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
![Women, prison, globalization and resistence](images/thumbnails//29849.jpg)
Program for a collaborative performance work featuring prominent radical female activists and artists
![Continuing 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance: Exposing Columbus and 500 Years of Genocide](images/thumbnails//30351.jpg)
Publisher: International Indian Treaty CouncilVolume Number: October 1Format: PamphletCollection: Women Against Imperialism
Information on an international tribunal, bringing charges by the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas vs. US and European government.
![International Women's Day 1993 Tourguide](images/thumbnails//30356.jpg)
Publisher: Women Against ImperialismVolume Number: March 8Format: PamphletCollection: Women Against Imperialism
Description of San Francisco Landmarks that are part of the systematic oppression of women around the world.
![Conditions Critical: Why Do We Have to Fight for Our Natural Right?](images/thumbnails//30357.jpg)
Information on International Women's Day demonstration, 1994, celebrating women's resistance.
![Brigada Victoria Mercado: first lesbian and Gay Work Brigade to Nicaragua](images/thumbnails//30371.jpg)
Statement of purpose and unity.
![Sterilization Abuse of Women: the Facts](images/thumbnails//31995.jpg)
Publisher: Health/PAC BulletinYear: 1975Volume Number: No. 62 January-FebruaryFormat: PamphletCollection: Sterilization
Fact sheet on the sterilization of women of color.
![Primer on Filipino "Comfort Women": Questions and Answers](images/thumbnails//32531.jpg)
Year: 1992Format: PamphletCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
Basic description of WWII "comfort women"; outline of demand to Japanese government on behalf of Filipina victims
![The Houston Women's Conference: A Victory for US Imperialism Defend It or Defeat It](images/thumbnails//32550.jpg)
Publisher: May 19th Communist OrganizationYear: 1977Format: PamphletCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
Focuses on the 1977 National Womens Conference held in Houston