The archive was a technology of power that paradoxically ended up preserving the very traces of queer life it set out to eradicate.
Tag: archives
Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies
How do lesbian feminists use information to build movements and worlds?
Searching for Sex Crimes in Rural Nebraska
Trips to courthouses across Nebraska raised important questions about how to conduct research on sexual violence in rural spaces.
Collecting Riot Grrrl: Sexual Awakening in NYU’s Punk Archive
NYU’s Riot Grrrl Collection is that of a movement that provided a new path for young women’s sexuality
Beyond the Culture Wars: Homosexual Histories 2016
Simon Copland highlights the big questions and controversies addressed at the 2016 Homosexual Histories Conference
Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories
Can an archive offer “proof” that historians often seek out?
Digital Witnesses: The Parker-Hulme Murder Case and the Teaching of Crime and Sexual Deviance
The Parker-Hulme murder gripped the town of Christchurch, New Zealand in the summer of 1954.
