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Call for Applications: Social Media Manager, Work Study 2023-24

August 15, 2023

Are you a full-time UofT student? Do you have a passion for the LGBTQ2+ past? Are you invested in reaching broader publics with historical research, through an intersectional lens? The Collaboratory seeks a Social Media Manager with Video Editing and Graphic Design Skills to amplify our research activities and connect our audiences to LGBTQ2+ public and digital history projects, creative interventions, and the people behind them. Responsibilities – Developing social media content relating to LGBQT2+ oral history […]

Dignified Lives: A Digital Archive for Preserving Trans Memory in Mexico

June 23, 2023

by Juan Carlos Mezo-González

The Mexican trans community recently launched a digital archive that will play an important role in reconstructing, documenting, and preserving the memory of this community. Named Archivo Memoria Trans México (Trans Memory Archive Mexico), this digital platform and its related social media will also play a significant role in bringing the community together, engaging trans Mexican folks in the process of writing their history in their own terms. In this regard, Archivo Memoria Trans México […]

NOW OPEN! The Pussy Palace: An Instagram Story

June 12, 2023

by Alisha Stranges

Collaboratory News / Lesbian History / Oral History / Pussy Palace Project / Queer History / Trans History

If you find yourself in Toronto’s East end this Pride season, drop by Gallery 1265 at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) to experience The Pussy Palace: An Instagram Story. Commissioned by UTSC’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Office and the Positive Space Committee, this interactive, self-led exhibit blends digital art, narrative text, and interview soundbites from the Collaboratory’s Pussy Palace Oral History Project, immersing patrons in an “average night” at the Palace. The Pussy Palace […]

Sensory Portraits of Public Sex

May 15, 2023

by Alisha Stranges

Collaboratory News / Pussy Palace Project / Queer Affect

The Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto Mississauga recently released the latest issue of their serial broadsheet, SDUK. About the issue, The Blackwood writes: This milestone fifteenth issue, CONFIDING, addresses trust and collaboration: the tools, methods, and strategies collaborators use to build mutual confidence while working together. With an international slate of largely co-authored contributions, this issue models forms of experimental and collaborative authorship through letters, exercises, interviews, oral histories, and more. Among the […]

Pussy Palace Digital Exhibit: Coming Soon!

March 17, 2023

by Alisha Stranges

Collaboratory News / Lesbian History / Public Humanities / Pussy Palace Project / Queer History / Trans History

In 2021, the Collaboratory conducted the Pussy Palace Oral History Project (PPOHP), preserving 36 interviews with patrons, organizers, and allies of the Pussy Palace — an exclusive sex party and bathhouse event for queer women and trans people in Toronto. Interviews address not only the infamous, September 2000 police raid, but also radical sex/gender cultures in turn of the 21st century Toronto. A desire to connect broader publics with this rich archive of oral testimony […]

We’re Hiring! Work Study Communications Assistant

July 26, 2022

by Alisha Stranges

Collaboratory News / Opportunities

Are you a @UofT student? Do you have a passion for the LGBTQ2+ past? Are you invested in reaching broader publics with historical research, through an intersectional lens? The LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory seeks a Communications Assistant with Graphic Design Skills to amplify our robust collection of oral histories across our social media platforms. Responsibilities Qualifications Position Details This is a remote position and can be completed virtually; students from any campus are welcome […]