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.
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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
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![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.
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