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GB 1534 CLCBLG/6/28 · File · c.1970s
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Feminist zines and publications (CLCBLG office copies).

Includes: ‘The Ancient Religion of the Great Cosmic Mother of All’ zine by Monica Sjoo (Dec 1975); ‘PENT-UP’ zine by the members of Southampton Women’s Liberation (n.d. [1970s?]); ‘Moonstorm’ lesbian feminist zine 3.1 (Spring 1976); ‘The Myth of Motherhood’ Spokesman pamphlet by Lee Comer (1971); ‘Red Notes’ magazine (n.d. [c.1970s]); Big Flame Women’s Group magazine (n.d. [c.1970s]); ‘Enough’ literary journal by Bristol Women’s Liberation Group (n.d. [c.1970s]); Whirlwind anarcha-feminist magazine 1.1 (n.d. [c.1970s]).

GB 1534 CLCBLG/6/29 · File · c.1970s
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Zines and publications by regional and national women’s liberation groups (CLCBLG office copies).

Includes: ‘Living as Women: Notting Hill Women’s Paper’ zine (n.d. [c.1970s]); ‘Women Together’ feminist zine (n.d. [c.1970s]); ‘Down Tools!’ zine by Colchester Women’s Liberation (n.d. [c.1970s]); ‘At Last… It’s the Libertarian Women’s Network’ bulletin (n.d. [c.1972]); ‘Women Come Together… It’s what your right arm’s for…’ zine by Swansea Women’s Liberation Group (n.d. [c.1970s]); Libertarian Women’s Network Newssheets (no. 11 & 14 [c.1972]; Fellowship of Reconciliation (pacifist religious collective) newsletter (n.d. [c.1970s]); People’s Food Co-op (Lincoln Estate, Bow) bulletin (n.d. [c.1970s]): ‘The Ancient Religion of the Great Cosmic Mother of All’ zine by Monica Sjoo (Jun 1976).

GB 1534 CLCBLG/3/9 · File · 1980 - 1989
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Photocopies of articles and press cuttings relating to Black lesbian feminism and Black feminist history & literature.

Includes articles on: coming out as a Black lesbian; homosexuality and critical theory; ‘No More Buried Lives: The Theme of Lesbianism in Audre Lorde’s Zami, Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place, Ntozake Shange’s Sassafras, Cypress and Indigo, and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple’ [by Barbara Christian?], from Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers (1986); Bessie Smith; Ma Rainey; Angelina Weld Grimké; Whitney Houston; Gladys Bentley; Ernestine Eckstein; Edmonia Lewis; Zora Neale Hurston; heterosexism in Hackney (article by Femi Otitoju).

Papers of Rosemary Manning
GB 1534 RM · Fonds · 1887 - 1990

The collection consists of documents relating to Rosemary Manning including manuscripts, personal and professional correspondence, invoices, magazine and newspaper articles, newspaper clippings and photocopies, flyers and posters, diaries, photographs and brochures. The documents relate to the fictional writing of Rosemary Manning, both in the project research and in the writing process. LGBTQ+ material is also present in the collection, and writing referring to the writer’s coming out is present in autobiographical and interview form.

Manning, Rosemary, 1911-1988, British writer
LAIC administrative records
GB 1534 CLCBLG/5/3 · File · 1988-c.1990
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Material relating to the Lesbian Archive and Information Centre (LAIC), including: minutes and agendas of workers’ meetings; copies of a circular re admitting men into the London Women’s Centre; and circular & flyer relating to the (ultimately unsuccessful) Save Wesley House campaign.

London Women's Centre
GB 1534 CLCBLG/3/18 · File · 1978 - 1991
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Folder of publications, journal articles and literature relating to Black and Asian diaspora feminism and Black lesbian feminism.

