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![Immigrant and Refugee Women's Conference](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
A conference on immigrant and refugee women's issues.
![Tongues Untied](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 7/16/1991Call Number: V 487Format: VHSProducers: Marlon RiggsCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Film by Marlon Riggs that recounts his life history, intermixed with Essex Hemphill’s poetry, a visit to the Institute of Snap!thology, and a celebration of black men loving black men as a revolutionary act.
![Political Prisoner Installation - International Women's Day](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 10/21/1991Call Number: V 492Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Street celebrations of International Women’s Day include the Women Against Imperialism Quilt, a political prisoner and prisoner of war street installation and street theater. Activists portray various figures like Linda Evans, Alejandrina Torres, Ricardo Flores Magon as well as pay tribute to the indigenous peoples of California, the Caribbean, Central America, and Mexico. The performance is part of the International Women’s Day theme of 500 Years of Resistance.
![Chasky Quilt](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 10/1/1991Call Number: V 527Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Close up shots of quilt made for International Women's Day to honor 500 years of resistance through women's eyes. Panels on quilt commemorate North American indigenous struggle, the end of US occupations across the globe, and the release of all political prisoners and prisoners of war.
![Chasky Quilt - 500 years of resistance](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 10/12/1991Call Number: V 528Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
The quilt is displayed at International Women's Day march. The progressive women of color drum performance group Sistah Boom also performs.
![Connexions: Surviving War, Working for Peace](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Peoples Translation ServicesYear: 1991Volume Number: No. 36Format: PeriodicalCollection: Connexions
Focuses on the idea that war is a function and fulfillment of patriarchy and a male experence while highlighting the ways in which women work towards peace.
![Connexions: Among Friends](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Peoples Translation ServicesYear: 1991Volume Number: No. 35Format: PeriodicalCollection: Connexions
Focuses on friendships among and between women. It looks at friendships on a global scale as a contributor to the feminist movement.
![Connexions: Image Revision](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Peoples Translation ServicesYear: 1991Volume Number: No. 37Format: PeriodicalCollection: Connexions
Focuses on confronting the idea that a female's worth is reduced to her body. It challenges the concept of the "Ideal Body" and contributes to the discussion about women being more than just a pretty face. *"We Are The Body, They Are The Soul" p. 7
![The Rallyer](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: The RallyerYear: 1991Volume Number: No. 2 AprilFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
Inside this Issue: A day to resist, a day to mourn; wall of women; vital drug banned; more.
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