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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

  • Connexions
    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
    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
    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: 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
    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
    Sterilization
    This collection contains materials focusing on the sterilization of women and efforts to resist this practice.
  • Violence Against Women
    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
    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

Andres Gomez on U.S. - Cuba relations Andres Gomez on U.S. - Cuba relations
Date: 9/1/1995Call Number: JG/ 095Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Excerpt of a talk by Andres Gomez, National Coordinator of the Antonio Maseo Brigade, a group of Cuban Americans in support of Cuba and opposed to the U.S. embargo. Gomez begins his talk by optimistically noting recent efforts at Caribbean regional cooperation. He then discuses the long course of U.S.- Cuba relations. He decries how some 35,000 Cubans have been held over the past year at Guantanamo Bay for desiring to immigrate to the U.S. whereas the U.S. had actively encouraged Cuban immigration for the past 35 years. Gomez believes that the Cuban Revolution embodies Cuba at heart and that U.S. imperial efforts to destroy the Revolution have hurt the Cuban people. He notes social gains in Cuba over the past 32 years compared to the U.S. but notes that the poor economic situation in '92 and '92 with the demise of the U.S.S.R. have been very trying for the Revolution. He believes that Cubans must now build socialism under different terms with the new national and international circumstances. He sees a need for a freer, more participatory Cuban society, but insists that the U.S. likewise faces many problems of its own.
Rabo de Nube (Tail of a Tornado) Rabo de Nube (Tail of a Tornado)
Date: 1/1/1982Call Number: Vin 002Format: VinylProducers: Paredon Records, Silvio RodriguezCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Songs that celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. Silvio Rodriguez was part of music movement called Nueva Trova Cubana, or New Cuban Song, that revolutionized Cuban music. Songs reflect the political and social culture of post-revolution Cuba. Includes liner notes with translations and contextual information.
Cuba Va!: Songs of the New Generation of Revolutionary Cuba Cuba Va!: Songs of the New Generation of Revolutionary Cuba
Date: 1/1/1971Call Number: Vin 007Format: VinylProducers: Paredon Records, the Experimental Sound Collective of the Institute of Cinematographic Arts, Industries.Collection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Songs in celebration of the new cultural identity of Revolutionary Cuba. Spanish songs written by Silvio Rodriguez, Noel Nicola, and Pablo Milanes. Includes Paredon Records catalogue from 1971.
Rabo de Nube (Tail of a Tornado) Rabo de Nube (Tail of a Tornado)
Date: 1/1/1982Call Number: Vin 021Format: VinylProducers: Paredon Records, Silvio RodriguezCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Songs that celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. Silvio Rodriguez was part of music movement called Nueva Trova Cubana, or New Cuban Song, that revolutionized Cuban music. Songs reflect the political and social culture of post-revolution Cuba. Includes liner notes with translations and contextual information.