Having a good sense of the LGBTQ+ archives and resources available in North America has been crucial in my scholarship. My doctoral project on the history of gay periodicals led me to a number of these repositories, which included both physical and online spaces. Yet the increasing number of queer archives and the occasional changes...
This full-time three-month position, starting in mid-September 2021, is funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant supporting the LGBTQ Oral History Collaboratory. HOW TO APPLY? Visit the Chair in Transgender Studies website and review the full posting. Send your updated resume and cover letter to transchair@uvic.caPosting Closes August 23, 2021
Professor Elspeth Brown and the Director of LGBTQ Collaboratory as received the prestigious Hugh A. Taylor Prize for her Archivaria article, “Archival Activism, Symbolic Annihilation, and the LGBTQ2+ Community Archive. More on the accolade can be found here
Inspired by Gregory Samantha Rosenthal’s creative pub crawl for the Southwest Virginia LGBQT2+ History Project! See “Make Roanoke Queer Again” (2017). The following citation can be used to read more on this piece: Gregory (Samantha) Rosenthal, “Make Roanoke Queer Again: Community History and Urban Change in a Southern City,” The Public Historian 39, no. 1 (February 1, 2017): 35–60, https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2017.39.1.35. More on Gregory Samantha’s Rosenthal’s writing here
“Archivo de la Memoria Trans: el proyecto colaborativo que reunió 10.000 fotos.” The Archivo de la Memoria Trans, translated as The Archive of Trans Memory, has collected over 10,000 photos of Trans Latinx folk. According to La Nacion, the project began as a Facebook group to share old photographs of trans people amongst one another, as a way to honour and commemorate queer and trans people before them. The group allowed people to reconnect with […]
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 […]