The Berkeley Revolution
A digital archive of the East Bay's transformation in the late-1960s & 1970s
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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
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Nacio Jan Brown, photographer
Mary Ann Pollar, activist and impresario
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Telegraph Avenue
The Keystone
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Harvest Gathering: a Fall Musical Celebration
Archive Entry Date: 9/22/84
A flyer for a musical event, headlined by a lesbian of color
The Fourth Annual Halloween Dance
Archive Entry Date: 10/29/83
A youth-oriented dance put on by the center for young gays and lesbians.
San Francisco Women’s Musicians
Archive Entry Date: 02/1981
The Bay Area women's music community was coalescing, but being a female musician still had its challenges
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
Advertisement for “Lesbian Concentrate”
Archive Entry Date: 08/77
The members of the Collective speak to their off-center place on Olivia's roster of artists
Record Review
Archive Entry Date: 06/77
The band's first album is an "affirmation of the power of women together"
Jazz Festival After-Party
Archive Entry Date: 6/22/76
Music from midnight until breakfast, courtesy of the Rainbow Sign's afterparty
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"
We’re Hip
Archive Entry Date: 1975
Finding inspiration in incarcerated women, the BWMC were skeptical of "the bossman's game"
San Francisco Bank Song
Archive Entry Date: 1975
A portrait, in music, of a bank worker and her aspirations to broaden herself and the world
Fury
Archive Entry Date: 1975
A song about women's built-up rage, and how it led to a tense border stop
“No Thanks Mister”
Archive Entry Date: 1975
Nancy Henderson said "no thanks" to the bad "trips" of men she'd known
Mercy Me, I’m Lonely Tonight
Archive Entry Date: 1975
Nancy Vogl explored how the personal was the political on this track from the BWMC's first album
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.
Is Women’s Music for Lesbians: A Review of Berkeley Women’s Music Collective
Archive Entry Date: 05/75
In "Lesbian Connection," a listener faulted the Collective for playing music for women, not lesbians
The Bloods
Archive Entry Date: 1975
Lesbians had "natural rhythm," the BWMC proclaimed in this "self-help" song about menstruation
Tryin’ To Survive (the BWMC’s second album)
Archive Entry Date: 1978
The Collective's broadened their musical palette on their second album
The Berkeley Music Collective Songbook
Archive Entry Date: 1975
A powerfully illustrated document of DIY feminist-lesbian liberation
Redwoods, Lovely Women, New Culture: Amazon Music Project
Archive Entry Date: 10/74
The Collective lent their music to a politically charged, clothing-optional feminist festival in the Santa Cruz mountains
Waiting for Jerry Garcia
Archive Entry Date: 5/10/74
Sam Silver evoked the bold music on offer at the Keystone Berkeley, and the bold audience that welcomed it
Bay Area Women
Archive Entry Date: 04/74
The BWMC discusses the importance of the women's music community and the shelter from the male-dominated industry it provided
Garcia At the Keystone
Archive Entry Date: 2/22/74
Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunder's musical beauty could outshine commercial ugliness
“Fury” Performed Live on KQED’s “Open Studio”
Archive Entry Date: c. 1975
A video of the Collective performing "Fury" on KQED's "Open Studio" program
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
Early Photo of The Berkeley Women’s Music Collective
Archive Entry Date: c. 1973
The dress of the Collective speaks to their persona and lifestyle
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