832&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI |access-date=September 12, 2012 |work=[[The Christian Science Monitor]] |id={{ProQuest| }} |page=B6 |archive-date=November 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107063109/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/csmonitor_historic/access/187036832.html?dids=187036832:187036832&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI |url-status=dead }}{{subscription required}}<br />{{cite web |date=November 14, 1989 |title=Joan Baez Appears at Stamford Palace |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4ihJAAAAIBAJ&pg=1037,2588671&dq=refusing-to-leave-school-during-an-air-raid-drill&hl=en |access-date=September 12, 2012 |location=Stamford, Connecticut |archive-date=April 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415000125/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4ihJAAAAIBAJ&pg=1037,2588671&dq=refusing-to-leave-school-during-an-air-raid-drill&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref>

Baez remained close to her younger sister Mimi up until Mimi's death in 2001 and mentioned in the 2009 ''American Masters'' documentary that she had grown closer to her older sister Pauline in later years. Currently, Baez is a resident of [[Woodside, California]], where she lived with her mother until the latter's death in 2013.<ref name="PAO2013" /> She has said that her house has a backyard [[tree house]] in which she spends time meditating, writing, and "being close to nature".<ref>Hayes, John (March 8, 2002). [http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/20020308baez3.asp "Music Preview: Joan Baez says hard times are over"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070210100755/http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/20020308baez3.asp |date=February 10, 2007 }}, ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette''.</ref> Since stepping down from the stage in 2019, she has devoted herself to portraiture.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Martoccio |first1=Angie |date=November 2, 2020 |title=Joan Baez on the 2020 Election and Painting Portraits for Social Change |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/joan-baez-paintings-2020-election-interview-1083686/ |access-date=October 3, 2022 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US |archive-date=October 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221003120540/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/joan-baez-paintings-2020-election-interview-1083686/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Owing to false assumptions that have been promoted about her, Baez stated in 2019 that she was not a vegetarian and had not been part of the [[feminist movement]], remarking that her stardom shielded her from the everyday struggles of other women.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/arts/music/joan-baez-woodstock.html|title=Joan Baez on 3 Days of Pregnancy and Priggishness at Woodstock|work=The New York Times|date=August 5, 2019|first=Rob|last=Tannenbaum|access-date=January 26, 2023|archive-date=January 29, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230129224051/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/arts/music/joan-baez-woodstock.html|url-status=live}}</ref> She is the subject of the 2023 documentary ''[[Joan Baez: I Am a Noise]]'', in which she reflected on among other things her personal struggles, her political activism, and her personal and professional relationship with Bob Dylan.<ref>{{cite news |last=Rooney |first=David |date=February 17, 2023 |title='Joan Baez I Am a Noice' review: the legendary folk singer opens up |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/joan-baez-i-am-a-noise-review-1235324591/ |access-date=September 19, 2023 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |archive-date=October 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231016121321/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/joan-baez-i-am-a-noise-review-1235324591/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="people20232">''How Joan Baez found peace'' by Ilana Kaplan  ''People'' magazine  October 16, 2023, page 61</ref> She also related that Mimi and she had struggled with depression and after years of therapy came to believe that they had been abused by their father.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Marcos |first=Carlos |date=April 18, 2024 |title=Joan Baez reveals what no one knew about her life: 'It was devastating to share, but now I am at peace' |url=https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-04-18/joan-baez-reveals-what-no-one-knew-about-her-life-it-was-devastating-to-share-but-now-i-am-at-peace.html |access-date=May 7, 2024 |website=EL PAÍS English |language=en-us}}</ref> In her 2024 poetry collection ''When You See My Mother Ask Her to Dance,'' Joan Baez said that she has been diagnosed with [[Dissociative identity disorder|Dissociative Identity Disorder.]]<ref name=":2" />