Black Lesbian Herstory in the 70s:
An At Home Tour and Guide to the Black Lesbian Herstory of the Collection

Please join us at the Lesbian Herstory Archives where we will dig into select Black Lesbian artifacts from the Lesbian Herstory Archives collection, specific to the lives of Black Lesbians in the 1970s. A black-lesbian-specific reading of unpublished papers, slide show of images, short excerpts of documentary film, and guided tour specific to t...

Friday, March 19
The Production of Lesbian Spaces in the 1970s

The panel will discuss the production of lesbian space and place in the 1970s, both urban and otherwise and within and without lesbian feminism, with a reception to follow from 8-10pm. We hope to touch on such topics as the roles of concepts of public and private, the politics, experiences, and uses of visibility and invisibility, and shifts in lesbian-feminist, butch-femme, and other...

Wednesday, March 17
Hammer! Making it in Sex and Movies

Talk and Reading with Barbara Hammer

Hammer! Making it in Sex and Movies is the first book by influential filmmaker

Barbara Hammer, whose life and work have inspired a generation of queer, feminist, and avant-garde artists and filmmakers. The wild days of nonmonogamy in the 1970s, the development of a queer aesthetic in the 1980s, the fight for visibility during the culture wars of the 1990s, her sea...

Thursday, March 11
Performing Queer America: The Politics of Lesbian Comedy