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
2 Documents Found
![The Economic Problems of Latin America](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 2/3/1995Call Number: JG/ 075BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
News and information from Latin America emphasizing economic problems. Report on border skirmishes between Ecuador and Peru and the historic role of the United States in the conflict. Abstracts from the October/November issue of 'Barricada International,' a Sandinista journal, on the Mexican loan renewal debate and the role of international development banks in Nicaragua. Includes a reading from David Berkin's article "An Alternative Vision of Mexican Development."
![A Defiant Heart: U.S. role in Peru](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 6/1/1993Call Number: JG/ 091Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Reading of articles about the situation in Peru between both armed and peaceable opposition movements and the Fujimori government, including the U.S. role in the conflict. David Wilson of the Nica Network in New York condemns the Sandero Luminoso, a violent communist opposition group committing human rights violations. Wilson notes however, that the situation is very
complex because U.S. foreign policies conflict with the will of the peaceable mass opposition movement to the Fujimori government. Abemal Guzman declares the United States the main terrorist force in the hemisphere.
2 Documents Found