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
4 Documents Found
![Martha Reese on economic and political situation in Mexico](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 2/17/1995Call Number: JG/ 093AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Interview with Martha Reese, anthropology professor at Agnes Scott College in Georgia on the economic and political situation in Mexico. Reese outlines the course of the economic crisis in Mexico, noting growing divisions within the PRI. She harshly critiques the Mexican voting system and comments on popular Mexican perceptions of said system. She notes massive protests in Mexico City supporting the EZLN and protesting international and U.S. finance organizations and the CIA. She doubts that the PRI will take any steps towards fostering democracy.
![Women in El Salvador](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: JG/ 119Format: Cass A & BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Interview with members of the El Salvadorian Women's Social Movement on the post-war situation in El Salvador and its relation to women at work and at home. Because women are a majority in El Salvador, their participation in the processes of transition, democratization and social change in the country—after the signing of accords and leading up to the 1994 elections—is crucial.
![Dan Connell on Eritrea](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/25/1992Call Number: JG/ 141AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Describes Eritrea’s 30-year fight for independence from Ethiopia and the political and social changes that the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front has made. Discusses how US and UN aid is used to oppose and destabilize Eritrean independence.
![Philippines: Bangon! (Arise!)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1976Call Number: Vin 014Format: VinylProducers: Paredon Records, Philippine National Democratic StruggleCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
This collection of songs is the product of an underground project of Filipino workers and revolutionaries that joined together in the Philippine National Democratic Struggle. Taking four years to complete, this album sends a united message of resistance against the military regime of dictator Ferdinand Marcos and the American imperialist engine that supported it. Includes extensive liner notes.
4 Documents Found