The Ricki Lake Show

Includes books, articles, and movies which Taormino wrote and directed, along with drafts, correspondence about their creation, production books for the movies and plays she directed, final commercial versions, and rough cut footage, as well as promotional material, reviews, and media coverage. There are audio and visual recordings of her lectures and appearances on television and radio. From her undergraduate years at Wesleyan University, there are papers written for classes and her senior thesis, plus ephemera from sexuality activism. Also included is Taormino's collection of ephemera, conference materials, posters, booklets, zines, magazines, and books written, produced, and created by other people on the topics of sex, sex positivity, gender LGBT/queer issues, BDSM, kink, leather, polyamory and non-monogamy, erotica and erotic photography, and pornography and feminist porn. There are also materials related to her work as an LGBT consultant for Spike Lee's film She Hate Me.