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Mom's a dyke: interview with Gloria Wilson by Chana (Karen) Wilson

Episode Title:
Mom's a dyke: interview with Gloria Wilson by Chana (Karen) Wilson
Series Title:
Lesbian Air
PRA Archive #: 
AZ1764
pbcoreAssetType: 
Episode
pbcoreAssetDate: 
pbcoreAssetDate (PARTIAL): 
1974-uu-uu
dateType: 
created
pbcoreAssetDate (PARTIAL): 
1974-uu-uu
dateType: 
broadcast
Date Recorded on: 
1974 (day unknown) at KPFA
Date Broadcast on: 
KPFA, 1974 (day unknown)
Station: 
KPFA
Item duration: 
1 reel (53 min.) : 7 1/2 ips, mono.
Keywords: 
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Lesbians
Lesbianism
Lesbianism -- Social aspects
Lesbians -- Psychology
Lesbian mothers
Wilson, Chana, 1951-
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Description: 

KPFA's Chana (Karen) Wilson's interviews her mother, Gloria Wilson. The two women are both lesbians, and the interview focuses on Gloria's coming to identify as a lesbian and the multiple psychiatric hospitalizations she endured to "treat" her depression and homosexuality. Music breaks: Elizabeth Cotton "Going Down the Road Feeling Bad"; Alix Dobkin "A Woman's Love"; Suzanne Shanbaum "Damn Crazy Feeling" (recorded at KPFA); Suzanne Shanbaum "The Fury" (recorded at KPFA); Nina Simone "O-O-h Child".

Note from producer: "In 1974, my mother, Gloria Wilson, visited me in Berkeley. I was a member of the collectively produced radio show "Lesbian Air," on KPFA-FM in Berkeley which had begun in 1973, premiering as one of the first lesbian radio shows in the country. "Fruit Punch," the gay male counterpart to "Lesbian Air," began on KPFA at the same time. My mother stayed with me in my lesbian collective household, sleeping on our frigid, unheated back porch, chipper and uncomplaining. (I was 23, my mother was 52) My housemates loved her: the hip lesbian mom, happily eating our vegetarian meals and sharing our feminist vision. She agreed to my interviewing her at the KPFA studios." See more about Chana and Gloria Wilson here: http://www.ridingfuryhomebook.com/

Genre: 
American Women -- Psychology and psychotherapy
American Women -- Lesbians
pbcoreInstantiation: 
instantiationIdentifier: 
29439_P01
PRA item ID: 
AZ1764
instantiationDate (partial OK): 
1974-uu-uu
instantiationPhysical: 
CD
instantiationLocation: 
PRA Production Cabinets
instantiationDuration: 
00:55:00
instantiationGenerations: 
Master: audio
instantiationIdentifier: 
29439_D01
PRA item ID: 
PRA_NHPRC1_AZ1764_00_000_00
INSTANTIATION DATE (YYYY-MM-DD ONLY): 
2015-12-16
instantiationLocation: 
Y:\NHPRC1 American Women files\PRA_Batch 5
instantiationDuration: 
00:55:37
instantiationDigital: 
audio/x-wav
instantiationFileSize: 
938 693 000
instantiationGenerations: 
Master: preservation
Contributor: 
Chana (Karen) Wilson
Role: 
Producer
Contributor: 
Gloria Wilson
Role: 
Interviewee
Distributor: 
Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archives, 1974
Rights Summary: 
RESTRICTED. Permissions, licensing requests, Curriculum Initiative, Campus Campaign and all other inquiries should be directed to: Mark Torres, Archives Director, 800-735-0230, Mark@PacificaRadioArchives.org
Grant Tracking Information: 
Grant ID: 
NHPRC: American Women Making History (1963-1982)
Shipping Batch Number: 
Batch 5
Re-labeled box (1980s)--Mylar?: 
Pre-digitization cataloging done (Date): 
2015-12-16
Pre-digitization cataloging done (INITIALS): 
JMB
Possible restriction issues: 
No
Sensitive language: 
No
First level catalog completed by (Initials): 
jmb
Date first level cataloging completed: 
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Location on PRA drive: 
Y:\NHPRC1 American Women files\PRA_Batch 5
Audio File QC (Pass One) completed Date: 
2015-12-16
Audio File QC (Pass One) completed Initials: 
JMB
Audio file QC (Pass One) notes: 
levels hot, squealing, scratchy (de-oxidization?) in a few places
Post dig--dup, numbering issue, etc.: 
Post dig--Complete songs in intro/outro: 
Post dig--Mostly pre-recorded music: 
Post dig--Contains reading of published materials: 
Post dig--Other rights issues: 
Post dig--Major audio issues: 
Post dig--Editing required for bcast: 
Post dig--Minor audio issues (see notes): 
CD Receipt Box ID: 
Batch 1_B Spool 1
CD Receipt Date: 
2014-05-28
CD plays: 
Second Level Cataloging completed Date: 
2015-12-16
Second Level Cataloging completed Initials: 
JMB
Reels Reboxed (see tape assessment): 
Reels Rewound: 
Production CD (copy) created: 
Reel removed for contamination: 
No
Plastic insert put in box: 
Reel sent to Univ. Maryland: 
Post dig options: 
Complete songs in intro/outro
American Women Grant Project
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