Gender and Sexuality
This collection features materials from a number of sources focusing on struggles revolving around gender and sexuality. These struggles are not separate from larger struggles for liberation but specifically incorporate unique voices and perspectives.
Subcollections
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Connexions
Connexions is the collective product of feminists of diverse nationalities and political perspectives committed to contributing to an international women\'s movement. -
Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
This collection contains materials focusing on radical feminist and lesbian politics. While diverse in medium and subject matter, this collection contextualizes women’s liberation highlighting issues of class, race, sexuality and imperialism. -
Materials shot and collected in the making of The Forest for the Trees
Raw materials from the documentary "The Forest for the Trees" which details the amazing story of the fight to clear Earth First! activist Judi Bari's name after her car was bombed and she was arrested as a terrorist. -
Out of Control: Lesbian Committee to Support Women Prisoners
Out of Control (OOC) was a self-supporting committee formed in 1987 to organize resistance to the Lexington Control Unit for women. -
Prisons - Women
This collection contains materials relating to the specific conditions, challenges and struggles facing women in prison. Topics are varied but materials include conference papers, informational materials, legal perspectives and audio recordings. -
Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
This collection contains grassroots radio programming produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms. This programming primarily occurred during the 1980s and 1990s. -
Sterilization
This collection contains materials focusing on the sterilization of women and efforts to resist this practice. -
Violence Against Women
This collection contains materials focusing on violence against women. Specific topics covered include women who fight back against their abusers, rape, pornography, sexism and self-defense. -
Women Against Imperialism
Women Against Imperialism was a grassroots, feminist, anti-imperialist solidarity organization formed in San Francisco in 1981. Women Against Imperialism’s work primarily consisted of direct action organizing and political education activities.
Documents
![Knowing Injustice - Part 2](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Pam Africa speaks about freeing political prisoners, especially Mumia Abu-Jamal. The government and police should be held accountable for their actions. Maria Telesco highlights the injustices of death row and the death penalty for women prisoners.
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Call Number: JG/ 121BFormat: Cass BCollection: Materials shot and collected in the making of The Forest for the Trees
![Interview about ecological devastation in El Salvador](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 9/1/1989Call Number: JG/ 028BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Interview with Daniel Faber, the research director at the Environmental Project on Central America (EPOCA). He discusses the ecological devastation in El Salvador.
![El Salvador: FMLN and ARENA negotiations in Mexico City](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 9/15/1989Call Number: JG/ 033BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
El Salvador: FMLN and ARENA negotiations in Mexico City. FMLN demanding purification of the army to rid it of the death squads responsible for the assassination of Arch Bishop Romero. Interview of FMLN member. Colombia- Drug War article written in the "Guardian" including its effects on peasants, Bush administration military aid and the emergence of the far right paramilitary forces which enjoys the complicity of the Colombian military.
![El Salvador: ARENA/ FMLN negotiations in Costa Rica](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 10/13/1989Call Number: JG/ 036BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Covers the ARENA/ FMLN negotiations in Costa Rica. 15,000 march in El Salvador to support the negotiations, 40 of the demonstrators arrested by police and considered disappeared. Trade unionists and health workers targeted by ARENA and US Congress writes Cristiani government a check.
![Robin Singer discusses Nicaragua elections](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 2/16/1990Call Number: JG/ 037BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Robin Singer from ACLA discusses the upcoming elections. Describes the different political parties vying for power and US involvement in the elections.
![Buried Alive: Lexington Control Unit](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: JG/ 061BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Judy Gerber interviews political prisoners/prisoners of war housed at the Lexington Control Unit in Kentucky. Puerto Rican Independista Alejandrina Torres and North American anti-imperialists Sylvia Baraldini and Susan Rosenberg, all inmates in Lexington, discuss the psychological torture they have endured in this unit including the absence of natural sunlight, denial of personal property, limited contact with family and the outside world, pointless and humiliating strip searches and other sexual torture, and medical neglect. Also discussed is the importance of public pressure in the form of national and international campaigns against these horrendous conditions.
![Julio Portillo- Trade Unionist El Salvador](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: JG/ 065BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Julio Portillo, a trade unionist from El Salvador, discusses economic situation, government policy that only responds to 20 oligarchy groups of El Salvador, re-privatization of banks health, education, impunity of armed forces, humanitarian rights, International Monetary Foundation, privatizing education for profit, solidarity movement.
![The Economic Problems of Latin America](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 2/3/1995Call Number: JG/ 075BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
News and information from Latin America emphasizing economic problems. Report on border skirmishes between Ecuador and Peru and the historic role of the United States in the conflict. Abstracts from the October/November issue of 'Barricada International,' a Sandinista journal, on the Mexican loan renewal debate and the role of international development banks in Nicaragua. Includes a reading from David Berkin's article "An Alternative Vision of Mexican Development."
![Victor Hugo Tenoco of the FSLN, Part 1](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: JG/ 076BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Part one of a Speech by Victor Hugo Tenoco, former Vice Foreign Minister of the Sandinista Government in Nicaragua, delivered at Georgia State University in 1991. Tenoco summarizes the process of the FSLN to work for "democracy and justice" during its ten year rule in Nicaragua. He surveys the long history and ideology of the Sandinista movement and discuses the party's fall from power, particularly its "unavoidable" collision course with U.S. neoconservatism. He also discuses the implications for the "revolution" with the Sandinistas' loss of national leadership and the important role they will continue to play in Nicaraguan politics as a democratic and grassroots party.