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Volume 18, Number 3, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Sterilize the Rich, Save the Planet; Reviews; Coming Out Day; Feminist Primer

To Tell The Truth: The Lesbian Herstory Archives: Chronicling A People And Fighting Invisibility Since 1974, Polly Thistlethwaite

Publications and Research

A portrait of the Lesbian Herstory Archives by a volunteer, describing the archive in its original home in Joan Nestle's Upper West Side New York City apartment that she shared with Mabel Hampton. Originally published in Out/Week Magazine.

Volume 18, Number 2, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

The Dress You Can Never Part With: President Bush Sets a Pattern for the '90's, Gay Stuff, Summer Vacation, Theatre, Smoking

Volume 18, Number 1, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

The Good Feminist Primer Lesson #2, RAF Rift: Relatively Speaking, The Results Are In: Post Amerikan Opinion Poll #2, Chapter 5 of "To Live and Die for Unicor", El Camino Cruel, Christian College Tries to Sabotage Black Voters in OKC, Central Park Rape: Moral Indignation Isn't Enough, Courthouse Under Siege by Rabid Feminists, Extradition Practices Abusive, Primary Intent: Reflections on the Chair, The Politics of Video Mania, Hope I Die Before I Get Old, Oh Abbie We Hardly Knew Ye, Roe vs. Wade, Uppers 'n' Downers, Gays of Our Lives, Lambda Hires New Staff Attorney, Guatemalan Guerrillas Punish Finca Owners …

Volume 17, Number 6, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Dangerous Liaisons Review, Post Amerikan's Good Feminist Primer, Iowa Meat Packer Framed by Packing Plant, Shopping for a Better World, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Surrealism, More Revelations About Gannett News Chain, Bizzare [sic] Gyration, DXL Comic, Play the Post Amerikan Game, The Dread Scott Game and the Horrors of the VFW, Community News, Sex Respect, The High School Counselors' Project, IGLTF Applauds Dixon, Guatemalan Agricultural Works Strike, Uppers and Downers

Volume 17, Number 5, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Animal Rights: How Far Do They Go?, Film Review: Mississippi Burned, Comic Book Album Documents CIA Thuggery, At Home in the Police State, Musical Reflections: Remembering the Tom Robinson Band, CD Review Readers Agree: Just Say No--to Homophobia, Bush-Whacking; Bloopers, Blunders, and Nancy, Too; In Search of the Mythical Sun, FDA Okays Mail Order Drugs, Normal Vegetarian Cuisine, 'Roseanne' Strikes a Blow for Fatness, Jim and Tammy Faye ... Come Clean, "And Now Presenting the B.(unch) O.(f) P.(ricks)!", Cool TV for Young People

Lesbian And Gay, Polly Thistlethwaite, Daniel C. Tsang

Publications and Research

"The time is past when librarians can assume no patron is lesbian or gay, or that there is no interest in gay research," Dan Tsang and Polly Thistlethwaite wrote in the introduction to the 'Lesbian and Gay' section of Katzes' 1989 edition of Magazines for Libraries. This title review of the queer periodicals of the day was intended to serve as a guide and justification for 'mainstream' libraries' collection building. The number and range of titles in Thistlethwaite and Tsang's collaborative entries (1989, 1992, and 1995) far exceeded any mainstream library collection known to either of the authors who …

Volume 17, Number 4, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

One Day in the Lives of American Children, Reflections on National Coming Out Day, The New York City Gay Men's Chorus, The Straight Cruise, Hate Crimes Act Dies in Senate, Gannett Newspaper Chain and Honest Journalism Clash, Junk Food Junkies, Open Letter from Convicted Peace Activists, The Student Movement in Guatemala: Fighting for Its Life, Boycott Nestle, Post Predictions for 1989, Let's All Shop By Mail, Community News, Black Kiss Comics Reviewed, Dear Ms. Hippie, For the Love of Animals, The Myth of Equality, Musings of an Ex-Xian

Volume 17, Number 3, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Post Writers Review 4 Quick Lunch Joints in Downtown Normal, Universities Host Blanditude and Disease, Ugly American Trappers Convene, Symbolic Actions at Missile Sites Net Busts, Flaming Atheist Explains Her Point of View, Gays Take Over...At Least on These Pages, Miscellany, Ms. Hippie Gives Invaluable Advice on Boys and Sex, Bad Kids vs. Redneck Pigs, AIDS Awareness Week

Volume 17, Number 2, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

A Funny Novel, Serialized; Double Nickel Reviewed; Advertising Ridiculed; Local Digitized Temperatures Confused; Who Gets Hurt When Too Many Animals Co-Exist?; God's Existence Debated; Community News and Letters; Trial of Protesters Detailed; Lotsa Pictures!; Visitor to Nicaragua Gives Account; Ways to Save the Environment; Don't Poke at That Fetus; Ms. Hippie's Advice to Yuppies; Dissatisfactions with Our Culture: Skinny Chauvinism and Loose Usage; Jackson Victory Reviewed; Film Stuff Mourned; Journalism Review: What They Don't Say About a Strike; Gay Stuff: Record Review with Enticing Quotations; Men Turn Monsters at Whiff of Spring

