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GB 1534 CLCBLG/8/9 · File · 1970-1989
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Postcards, photographs and press cuttings, some of which have been commissioned by and/or featured in Outwrite women’s newspaper.

These images document a wide range of women’s events and protests in the UK and internationally. Includes images relating to GABRIELA (re Filipina women’s struggles), Sisterwrite events, anti-arms and nuclear protests in Geneva and elsewhere, Nandita Gandhi and anti-domestic violence & feminicide protests in India, the Troubles, Gertrude Kandanga-Hilukilwa and Namibian freedom struggles, Eritrean liberation, the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, women at work in Korea, South Wales miners strikes, and much more.

Outwrite Women’s Newspaper
GB 1534 CLCBLG/8/8 · File · 1970-1989
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Photographs and press cuttings, many of which have been commissioned by and/or featured in Outwrite Women’s Newspaper.

These images document a wide range of women’s events and protests in the UK and internationally. Includes images relating to International Women’s Day events, Mauritius Cultural Festival, the Troubles (e.g. Armagh Prison protest), apartheid struggles (e.g. African National Congress postcard), Les Amazones de Guinée, Bangladeshi women’s political activism and struggles, Grenadian and Puerto Rican independence demos, anti-nuclear protests in Japan and elsewhere, communities and workers in Ghana and Eritrea, Aboriginal women’s activism, Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, Pakistani Women’s Action Forum, Salvadoran refugees in Honduras, women in South Africa (including Cape Town and Johannesburg), SWAPO members in Namibia, ‘The Dinner Party’ by Judy Chicago, Indian demos [against killing of Nandita Gandhi], the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, and much more.

Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group
GB 1534 CLCBLG/8 · Series · 1970-1998
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Series contains audiovisual material - namely photographs, prints, film negatives, physical objects (ink stamp and metal CLCBLG sign), VHS tapes, audio cassettes, press cuttings, and related material. Many of these files provide visual and aural documentation of CLCBLG, while others appear to relate to contemporaneous feminist media (particularly Outwrite Women's Newspaper).

This series includes many images of feminist, anti-racist, LGBT+, anti-capitalist organising and political struggles in London, in the UK, and across the world; some of these images are annotated and/or related to each other.

Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group
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
Books and publications
GB 1534 CLCBLG/6/4 · File · 1972-1995
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Books and journals relating to issues including incarceration and childbirth.

Includes: ‘Breaking the Silence: Women’s Imprisonment’ report by the Women’s Equality Group/London Strategic Policy Unit (1985); ‘The Peace Camp Book: A photographic essay’ by Rupert A. Hopkins (1983); Woman Plus… magazine (1995); Birth Book by Michael & Karen Rossman (Genesis, 1972).

GB 1534 CLCBLG/3/14 · File · 1985 - 1996
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Material relating to Black lesbian and gay rights and issues, including protests, global solidarity campaigns, and other forms of direct action.

Includes: leaflets and flyers for Smash the Backlash (May 1986); leaflets for Haringey Black Action (n.d.); ‘A far cry from the Pacific’ flyer against US occupation of and nuclear testing in Pacific islands (1986); Women Working for a Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific poster (Jan 1988); flyer for public meeting on racist, sexist and homophobic immigration law (1986); Lesbian and Gay Employment Rights (LAGER) flyer and poster (c.1980s); LESPOP ‘Black Lesbians in London up against the law’ flyer (n.d.) and ‘Black Lesbians and the Police’ flyers (1988); Haringey Black Action article (n.d.); LAGER ‘Black Lesbians and Gays Fight Back’ leaflets (1988); Camden & Islington Black Sisters ‘Black Women’s Protest Against Racism at Hampstead Women’s Pond’ poster (Aug 1985); Lesbian and Gay Coalition Against Racism flyer (c.1990s); Haringey Black Action anti-apartheid demo (n.d.).

Assorted media
GB 1534 CLCBLG/8/17 · File · 1980-1995
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Loose material: Routledge catalogue of gender and women’s studies books (1995), LESPOP bust card, various press cuttings, photographs, and prints. An item-level list is available for this file.

Box also contains files CLCBLG 8/15 - 8/21.

Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group