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  • The poetry of Joanna Brouk, Felicia Miller, and Lauren Pillsbury

    The poetry of Joanna Brouk, Felicia Miller and Lauren Pillsbury, interspersed with music by Joanna Brouk. Broadcast on Christmas Day, 1972. Rebirth of Innocence. Produced by Joanna Brouk.

  • In Celebration of Black Womanhood / Aileen Hernandez

    Aileen Hernandez, former President of the National Organization for Women, and founder of the Black Women Organized for Action, gives a brilliant presentation of the problems, triumphs, and realities of life for Black women in the USA. Opens with Joyce Carol Thomas reading “A Poem for Black Women.” Hernandez is introduced by Margaret Sloan. Venue…

  • Jean Ritchie in concert (Part 1 only)

    Jean Ritchie performs folk music in concert at Freight and Salvage in Berkeley, California, April 26, 1972. Songs performed: Darby Ram — One I Love — John Riley — Sean O’Reilly from the County Leitrim — What’ll I Do With the Baby-O — The Bluebird Song — Cold Mountains — On Jordan’s Stormy Banks —…

  • Teresa Trull live at the West Coast Women’s Music Festival (year unknown)

    Teresa Trull performing at the West Coast Women’s Music Festival, September 13-16, 198?. Among the songs performed are Let It Be Known, Get Up, and Give It Up. Backing vocalists: Najla Id-Deen, Lady Bianca and Linda Tillery. Piano: Susan Muscarella. Bass: Joy Pené Julks. Guitar and percussion: June Millington. Drums: Bernice Brooks. Traps and percussion:…

  • Poet Rosalie Moore reads her work

    Bay Area poet Rosalie Moore (1910-2000) reads from her work and talks about her life. Poems read include Fog Crossing, Catalog, The Mind’s Disguise, Fear by Hanging, Dirge for the Living, and excerpts from her book Year of the Children (1977).

  • Those Who Were Prostitutes from Cuban Women Now / by Margaret Randall

    A reading from the chapter “Those Who Were Prostitutes” from the oral history collection “Cuban Women Now” by historian Margaret Randall. Voices on the recording are Ingrid Sarti, Liz Peron, Isobel Lara and Andres Alegria. Produced by Frances Emley. Other notes on the box (not sure if they apply to this recording) “Open Air, Tape…

  • Women poets reading at Cody’s Bookstore (Part 1 only)

    Women’s poetry reading sponsored by the Berkeley Poets Commune, at Cody’s Bookstore on April 18, 1972. The poets are: Sharon Ulrich, Lynda Koolish, Barbara Gravelle, Judith Stevens, Susan Griffin, Jeanne Lance, Maggie Cloherty, and Rachel Nahem. Note: This is the first half of the reading. The second half of the same reading was scheduled for…

  • Audioprose: Tillie Olsen

    Tillie Olsen was born in 1913 into a working class family and saw much suffering in her early years. Olsen reads from her book, “I Stood There Ironing,” her first person narrative of a working woman explaining to a visiting social worker what went wrong with her talented but emotionally restricted daughter. Kay Bonetti interviews…

  • Sharing feminism: empowerment or imperialism? / Mary E. Hunt

    A discuss of feminist liberation theology in Latin America by Mary E. Hunt at the Graduate Theological Union at UC Berkeley, date unknown but likely late 1981. Hunt, a lesbian feminist theologian, spent eighteen months working in Argentina. In this talk, Hunt explores what relevance feminism has to women in Latin America and how her…

  • Poetry from Violence (Edited) / Glide Memorial Church, San Francisco

    Poetry from Violence (edited version), a poetry reading in conjunction with the San Francisco Conference on Violence Against Women (to be held December 4 & 5, 1976). This reading was held at Glide Memorial Church, San Francisco, November 19, 1976. Contents: Intro by Ruth Hughes, who reads a poem; Kathy Barr: A Woman Is Sitting…