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A: Lesbian Images Conference of Black Lesbians; B: Benedictine
Side A: Inaugural broadcast of Lesbian Images, inscribed with the same title on cassette side A, and hosted by Diane and Sonia (last names not noted). The hosts interview organizer Lavinia Penson to promote the Conference of Black Women, which was the first conference gathering Black Lesbians on the East Coast following the historic Conference of Black Women in San Francisco. The hosts took several calls during this program, and a few of the callers expressed racist and lesbophobic views. This broadcast also includes: discussions of hopes for the show; announcements for local weekly meetings and programming for lesbians and women in NYC; a new issue of woman’s prison newsletter “No More Cages”; and promotion for the rally in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday and effort to make it a national holiday, as well as an anti-KKK rally in Buffalo.
Also captured at the beginning of Cassette side A, Directly before this broadcast of Lesbian Images, is a short radio play written and directed by Judy Pasternak for "Snapshots: Vignettes of Lesbian LIfe" about a lesbian woman being woken up early to feed her cat. Joan Goldman plays The Woman, technical production by Viv Sutherland.
Side B: Broadcast of Common Ground featuring Mother Jone's editor Adam Hochschild interviewing Carolyn Marshall about her research on drug "Benedictine," an anti-nausea medication prescribed commonly to pregnant women, that may have concerning side effects. -
National Alliance of Black Leaders Conference Workshop on Black Women in The Arts
Speakers self-describe the show as "a tape of six creative Black women discussing the media portrayal of Black women and their confrontation of racism and sexism." Originally recorded during the "Black Women in the Arts" Workshop at the National Alliance of Black Feminists conference held in Chicago, October 21-23 [1975]. Broadcast in an episode of Everywomanspace.
(On side A) Darlene Hayes (Phil Donahue Show) discusses media portrayal. Margaret Walker Alexander (poet) discusses the problems facing the Black woman writer. Mari Evans (poet) discusses her experience as a Black woman writer. (Panel continues on side B) Carolyn Marie Rodgers (poet) also discusses her experience as a Black woman writer. Two additional panelists are featured, but their names could not be deciphered.