Britton Neubacher
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Clark, Leilani
label: Collection Donor
content: Craig, Karen
label: Collection Donor
content: Neubacher, Britton
label: Collection Donor
content: Novak, Eve
label: Collection Donor
content: Quinonez, Torie
setName: label: See more items in
content: Ocho y Media Collection
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Neubacher wrote for and helped publish numerous zines in the 1990s and was a member of the Ocho y Media Collective. Her prose and poetry appear in Skew, Wives' Tales, Ocho y Media, and alongside some art works. She has a master's degree in Women's Studies and was a social worker at a crisis center before changing careers. In 2007 she opened Tend, a living plant interior design company in San Marcos, California. Her work has been exhibited in a few local galleries and the San Diego Museum of Art.
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1979-1999, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1473, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Includes a wide variety of mixed materials, including a collection of zines, convention pamphlets, photographs, a mylar transfer sheet, and detailed guide on self-abortion. It is arranged in chronological order.

Neubacher's collection of zines includes Abuelita Slut (1995), a feminist zine with prose, poetry, and collaged images; Wive's Tales (1996), a zine Neubacher helped create that focuses on contraceptives and sexual health; Our Rag (1997), which contains information on fertility, menstruation, sexual health, and options for contraception and abortion; and Vocabulary (1998), a zine with poetry and prose from members of the Ocho y Media Collective. It also includes one issue of Anteup (1999), a poetry zine based in San Francisco that accepted submissions from queer women-identified poets, with a specific focus on work by queer women of color. Materials further include issues one, two, and four of Skew, a zine which offered support for people dealing with sexual harassment, and other feminist writings, created by Neubacher and the master mock up copy of Ocho y Media's second zine issue, another project Neubacher worked on, which has loose elements and is fragile.

Photographs document an event through The Clothesline Project, an organization that advocates for survivors of domestic violence, at Che Café, a leftist collective on the University of California Sand Diego (UCSD) campus, an open house at Gravity Recs Warehouse in San Diego, California, and miscellaneous photographs of art and members of the Ocho y Media collective. 

Also included among these materials is "When Birth Control Fails," a 1979 publication on at home abortion, natural treatments, and women's sexual health. Further contents include an article and photograph from the San Diego Union-Tribune about volunteer security for a neighborhood abortion clinic, as well as a pamphlet from SPRGRL conspiracy, a riot grrrl collective based in Portland, that has information on a convention to build community and highlight women's art with workshops and band performances, including shows from riot grrrl  bands The Third Sex and The Lookers. In addition, there is a mylar transfer sheet with original artwork by Neubacher for the back cover of an Ocho y Media zine. 

These materials provide significant insight on both the contents of riot grrrl era zines in California and the experience of running a zine. The mockups and master copies document the process of creating a zine and the variety of content within them highlights personal experiences women had with changing feminism. Images and other materials illustrate the activities and motives of the collective and the types of causes third wave feminists in the Western United States emphasized.