Brown, Rita Mae.

  • Lesbian sisters: October 5, 1976

    This is Helene Rosenbluth’s first episode of the series “Lesbian Sisters” on KPFK. The program opens with “Face the Music” by Meg Christian, then author Rita Mae Brown speaking at the Women’s Building about art and politics. Later, Helene interviews Meg Christian and Judy Dlugacz about Olivia Records, and they feature the newly released Be…

  • Rita Mae Brown, Donna Eagles and Zoe Nawoe discuss class differences

    Rita Mae Brown, author of The Hand That Cradles the Rock, Songs to a Handsome Woman, Rubyfruit Jungle and other books, and Donna Eagles, Bay Area activist, discuss class differences, feminism, sexual orientation, power and lack of power, publishing, humor, how to build a successful movement, and more with KPFA’s Zoe Nawoe. Includes phone calls…

  • Group interview with Rita Mae Brown, Sally Gearhardt, Zoe Nawoe, and Ellen Dubrowin

    Group interview with Rita Mae Brown, poet and author of Songs to a Handsome Woman (Diana Press, 1973), feminist writer and activist Sally Gearhart and KPFA’s Zoe Nawoe and Ellen Dubrowin, on teaching, art, politics, humor and survival. Brown reads her poems “The New Lost Feminism,” “Deja Vu: Watching Old Movies on the Late Night…

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: October 12, 1983

    Production reel from the October 12, 1983 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer, hosted and produced by Eileen Zalisk. The first segment is “Computers and office work,” tapes edited and selected from the 10th annual The Scholar and the Feminist Conference held Saturday, April 3rd, 1983 at Barnard College, and focusing on the question of technology.…

  • National Women’s Political Caucus: Biennial Convention, Boston 1975

    Reporting and actuality from the National Women’s Political Caucus Biennial Convention, held in Boston, MA from June 27-29, 1975. Reporting and interviews conducted by WBAI’s Lin Daniels, from a lesbian perspective. Speakers on this recording include Bella Abzug, Jean O’Leary (1948-2005), Nathalie “Nath” Rockhill, Rita Mae Brown (b. 1944). Other attendees included Liz Carpenter (1920-2010)…

  • Rita Mae Brown at the Woman’s Building

    Writer and activist Rita Mae Brown (1944 – ) delivers a speech at the Woman’s Building in Los Angeles on July 4, 1976. Brown talks about the way both men and women suffer under the patriarchy through pornographic violence and nostalgia in the mass media. She tells the audience that “you’ve got to become an…

  • Lesbian sisters / Deborah Posey and Rita Mae Brown interviewed by Helene Rosenbluth

    This episode of “Lesbian Sisters” features an interview with Deborah Posey, a Black lesbian mother from Detroit and member of the Revolutionary Socialist League, who talks about the gay movement in Detroit, her family’s recent harassment and forcible eviction by a homophobic landlord, and how gay liberation can only truly be achieved in a socialist…