The collection contains materials related to Diane’s personal and professional life as well as materials representing her communities of artists, lesbians and feminists. The collection contains personal and professional correspondence, artworks by Diane and her community, and other materials Diane collected from people and organizations in her life.

Correspondence in the collection spans Diane’s life from youth to adulthood and includes letters and cards between Diane and family members, friends, lovers, colleagues, political organizations, publications to which Diane submitted cartoons and writings, and more.

Diane’s personal papers include research, notes, and papers from her time in undergraduate and graduate school. Her personal papers also include personal notes, notebooks, calendars, and photographs as well as several home movies.

The collection also includes original and reproduced copies of Diane’s cartoons, publications in which her cartoons were published, and multimedia artworks by Diane such as lyrics and poems, paper collages, floppy disks of lesbian clip art, hand-made stickers and more.

The collection further includes materials Diane collected from and about her lesbian and feminist communities including artworks, political ephemera such as buttons and stamps, and organizational materials such as pamphlets, event programs, and memorials about community members that passed away.

Included in the collection are Diane’s audiocassettes, the bulk of which are recordings of speeches, interviews, and conversations related to feminism and lesbian organizing.

The collection also contains materials from Jan Hines, which were given to Diane. In addition to Jan Hines’ own materials related to lesbian and feminist organizing, materials include organizational records from Califia Community, of which Jan Hines was a part.

Content warning: Some materials in the collection contain transphobic and ableist language and reflect transphobic and ableist attitudes. The processing archivists have chosen to keep this material in the collection to reflect the presence and impact of these ideologies. A content warning has been included in this finding aid in the box content list for items the processing archivists identified as containing this harmful language. The Mazer Archives condemns all forms of transphobia and ableism and we welcome an ongoing dialog with our community about generative ways to process and describe materials that contain or reflect systemic violence. We encourage you to contact the Mazer if other harmful content is found in this collection and/or to further this dialog. You can reach us at contact@mazerlesbianarchives.org.