Desiring Young Les(bi)an Visionaries in the Archive

Queering the Community Music Archive

“…As the scholarly interest in DIY and community-based archiving grows -of which music archiving and heritage is a subset -so has a body of literature emerged focusing specifically on queer and feminist archives. Our review of this literature is not exhaustive, but includes several books (see Kumbier 2014;Halberstam 2005;Cvetkovich 2003), edited collections (see Keilty & Dean 2013; Bly & Wooten 2012), journal articles (see Caswell & Cifor 2016;Chenier 2016;Cooper 2015;Taavetti 2015;Samer 2014;Sheffield 2014Sheffield , 2016McLeod et al 2014;Eichhorn 2014;Manalansan 2014;Madden 2013;Wakimoto et al 2013;Boulay et al 2012;Darms 2012), and special issues by journals such as Radical History Review ('Queering Archives: Historical Unravelings', 2015) and Archivaria ('Special Section on Queer Archives', 2009).…”

The place of geography in lesbian history

“…14–15), while exploring transnational networks can reveal the reach of key documents and the physical mobility of women who travelled to seek out community, to join political movements or to attend conferences (Gil‐Gómez, ; Jennings & Millward, ; Millward, ). Immersed in feminist archives, present‐day researchers may experience a profound sense of connection with the lesbian and bisexual activists of the past whose documents they are reading, leading to a reflection on the ways in which space and subjectivity are co‐created both in place and across time (Boulay, Gamache, Millward, & Portillo, ).…”