All posts tagged: Queerhistory

Nicholas Hrynyk’s Work on Queer & Disability History

June 18, 2021
by Andy Huynh
gay history / public humanities

Check out this article by Nicholas Hrynyk at University of Toronto! Hrynyk talks about the intersections of disability, the HIV/AIDS epidemic and Gay Male Masculinity in the 1980s! Nicholas Hrynyk was kind enough to provide a link to his article AND a podcast where he discusses his work on queer and disability history! Link to the article: https://dsq-sds.org/article/view/7148/5950Link to the podcast: http://dishist.org/?p=1685 You can find more of Nicholas Hrynyk’s work on his website here: https://nicholas-hrynyk.com/ […]

Archivo De La Memoria Trans

May 14, 2021
by Andy Huynh
archiving oral history / community-based oral history / gay history / oral history / photography / trans history

“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 […]

Country Queers Podcast by Rae Garringer

November 25, 2020
by Andy Huynh
archiving oral history / community-based oral history / gay history / oral history / trans history / Uncategorized

Podcast alert! With the recent surge in research on Trans oral history, different kinds of projects are beginning to emerge as well. As covered in an earlier blogpost, Transcripts seeks to share the different trans narratives in the city of Minnesota. Quite similar to Transcripts, this week we have Country Queers, which, on a fundamental level, shares the same goal: putting an emphasis on queer history to make up for the lack of research in […]

A Reflection on The Trans Oral History Panel: Narrative as Trans Worldmaking.

November 3, 2020
by Andy Huynh
gay history / oral history / public humanities / trans history / Uncategorized

Narrative as Trans Worldmaking”: this concept has been foundational to the multiple projects that were presented on the Friday October 23rd Trans Oral History Panel for the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Oral History Association. What this concept aims to convey is that creating a world for trans people begins with trans people telling their own stories. Traditionally, trans people, much like other queer folks, have been expected to self-navigate in the cisheteronormative world that […]