[Biker Subculture] Southern California biker community photo albums documenting motorcycle culture during the 1970s and 1980s, a period when custom chopper building, club rides, and regional motorcycle gatherings characterized a flourishing biker subculture in the post Vietnam era. The photographs record a network of riders with heavily customized motorcycles participating.....

[Subculture][Motorcycles] Two Mighty Carson Alley Bikers photo albums chronicling the Southern California motorcycle subculture in the 1980s. The albums record custom motorcycle craftsmanship, organized rides including the 1985 Yuma Prison Run, and the social networks of biker subculture. The images show community among working class motorcycle enthusiasts in Southern California.....

Transgender Tapestry, a run of 13 magazines spanning 1983 to 2002, trace the editorial and political development of a major U.S. transgender periodical from the Tiffany Club era of “the magazine for persons interested in transvestism & transsexualism” to the later IFGE-era language of “Celebrating the Diversity of Gender Expression.”.....

Vernacular photograph archive of California motorcycle riders, circa 1970s–1980s, documents the visual culture and group identity of American biker communities in the decades following the expansion of postwar motorcycle clubs. The photographs place riders within a regional network, likely associated with Modesto based Harley-Davidson enthusiasts, and record the central role.....

Burroughs, William S. Junkie, 1953, published under the name William Lee, documents mid twentieth century American drug culture through a first person narrative drawn from the author’s experience with heroin use and distribution in New York. The work establishes Burroughs within the emerging Beat literary circle and precedes his later.....

Anarchist political and direct action pamphlet group from 2002 to circa 2012, documenting the circulation of historical anarchist theory alongside contemporary writing on prison abolition, militarism, feminism, foreclosure resistance, criminal justice, mutual aid, environmental activism, and conspiracy politics. Much of the group was printed or distributed by A New World.....

New York Peace Action Coalition. National Antiwar Convention poster. 1971. Produced in the immediate aftermath of the May Day protests, this poster documents antiwar organizing at a moment of intensified confrontation between activists and federal authority, when mass arrests in Washington, D.C. drew national attention to draft resistance and civil.....

Anarchist and radical political zine archive, circa 1990s to 2019, documenting the underground print networks through which historical anarchist texts circulated beside writing on contemporary labor organizing, capitalism, prisons, policing, and human rights. Sixteen zines and pamphlets move between canonical texts by Errico Malatesta and Noam Chomsky to movement literature.....

Short, Fast + Loud punk periodical archive, 2003 to 2014, documenting the communities that formed around hardcore, powerviolence, grindcore, thrash, and related underground music through interviews, personal columns, comics, performance photography, and writing on sexuality, identity, friendship, and participation in local and international scenes. Chris Dodge of Spazz and Slap.....

OZ Magazine. Archive of 5 issues from the London edition of the influential underground periodical published between 1967 and 1973, documenting the visual culture, political radicalism, and anti-authoritarian ethos of the international counterculture movement. Working in Cultural / Representational Mode, the material reflects the convergence of psychedelic art, antiwar activism.....

Anarchist and radical ecology zine group from the 1990s through early 2000s, documenting the convergence of environmentalism, anti corporate politics, direct action, DIY practice, and anarchist social theory in the independent print culture surrounding the turn of the millennium. Ecological subjects dominate the group: genetic engineering and industrial agriculture, clandestine.....

Florida antiwar protest press archive documenting demonstrations in Miami Beach during the 1972 Republican National Convention, when activists targeted President Richard Nixon’s renomination after years of bombing, troop deployments, and stalled peace negotiations in Vietnam. Protesters gathered outside convention sites, government buildings, and public streets to oppose the war, challenge.....

Anarchist and activist pamphlet group from 1998 to 2017, documenting the circulation of political theory alongside practical writing on policing, surveillance, infiltration, digital security, militarism, and legal self defense. The twelve publications connect the 1990s anarchist zine culture represented by Theo Witsell’s Spectacle with the security concerns surrounding Occupy Wall.....