All posts filed under: Community-based Oral History

Interview with Jehuda Tjahjadi on “Stories Worth Telling” Video Project

March 2, 2021
by Andy Huynh
Archiving Oral History / Community-based Oral History / Gay History / Oral History / Public Humanities

Earlier this year, Jehuda Tjahjadi’s video project for Professor Elspeth Brown’s LGBQT2+ Oral History course at the University of Toronto-Mississauga was published on The Collab’s website. The video project focuses on 1999 BIPOC Pride which can be found here. Last week, I conducted a brief interview on Jehuda’s experience with Professor Brown’s class, any shortcomings while making the project, and his thoughts on queer oral history! Thank you Jehuda for agreeing to have a chat […]

HIS395 Video Project: “Time Heals All Wounds?” by Alessandra Salvati

February 2, 2021
by Andy Huynh
Archiving Oral History / Community-based Oral History / Gay History / Oral History / Public Humanities

Elspeth Brown on her LGBQT2+ Oral History class at the University of Toronto-Mississauga. The class, which focused on queer oral history method and production, had students create a short digital story based on a significant historical event from Toronto’s queer community. Professor Brown wanted me to send you along this information so that you could add it to the Collaboratory social media. This project focuses on the Bathhouse Raids in 1981, where 4 gay bathhouses […]

HIS395 Video Project: “Stories Worth Telling” by Jehuda Tjahjadi

January 21, 2021
by Andy Huynh
Archiving Oral History / Community-based Oral History / Gay History / Oral History / Public Humanities

Elspeth Brown on her LGBQT2+ Oral History class at the University of Toronto-Mississauga. The class, which focused on queer oral history method and production, had students create a short digital story based on a significant historical event from Toronto’s queer community. Professor Brown wanted me to send you along this information so that you could add it to the Collaboratory social media. This project focuses on 1999 BIPOC Pride, where members of World Majority Lesbians […]

Trans Activism Oral History Project – Joanna Clark

December 8, 2020
by Andy Huynh
Archiving Oral History / Community-based Oral History / Gay History / Oral History / Public Humanities / Trans History

Excerpt from the Trans Activism Oral History Project – Presented in Collaboration with the LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory (project lead, Dr. Elspeth Brown), the Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria, and The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives. Joanna Clark (she/her) interviewed by Dr. Evan Taylor (they/them)Original recording using Zoom platform on December 30, 2019 To view the full interview, visit: vimeo.com/488128536More on The Trans Activism Oral History Project

Collaborating Scholar Q&A with Chase Joynt

December 1, 2020
by Andy Huynh
Archiving Oral History / Collaboratory News / Community-based Oral History / Gay History / Oral History / Public Humanities / Trans History

A short Q&A session with Dr. Chase Joynt, assistant professor, director and writer! Joynt is currently working as a filmmaker on the Trans Activism Oral History Project in collaboration with the Transgender Archives at University of Victoria and The ArQuives, Toronto. More on the Trans Oral History ProjectMore on the Transgender Archives at UVic