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Ten Every Two Weeks
Our second August list
where, if certain segments of the government could read*, some items may cause
undue umbrage and pearl clutching. We've got Revolutionary Women, Guerrilla Girls, Gay Leather, Punk Polka, Gender Questioning, and Skateboarding.
Some of these are brand spanking new, so not yet on our website.
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*next month we publish the names of those who unsubscribed from our list this month (jk)
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#2 Women's Liberation, Feminism
Revolutionary Women Are Meeting Event Flyer. No publisher, place or date. Perhaps Pennsylvania, 1970. Single sheet, light blue paper stock, 8 ½ by 11 inches. Printed on both sides. A flyer promoting a three day event discussion a revolution of women, envisioning talks on what that entails, goals, actions, etc. The event was to have been held at the Fellowship Farm in Limerick, Pennsylvania from October 23 to the 25th. Questions that would be pondered included: what is meant by Women’s revolution; how do women oppress each other? What are pros and cons of collective living for women? What does an all women’s media mean? Is lesbianism visionary? Are we ready for a group offensive? Etc. The flyer mentions there are 90 beds “after that we improvise,” and that food, transportation and childcare would have to be coordinated. No indication as to which organization may have put this on, or if indeed it ever happened. One side with balloon lettering, other side with two small photos and explanatory text. VERY GOOD condition. Haphazard fold crease present. $75.00
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#3 Transgender, Gender Questioning
Various authors. Fantasia Fair Participants Guide (1987). Human Outreach and Achievement Institute. Boston: no date, 1987. Illustrated wraps. Map of Provincetown on the rear cover. 80 pp. A one page handwritten letter, signed, and on Human Outreach and Achievement Institute letterhead laid in. A detailed guide to the 1987 Fantasia Fair held in Provincetown, Massachusetts. This includes a program of events, several sections on wardrobe planning and fashion considerations, a guide to Provincetown hotels and restaurants, etc. The Fantasia Fair was started in 1975, primarily for heterosexual crossdressers, focusing on fashion and presentation. Over the years its focus changed to include transgender, gender questioning and other identities. It is still held today, and is now known as Trans Week. Its original parent company, Human Outreach and Achievement Institute was founded in 1975, and was an organization providing information on transgender and gender questioning groups, in an effort combat misinformation and dangerous stereotypes in mainstream culture. GOOD+ condition. Minor fading, rubbing and edgewear. A few entries in the rear with pencil check marks. $125.00
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#4 Antiwar, Anti Military Industry
Wanted for Counterinsurgency. CIRADS Hogg IV. May 19, 1970 Protest/Rally Flyer. No publisher. Columbus, OH: 1970. Single sheet, 8 ½ by 11 inches. Printed on both sides. A flyer raising awareness to a meeting at the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus of the Counter-Insurgency Research and Development Symposium. This event had a variety of corporations and organizations involved in the military industrial complex, with the organizers of the protest of this event alleging that they participate in murder, robbery and extortion for their roles in international affairs. The sheet lists the names of some attendees, and mentions a rally being held across the street. FAIR condition. Heavy chipping, tearing and loss along the lower edge of the paper. Heavy uneven browning, mostly along the extremities. Faint fold crease present. Minor soiling and staining. $55.00
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#5 Punk Polka
Das Furlines At La Mama. Celebrate Leap Year!! Show Flyer. La Mama, Publisher. New York: no date, presumed 1988, based on the leap year and the 29th of February falling on a Monday. Single sheet, 8 ½ by 11 inches. Printed on a single side only. A flyer for a show featuring the punk polka new wave band, Das Furlines, playing at the noted venue, CBGB. Das Furlines was an all woman punk polka band that celebrated German culture, although with a fair bit of irony. They performed covers of the 1960s group, the Monks, as well as a few of their own songs. Primarily active from 1985 to 1990, they never released an album of their own, but did release a cookbook. They were profiled by People magazine in 1987 and were shown on a short lived MTV program hosted by Andy Warhol. GOOD+ condition. Minor toning, mostly along the edges, with minor tiny creases at the corners. $100.00