Includes: leaflet for ‘In Celebration of Audre Lorde’ fundraiser for Azania (n.d.); Black Women & Representation programme (Apr-May 1984); photocopy of ‘Other Voices, Other Moods’ by Alice Walker for Ms magazine (Feb 1979); June Jordan biography from City Limits (16 Mar 1989); Weekend Guardian articles on poverty and homosexuality in South Africa (12-13 May 1990); ‘Call and Response’ by Maud Sulter, from Feminist Art News 2.8 (n.d.); photocopy of extract of The Ladder: A Lesbian Review (Jun 1966); Camden Black Sisters herstory (n.d. [c.1980s]); Lesbian Archive & Information Centre flyer and [oral history?] questionnaire (n.d.); London Feminist History Group flyer (n.d.); circular letter and info from Sakhi Collective, Delhi (1994); Mukti and Connexions articles on Asian lesbians (1982 & 1985); transcript of Linda King’s interview with Melina Young (n.d.); circular from International Lesbian and Gay People of Colour Conference (ILGPOCC) Planning Group (n.d.); meeting minutes of Black Lesbian and Gay Support Group (17 Nov 1989); homophobic letter from Pan African Congress Movement (PACM) to Hackney Black Women’s Group (20 Mar 1990); Lesbian History Group summer programme (1990); Lesbian Information Service index of lesbian and women’s orgs (Jun 1988); photocopy of Joan Nestle’s interview with Mabel Hampton from Sinister Wisdom (Summer 1979); ‘Whitney Weeps for Me’ article from News of the World (8 May 1988); Linda King’s interview with Louisa John-Baptiste (n.d.); photocopy of ‘Lesbian Mothers Conference: A Black Lesbian View’ by Angela (n.d.); photocopy of review of Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider [by Barbara Christian?], from Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers (1986); photocopy of National Coalition of Black Gays solidarity message to NGO Forum ’85 (1985); photocopied biographical articles/reference files on Angelina Weld Grimké, Ma Rainey, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Edmonia Lewis, Bessie Smith, Gladys Bentley; photocopy of ‘No More Buried Lives: The Theme of Lesbianism in Audre Lorde’s Zami, Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place, Ntozake Shange’s Sassafras, Cypress and Indigo, and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple’ [by Barbara Christian?], from Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers (1986); photocopy of Jackie Kay’s interview with Maya Angelou, from Marxism Today (Sept 1987); photocopy of ‘Early Stars and Shows’ from Black Dance by Edward Thorpe (1989); photocopy of ‘Lesbian Daughter’ by Cheryl West, from SAGE 4.2 (1987); biographical article on Rosa Guy, from the Sunday Observer (8 Nov 1987); photocopy of ‘My Experience as a Black Lesbian Teacher’ article (n.d.); photocopy of ‘I Never Thought I’d be a Lesbian Until…’ by Sharon Smith (n.d.); photocopied Lesbian Archive & Information Centre ‘Black Lesbian Only Open Day’ (c.1990); review of Wild Women in the Whirlwind from New Statesman (n.d.); photocopy of ‘From the inside Looking In: A Reappraisal of Heart of the Race’ by Sisters in Study, from Realities of Time (n.d.); photocopy of ‘“I Dream a World”’ by Eleanor J. Bader, from On the Issues 14 (1990); Alan Wall’s interview with gay disco artist Sylvester, from Gay News 154 (Oct 1978); excerpt of early lesbian poetry from ‘Sapphic Song’ (n.d.).

Also includes two indexes for Black lesbian reference material and file contents, [probably from Lesbian Archive & Information Centre].

GB 1534 CLCBLG/6/2 · File · 1987-1992
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Publications and leaflets from Latin American and international lesbian groups (primarily Spanish-language material).

