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
Women and Music
Date: 12/11/1973Call Number: JG/ 002Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Women and old time music, Kit Miller and Linda Danielson play traditional tunes Blackberry Blossom and June Apple.
Women in Prison
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.
Abortion interviews outside Midtown Hospital
Call Number: JG/ 066Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: Pacifica RadioCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
This is a series of interviews with different people inside and outside of an abortion clinic in Atlanta, Georgia. The clinic is called Midtown Hospital and Judy Gerber begins her interviews inside with an abortion worker who has been at the hospital for the past nine years. She talks about how the pro-life protesters are not deterring women from getting abortions, they are just making a difficult decision more uncomfortable then it need be.
Next Judy goes outside and talks to a handful of pro-life and pro-choice people outside. The pro-life organization protesting outside are known as Operation Rescue. Underneath the interviews are Christian songs being sung loudly by Operation Rescue.
Many of the female pro-life protesters claim they are there because they had abortions when they were younger and now regret their decisions. Almost all of the pro-life people interviewed claim that if women knew what really happened to the fetus they may change their mind and blame the abortion clinics as spreading lies. Whereas, ironically, many of the pro-choice people interviewed claim that women have already made up their mind when they come to the clinic, and the pro-life protesters do not sway their decision, but rather they only make it more difficult to physically enter the clinic.
Trafficking in women lecture by Ninotchka Rosca
Date: 4/9/1994Call Number: JG/ 068Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: Trafficking in WomenCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Ninotchka Rosca is a renowned feminist, political prisoner and human rights activist. This is a recording of a lecture she gave in 1994 about the disastrous effects of trafficking women throughout the globe as well as the connection between the military and commercial sexual slavery. Her discussion focuses on women who are exported from Thailand and the Philippines including the history of exporting women, widespread diseases, the targeted exploitation of young girls, the connection to the exportation of domestic servants, and mail-order brides. Following her lecture is a short question and answer period.
Trafficking in women lecture by Ninotchka Rosca
Date: 4/9/1994Call Number: JG/ 069Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: Trafficking in WomenCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Ninotchka Rosca is a renowned feminist, political prisoner and human rights activist. This is a recording of a lecture she gave in 1994 about the disastrous effects of trafficking women throughout the globe as well as the connection between the military and commercial sexual slavery. Her discussion focuses on women who are exported from Thailand and the Philippines including the history of exporting women, widespread diseases, the targeted exploitation of young girls, the connection to the exportation of domestic servants, and mail-order brides. Following her lecture is a short question and answer period.
AIDS in Focus: Women of Color with AIDS
Call Number: JG/ 071Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: AIDS in FocusCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
This is a short recording from the Care Fair for women of color with AIDS. Black women are one of the fastest growing population of those contracting AIDS. At the time of this recording, however, much of the research on HIV and AIDS was done on men, so the differences in symptoms and signs had not been discovered. There is an interview with Dayson Dixon, a Black women living with AIDS and she speaks about the lack of services available for those with AIDS and their families. She echoes the concern that there needs to be more research done on how HIV and AIDS affects women and especially Black women. Janet Cleveland, a copy editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution speaks as well.
International Women’s Day 1991
Call Number: JG/ 077BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
In celebration of International Women's Day, 1991. Readings from Angela Bronstein's 'Triple Struggle: Latin American Peasant Women': an account of Rosa Dominga, a Bolivian peasant women's organizer, on hardships faced by her fellow women and their struggle for a national women's congress. "Hay una Mujer," a song by Ronnie Gilbert and Holly Near. Reading of a poem by a female Puerto Rican Revolutionary and of a poem, "Expectation," by Assada Shakur, imprisoned black revolutionary. Report of protests at prisons to commemorate International Women's Day. Speech by Linda Evans, female political prisoner, antiwar protester. Evans declares herself an anti-imperialist prisoner, supports women's and lesbian liberation, cries out against the Middle East war and against the unjust U.S. criminal justice system.
Gender Issues in Russia, 1992
Call Number: JG/ 085BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Interview with Gene Peters, lesbian & gay activist who traveled to Russia in 1992 with Friendship Force to examine women's issues after the dissolution of the USSR. Peters talked extensively with female Russian professors and officials. She describes how many women were forced out of the workforce with the fall of communism, particularly in high status jobs. 70% of the Russian unemployed are women and fewer women have been elected to office since the fall of USSR. Peters describes the work of the Russian Federation of Women, a Soviet women's organization. She notes a lack of adequate medical supplies and dearth of contraceptives in Russia that renders an average of 8 abortions per woman. She describes the AIDS epidemic in the former USSR and current Russian AIDS campaigns. She also describes political reform initiatives for gay men & women who were brutally repressed under the Soviet regime, as well as the development of open gay life. She concludes with a general warning against Western media coverage of Russia, noting remarkable social retrogression and stratification in the wake of the fall of the USSR.
International Women’s Day 1995
Date: 3/5/1995Call Number: JG/ 087BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Interview with Judy Siff of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee who speaks of the creation, destruction and recreation of International Women's Day. It is a day when women recognize women who are in struggle around the world. Siff advocates visiting women in prison and describes the situation of Laura Whitehorn, an anti-racist political prisoner accused of resistance conspiracy and sentenced to 15 years of prison.
Readings from Margaret Randall's 'Sandino's Daughters Revisited,' a book of interviews and commentary about Nicaraguan feminism following the defeat of the FSLN in 1990. The book describes how the Sandinista movement brought women into public leadership but within its male-dominated power structure. Following are excerpts of an interview with Michelle Nageles, a feminist activist at the University of Central America who envisions a newfound solidarity amongst women in Nicaragua.
Martha Reese on Southern Mexico and Guatemala
Date: 10/1/1995Call Number: JG/ 092AFormat: 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 her work in Southern Mexico and Central America. Reese describes her work in Guatemala with organizing women textile workers and describes the dangers that such women face. She notes that women have become increasingly bold despite attacks against them. Reese then describes the
Mexican crisis of legitimacy in Chiapas, including popular protest movements and the militarization of the region. She fears an army takeover of the Mexican government with the breakdown and bankruptcy of the PRI. She describes the poor economic situation in Mexico and describes local coping methods. She very harshly criticizes the U.S. state department. Not an objective interview.
