Browse Items (5 total)

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  Disquieting Muses and Women on Trial:
  The Forbidden Texts of the Three Marias

  For this episode of All Night Sunday with the Radio On, Suzan Shown interviews the cast and creator of Disquieting Muses: A Response to the Suicides of Women Artists, discussing the feeling of obligation to find a man, get married, and otherwise fulfill the role of what a woman is supposed to be.
  
  Episode includes a reading of an untitled poem by Marilyn Monroe. Features a recording of Women on Trial: The Forbidden Texts of the Three Marias, a one-night only performance about the case of three women authors who wrote against Portugal's dictatorship and were subsequently put on trial.

  Tags Activism, Femininity & Masculinity, Feminist Theater, Gender Roles, Law, Marriage, Mental Health, Performing Arts, Suicide, Theater
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  Lesbian Style Project: Anonymous Interviewee

  The interviewee recounts her experiences growing up lesbian and intersex in Brooklyn and Manhattan. She discusses the lesbian community, the ballroom scene, workplace and school bullying, and her experiences working at an urban clothing company.
  
  The interviewee's name has been withheld at her request.

  Tags Autobiography, Coming Out, Discrimination, Fashion, Femininity & Masculinity, Intersex, Interviews, Lesbian Community, Support Groups, Voguing
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  Lesbian Nation, October 13, 1972

  Mary Flowerpot plays a recording of Joyce Grenfell's audio drama and a continuation of the story of "Sally Lime, the Third Woman." Later, Martha Shelley interviews Karla Jay and June Rook about the book "Out of the Closet," a gay anthology of views and articles about topics including the gay experience in Cuba and a discussion of the value of the individual perspective. [Music: Bar One by Maxine Adele Feldman]

  Tags Femininity & Masculinity, Gender Roles, Interviews, June Rook, Karla Jay, Martha Shelley, Mary Flowerpot, Phyllis Chesler
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  Alma Routsong Interview, January 20, 1990

  Alma Routsong is interviewed in New York in 1990. She discusses her early experiences of being a lesbian and coming out. She explains how lesbian literature of the time informed her about DOB and influenced her to leave her husband and move to New York with her lover. Alma also discusses her writing career and use of a pseudonym. In tape 2 she discusses DOB groups and events, as well as the demise of DOB.

  Tags Alma Routsong, Coming Out, Daughters of Bilitis, Femininity & Masculinity, Isabel Miller, Lesbian Literature, Lesbian Writer, Military, New York City Lesbians & Gays, Pseudonyms, Relationships, The Ladder
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  Lou and Jane, November 8, 1981 (Tape 3)

  The interviewee discusses the time she considered getting a sex change. She talks about religion. At the end she talks about getting respect. There is significant distortion at the end of the tape.
  
  Lou and Jane discuss their sexual relationship and further aspects of female sexuality.

  Tags Buffalo Women, Butch and Femme, Femininity & Masculinity, Marriage, Oral History, Relationships, Religion, Sex, Sexuality