# Yolanda Lopez Beard

Yolanda Lopez, 1942-2021, was a San Francisco artist and activist from San Diego originally, with roots in the San Francisco State College strike 1968-69. She went on to a long engagement with the Mission District community, co-founding Basta Ya! Newspaper in conjunction with the Committee to Defend Los Siete in 1970. Her art has come to be more recognized since her passing, with a major show in San Diego in late 2021. In this clip she discusses her beard, shaving, her use of Hormone Replacement Therapy, women's health and how they protect doctors, the frustrations of aging, dementia and menopause.

- Kind: Film
- Year: 2019
- By: Shaping San Francisco
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/yolanda-lopez-beard)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/yolanda-lopez-beard?play=1)