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New Databases

Community and Identity in North America
Part 6 of Archives of Sexuality and Gender focuses on North America, adding collections from the US, Canada, and Mexico.  Highlights include:

  • The papers of disabled activist, writer, and performer Judy Freespirit, co-author of the 1973 Fat Liberation Manifesto.
  • The papers of activist and historian Eric Garber who wrote extensively about LGBT people in the Harlem Renaissance, with notes from T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness: Homosexuality in Harlem in the 1920s.
  • The papers of anthropologist and sexologist Clark Taylor who documented the gay community in Mexico in the 1970s; his field notes include rich interviews with Mexican gay men.
  • The papers of Jiro Onuma, a Japanese American gay man who was imprisoned at the Topaz concentration camp during the Second World War and documented his experience through personal papers and photographs.
  • FTM (Female-to-Male) International Records — the largest and oldest continuously running organization serving the transmasculine community and their allies.
  • The papers of advocate, activist, and former sex worker Tamara Ching, a transgender activist who managed a support group for Asian and Pacific Islander trans people.
  • The papers of Graydon Sullivan (1951-1991), a gay and transgender activist who was notable as a community organizer, lay historian, and particularly as a diarist.

Women, War and Society, 1914-1918
Includes charity and international relief reports, pamphlets, photographs, press cuttings, magazines, posters, correspondence, minutes, records, diaries, memoranda, statistics, circulars, regulations and invitations from the Imperial War Museum, London.
 

Power to the People: Counterculture, Social Movements, and the Alternative Press
Showcases a range of ideas, initiatives, and social movements devoted to people-powered politics and organizing from the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries. Ranging beyond a few specific movements, the archive paints a broad picture of the counterculture and many disparate organizations that represent this moment in modern Western history. Although the archive concentrates mainly on the United States and the United Kingdom, it also covers events and topics from around the globe.