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  • 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).

  • Three plays: What Have You Done For Me Lately, Pas De Deux, and Small Change

    Three plays about women, produced by the Unlearning to Not Speak Collective. Play #1: “What Have You Done For Me Lately” by Myrna Lamb, players: “Man” – Larry Rosenthal, “Woman” – Kathy McAnally; Play #2: “Pas De Deux” by Myrna Lamb, players: “Man” – Larry Rosenthal, “Woman” – Vera Houdek; Play #3: Scenes from “Small…

  • Lois Ann Thomas live at Bishop’s Coffeehouse

    Lois Ann Thomas singing and playing at the Bishop’s Coffeehouse in Oakland, California October 17, 1975. Songs performed (Reel 1): 1. Sisterhood Sounds Good (2:30); 2. Ellen’s Song (2:00); 3. A Good Woman’s Easy to Find (2:00); 4. Night Wind (3:44); 5. Autoerotic Blues Again (3:16); 6. I’ve Got Nothin’ to Say (2:00); 7. Cry,…

  • Lois Ann Thomas live at Bishop’s Coffeehouse (Part 2 of 2)

    Lois Ann Thomas singing and playing at the Bishop’s Coffeehouse in Oakland, California October 17, 1975. Songs performed: 1. It’s All Right (3:20); 2. Rag Time Song (2:40); 3. Wheel of Fortune (1:00); 4. That Ain’t The Way (3:10); 5. Fly, Woman, Fly (3:30); 6. Pig (3:00); 7. Witchin’ Free (4:00); 8. New York City…

  • Lesbian Express: Live music show

    Aircheck of a live music edition of Lesbian Express, from September 1973. Contents (Reel 1): 1. Julien performs three songs; 2. Station ID, in-studio and listener phone call question-and-answer session with musicians, including Julien, Debbie Spitz, Mary Bush and Leaf. 3. Announcements, and introduction of performers. Contents (Reel 2): 1. Margie and Lisa perform a…

  • Kate Millett reading from The Basement and Andrea Dworkin at the Feminist Perspectives on Pornography Conference (1978)

    Contents: 1. Kate Millett reads from a new book (to be published in about a year) entitled The Basement: Meditations on a Case of Human Sacrifice, at the San Francisco International Poetry Festival, about a young woman tortured and killed for sex (November 5, 1978). 2. Exhortation to march at the Feminist Perspectives on Pornography…

  • Flying Lesbians

    A copy of the German band Flying Lesbians’ self-titled album from 1975 (Frauen Offensive). Tracks: Side One: 1. battered wife; 2. trebermadchen; 3. arbeitslos; 4. fur frau dr. a.; 5. frauen kommt her frauen erhebt euch; Side Two: 1. I’m a lesbian, how about you?; 2. die bisexualitat; 3. wir sind die homosexuellen frauen; 4.…

  • Susan Griffin and Nellie Wong at the Feminist Perspectives on Pornography conference

    Susan Griffin, poet, playwright and author, and Nellie Wong, poet and activist, read on the opening night of the Feminist Perspectives on Pornography Conference in San Francisco on November 17, 1978, organized by Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media (WAVPM). Lilia Medina introduces the reading. Griffin reads her poem Deer Skull (for Hallie) and…

  • San Francisco Women’s Music Festival, 1974

    Recordings from the 1974 San Francisco Women’s Music Festival, recorded at the First Unitarian Church in January 1974. Contents: Reel A: A brief rap by one of the festival’s organizers (from San Francisco Women’s Center) to be used as an introduction to the music tape. Reel B: Performances from the concert: Susie and Selby perform…

  • Lesbian Express: Book reviews for January 12, 1975

    Production reel with general review of lesbian presses and titles of books by and about lesbians with a few selections read and commented upon. Segments: 1. A collection from Diana Press (Baltimore, MD) titled Women Remembered: A Collection of Biographies from the Furies, which includes a chapter on Queen Christina of Sweden; 2. New lesbian…