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Tangible Traces: Searching for the Pussy Palace Polaroids

April 16, 2021

Did you know that the 2000 Pussy Palace had an instant photo room? On the fourth floor of the Palace, a sign reading “porn/photo room” directed patrons in two equally playful directions: towards a room for screening pornography and/or towards a room for having Polaroids taken to document one’s night at the bathhouse (Blair 163; Vogels paras. 10-13). In our most recent oral history interview, Carlyle Jansen, one of the founding members of the Toronto Women’s Bathhouse Committee, shared that the use of […]

Pussy Palace Oral History Project: The Interview Process

March 30, 2021

by Andy Huynh

Pussy Palace Project

By Elio Colavito To learn more about the PPOHP, please visit hereCheck out the last blogpost on PPOHP 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 […]