Volume 17, Number 1, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

A Look at the Ideal Future of Birthing, OSHA Works Against Safety and Health, Brutal and Dangerous Rabbit Factory Approved, Community News Breakthroughs, Underground Artist Remembered, Movie Review in Alternative Form, The Controversial Ask Ms. Hippie, Is God Dead? You Tell Us, Nancy Reagan Ridiculed and Berated, Praiseful and Vitriolic Letters, Presidential Candidates' Stands on Gay Rights, The Underground Barfly Hits Mugsy's and Pub II

Volume 16, Number 6, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Vidette Story Exposed; Ask Ms. Hippie, Our New Advice Column; Will El Salvador Explode? Well, Probably; Ecuador Story Covered in Two Very Different Ways; Robertson Deep-Sixes Own Past; Near Side Cartoon; Post Mail; The Return of Our Animal Lovin' Correspondent; Community News; Pig Course Boondoggled Through ISU; District 87 Turns to Competency-Based Learning; Homebirth and Midwifery--A Hopeful New Alternative; Outrageous Opinions About Reproduction; Comix Galore; A Review of Lambda's Latest AIDS Publication; State AIDS Testing Ridiculed; Stupid Anti-Drug Ad Ridiculed; GPA Calendar; Gay Comic Reviewed; Campaign Posters Ridiculed; Tummy Tucks, No Thanks! and Gays Can Be Cannon Fodder Too; Sexism …

Volume 16, Number 5, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

A Visit to Electric Coffee; Changing and Unchanged; The Watkins Resignation--A Personal View; Constitution Loses Ground; There's No Place Like Home and You Can't Go Back; Your HIV Status--Do You Want to Know?; Miscellaneous AIDS Outrages; Principal Victim of Police State Tactics; The Underground Panelologist; Balrog's Best; Captain America--In Step with the Times; North, Poindexter Win Double-Speak Awards; God Changes Mind, Backs Robertson; The Underground Barfly

Media Images Of Boston's Black Community, Kirk A. Johnson

William Monroe Trotter Institute Publications

In their efforts to report on the forces that affect Boston's racial climate, the local media have typically focused on the more obvious institutional actors: businesses, city hall, school boards, churches, the courts, neighborhood groups. Rarely have the media themselves been subjected to the same scrutiny. This study represents one such effort It is an analysis of the images of Boston's black community that are conveyed through the local news media. It asks the question: If a Bostonian relied solely on the local news for information about local blacks, 1) what impressions would he or she be left with, and …

Volume 16, Number 4, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

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Volume 16, Number 3, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Domestic Violence Victims to Have a Place to Turn; Kaleidoscope Bashing in Bloomington-Normal; 67 Arrested in Suburban Protest Rally; Police Pester Posters; Draft Resister Imprisoned for Non-Registration, Activism; Everybody Needs Some Body, Sometime; Michigan Womyns Music Festival; Keep Your Hands to Yourself; Iran-Scam Explained; Pope Go Home; Reagan's AIDS Commission; AIDS Needs Aid; Community News, Classified Ads and Book Review, Sexual Diversity: A Better Answer, For the Love of Animals; The Underground Vegetarian

Volume 16, Number 2, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Anti-Bashing Laws: Breeders Run Amuck, Talkin' Sandinistan Revolution Blues, Nerve Gas, For the Love of Animals, AIDS, Happy Birthday!, Settlement Lets Peace Groups in High Schools, Letters, Community News, Hanford Chemical Plant, Classy Fried Ads, Cable Comix, The New Sobriety, Perverse Ideas, Coors Banned in Boston, ERA, GM, Mantra Mash '87 Artluck, Passed Normal Review, Post-Amerikan: Solid Past, Shaky Punctuation

Editor [Submitted To A Boston Daily], Mary Helen Washington

Trotter Review

Many people in the black community (I among them) strongly object to the "Frontline" documentary, "Street Cop," which was shown on Channel 2 on March 31. But I have even stronger objections to Ed Siegel's review of "Street Cop," which commends the show as "street smart" and dismisses all the serious criticisms of the show from the black community as "not convincing." I am not exactly sure why "street smart" has such a sterling quality for Siegel, but it is disturbing that such a criterion would take precedent over the criticisms that the program stereotypes blacks and Hispanics and misrepresents …

"Street Cop" Is Not Street-Smart, Kirk A. Johnson

Trotter Review

"Frontline," the award-winnnng WGBH-TV series, is airing a nationally televised special on the war against street drugs. The show, called "Street Cop," takes viewers to Boston's inner city for fifty minutes of heart-pumping violence. We see the police take a sledgehammer to an apartment door in search of drugs as the women and children inside scream in wide-eyed terror. We watch police officers wrestle a young man to the pavement over a suspected drug deal, and we feel the tension mount during a domestic argument until in the confusion a woman is arrested for throwing what an officer thought was …

Newspapers And Their Relationship To The Black Agenda, Dexter D. Eure Sr.

