Authored by Dr. Jeremy Guida –  2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the “Summer of Love” when somewhere between 75,000 and 100,000 youth flooded 25 blocks in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district. Before the Summer of Love, the Haight-Ashbury was home to a small community of “hip” residents interested in art, music, theatre,Read More

Authored by Dr. Jeremy Guida –  Many authors, publishers, and readers of underground papers understood these periodicals as alternatives to what they considered mainstream news sources (what they eventually came to call the “aboveground press”: network television news, daily newspapers, national magazines). The dailies covered the war in Vietnam, racism, and youthfulRead More

Authored by Dr. Jeremy Guida – This is the third in a series of three blog posts about women in the Underground Press. See post #1 in the series for an introduction to the topic. Liza Williams – Liza Williams began authoring a column in the Los Angeles Free Press inRead More

Authored by Dr. Jeremy Guida – This is the second in a series of three blog posts about women in the Underground Press. See post #1 in the series for an introduction to the topic.   Elfrida Rivers – “Elfrida Rivers” was a pen-name for well-known science-fiction author Marion Zimmer Bradley. RiversRead More

Authored by Dr. Jeremy Guida –  By most accounts, the first-generation of underground papers were overwhelmingly misogynistic. These papers began publication between 1964 and 1967, just before the second-wave of feminism had fully taken hold. Even though most papers were socially progressive with regard to the war in Vietnam and racism, theRead More