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Barteaux, Kennedy, Kayla Woodward, Nathanial Koch
Barteaux, Kennedy, Kayla Woodward, Nathanial Koch
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Kennedy Barteaux is a 38 year old trans man who grew up in Norridgewock, Maine who knew from a young age that he was queer. He was outed to his parents as a lesbian at age 14 and was kicked out of the house and moved in with a supportive friend’s family in Skowhegan. He moved to Portland at age 18 and got involved with the Dyke March. Barteaux discusses his discomfort with existing gender expectations and stereotypes in both the gay and trans communities. He talks about community organizing and public speaking with and for the trans community (including …
Solomon, Howard, Richard Morin, Michelle Johnston
Solomon, Howard, Richard Morin, Michelle Johnston
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Howard Solomon is a 76 year-old man who grew up in New Castle, Pennsylvania. During his early years, and still today, Judaism played a significant role in his life. His dad was a Kosher butcher, and Solomon attended a Hebrew school while growing up. Solomon’s profession was teaching history as a college professor at New York University, Tufts University, and the University of Southern Maine. Towards the end of his full-time teaching career, he taught a class about Lesbian and Gay History. During the same period, he openly discussed his homosexuality in the university context. He witnessed the AIDS epidemic …
Abdurraqib, Samaa, Iris Sangiovanni, Samar Ahmed
Abdurraqib, Samaa, Iris Sangiovanni, Samar Ahmed
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Samaa Abdurraqib is a Black, queer, Muslim woman living in Portland, Maine. Abdurraqib was raised in Columbus, Ohio. She attend the University of Ohio, and later the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she received a PhD in English Literature. After graduating she worked as a visiting professor at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Next she went on to work the American Civil Liberties Union in Maine as a reproductive rights organizer. She now works for the Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence. Her advocacy and organizing work has included places such as Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine, …
Vermette, Jean, Annie Holland, Olivia Tryon-Nadeau
Vermette, Jean, Annie Holland, Olivia Tryon-Nadeau
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Jean Vermette, born in 1954, is a transgender woman from Skowhegan, Maine. At the age of three, Jean knew that her biological sex did not match her gender identity. When Jean came out as transgender to her wife in the 1980s, her marriage soon dissolved. After Jean filed for divorce, she spent five years transitioning. In addition to working as a self-employed electrician, Jean has dedicated her adult life to advocating for Maine’s transgender community. She created the Maine Gender Resource and Support Service and spent over fifteen years speaking publicly to Maine college students and medical professionals about the …
Parsons, Betsy, Shanisa Rodriguez, Madison Leblanc
Parsons, Betsy, Shanisa Rodriguez, Madison Leblanc
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Betsy Parsons grew up in a Midwestern town in the 1960s and 1970’s in a middle class educated family active in the local community. Her father and mother were both teachers. Her mother and father met in Orono, Maine in English class before migrating to the Midwest. Parsons describes developing a love a teaching from her parents; she knew from a young age that she wanted to become a teacher herself and began teaching at Portland High School in 1977. She describes herself as a ‘late bloomer’ in terms of her sexuality; she didn’t come out to herself until her …
Antonik, Thomas, Ethan Masselli, Kailyn Braley
Antonik, Thomas, Ethan Masselli, Kailyn Braley
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Thomas Antonik is a gay man from Maine. Thomas moved to New York City in 1979 to attend the School of Visual Arts. He was diagnosed with HIV in the early days of the epidemic and one year later was diagnosed with AIDS. He was a part of the People with AIDS Coalition. In 1989, Antonik moved back to Maine and worked part time while also attending to his health. Antonik is an artist who works in painting and photography. He is also a practicing Quaker.
