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
2 Documents Found
![Stetson Kennedy Interview on anti-racism](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1991Call Number: JG/ 117Format: CassetteCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Explains his experience resisting racism and white supremacy in Depression-era, Jim Crow and poverty stricken South in the 1930s. He talks about the class construction and expansion the Ku Klux Klan, as well as the growth of antiracist organization, including his personal investigation of Klan activity.
![On the KKK and the 1996 Republican National Convention](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 8/16/1996Call Number: JG/ 158BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Judy opens the episode with a reading from a newspaper article that was not widely publicized in the national newspapers. The article focused on an event where two KKK members plead guilty in Charleston in Federal Court to burning down two Black A.M.E. churches. Judy questions why the article was hidden from public knowledge.
Judy then moves on to speak primarily about the Republican National Convention that recently occurred in San Diego. She challenges news reports and newspaper articles claiming that many Blacks and Latinos were present at the convention, while in reality, there were only 100 Blacks/Latinos of the 2000 people in total attendance. Judy also mentions the various protests that occurred during the convention.
2 Documents Found