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
War Without Terms: California Prisons
Call Number: JG/ 015Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Chronology is scripted and read, woman narrator, good historical information just not a lot of primary voices. Title: "War Without Terms"
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.
Focus on Race in Black History Month
Date: 2/2/1996Call Number: JG/ 097Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Focus on Race in Black History Month. Interview with Charlene Kotherine, publisher of 'Venus' magazine and an activist in the African American Gay community in Atlanta, GA. Kotherine discuses the recent rally of gay and lesbian blacks in honor of Bayard Rustin at the Atlanta Martin Luther King celebrations, done in hopes of raising visibility for the movement and educating the larger black community about black gays and lesbians. She notes
a recent more positive reception towards the gay community as a whole in Atlanta and increasing numbers of black gays and lesbians who have come out in the past five years. Kotherine believes nonetheless that coming out still unfortunately remains a privlidge of high economic status for blacks. She notes the need for a separate black gay and lesbian movement outside the mainstream gay and lesbian movement in Atlanta because of unique race concerns and the black need for acceptance from within the power bases of their community which has thus far been hesitant to accept them. She notes the steps forward that black gays and lesbians have made at organizing over the past year, including organizing a black gay pride parade.
Les Chanteuses Africaines
Broadcasting from the Atlanta-based WFRG station, Alicia Banks hosts her weekly radio program "Les Chanteuses Africaines: The African Female Singers featuring the Musical & Literary Voices of Black Women". In this particular recording, the show at hand is part of a special marathon of gay and lesbian themed programming at WFRG. During the course of the show, Banks addresses the intersecting issues of race, homophobia and the AIDS crisis. She also critically examines contradictions of homophobia within racially oppressed communities, and dissects the notion of the need of a singular construct of closet and coming out. Included are clips of stand-up comedy from Lea Delaria, Whoopi Goldberg and Sam Kinison, There are also songs performed by and are about LGBT people. The songs “B.D. Woman Blues” by Lucille Bogen and “The Prove It To Me Blues” by Ma Rainey remain in good audio quality, while some of the other songs included are of a poorer recording quality.
Interview with Linn Washington
Date: 1/1/1982Call Number: JG/ 116Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Linn Washington, executive editor of the Philadelphia Observer and author of the book “Black Judges on Justice” describes the vast misrepresentation of long time colleague and friend Mumia Abu-Jamal during his trial, as well as the irregularities of evidence held against him.
Aminata Umoja on Radio Free Georgia
Date: 11/4/1989Call Number: JG/ 124BFormat: Cass BProgram: Round MidnightCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Aminata Umoja, educator, freedom fighter and member of the New Afrikan People’s Organization, answers questions from callers on WRFG Radio Free Georgia FM. Topics include the importance of political and economic education for Black communities, as well as the presence of Black teachers in the school system, desegregation and busing.
SF Act Up - Boycott of Phillip Morris / Duncan Teague - Coming Out as Black
Call Number: JG/ 131AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Philip Morris' support for Conservative North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms and simultaneous targeting of the Gay market for profit.
Duncan Teague about being part of "closeted Black Gay scene."
Byllye Avery - National Black Women's Health Project
Call Number: JG/ 137AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Established in 1984 in Atlanta, the NBWHP operates in 6 countries with the goal of organizing Black women about health issues specific to them and their communities. Describes different stresses in Black women’s lives and how they damage mental health. How the environment effects women's health. Also about how Black women lack access to medical resources.
Center for Democratic Renewal Workshop
Date: 1/1/1988Call Number: JG/ 140Format: Cass A & BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Speakers focus on white supremacist political campaigns, particularly that of David Duke. Also discuss the political and cultural trends that make election of white supremacists possible. Support tactics to defeat racist campaign strategies such as the “appropriation of the language” which uses new terminology to mask racism.
Sylvester Monroe Interview
Date: 1/1/1989Call Number: JG/ 143Format: Cass A & BProgram: Between the LinesCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Author of Brothers: Black & Poor, A True Story of Courage and Survival discusses his semi-autobiographical book. He examines larger media narratives of Black men and their “invisibility” in the 1980s, and debunks stereotypes by describing men’s personal experiences with poverty, social isolation, and institutional racism, following them from their youth in the Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago through their adult lives.
