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Press images - Outwrite
GB 1534 CLCBLG/8/22 · File · 1980-1989
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Card-back press images (some with captions) from Outwrite Women’s Newspaper, postcards, and photographs.

This material relates to feminist and/or social justice struggles in the UK and elsewhere, including: the first Reclaim the Night demo (1978); Ford motors strike (1985); women protesting the death of a woman in a Camden hostel (c.1985); Sheffield Women Against Pit Closures & Greenham Common postcard; Jill Posener; protests against the sale of plastic bullets; demo against the Sun newspaper’s racist reporting; Filipina demo against mail-order brides; Polisario Front women; Pavilion Gallery, Leeds; the Bradford 12; Southall Black Sisters, and more.

Outwrite Women’s Newspaper
GB 1534 CLCBLG/3/12 · File · 1980 - 1993
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Material relating to Black lesbians and lesbians of colour.

Includes: call-out for submissions to KUUMBA, the twice-yearly journal of Black lesbian poetry; scoping/needs assessment questionnaire from the Brighton Project, a potential residential care home for elderly gay men and lesbians; bundle of Black Lesbian & Gay Centre material including newsletter, BLCC needs assessment questionnaire, event & interest group flyers; flyers for organisations including the Zami Group for Lesbians of African Descent, Camden Black Sisters, GAP House housing co-operative, and others; agenda, meeting minutes and related records re the International Lesbian and Gay People of Colour (ILGPOC) Conference 1990.

Membership and events
GB 1534 CLCBLG/4/5 · File · 1981-1986
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Material relating to membership and events for A Woman’s Place (AWP). Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, completed membership/affiliation forms, and material (programme and minutes) relating to International Women’s Day 1981 events.

A Woman's Place
Writing
GB 1534 JF/2 · Series · 1982 - 1998
Part of Papers of Jackie Forster

Series includes printed, typed and handwritten materials including drafts, correspondences and newspaper clippings regarding the writing of Forster (sometimes named Mackenzie). This includes 1 file titled ‘Jackie Novel’ containing 2 drafts of ‘The Seven Galateas’, a novel written by Jacqueline Mackenzie (n.d. c.1960). Another file contains proofs, press, correspondence and edited drafts relating to ‘Rocking the Cradle’ (1981), a book written by Forster about lesbian motherhood. Another file contains materials related to a chapter called ‘Metamorphosis’ featured in a book by Veronica Groocock called ‘Changing our Lives’ where Forster features on the cover. Files also contain early writing by Forster, then Mackenzie called ‘Petal Power’, a preface to the Pink Plaque Guide and correspondence re proposals for Forster’s autobiography, sample chapters, questionnaires, article drafts and newspaper clippings, often attached to typed drafts and interviews for publications such as Pink Paper, Gay News, Kenric Newsletter, Sappho (including transcripts of debates), Women in Media,Women’s Equality Group Newsletter, Pride UK Launch 1998, a Sparerib (1988) and several obituaries of known lesbians within her community.

Papers of Jessie McKirdy
GB 1534 JM · Collection · 1982 - 2021

Papers collected by Jessie McKirdy regarding the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp. Includes: written accounts by McKirdy, photographs of the camp, newspaper clippings, and instructions for the protest in December, 1982.

Jessie McKirdy, 1936 - present, anti-nuclear activist
Asian women’s groups
GB 1534 CLCBLG/3/4 · File · 1982 - 1994
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Material relating to Asian women’s lives and experiences, including flyers, newsletters, annual reports, essays and publications.

Includes: Asian Young Women’s Project flyers (1990; duplicates); Press Gang bookmark advertising Chrystos’s Not Vanishing (c.1988); Asian Women’s Network newsletter (Jan 1986); excerpt from India Home & Abroad 2.2 (Oct-Dec 1989); Newham Asian Women’s Network annual reports (1991/92; 1993/94); Shakti Khabar South Asian L&G network publications (Apr/May 1990; Aug/Sep 1991); ‘Asian Women in Revolution’ essay on women in China and Vietnam by Charlotte Bunch-Weeks (n.d.), Moslem Students Society of Britain weekly pub (5 Mar 1982).

GB 1534 CLCBLG/3/15 · File · 1984 - 1994
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Material relating to conferences for Black lesbians and gays and lesbians & gays of colour, including flyers, leaflets, agendas, meeting minutes, programmes, conference papers, and information packs for various conferences and events.

Conferences include: the Black Lesbian and Gay Centre (BLGC) AGMs (1987-1989); Zami and Zami II conferences (1988 & 1989); International Lesbian and Gay People of Colour Conference (Nov 1990); Black Lesbians & Gays ‘Fighting Heterosexism in Our Communities!’ conference (21 Mar 1986); Asian Women’s Network ‘Organising into the 90s’ conference (Jun 1990); Black Pride and Solidarity, St Louis (Dec 1985); ‘Lesbian Politics – Just a Lifestyle?’ conference, Durban (Dec 1994); Black Caucus of Legislation for Lesbian & Gay Rights meeting (n.d.); ‘I Am Your Sister: Forging Global Connections across Differences’ conference, Boston MA (Oct 1990); ‘Black Communities: Living & Struggling Together’ conference (Feb 1986); London Against Racism ‘Youth: Racism & Power’ conference (n.d. [1984?]); Third World Lesbian workshop at 8th International Lesbian Information Service (ILIS) Conference, Geneva (Mar 1986).

GB 1534 CLCBLG/8/10 · File · 1984-1992
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Assorted material from a range of feminist and activist groups.

Includes: Palestine calendar for 1984; London Disability Arts Forum ‘Euroday ’91’ leaflet (1991); London Women’s History Network poster (c.1983); poster for ‘Our Space in Britain: An exhibition by migrant immigrant and black women photographers’ at Camerawork (1987); poster featuring cartoon girl and spider, with text [in Hindi?] (n.d.); ‘Female Parts’ brochure for Channel 4 series (1992); letter from Margot Muller to Outwrite enclosing photographs (no longer enclosed) of Manchester ‘Many Visions, Many Hands’ women’s weekend (7 Oct 1988).

Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group