Abstract

Janice Baker is a feminist lesbian mixed media artist living and working in California, Oregon and Washington. The collection contains Baker’s photography, mostly from the early 1980s, capturing the women’s movement at public events and intimate gatherings.

Abstract The Los Angeles Commission on Assault Against Women (LACAAW), now Peace Over Violence, was a non-profit, feminist, Los Angeles-community-based organization founded in 1971. LACAAW provided education, prevention, and intervention services including peer counseling, a crisis hotline, self-defense trainings, and referral services for survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse. The bulk of the collection is comprised of informational and training materials from a 1987...