Chana Wilson audiotapes

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2024


Descriptive Summary

Title: Chana Wilson audiotapes
Dates: 1973-1982
Collection Number: 2003-07
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 3 linear feet (two cartons, one manuscript box)
Online items available
Repository: GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Chana Wilson is an author, storyteller, and former radio host who was involved with three lesbian radio shows between 1973 and 1982: Lesbian Air (collectively produced), Radio Free Lesbian (collectively produced and/or produced by Wilson), and A World Wind (produced and hosted by Wilson). Recordings primarily capture interviews, live music, and poetry and other readings by women.
Language of Material: English

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

Copyright to material has been transferred to the GLBT Historical Society, with the exception of the 2018 addition of the programs “Mom’s a Dyke” and “The Lesbian in Literature.” All requests for reproductions and/or permission to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the GLBT Historical Society Archivist. Permission for reproductions and/or permission to publish or quote from material is given on behalf of the GLBT Historical Society as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item]. Chana Wilson audiotapes. Collection Number: 2003-07. GLBT Historical Society

Acquisition Information

The collection was donated to the GLBT Historical Society by Chana Wilson in 2003, with an additional donation in 2018.

Biography/Administrative History

Chana Wilson is an author, storyteller, and former radio host who was involved with three lesbian radio shows between 1973 and 1982: Lesbian Air (collectively produced), Radio Free Lesbian (collectively produced and/or produced by Wilson), and A World Wind (produced and hosted by Wilson). She is also the author of a memoir, Riding Fury Home, about her mother’s own coming out as lesbian.

Scope and Content of Collection

Recordings primarily capture interviews, live music, and poetry and other readings by women. Interviews include The Meteorites, a disabled lesbian basketball team; Bay Area Women AGAINST RAPE; "Manushi" collective with Indian feminists; and discussions with Native American women. Poetry and literature readings include pieces by Pat Parker, E.M. Broner, Martha Shelley, as well as Asian women poets. Music recordings include Swing Shift, Flash Silvermoon, Deanna Alida, and Debbie Lempke. Reels are unsorted but labeled, although some content is labeled as unknown. GSSO linked terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000381; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008525; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_007696

Indexing Terms

Lesbians
Radio
Jewish people

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