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
8 Documents Found
![Resistance Conspiracy](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: JG/ 012Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Tim Blunk, Susan Rosenberg, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Laura Whitehorn, Alan Berkman on trial for capitol bombing in 1983, two military bases between 1983 and 1984.
![Women Prisoners Dublin (1 of 2)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 12/26/1995Call Number: PM 133Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: KPFAProgram: Freedom is a Constant Struggle (Freedom Is A Constant Struggle)Collection: Prisons - Women
Interview with Marilyn Buck, Dylcia Pagan, Ida Robinson, and Linda Evans, by Kiilu Nyasha, at the National Federal Prison of Dublin, California. Discussion about life in prison, being a political prisoner, being a mother in prison, current prison conditions, racism, white supremacy, anti-imperialism, and U. S. foreign and economic policy. Worker’s rights are discussed and how they affect prisoners who work for multi international corporations. Puerto Rico and its struggle to gain independence is discussed by Dylcia Pagan at length. The loss of the extended family for support of prisoners and their children is also spoken about at length.
![Women Prisoners Dublin (2 of 2)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 12/26/1995Call Number: PM 134Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: KPFAProgram: Freedom is a Constant Struggle (Freedom Is A Constant Struggle)Collection: Prisons - Women
Interview with Marilyn Buck, Dylcia Pagan, Ida Robinson, and Linda Evans, by Kiilu Nyasha, at the National Federal Prison of Dublin, California. Discussion about life in prison, being a political prisoner, being a mother in prison, current prison conditions, racism, white supremacy, anti-imperialism, and U. S. foreign and economic policy. Worker’s rights are discussed and how they affect prisoners who work for multi international corporations. Puerto Rico and its struggle to gain independence is discussed by Dylcia Pagan at length. The loss of the extended family for support of prisoners and their children is also spoken about at length.
![Women in Prison](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Intervew of Women in Prison, Dublin, CA 1995. Political prisoners Dylcia Pagan, Linda Evans, Ida Robinson, and Marilyn Buck are asked to speak about themselves and why they are in prison.
The women also discuss the GATT (General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs), NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), the lack of wages and benefits for the poor and oppressed, and the wrongs of the IMF (International Monetary Fund). Ida Robinson speaks about families of ethnic minorities, and Marilyn Buck speaks about how political prisoners aren’t violent, they are just casualties during the conflict. The women discuss the state of the poor white woman, how is marginalized because no one is fighting for her and she has no representation.
![Resistance Conspiracy](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: JG/ 058Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Interviews with Laura Whitehorn, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Tim Blunk, Susan Lisa Rosenberg, and Alan Berkman part of the Resistance Conspiracy case of the late 80s. Charged with "conspiracy to protest and alter government policies through use of violence," these prisoners discuss their sentences, prison conditions, life on the outside, movement strategy, the U.S. justice system, and the need for continued struggle.
![Resistance Conspiracy](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: JG/ 059Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
SAME AS JG/LS058. Interviews with Laura Whitehorn, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Tim Blunk, Susan Lisa Rosenberg, and Alan Berkman part of the Resistance Conspiracy case of the late 80s. Charged with "conspiracy to protest and alter government policies through use of violence," these prisoners discuss their sentences, prison conditions, life on the outside, movement strategy, the U.S. justice system, and the need for continued struggle.
![Female Political Prisoners - series of interviews](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: JG/ 070Format: CassetteProducers: Judy Gerber, Lisa RudmanProgram: KPFACollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
This is a collection of different interviews and recordings of female political prisoners from around the world. Lisa Rudman collages them together to show the injustice towards political prisoners and to highlight some of the many tactics used by the US government and prison system to get information out of political prisoners.
Rudman defines political prisoners and interviews Laura Whitehorn and Linda Evans and speaks about their cases and the circumstances leading to their imprisonment.
The other political prisoners interviewed on the tape are: Dora Garcia, active in the national liberation struggles in the US colony of Puerto Rico; Mercedes Algado, a refugee active in the FSLM and FDR in El Salvador; Elizabeth Sebego, active in the Pan African Congress; Assata Shakur, active with the Black Panthers and now a refugee in Cuba; a Filipina imprisoned for her work with the church.
![Resistance Conspiracy Defendants](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/20/1990Call Number: JG/ 135AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Judy Gerber interviews 6 activists accused of “conspiracy to affect the foreign and domestic policies of the US government through violent means.” Marilyn Buck, Laura Whitehorn, Linda Evans, Susan Rosenberg, Alan Berkman, and Tim Blunk speak of their trial, imprisonment, and state power, the conditions for political prisoners in the US, and social justice movements worldwide “in the context of greater and greater social control.” The activists stress the importance of support and collaboration within and between movements in the face of government repression and criminalization.
8 Documents Found