In advance of an upcoming blog series which addresses “Queering the History Curriculum” we have collected some resources of interest to history instructors and history researchers along the theme of queer(ing) history. Below is a list of primary source collections and further readings that could be used for instruction with primary sources, for student research assignments, and more! We encourage you to take a look at these resources and join the conversation by suggesting additions!
Do you have other suggestions for works that could be included on this list? We’d love to hear them! Let us know by tagging @CndHistAssoc on Twitter and using the hashtag #CHATeachingResourcesChat
Stay tuned for a piece by Andrea Prajerova next week that speaks to challenging the dominant queer narrative in Canadian history education!
Videos
Constance Crompton – “Digital History and the Gay Liberation Movement” – Part 1. Accessed March 16, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8ZWMTJXxoI&feature=youtu.be.
Constance Crompton – “Digital History and the Gay Liberation Movement” – Part 2. Accessed March 16, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjAb4nI8ixo&feature=youtu.be.
Weissman, Aerlyn, and Lynne Fernie. Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives, 1992. https://www.nfb.ca/film/forbidden_love/.
Archives and Collections
The ArQuives, Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives
https://digitalexhibitions.arquives.ca/.
https://arquives.ca/.
@TheArQuives
Archives Gaies du Quebec
http://agq.qc.ca/collections/. http://agq.qc.ca/.
OurOntario (EN/FR)
https://search.ourontario.ca/search (thousands of digitized items related to ‘Queer’ history)
https://rechercher.ourontario.ca/search (FR)
he Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony
https://www.alotarchives.org/.
@alotarchives
Transgender Archives, University of Victoria
https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/.
@TransArchives
University of Manitoba, Special Collections, Manitoba Gay and Lesbian Archives:
https://main.lib.umanitoba.ca/informationobject/browse?collection=6102&topLod=0&sort=relevance&query=Gay+and+Lesbian&repos=&sq0=Gay+and+Lesbian&sortDir=desc.
Université Concordia, Concordia Queer Collective fonds, Lesbian and Gay Friends of Concordia:
https://archivescanada.accesstomemory.ca/concordia-queer-collective-fonds.
https://archivescanada.accesstomemory.ca/concordia-university-concordia-queer-collective-concordia-university-lesbian-and-gay-friends-of-concordia.
Further reading: articles on queering archival collections
Bak, Greg. “‘Where Is Queer?’ Museums and Social Issues, Vol. 3, No. 1.” Archivaria, 2009, 330–33.
https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/where-is-queer-museums-social-issues-vol-3-no-1/docview/2518907141/se-2?accountid=14739.
Brown, Elspeth H. “Archival Activism, Symbolic Annihilation, and the LGBTQ2+ Community Archive.” Archivaria, May 10, 2020, 6–33. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/archival-activism-symbolic-annihilation-lgbtq2/docview/2518363196/se-2?accountid=14739.
Cantillon, Zelmarie, Sarah Baker, and Bob Buttigieg. “Queering the Community Music Archive.” Australian Feminist Studies 32, no. 91–92 (April 3, 2017): 41–57. https://doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2017.1357004.
Cifor, Marika. “Stains and Remains: Liveliness, Materiality, and the Archival Lives of Queer Bodies.” Australian Feminist Studies 32, no. 91–92 (April 3, 2017): 5–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2017.1357014.
Cowan, T.L., and Jasmine Rault. “Onlining Queer Acts: Digital Research Ethics and Caring for Risky Archives.” Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, June 25, 2018, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/0740770X.2018.1473985.
Fraser, James Andrew. “Canadian Gay Archives.” Archivaria, January 1, 1977, 158–59. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/canadian-gay-archives/docview/2528227811/se-2?accountid=14739.
Gentile, Patrizia. “Resisted Access? National Security, the Access to Information Act, and Queer(Ing) Archives.” Archivaria, 2009, 141–58. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/resisted-access-national-security-information-act/docview/2518907327/se-2?accountid=14739.
Killen, Gemma. “Archiving the Other or Reading Online Photography as Queer Ephemera.” Australian Feminist Studies 32, no. 91–92 (April 3, 2017): 58–74. https://doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2017.1357005.
Lee, Jamie Ann. “A Queer/Ed Archival Methodology: Archival Bodies as Nomadic Subjects.” Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies 1, no. 2 (2017). http://libraryjuicepress.com/journals/index.php/jclis/article/view/26.
Maynard, Steven. “Police/Archives.” Archivaria, 2009, 159–82. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/police-archives/docview/2518907002/se-2?accountid=14739.
Rawson, K. J. “Accessing Transgender // Desiring Queer(Er?) Archival Logics.” Archivaria 68, no. 0 (January 7, 2009): 123–40. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/accessing-transgender-desiring-queer-er-archival/docview/2518906642/se-2?accountid=14739.
Riseman, Noah. “The Interview-Document Nexus: Recovering Histories of LGBTI Military Service in Australia.” Archivaria, no. 87 (2019): 6–33. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/interview-document-nexus-recovering-histories/docview/2518871255/se-2?accountid=14739.
Sheffield, Rebecka. “ALANA KUMBIER, Ephemeral Material: Queering the Archives.” Archivaria, May 6, 2016, 167–71. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/alana-kumbier-ephemeral-material-queering/docview/2518886852/se-2?accountid=14739.
Watts, Gina. “Queer Lives in Archives: Intelligibility and Forms of Memory.” Disclosure: A Journal of Social Theory 27 (2018). https://uknowledge.uky.edu/disclosure/vol27/iss1/18.
Wexelbaum, Rachel (editor). LGBT Digital Practices in Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Queers Online – Gender and Sexuality Information Studies. Litwin Books, 2015. https://litwinbooks.com/books/queers-online/.
X, Ajamu, Topher Campbell, and Mary Stevens. “Love and Lubrication in the Archives, or Rukus!: A Black Queer Archive for the United Kingdom.” Archivaria, 2009, 271–94. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/love-lubrication-archives-rukus-black-queer/docview/2518907831/se-2?accountid=14739.
Zepeda, Lizeth. “Queering the Archive: Transforming the Archival Process.” Disclosure: A Journal of Social Theory 27 (2018). https://uknowledge.uky.edu/disclosure/vol27/iss1/17.