1 Film reel (black-and-white, silent, original reversal, super 8mm; 10 feet)
Type:
Archival materials
Film reels
Date:
1984
Scope and Contents:
Shown at Herizon as part of a discussion on pre-#MeToo topics such as sexual harassment in the workplace (film captures décor on local campus state office building.)
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research use.
Researchers must handle unprotected photographs with gloves. Researchers must use reference copies of audio-visual materials. When no reference copy exists, the Archives Center staff will produce reference copies on an "as needed" basis, as resources allow.
Do not use original materials when available on reference video or audio tapes.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Archives Center Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Includes a wide variety of mixed materials, including a collection of zines, convention pamphlets, photographs, a mylar transfer sheet, and detailed guide on self-abortion. It is arranged in chronological order.
Neubacher's collection of zines includes Abuelita Slut (1995), a feminist zine with prose, poetry, and collaged images; Wive's Tales (1996), a zine Neubacher helped create that focuses on contraceptives and sexual health; Our Rag (1997), which contains information on fertility, menstruation, sexual health, and options for contraception and abortion; and Vocabulary (1998), a zine with poetry and prose from members of the Ocho y Media Collective. It also includes one issue of Anteup (1999), a poetry zine based in San Francisco that accepted submissions from queer women-identified poets, with a specific focus on work by queer women of color. Materials further include issues one, two, and four of Skew, a zine which offered support for people dealing with sexual harassment, and other feminist writings, created by Neubacher and the master mock up copy of Ocho y Media's second zine issue, another project Neubacher worked on, which has loose elements and is fragile.
Photographs document an event through The Clothesline Project, an organization that advocates for survivors of domestic violence, at Che Café, a leftist collective on the University of California Sand Diego (UCSD) campus, an open house at Gravity Recs Warehouse in San Diego, California, and miscellaneous photographs of art and members of the Ocho y Media collective.
Also included among these materials is "When Birth Control Fails," a 1979 publication on at home abortion, natural treatments, and women's sexual health. Further contents include an article and photograph from the San Diego Union-Tribune about volunteer security for a neighborhood abortion clinic, as well as a pamphlet from SPRGRL conspiracy, a riot grrrl collective based in Portland, that has information on a convention to build community and highlight women's art with workshops and band performances, including shows from riot grrrl bands The Third Sex and The Lookers. In addition, there is a mylar transfer sheet with original artwork by Neubacher for the back cover of an Ocho y Media zine.
These materials provide significant insight on both the contents of riot grrrl era zines in California and the experience of running a zine. The mockups and master copies document the process of creating a zine and the variety of content within them highlights personal experiences women had with changing feminism. Images and other materials illustrate the activities and motives of the collective and the types of causes third wave feminists in the Western United States emphasized.
Biographical / Historical:
Neubacher wrote for and helped publish numerous zines in the 1990s and was a member of the Ocho y Media Collective. Her prose and poetry appear in Skew, Wives' Tales, Ocho y Media, and alongside some art works. She has a master's degree in Women's Studies and was a social worker at a crisis center before changing careers. In 2007 she opened Tend, a living plant interior design company in San Marcos, California. Her work has been exhibited in a few local galleries and the San Diego Museum of Art.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Ocho y Media Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Woman's Building (Los Angeles, Calif.) Search this
Container:
Box 7, Folder 3
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1976-1980
Collection Citation:
Woman's Building records, 1970-1992. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Getty Foundation. Funding for the digitization of this collection was provided by The Walton Family Foundation and Joyce F. Menschel, Vital Projects Fund, Inc.
Woman's Building (Los Angeles, Calif.) Search this
Container:
Box 10, Folder 2
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1980
Collection Citation:
Woman's Building records, 1970-1992. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Getty Foundation. Funding for the digitization of this collection was provided by The Walton Family Foundation and Joyce F. Menschel, Vital Projects Fund, Inc.
Woman's Building (Los Angeles, Calif.) Search this
Container:
Box 11, Folder 35
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
circa 1978-1980
Collection Citation:
Woman's Building records, 1970-1992. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Getty Foundation. Funding for the digitization of this collection was provided by The Walton Family Foundation and Joyce F. Menschel, Vital Projects Fund, Inc.
Collection is open for research. Access to collection materials requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
The NMAAHC Archives can provide reproductions of some materials for research and educational use. Copyright and right to publicity restrictions apply and limit reproduction for other purposes.
Collection Citation:
Norma Merrick Sklarek Archival Collection, 1944-2008. National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution.
Collection is open for research. Access to collection materials requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
The NMAAHC Archives can provide reproductions of some materials for research and educational use. Copyright and right to publicity restrictions apply and limit reproduction for other purposes.
Collection Citation:
Norma Merrick Sklarek Archival Collection, 1944-2008. National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution.
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning intellectual property rights. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Nordic Ware Collection, 1942-2006, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Sponsor:
Processing of this collection made possible, in part, by a gift from Nordic Ware.
