All posts filed under: Collaboratory News

The Collab at the QHC 2022

June 10, 2022
by Alisha Stranges
Academia / Collaboratory News / Pussy Palace Project / Trans History

If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair… Beginning this Sunday, the Committee on LGBT History, San Francisco State University, and the GLBT Historical Society host their second queer history conference, QHC 2022. From June 12-15, historians, K12 educators, and activists come together to share, discuss, and showcase the newest directions and developments in the histories of same-gender sexuality, trans identity, and gender-nonconformity. We are delighted to announce […]

Talking Sex: Engaging with the Pussy Palace Oral Histories

April 10, 2022
by Alisha Stranges
Collaboratory News / Pussy Palace Project

Join us on Wed, Apr 20 @ 6PM – 7:30PM for a virtual event, featuring both community narrators and members of the Collaboratory’s Pussy Palace Oral History Project team! Event Description: On September 15, 2000, five Toronto police raided the Pussy Palace, an exclusive bathhouse event for queer women and trans folk, laying several charges against the organizers, accusing them of violating liquor laws. There has never been an oral history project about this event, […]

Call for Contributors!

February 12, 2022
by Elio Colavito
Collaboratory News / Opportunities / Traversing Temporalities

The LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory is launching its first external blogger series! “Traversing Temporalities: Making Meaning of Queer and Trans* Oral Histories,” edited by Elio Colavito, is seeking 750-word contributions for a bi-weekly blog series.   Oral histories serve as a site for narrators and researchers to make meaning of the past, focusing on who and what speaks with, to, and through the historian. As a methodology, oral history serves as a confrontation of different […]

Coding the Pussy Palace Oral Histories: NVivo for the Digital Humanities

December 16, 2021
by Emily Mastragostino
Collaboratory News / Interview Coding / Oral History / Pussy Palace Project

WHAT IS INTERVIEW CODING? Coding is the process of organizing data in preparation for analysis. Through coding we identify common themes that allow us to compare and contrast experiences, perspectives, and descriptions from our data. Fundamentally, coding helps us figure out what is salient across stories and most important to the narrators.   It’s a fairly straightforward process! Coding involves identifying, creating, and updating themes, as well as sorting data into those themes. Among the Pussy Palace oral histories, common themes can be as simple as descriptions of the carpet or more complex like individuals’ experience of care at […]

Call for Abstracts

December 14, 2021
by Elspeth Brown
Academia / Activist Histories / Collaboratory News / Opportunities / Queer History / Trans History

How have queer and trans activists challenged the repressive status quo in the past? Which forms have queer and trans activism taken over the decades? What role do emotions and affects play in activism – and how can affect theory be utilized in the study of queer and trans histories and temporalities?   These are among the questions that will be addressed in the workshop on affective histories of queer and trans activism, which is the […]

“Transvestia had a spine”: Digital Exhibit Design and the Trans Activism Oral Histories

December 2, 2021
by Amelia Smith
Archiving Oral History / Collaboratory News / Trans Activism Project / Trans History

Image Caption: Some of the early issues of Transvestia were printed in this miniature format (left). This allowed a reader to conceal their copy within a shirt pocket. It was very important to show how the size differed for the exhibition. I’m Amelia Smith, and I’m the digital exhibit designer for the Trans Activism Oral History Project with the Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria and the LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory. The exhibit I’m creating is the culmination of a […]