Queer Joy Now! Capturing diverse campus histories through institutional and student group partnerships
Thursday May 23, 2024
From 1:30pm to 2:00pm
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Capturing stories about queer and trans organizing on campus’ has been an important step in understanding the rich history of radical gathering, socializing, celebrating, organizing, and protesting that has happened in our region. Queer Joy Now! A Dusting off of Histories is an archiving and participatory exhibition project created in partnership with The 203: Center for Gender and Sexual Diversity that seeks to celebrate and uplift the history of queer and trans organizing on campuses in Fredericton, New Brunswick. We wish to understand: What does it mean to take up joyful queer space?
In this conference presentation, we will talk about the Queer Joy Now! archival project and its significance to the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, The 203 Centre, and the Queer Heritage Initiative of New Brunswick (QHINB). We will touch on the exhibition details and content, the archival material collection process, advice for putting together your own archival history, and the connections we made along the way.
Partnerships have been critical to creating this exhibition. As such, we will discuss the relevance of creating and sustaining partnerships across campus, particularly between underserved student groups and the institutional archives, to capture diverse and important narratives. We hope to start a dialogue about what activism and joy mean on campus and in our local communities, and how the GLAM sector can be an integral part of this knowledge building process.
Speakers
Collections Analysis and Bibliometrics Librarian
University of New Brunswick