The Berkeley Revolution
A digital archive of the East Bay's transformation in the late-1960s & 1970s
PROJECTS
The Flatlands’ War on Poverty
Berkeley Women’s Music Collective
The Asian Community Library
The Black Panthers’ Education Revolution
The Integral Urban House
The Countercultural Kitchen
A Place for Every Body
The Secret History of Recycling
Pacific Center
Threads of Rebellion
Citizens vs. Developers
The Women and Girls of Telegraph Ave
Berkeley’s Public Schools
The Rainbow Sign
The Third World Liberation Front
Transgender Berkeley
PEOPLE
Nacio Jan Brown, photographer
Mary Ann Pollar, activist and impresario
PLACES
Telegraph Avenue
The Keystone
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Documents Tagged ‘Debbie Lempke’
Berkeley Women’s Music Collective
Archive Entry Date: 07/79
Debbie and Suzanne discuss the band's musicianship and songwriting process.
Tryin’ To Survive
Archive Entry Date: 07/79
The Collective's music unifies women and fuels their struggle for liberation.
Olivia Records Advertisement for BWMC
Archive Entry Date: 04/78
The women in the BWMC describe their relationship with Olivia Records
Have You Seen These Women?
Archive Entry Date: c. 1976
A flier for the BWMC suggests how they upended gender roles
Berkeley Women’s Music Collective
Archive Entry Date: 08/75
The band on its relationship with the women's movement -- in its mid-70s moment and in retrospect
Gay and Proud
Archive Entry Date: 1975/1976
The song that profoundly affected the BWMC's audience — the uplifting but hard-edged "Gay and Proud"
Fury
Archive Entry Date: 1975
A song about women's built-up rage, and how it led to a tense border stop
Sound Not Unsound Concert Review
Archive Entry Date: 05/1975
A concert critique reveals the challenges of the DIY nature of the women's music movement.
Tryin’ To Survive (the BWMC’s second album)
Archive Entry Date: 1978
The Collective's broadened their musical palette on their second album
How the Berkeley Women’s Music Collective Came Together
Archive Entry Date: c. 1974
Three original BWMC members recount the origins of the band
1500 Women at UCLA Hold Lesbian Conference
Archive Entry Date: 4/20/1973
The 1973 National Lesbian Conference was a consciousness-raising event for three of the BWMC's founders