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
![El Salvador FMLN](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: JG/ 014Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Interview with Paul Fitch, a Lutheran church worker who was exiled from El Salvador after setting up a refugee center in San Salvador during the Nov-Dec '89 FMLN offensive to help folks in the face of the governments indiscriminate counter attack.
![FENASTRAS in El Salvador](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 12/1/1989Call Number: JG/ 017Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Interview with Julio Cristalis (?) about FENASTRAS (Federation of Workers) about the repression from the ARENA government. Discusses support of the FMLN, and the most recent bombings by ARENA of FENASTRAS' offices
![El Salvador: Guadalupe Gonzales from the FMLN/ FDR speaks](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 9/8/1989Call Number: JG/ 036AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Guadalupe Gonzales from the FMLN/ FDR speaks on the 9/7/'89 announcement that the FMLN wants to sit down with ARENA Pres. Cristiani for peace negotiations. Judy Gerber reads a NACLA interview w/ ARENA Colonel Juan Zapata, Zapata in ARENA's vice minister of defense, he defines the FMLN as terrorists.
![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.
![Robert White on El Salvador](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 11/17/1989Call Number: JG/ 037AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Pacifica Radio clip of an interview with Robert White (from the Center for International Development and former ambassador to El Salvador. Under Jimmy Carter). Interview covers conditions of poverty, agriculture, health, labor, education, economy and employment/ human rights stats. Also the murders of 6 Jesuit priests on 11/16/89 by paramilitary forces and the FMLN offensive launched after the FENASTRAS and COMADRES offices were attacked 2 weeks earlier. FMLN releases a communiqué denouncing US involvement.
![W.I.N.G.S- Women’s International News Gathering Service Report](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: JG/ 038AFormat: Cass AProducers: Frida Warden, Kathleen DavenportCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
1989: the first news story, “Abortion goes to court in Canada” is about the latest attack on womyn’s rights in Quebec, Canada regarding a new anti- abortion law. the second story, “U.S womyn organized against Rape” covers the 11th annual National Coalition against Sexual Assault conference in Philadelphia. The third story discusses the leadership of African womyn in “response to disasters.” the fourth story is on a conference, the national assembly of religious women held, titled “risk and resistance in the south.” The fifth story is about the Israeli court of justice ruling that the homes of Palestinians can not be demolished. The last story on this segment, talks about corporate backers taking control of 3 womyn magazines such as MS and sassy.
![The Gulf War and El Salvador](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: JG/ 076Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
January 1991. News on the outbreak of the Gulf War on January 16, 1991 and El Salvador. Report on the trials against FMLN generals who executed American pilots. President Bush released $42.5 million in aide to El Salvador despite protests of the FMLN. 'El Salvador Online' (January 28) reported a brutal army massacre of 15 people in El Zapote. Report on the upcoming March 10 Salvadoran presidential election: 10 registered parties including a "Democratic Opposition" coalition. The ruling Salvadoran ARENA party supports the U.S. war effort but sees bad economic consequences. The FMLN, Salvadoran peasants and labor groups protest the war. The President of El Salvador sent food to the Persian Gulf while 500 peasants marched the U.S. embassy protesting that while the U.S. is waging a "war on humanity" Salvadorans are starving. The Salvadoran Catholic church is concerned about the diversion of American attention to the Gulf and the adverse impact it may have upon insurgency/government negotiations. Report on antiwar protests in the United States.
![Sandinista View on the Middle East](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 2/22/1991Call Number: JG/ 079BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Reading of a 'Barricada' International Editorial, from February 2, 1991 on the war on the Middle East. The FSLN was involved in diplomatic efforts before the outbreak of war. They call US actions a "genocide in the name of peace." They argue that the military- industrial complex is all the U.S. has going for it so it is logical that we resort to force. They question who can stop the U.S. from punishing competitors. Also from 'Barricada,' a discussion of the controversy that Sandinista officers sold missiles to El Salvador's FMLN. They argue that while the FSLN has a moral commitment to El Salvador, the sale of arms attacks political institutions.
![Salvadoran Politics, 1995](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/6/1995Call Number: JG/ 087AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
This is a recording on the political realignments in El Salvador on the Third Anniversary of the ceasefire. Reading of Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador's 'El Salvador Watch' article: "FMLN Redefining and Renewing the Salvadoran Left.' The article describes the December 17, 1994 FMLN party convention in which the group split. While centrist groups departed from the FMLN, the party is in whole solid and reorganizing into a renewed leftist political option. There have also been realignment across the Salvadoran political spectrum including on the right. ARENA has broken off from the Liberal Democratic Party because it supposedly resents the peace. While half the population abstained in the last election, the political reality is much more democratic in El Salvador.
![W.I.N.G.S- Women’s International News Gathering Service Report](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 11/11/1989Call Number: JG/ 038BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
WFRG Judy Gerber talks with CISPES alert editor Mike Silinsky about El Salvador’s FMLN “peace talks” and the insistence that the US government stop aid to their military. He outlines some of the demands of the FMLN, including, removing all officers from the military involved in the death squads.