Smiles all around as we share the final list of all the video shorts for The Trans Activism Oral History Project!All the shorts have been successfully posted on our IGTV. However, if you’d like to watch the full interviews, they can be found here. More of The ArQuives 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
Did you know that our search for ephemeral evidence is well underway? We recently received a box full of raid-related artifacts from one of our narrators. We’ve got court transcripts, settlement minutes, Pussy Palace event flyers, and fundraiser buttons (among other amazing things)! We’re excited to spend some time with this stuff. Stay tuned for updates on what we uncover. More of The Arquives hereMore of The Pussy Palace Oral History Project here Check out our Twitter […]
“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 […]
Jude talks about generational differences in trans communities and activism, his ongoing and extensive work on knowledge gathering and dissemination, and being an early influence on the board of WPATH. Historical and Geographical Coverage: St. Louis; Sacramento, CA; West Coast USA; 1961-2020 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 […]
Did you know that the Pussy Palace Logo was designed by artist Claudia Dávila? Dávila’s playful and sexy graphic features a high-femme kitten in a skin-tight, black, (latex?) jumpsuit sitting poised and ready atop a plush, ruby-red pillow. Meow! More on the PPOHP can be found hereMore of The Arquives here