Includes: leaflet for Acercándote al Movimiento Homosexual de Lima (Gay Movement of Lima; n.d.); Conducta (Im)propia magazine (‘(Im)proper Conduct’; Mar 1992); National Centre for Lesbian Rights bulletin (Autumn 1992); WARMI (Latin American Women’s Rights Service) newsletter (Dec 1990); ‘Lesbian Action / Lesbian Organization’ publication by the International Lesbian Information Service, detailing their history and future plans (n.d.); report entitled ‘Situación de las lesbianas en Chile’ by Ayuquelén lesbian feminist collective (n.d. [c.1980s?]); ‘Colectivo Ayuquelén: “Somos lesbianas por opción”’ (‘Ayuquelén Collective: “We are lesbians by choice”’) article by Milena Vodanovic (Jun 1987).

GB 1534 CLCBLG/1/4 · File · 1987-1993
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

File contains: back catalogue of CLCBLG newsletters ([Jun 1987]-Jan 1991; incomplete run); CLCBLG annual reports (1986-1989); two plastic wallets of news clipping (including photocopies; various dates) and a letter from an African-Dutch lesbian (19 Nov 1989); notes on scrap paper (n.d.); posters for CLCBLG; a section from London Daily News (9 Jul 1987); Zamimass Planning Committee manifesta (c.1991?); and feedback on Zami Blacklesbian Conference (n.d.).

Lesbian feminist resources
GB 1534 CLCBLG/6/35 · File · 1985-1994
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Resources and literature relating to lesbian women, including group publications, magazines, advice guides, photographs.

Includes: Envelope of photographs labelled ‘Work of Deptford Dykes’ (c.1988-1990); ‘A Hard-Hit Community’ report by Savitri Hensman for the London Lesbian and Gay Voluntary Sector Network (1989); ‘With Our Hands’ essay about domestic violence in lesbian relationship by Ellen Bell, from Trouble & Strife 16 (Summer 1989); Shebang 8 (Feb 1994); ‘Police Raids: A briefing paper’ by Lesbians & Policing Project (LESPOP); Lesbian & Gay Employment Rights (LAGER) newsletter (Autumn 1991); Lesbian Employment Rights newsletters (1987-1990; not a complete run); Older Lesbian Network newsletter (c.1980s, 1994); LESPOP bulletins 1 & 2 (Sept 1985, Dec 1985); LESPOP solicitors surveys assessing needs and preexisting legal resources of women’s & community advice centres; ‘Quiet Storm & Other Reports’ journal from International Lesbian Information Service (ILIS; c.1992); Stepping Out of Line: A Workbook on Lesbianism and Feminism by Nym Hughes, Yvonne Johnson & Yvette Perault (Press Gang, 1984).

GB 1534 CLCBLG/6/21 · File · 1982-1994
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Press cuttings labelled ‘Pride 1993 press – non accessed press cuttings’. Includes: National Lesbian & Gay Workers’ Group membership form (n.d.); and cuttings and photocopies from the Guardian and London Lesbian magazine.

Also contains conference papers, publications and journalistic essays, including: ‘Patriarchal Ideology and Agony Columns’ by Mary Louise Ho (British Sociological Association Conference,1982); Lesbian & Gay Freedom Movement newsletter (Autumn 1994); ‘The Politics of Sexual Harassment’ essay, from Off Our Backs (May 1982); ‘Some problems in talking about men’ by Clive Pearson, University of Manchester (BSA Conference 1982); ‘‘Why men oppress women’, or how experiences of sexism can tell us interesting and useful things about women’s oppression and women’s liberation’ by Liz Stanley, University of Manchester (BSA Conference 1982); ‘Mill Life and ‘Peculiar Duties: The lives of women and girls in a nineteenth-century Essex silk town’ by Judy Lown, University of Essex (n.d. [1982]); ‘Economism and Feminism Hidden in the Household: A Comment on the Domestic Labour Debate’ by Angela Miles, St Francis Xavier University (n.d. [1982]); Greenwich Lesbian & Gay Centre newsletter (Oct 1986); Capital Gay 653 (15 Jul 1994); Camden New Journal 450 (3 Oct 1991).