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#6 LGBTQ+, Leather Bar
[LGBTQ+] Detour Gay (Leather and Western) Bar Promotional Handbill. Detour, Publisher. Los Angeles: no date. Single sheet, printed on a single side only. Roughly 4 ½ by 4 ¼ inches. Promotional handbill for the Los Angeles area LGBTQ+ bar, Detour, billing itself as a leather and western cruise bar for men. It was located at 4100 Sunset Blvd. (or 1087 Manzanita) and appears to have been open from 1974 to 1997. We aren’t sure what the hotline was. This handbill features a nicely done close up sketch of a man’s face wearing sunglasses, with the reflection of a bare chested man in the lens of the sunglasses. Ooh la la! VERY GOOD condition. Minor bumping along the edges. Minor discoloration to the reverse. $35.00
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#7 Guerrilla Girls, Sexism in Art
Guerrilla Girls Talk Back. A Retrospective: 1985-1990 Promotional Exhibition Postcard. Moore College of Art and Design, Publisher. Philadelphia: no date, presumed early 1990s. Single sheet, thin card stock. Roughly 8 ¾ by 5 ½ inches. Printed on both sides. A postcard advertising an exhibition of posters, banners, audiotapes, videotapes and film by members of the Guerrilla Girls. The Guerrilla Girls worked (and work) to highlight the huge discrepancy in representation in modern art, where women and people of color represent a small fraction of artists held in a museum. The Guerrilla Girls used art to publicize this, in an effort to bring change to museums. VERY GOOD+ condition. Minor toning and a hint of edgewear. $75.00
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#8 Student Radicalism, SDS, the Movement
Allen, Coralie et al. Notes From the Green Piano. The Magazine of the Niagra [sic] Region of the SDS. SDS, Publisher. Ithaca, NY: no date, circa 1968-69. Pink and green wraps with the front cover reproducing a poster of Che Guevara. 18 pp. A few photos and illustrations throughout. An obscure magazine issued by the Niagara region of the Students for a Democratic Society in New York. Usual movement and political essays and news present, as well as news on protests, events, etc. Includes an account of the student strikes at San Francisco State. GOOD+ condition. Uneven toning and fading to the covers. Minor soiling. A few small chips and creases along the edges. Minor curling. $125.00
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#9 Skateboarding
Astrodeck Promotional Skateboarding Flyer. Mouse Studios, Astrodeck, presumed publisher. No place or date. Single sheet, 8 ½ by 11 inches. Printed on a single side only. A promotional flyer of some sort for Astrodeck, perhaps promoting their products for skateboards. With a Mouse Studios imprint on the lower left and an artists name that may be Marta or Marita, or something similar because we need glasses. Astrodeck is a noted company in the surfing world, known for its traction pads, and led by Herbie Fletcher since 1976. The flyer features lizards and snakes, along with some people skateboarding. GOOD condition. Two horizontal fold creases present. Heavy wrinkling to the paper. $45.00
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#10 Communal Living, Communes
Various authors. Communitas. A New Community Journal. No. 1. July, 1972. Communitas, Publisher. Yellow Springs, OH: 1972. Side stapled wraps. 64 pp. Black and white illustrations and photographs throughout. First issue of this journal devoted to communes, but looking past their connotations and toward the idea of community. It appears the editors were looking to shift the definition of communes, focusing more on community living, which could be practiced anywhere. That said, this first issue has a lengthy article on “radical communities” in Virginia, showing them roughly located on a map and devoting columns to each community. This includes Springtree, Appomattox, Twin Oaks, Acorn, Nethers Community School, Ragged Mountain, Rappahannock County and Source Farm. Other articles look at communal living at the Life Center in Philadelphia, Alpha, an experimental community in Canada, etc. GOOD+ condition. Minor toning and soiling to the covers. Slight curl/bend along the spine. Minor foxing to the rear cover. Paper rather toned in the interior. $80.00
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