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Black August at the Lesbian Herstory Archives
Last month, we joined in the observation of Black August—a month honoring the legacy of Black political prisoners, organized prison movements, and the fight for liberation. I’m Mia and I staff at the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Over the past couple of months I’ve been researching prison-related materials at the LHA. Mainly focusing on print culture…
Dykes on Land: How Lesbians Created Community Outside of Patriarchal Society
During my time as a summer intern at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, I had the amazing opportunity of rehousing and processing numerous collections on-site. One that really piqued my interest and led me to research more at the archives was a collection on Northwoods Women’s Land in Alpine, NY. This collection was my first larger…
Editing the Lesbian Record: Lez Wiki Recap
On June 8th and June 29th, I hosted Lez Wiki, a series of Wikipedia edit-a-thons focused on improving and creating Wikipedia pages about Lesbians and Lesbian organizations. I was inspired by my own experience editing Wikipedia, and used that to pull together resources on how to edit and some existing Wikipedia pages that needed improvements.…