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 ‘gender’
Radical Commitments: The Revolutionary Vow of Ericka Huggins
Archive Entry Date: 3/2020
A wide-ranging and deep interview — on gender roles, coalition politics, and high points of the OCS — with the Black Panther leader at the center of the OCS story
“What Gay Women Wear”
Archive Entry Date: March 1971
Interviews with gay women combat gendered clothing stereotypes.
Splits Radicalize People
Archive Entry Date: 10/71
The Effeminists split off from the Gay Liberation Front, leading to divides within the East Bay gay community
“A Middle Interlude: What They’re Saying About Makeup on Men.”
Archive Entry Date: June 1971
"One unisexual person, a boy, in makeup is more revolutionary than any bombing."