Related Materials
Related Materials
Below is a curated list of materials from the Lesbian Herstory A/V Collections that were used to help build and contextualize this exhibition. If you would like to learn more about the dialogues outlined here, you may also be interested in these materials. At the bottom of the page, you can also find our source list for resources that were used to create this exhibition.
Exhibitions
These materials are accompanied by significant contextual information.
- “Dyke TV”: This exhibition details a public access television show from the 1990s
- “Lesbian Nation”: This exhibition features interviews and other recordings from Martha Shelley’s radio show produced by WBAI
- “Straight Talk About Lesbians”: This film, runtime 62 minutes, features a discussion and showcase of lesbian music
- “Voices of the Women’s Press Collective”: This exhibition provides an in-depth description of this small lesbian feminist press with some related digitized recordings
Collections and Items
- Liza Cowan collection, c. 1970s: This collection features an assortment of radio broadcast recordings, as well as workshops and interviews
- Alix Dobkin video recordings, 1976: This collection of video recordings provides a glimpse into the lesbian music scene that emerged in the mid-1970s
- Barbara Smith Classroom Tapes & Interviews, 1988: These video tapes provide insight into the ongoing impact of the Black lesbian feminist movement
- Cathay Che’s Performance at Dixon Place: This video from the early 1990s is an example of the kind of performance art that was able to flourish in alternative venue spaces
- “The Heat Is On: Miss Saigon”: This video from 1991 documents a protest against a Broadway show called Miss Saigon, symbolizing the continual demand for progressive and inclusive representation
Works Consulted
Allen, M. (1988). Expanding network outreach through various forms of media. Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press. https://www.wifp.org/womens-media/history-of-womens-media/chapter-7/
Battles, K. & Patterson, E. (2018). Special forum: Radio preservation as social activism. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 16(4), 415-419. https://doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2018.1524971
Braudy, S. (1972 September 17). A radio station with real hair, sweat and body odor. The New York Times. https://nyti.ms/3t4G6vm
Cowan, C. (2017 February). The future is female. Now in the Washington Post and i-D Magazine. SeeSaw: a blog by Liza Cowan. https://seesaw.typepad.com/blog/2017/week6/
Dobkin, A. (2009). My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing up Communist, coming onto the Greenwich Village folk scene, and coming out in the feminist movement. Alyson Books.
Fritz, J. (2020, June 1). The history of LGBT Radio (part 9). Arcane Radio Trivia. https://tenwatts.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-history-of-lgbt-radio-part-9.html#google_vignette
Grimes, W. (2016 June 1). Nanette Rainone, early creator of feminist radio shows, dies at 73. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/02/business/media/nanette-rainone-early-creator-of-feminist-radio-shows-dies-at-73.html
Kellner, D. (2000). The history of public access television. Public Access TV. https://publicaccesstv.us/publicaccess.html
Lula, C. (2020, June 23). 12 Essential songs from the lesbian label Olivia Records. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/arts/music/olivia-records-lesbian-playlist.html
Mitchell, C. (2015). Re-Sounding Feminist Radio: A Journey through Women's Community Radio Archives. Feminist Media Histories, 1(4), 126–143. https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2015.1.4.126
Morris, B. (2018 March 30). How should we archive the soundtrack to 1970s feminism? Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/how-should-we-archive-soundtrack-1970s-feminism-180968637/
Pacifica Foundation. (n.d.). Timeline through 1997. Pacifica Foundation. https://pacifica.org/about_history.php
Snitow, A. B., & DuPlessis, R. B. (2007). The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women’s Liberation. Rutgers University Press.
University of Kentucky. (2023). Lesbian Studies: Radios and Podcasts. University of Kentucky Libraries. https://libguides.uky.edu/lesbianstudies/Radio