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Pussy Palace Oral History Project: Gallant’s Box

May 28, 2021

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 […]

PPOHP: Did You Know?

May 5, 2021

by Andy Huynh

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

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

All the Right Questions: Demography, Sense Memory, and the Many Narrators of the Pussy Palace Raid

March 23, 2021

by Andy Huynh

Lesbian History / Oral History / Pussy Palace Project

By Elio Colavito and Alisha Stranges The Pussy Palace Oral History Project, a collaboration between The ArQuives and the LGBTQ+ Oral History Digital Collaboratory, has finally reached the interviewing stage. We are collecting oral history interviews with patrons, event organizers, those involved in the police action, the subsequent legal case, and community activism related to the Toronto police raid of the September 14, 2000 Pussy Palace, an exclusive bathhouse event for queer women, trans, and […]

Call for Participants: Pussy Palace Oral History Project

March 1, 2021

by Andy Huynh

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

The ArQuives and The University of Toronto’s LGBTQ+ Oral History Digital Collaboratory are conducting an oral history project about the 2000 “Pussy Palace” Raid, Canada’s last major bathhouse police raid. Whether you attended the event on the night of the raid or were involved with the police action, the legal case, or related activism, we’d love for you to share your story. Interested in participating? Contact us: oralhistories@arquives.ca For more information about the project, please visit […]

Bridging the Gap with the Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony (ALOT)

November 4, 2016

by Elspeth Brown

Digitization / Lesbian History / Oral History

By Mary Corbett, ALOT Archivist The Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony collects, digitizes, and makes available online oral testimonies from people who presently or at one time identified as lesbian, and is supported by the Simon Fraser University Library. As part of our recent SSHRC Insight Grant, we are undertaking a study entitled “Bridging the Gap,” which aims to explore methods that an institutionally-hosted online archives (like ALOT) can employ in order to better involve […]