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Camp Sister Spirit - Tape #2 Camp Sister Spirit - Tape #2
Date: 4/2/1994Call Number: JG/ 074Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: Camp Sister SpiritCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Camp Sister Spirit is a conference which took place at the Women’s Building in San Francisco in 1994. It is a conference between many of the organizations and NPOs that deal with queer issues and/or women’s rights. Sister spirit is defined as a call to action so that something can be built together to create permanent, grassroots change. The speakers are from diverse organizations and speak about ways to create collective change. On this tape many of the speakers talk about the need for increasing the public lesbian community through demonstrations and gatherings. This recording follows JG/LS 073.
What We're Rolling Around in Bed With- Sexual Silences in Feminism: A Conversation toward Ending Them What We're Rolling Around in Bed With- Sexual Silences in Feminism: A Conversation toward Ending Them
Authors: Amber Hollibaugh and Cherrie MoragaYear: 1981Format: ArticleCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
Reproduction. "This article was derived from a series of conversations we entertained for many months. Through it, we wish to illuminate both our common and different relationship to a feminist movement to which we are both committed."
Off Our Backs: A Women's Newsjournal Off Our Backs: A Women's Newsjournal
Publisher: Off Our Backs CollectiveYear: 1984Volume Number: Vol. 14-11 DecemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
"Motherhood?"; Also inside this issue: Judy Clark - Jailed Revolutionary; Barbara Wilson - Writer; British Black Feminists; Adoption
Off Our Backs: A Women's Newsjournal Off Our Backs: A Women's Newsjournal
Publisher: Off Our Backs CollectiveYear: 1989Volume Number: Vol. 19-4Format: PeriodicalCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
"Domestic Tyranny; Waverly Place; Robin Morgan"
ISIS: News from the Womens Movement ISIS: News from the Womens Movement
Publisher: Women's International Information and Communication ServiceYear: 1981Volume Number: No. 21Format: CompilationCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
"Anti-Nuclear Women; Racism and the Womens Movement; Self-Defense; Lesbian Separatism; Report: 1st Latin American Womens Conference"
Our Bodies Ourselves Our Bodies Ourselves
Publisher: Boston Women's Health Course Collective and New England Free PressDate: 4/1971Volume Number: AprilFormat: MonographCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
First Printing December 1970
Womens Liberation Womens Liberation
Volume Number: Issue 23 June-JulyFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
Womyn's Press Womyn's Press
Publisher: Womyn's PressYear: 1989Volume Number: Vol. 19-4 June-JulyFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
Inside this Issue: Pro-choice marches, NWLF conference, more.
It Aint Me Babe It Aint Me Babe
Publisher: Berkeley Women's LiberationYear: 1970Volume Number: Vol. 1-11 AugustFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
Inside this Issue: "A Struggle for Identity"; "Strike! Women's Liberation"; poetry; excerpts from Emma Goldman; "Black and White: My Hippie Past"; "Anatomy of an Abortion"; "An open letter to Betty Friedan";
Ach Ach
Publisher: AchYear: 1990Volume Number: Vol. 2-1 FebruaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
Inside this Issue: A Letter From St. Croix; If All The World's A Stage; "Race: Myth & Reality"; "The Color Thing"; Profile: Lisbet; Jete: on Black Dance; "Dos Culturas/Two Cultures"; more.