Peek in the Stacks

In It’s the 1950s—Where’s My Lesbian Bar!? Dr. Marie Cartier addresses how women could find gay bars in the 1940s, through to the 1950s and today, and discusses how finding a lesbian bar has evolved throughout time. The episode explores the legal loopholes gay bars enacted in order to not be accused, what it meant to have the bar raided.....

The representation of women in pulp literature and comics has been a subject of ongoing scrutiny and criticism in popular culture. Pulp magazines and comics have the power to shape our perception of society and the people in it. They are not mere works of imagination but reflect the society that produced them. With that in mind, this blog post aims to compare the female representation on the cover of Weird Tales in the 1930s and Marvel's The Monster of Frankenstein comics in the 1970s and how, unfortunately, it has not significantly changed over time. 

“Gender, Sex, and the Cosmos in the Horror Pulps: From Weird Tales Magazine to Christopher Pike’s 90s Horror Novels” is for horror fans, young and old, who have interests in gender and sexuality and Gothic terror and horror. Associate Professor of English Dr. Colleen Tripp at California State University at Northridge (CSUN) is joined by script writer....

CSUN’s University Counseling Services recently hosted Matadors Unite: Suicide Prevention Week to create “awareness…promote mental health and help prevent suicide”. The campus is equipped with crisis/urgent care walk-ins, a crisis hotline, and other resources to assist the campus community when necessary. In Special Collections & Archives there are materials that reference college students who have succumbed to suicide.