All posts filed under: Queer History

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 […]

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 […]