Trotter Review

The news media, by print or electronics, influences and shapes society's attitudes; it is essential then, if not vital, that the media accurately reflect every aspect of our society - including the good, the bad, and the ugly. By keeping this nation - as well as the world - in its proper context, we can better understand - and thus better solve - the problems that envelop us, such as racism, sexism, unemployment, hazardous waste, and the consequences of a nuclear meltdown.

To help present an accurate picture of who we are and what's happening around us, the news media …

Media Images And Racial Stereotyping, Kirk A. Johnson

Trotter Review

To better understand how the local media portray Boston's black community, I monitored news reports from a sample of newspapers and radio and television stations for one month during the summer of 1986. I noted the roles blacks played, the activities blacks were shown to be engaged in, and the events that brought blacks into the news. By comparing the portrayal of blacks in Boston's major media with portrayals in the black media, I sought to understand the criteria that reporters and editors use to judge the newsworthiness of items relating to the black community, and to determine whether (and …

Boston School Desegregation: The Fallowness Of Common Ground, Robert A. Dentler

Trotter Review

This essay scrutinizes the book by J Anthony Lukas, Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families, to assess whether it presents a valid and reliable account of the issues, people, and events it chronicles. The substantive core of the book is shown to be the politics of Boston public school desegregation. The parts played by the three families in this event are dramatically portrayed but cannot be corroborated and are not interpreted. The parts played by five major policy leaders, when tested against other evidence, are found to be distorted, questionable legends woven in …

Black Newspapers Effect On Public Opinion In The Black Community: A Study Of One Southside Chicago Community, Eugene Maxwell Jr.

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Department of Communications at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for\ the Degree of Master of Arts by Eugene Maxwell, Jr. on April 1, 1987.

Volume 16, Number 1, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Trash Moving In Next Door?, Nazis and Fallout Shelters, Human and Animal Rights, Yellow Alert, International Beat, Letters, Classy Fried Ads, Community News, Reach Out and Kill Someone, Hidden Homeless and Comics Shop Bust, Grim Nuclear History

Volume 15, Number 9, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Mayor Sells West Side for $2.50, Panelogical Pinheads, Comic Book Heroine Saves Central America, Censorship More Dangerous Than Porn, Is That My Phone or Their Cash Register?, National Guard in Central America, Polite Dialog with Madigan Ends in Horror, Army Wants Peace Groups out of High Schools, Civil Rights March Invades All-White Town, Platoon: Insight Through Murder, Miscellaneous Animal Victories (for Once), Attitude Problems, California Dreamin' 'Bout Leavin', The Underground Glutton

Volume 15, Number 8, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Dying for Dollars, Women's Music Musings, Welcome in 1987--50s Style, Special Comic Pull-out Section, Miscellaneous Animal Outrages, Scandal Scorecard, U.S. Student Delegation Visits El Salvador, Be All That You Can Be: Anywhere but the Military, What's in a Name?

Volume 15, Number 7, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

A Vacuum Cleaner That Really Sucks, PVC Plastic Pollutes Environment, Animal Outrages, Stone Soup Really Cooks, Pope Declares Open Season on Gays, The Rebirth of Wonder Woman, AIDS Testing in the Military: A New Witchhunt?, Have a Roly-Poly-Holy X-mas, You'd Better Watch Out, 'Tis the Season, Enforcing Draft Registration, Public Access Comes to Bloomington-Normal, Ex-CIA Agent Confirms Our Deepest Fears

Volume 15, Number 6, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Owen's Ex-Employee Tells All, Some Tips for Coping with Your Utility Companies This Winter, Letters and Community News, Ex-Cop Talks About Officer Sanders, Draft Prosecutions Taper Off, Drug Testing and So On, The Desert Heart Lacks Soul, Good News Is No News, Vets Fast for Life, Midwest Delegation of Witness for Peace and CIA Caught, Stop the Lies and "Peasant of El Salvador", Underground Vegetarian, Tom Hayden: Friend or Big Brother?, Underground Barfly

Volume 15, Number 5, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

When the Long Arm of the Law...; Alexander Lumber; Kaleidocoverage: What Hath Scott Wrote?; Beauty School Can Be Ugly; Indian People of Big Mountain; How They Learned to Love the Bomb in Amarillo; Modern Music, Ancient Memories; Mural Tells of Workers' Struggles; My Sister the Iconoclast; Religious Oppression in Chicago; After-Dinner Chicken Musings; Take a Stand Against Trapping; Comedy of Errors at Capen; Here Comes the Clampdown; Wheat Crackers; Men's Magazines; How to Write a Post Amerikan Story

Volume 15, Number 4, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Madigan Gets Casket After Contra Vote, Big Court Says: "Stick It in Your Ear", Bloomington Police Target Small Users, Women's Music: Ready for Change?, Born for Change, Officer Sanders Pulled Gun During '84 I.S.U. Beer Riot, They Killed My Sister, City Closes West Side Country Club, Mural Celebrates Local Labor History, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Skateboarding, How You Can Avoid Searches of Your Car, All Quiet on the Western Front