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Title: Telewoman Newsletter Records
Collection number: 2142
Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material: English
Physical Description:
4.4 linear ft.
(10 document boxes, 1 flat box)
Date (inclusive): 1976-1986
Abstract:
Telewoman is an independent, self-published lesbian newsletter, based in Pleasant Hill, California, which ran from the late 1970’s
to mid 1980’s. Founded as a networking resource for lesbian writers, artists and educators, the newsletter served to connect
isolated lesbians in remote and urban centers, especially mothers, differently-abled, low-income, incarcerated and agoraphobic
women. It ran primarily on the work and personal charisma of its founder and sole editor, Anne J. D’Arcy. As evidenced in
her personal correspondence and the
Telewoman publications, she was invested in community and spirituality. Her role as
Telewoman editor was one of advisor, confidante and a figure connecting otherwise isolated women.
Physical Location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Creator: Telewoman.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
[Identification of item],
Telewoman Newsletter Records (Collection 2142). Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
7182090
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Provenance unknown.
This collection is part of an outreach and collection-building partnership between the
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives, the
UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) and the
UCLA Library.
Processed by Pallavi Sriram in 2013 in the Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT), with assistance from Jillian
Cuellar.
The processing of this collection was generously supported by
Arcadia.
Telewoman is an independent, self-published lesbian newsletter, based in Pleasant Hill, California, which ran from the late 1970’s
to mid 1980’s. It ran primarily on the work and personal charisma of its founder and sole editor, Anne J. D’Arcy. Its circulation
had extended nationally by the time of its closing. Founded as a networking resource for lesbian writers, artists and educators,
the newsletter served to connect isolated lesbians in remote and urban centers, especially mothers, differently-abled, low-income,
incarcerated and agoraphobic women. Its primary goals were not so much radical as they were meant to create and foster a safe
and productive space for lesbian women. To this end,
Telewoman, in addition to its newsletter, regularly hosted community gatherings and parties.
The collection consists largely of the papers of Editor Anne D’Arcy. Intentionally never married, she was a single mother
of three children. Her long-time lover with whom she had a very close, albeit complicated, relationship was still in a non-sexual
marriage and battling agoraphobia, and seems to be one of the primary motivations for D’Arcy’s founding of
Telewoman. As evidenced in her personal correspondence and the
Telewoman publications, she was invested in community and spirituality, following Ram Dass, Jiddu Krishnamurti, the Seth material,
Ron Hubbard (Scientology) and others. Her role as
Telewoman editor was one of advisor, confidante and a figure connecting otherwise isolated women. Aside from her work on
Telewoman, D’Arcy continued her work in the legal profession in a social services agency where she supervised social workers and counselors
and represented government action in legal proceedings.
This collection provides administrative, publicity-related and contextual material concerning
Telewoman, primarily in the form of the extensive correspondence of founder-editor Anne D’Arcy. Its primary significance is the light
it sheds on the cultural environment in which the newsletter existed, specifically regarding the lesbian community in Northern
California, as well as nationally. This environment is represented by D’Arcy’s correspondence with a close network of founders
and editors of a number of other Bay Area lesbian publications as well as with artists and writers in the Mid-West, East Coast
and elsewhere. This environment and network is also represented in this collection by the informational material received
by
Telewoman and Anne D’Arcy from publications, projects and organizations serving lesbian communities and needs.
While this collection does not contain issues of the
Telewoman newsletter, which can be found elsewhere, it does contain paste-ups and production material of select issues and ads. In
addition, the collection includes author files of contributors to the newsletter; article and poetry submissions, photographs
and drafts of spotlight articles. These materials give an idea of the style, form and type of content found in the newsletter,
which in turn provide an idea of its aims and function in the lesbian communities within which it circulated.
This collection has been arranged in the following series:
- Series 1: Administrative Records 1977-1986
- Subseries 1.1 Personal Correspondence 1977-1986
- Subseries 1.2 General/Business Correspondence 1977-1986
- Subseries 1.3 Other Organizations 1981-1986
- Series 2: Marketing and Production 1977-1986
- Series 3: Author Files 1976-1986
Series are arranged alphabetically.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
D'Arcy, Anne J. (Anne Jeanne) --Correspondence.
Telewoman, Inc. --Archives.
Telewoman.
Lesbians --United States --Periodicals.
manuscripts for publication.
The following institutions hold issues of
Telewoman: Texas Women's University and University of Illinois- Urbana Champagne among others.