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
3 Documents Found
![Mary Hartman Interview on Nicaragua](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1995Call Number: JG/ 115AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Mary Hartman, CSA, who has lived and worked in Nicaragua for over 30 years, serving as a member of the Sandinista Human Rights and working with CANTERA, Center for Popular Education. Hartman discusses the drastic changes in Nicaragua five years after the elections of 1990 and the victory of Violeta Chamorro and the United Opposition Union.
Side 2: An interview with Anabel Torres, the executive director of CANTERA. Torres explains that CANTERA, the Center for Popular Education and Communication, was established in Nicaragua to encourage the formation of people in an integral manner and the strengthening of individual and collective identities of Nicaraguans. CANTERA strives to improve the quality of life of rural and urban Nicaraguans, most frequently women, by encouraging collaborations between communities and providing information as a means for freedom.
![Interview with Anabel Torres on Nicaragua](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1995Call Number: JG/ 115BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
An interview with Anabel Torres, the executive director of CANTERA. Torres explains that CANTERA, the Center for Popular Education and Communication, was established in Nicaragua to encourage the formation of people in an integral manner and the strengthening of individual and collective identities of Nicaraguans. CANTERA strives to improve the quality of life of rural and urban Nicaraguans, most frequently women, by encouraging collaborations between communities and providing information as a means for freedom.
![Interview with Anabel Torres on Nicaragua](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1995Call Number: JG/ 115BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Anabel Torres, the executive director of CANTERA explains that CANTERA, the Center for Popular Education and Communication, was established in Nicaragua to encourage the strengthening of individual and collective identities of Nicaraguans. CANTERA strives to improve the quality of life of rural and urban Nicaraguans, most frequently women, by encouraging collaborations between communities and providing information as a means for freedom.
3 Documents Found