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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

  • 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

Interview about ecological devastation in El Salvador Interview about ecological devastation in El Salvador
Date: 9/1/1989Call Number: JG/ 028BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Interview with Daniel Faber, the research director at the Environmental Project on Central America (EPOCA). He discusses the ecological devastation in El Salvador.
Judy Gerber's Report on El Salvador Judy Gerber's Report on El Salvador
Date: 3/29/1992Call Number: JG/ 112Format: Cass A & BProducers: Judy GerberProgram: slide show presentationCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Audio recording of a slide show presentation. Gerber describes the country two months after the Feb. 1st cease-fire, particularly in terms of women's conditions and rights. Issues of health care, land ownership, sexual and domestic abuse, single female heads of households, illiteracy, and women-as-property are addressed amid discussion of El Salvador's path to reconstruction.
El Salvador 1989 El Salvador 1989
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: JG/ 022Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
News of continual violence and government repression in El Salvador between during the months of December 1989 and January 1990 and following the FMLN offensive of November 11th. News from El Salvador taken from “El Salvador Online,” funded by Washington Center For Central American Studies.
Women in El Salvador Women in El Salvador
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.
Interview with Anabel Torres on Nicaragua Interview with Anabel Torres on Nicaragua
Date: 1/1/1995Call Number: JG/ 115BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
An interview with Anabel Torres, the executive director of CANTERA. Torres explains that CANTERA, the Center for Popular Education and Communication, was established in Nicaragua to encourage the formation of people in an integral manner and the strengthening of individual and collective identities of Nicaraguans. CANTERA strives to improve the quality of life of rural and urban Nicaraguans, most frequently women, by encouraging collaborations between communities and providing information as a means for freedom.
Interview with Anabel Torres on Nicaragua Interview with Anabel Torres on Nicaragua
Date: 1/1/1995Call Number: JG/ 115BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Anabel Torres, the executive director of CANTERA explains that CANTERA, the Center for Popular Education and Communication, was established in Nicaragua to encourage the strengthening of individual and collective identities of Nicaraguans. CANTERA strives to improve the quality of life of rural and urban Nicaraguans, most frequently women, by encouraging collaborations between communities and providing information as a means for freedom.
Cuauhtemoc Cardeñas speaks at UC Berkeley Cuauhtemoc Cardeñas speaks at UC Berkeley
Date: 11/16/1989Call Number: JG/ 139AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
The founder of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PDR) in Mexico speaks against US intervention in Central and Latin America. He addresses questions about the role of anti-imperialist actions in the US in support of Mexico, and discusses the creation of new, egalitarian trade relationships between North and South American economies.
Por Eso Luchamos: Songs of the Salvadoran Struggle Por Eso Luchamos: Songs of the Salvadoran Struggle
Date: 1/1/1985Call Number: Vin 022Format: VinylProducers: Paredon Records, Cutumay CamonesCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
This album is a musical homage to the Salvadoran citizens that perished in an uprising against the dictatorship in 1981. In addition to commemorating the battle that took place in the town of Cutumay Camones, these protest songs also trace the ongoing struggle of the Salvadoran people towards liberation and self-determination.
Judy Gerber and The School of the Americas Judy Gerber and The School of the Americas
Date: 5/21/1993Call Number: JG/ 154Format: CassetteProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
The radio broadcast by Judy Gerber illustrates the dangers of the School of the Americas and its graduates. Many of the criminals of war who incited multiple killings and massacres in Central and South America graduated from The College of the Americas.
Judy Gerber and The School of the Americas Judy Gerber and The School of the Americas
Date: 5/21/1993Call Number: CD 907Format: CDProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
The radio broadcast by Judy Gerber illustrates the dangers of the School of the Americas and its graduates. Many of the criminals of war who incited mutiple killings and massacres in Central and South America graduated from The College of the Americas.