In Ain’t Me Babe was a radical feminist newspaper started by the Berkeley Women’s Liberation in the Berkeley, California in 1970.[1] Trina Robbins who wrote an underground comic with the same name was also involved with the newspaper.[2] This is one of many small organizations and publications that made up the larger women’s liberation movement that was beginning at the time. Indeed, the publication saw itself as part of this wider movement stating: “We must keep in mind that we are a movement not an organization. Our movement can and will be composed of many action organizations differentiated by their political orientation — rather than a single organization that attempts to represent everyone’s politics.”[3][4]

Papers like It Ain’t Me Babe were created to give voices to women who felt stifled by the larger mail dominated new left publications.[5]

It Ain’t Me Babe (December 1970)

It Ain’t Me Babe (December 1970 Back Cover)

[1] http://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/2014/02/between-feminism-and-the-underground/

[2] http://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/2014/02/between-feminism-and-the-underground/

[3]http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Women%27s_Liberation_Origins_and_Development_of_the_Movement

[4] “The Women’s Movement,” It Ain’t Me, Babe, March 15, 1970, p. 2.

[5] http://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/2014/02/between-feminism-and-the-underground/

Continuing with the A/V material, this weeks item is an audio cassette tape created by Noah Fredericks as part of his Pilgrim Ships series. Although it is hard to find much biographical information about Fredericks online, the general concept of the Pilgrim Ships series is that people from the Old Testament are actually aliens who descended to Earth.[1]

You can listen to the audio of the first tape of the series by clicking the image below:

Tape One Pilgrim Ships Series – Noah Fredericks

[1] http://www.reformedreader.org/gbn/igb.htm