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
Behind the Barrier of Silence
Publisher: ObserverYear: 1990Format: ArticleCollection: Out of Control: Lesbian Committee to Support Women Prisoners
Report and interview excerpts from Marilyn Buck, Susan Rosenberg;, Alejandrina Torres.
Correspondence to Alice Krupit
Publisher: US Department of JusticeYear: 1990Format: CorrespondenceCollection: Out of Control: Lesbian Committee to Support Women Prisoners
Reproduction of 8/10/1990 letter in response to "inquiry regarding Through the Wire, which was recently aired by the Public Broadcasting System"
Logging Footage
Date: 9/12/1990Call Number: JB 117Format: DV CamCollection: Materials shot and collected in the making of The Forest for the Trees
Footage of logging in Osprey Grove, Enchanted Meadow.
First Intifada: interview with Monique Vanguise
Date: 2/19/1990Call Number: JG/ 016Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
interview with Monique Vanguise (?) on her visit to the West Bank with the Ramallah/ Albiree - Cambridge sister city program, committed to educating Americans about the reality of life for Palestinians living in the Israeli occupied West Bank. Some good discussion of the Intifada.
Robin Singer discusses Nicaragua elections
Date: 2/16/1990Call Number: JG/ 037BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Robin Singer from ACLA discusses the upcoming elections. Describes the different political parties vying for power and US involvement in the elections.
Reverend Father Ernesto Cardenal Martínez- Sandinista poet
Date: 11/30/1990Call Number: JG/ 078Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Reverend Father Ernesto Cardenal Martínez, Sandinista priest, reads his poetry in San Francisco in promotion of his new book.
The Fall of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua
Date: 3/2/1990Call Number: JG/ 084Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Episode from the Atlanta Committee on Latin America of a reading of a February 27 communiqué from the Secretariat of the National Directorate of the FSLN regarding the outcome of the February 25 National Elections. The FSLN declares the elections to be the first free and honest since the rise of the FSLN; they declare that the FSLN retains its responsibility to guard the revolution in the wake of the loss. In particular, they swear to protect nationalized banks and properties and agrarian, labor, and speech freedoms. Interviews with Giaconda Robinson and Pat Clark of Nicaragua Network (U.S.) where they speak about the people's reaction to the FSLN's defeat, the Contra war and US aggression. Interview with Phoebe Hersch of Coyote News Network as well.
A Defiant Heart: Focus on Sodomy
Date: 1/8/1990Call Number: JG/ 104Format: CassetteCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
In 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court had upheld Georgia state sodomy laws in the landmark case "Bowers vs. Hardwick". Recorded here is a mass demonstration against such laws. The demonstration takes place at the Georgia state capitol on the opening day of its 1990 state legislature. Groups represented ranged from the Aids Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the National Organization for Women (NOW) to religious groups to advocates for AIDS awareness, pro-choice, anti-racism, and anti-ableism. Speakers touched upon many subjects, from the importance of choice in and out of the bedroom, the danger of sodomy laws' silencing consequences in the face of the AIDS crisis to sodomy laws' place in the long-standing history of persecution in the U.S. and in the world. Many of the speeches featured are intended to rally the crowd and do not go into great depth.
AIDS Definition Protest in Atlanta
Date: 12/3/1990Call Number: JG/ 111AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberProgram: Pacifica NewsCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
The final segment in a world news radio show - Women protested outside of the CDC to change the definition of AIDS as the now outdated one excluded many women from technically being able to receive aid such as social security.
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.
