very excited to find this newsletter from tv dinner!! i interned at Lesbian Herstory Archives back in 2014 and getting to dive in to their collections and also talk to some of the women who'd been there since the 70s was so incredible. i did a lot of listening to oral history, conference recordings, and radio interview cassettes while digitizing/tagging - best one i found was a set of voicemails of the archive which included audre lorde leaving a message!
i ended up going a different career path than libraries/archives but they're an eternal interest of mine. i also went to mount holyoke college and had a lot of fun doing archival research on the history of student protests and sit-ins, which led to the different cultural studies departments and cultural houses, incl Jeannette Marks LGBTQ house, named for the life partner of college president Mary Woolley in early 1900s. we transcribed some of their letters which are very romantic yet also about like the garden and the UN, and also lots of good photos of their dogs! sorry to ramble but i don't often get a chance post academia on these topics!
Julia! This is SO COOL and I have ENDLESS associations, including Leah DeVun's work and also the Lesbian Herstory Archives. also have you ever heard of the band Lesbians of Ecstasy? Their music is mash-ups and remixes of lesbian classics and they've been performing together since like 2003. They did an album called Sisters in the Struggle where the insert is a feminist newsletter.
omg <3 opening multiple tabs to google everybody. I don't know Leah DeVun but I should!! and same with lesbians on ecstasy - that's incredible, and also must give it up for the lost art of the CD insert
very excited to find this newsletter from tv dinner!! i interned at Lesbian Herstory Archives back in 2014 and getting to dive in to their collections and also talk to some of the women who'd been there since the 70s was so incredible. i did a lot of listening to oral history, conference recordings, and radio interview cassettes while digitizing/tagging - best one i found was a set of voicemails of the archive which included audre lorde leaving a message!
i ended up going a different career path than libraries/archives but they're an eternal interest of mine. i also went to mount holyoke college and had a lot of fun doing archival research on the history of student protests and sit-ins, which led to the different cultural studies departments and cultural houses, incl Jeannette Marks LGBTQ house, named for the life partner of college president Mary Woolley in early 1900s. we transcribed some of their letters which are very romantic yet also about like the garden and the UN, and also lots of good photos of their dogs! sorry to ramble but i don't often get a chance post academia on these topics!
Ahhh, thanks, Megan! So cool that you interned at LHA. All of your archival work sounds amazing! Would love to read those letters......
Julia! This is SO COOL and I have ENDLESS associations, including Leah DeVun's work and also the Lesbian Herstory Archives. also have you ever heard of the band Lesbians of Ecstasy? Their music is mash-ups and remixes of lesbian classics and they've been performing together since like 2003. They did an album called Sisters in the Struggle where the insert is a feminist newsletter.
omg <3 opening multiple tabs to google everybody. I don't know Leah DeVun but I should!! and same with lesbians on ecstasy - that's incredible, and also must give it up for the lost art of the CD insert