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Please cite as: Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection, …
Bull, Steven, Alanna Larrivee, Tracy Payne
Bull, Steven, Alanna Larrivee, Tracy Payne
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
In this interview (part 1 of a two part interview), Steve Bull describes growing up in the 1950s in Kennebunk and Cape Porpoise and becoming conscious at a young age of being “different.” At age 6 or 7, he was discovered having sex with a playmate. When, at age 13, his family moved to New Jersey, Steve instead secured a scholarship to instead attend an expensive boarding school in Massachusetts where he found himself surrounded by children from wealthy families and became aware of social justice, anti-war, and civil rights activism. After attending Johns Hopkins University for two years he …
Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat Diary, 1849-1880, Margaret J. M. Sweat
Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat Diary, 1849-1880, Margaret J. M. Sweat
Diary, 1849-1880
Diary of Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat with entries dating from 1849-1880. Includes several clippings and photographs pasted in.
Arbor, Kelly, Alanna Larrivee, Emma Wynn Hill
Arbor, Kelly, Alanna Larrivee, Emma Wynn Hill
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Kelly Arbor, who identifies as genderqueer, was born in Rumford, Maine in 1977. Arbor is an artist, educator, and proud activist. They have been involved with activism throughout their life including in college at the University of Vermont. In this interview, Arbor talks about overcoming challenges growing up trans in a rural community, and discusses such issues as poverty, classism, LGBTQ representation, sex education in schools, incest, consent, AIDS, and substance abuse. Kelly Arbor also describes being involved in the Maine-based group MESH – Maine Educationalists on Sexual Harmony – a group working to create a dialogue surrounding sex positivity …
Vicky Vogue Photo Album 1, The Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York
Vicky Vogue Photo Album 1, The Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York
Photo Albums and Scrapbooks
The first in a series of photo albums of "Buffalo's Drag Mamma" Vicky Vogue (Danny Winter).
Vicky Vogue Photo Album 2, The Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York
Vicky Vogue Photo Album 2, The Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York
Photo Albums and Scrapbooks
The second in a series of photo albums of "Buffalo's Drag Mamma" Vicky Vogue (Danny Winter).
Vicky Vogue Photo Album 3, The Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York
Vicky Vogue Photo Album 3, The Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York
Photo Albums and Scrapbooks
The third in a series of photo albums of "Buffalo's Drag Mamma" Vicky Vogue (Danny Winter).
Tangarra Photo Album, The Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York
Tangarra Photo Album, The Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York
Photo Albums and Scrapbooks
Tangarra (John Minzer) was Buffalo's first female impersonator. Tangarra began performing as a teenager in the late 1920's. This album contains photos of Tengarra from the 1930s to the early 2000s.
An oral history interview with Tangarra can be found here: https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/lgbtq_interviews/4/
The National Dorothea Dix Memorial Association, The National Dorothea Dix Memorial Association
The National Dorothea Dix Memorial Association, The National Dorothea Dix Memorial Association
Dorothea Lynde Dix Pamphlets
Brochure for the National Dorothea Dix Memorial Association, containing a short bio of Dix as well as an invitation to join the Association.
Teacher Of America's Legislatures, Raymond Schuessler
Teacher Of America's Legislatures, Raymond Schuessler
Dorothea Lynde Dix Pamphlets
Photocopy of article by Raymond Schuessler about Dorothea Dix and her work "humanizing the care of the insane." From the Nov-Dec 1978 issue of the NRTA Journal.
Naccs 43rd Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
Naccs 43rd Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies
NACCS Conference Programs
¡Chicana/o Power! Transforming Chicana/o Activism, Discourse and Scholarship into Power
April 6-9, 2016
DoubleTree by Hilton
Gendered Geographies In Puerto Rican Culture: Spaces, Sexualities, Solidarities, Radost A. Rangelova
Gendered Geographies In Puerto Rican Culture: Spaces, Sexualities, Solidarities, Radost A. Rangelova
Gettysburg College Faculty Books
This is a critical study of the construction of gendered spaces through feminine labor and capital in Puerto Rican literature and film (1950-2010). It analyzes gendered geographies and forms of emotional labor, and the possibility that they generate within the material and the symbolic spaces of the family house, the factory, the beauty salon and the brothel. It argues that by challenging traditional images of femininity texts by authors and film directors like Rosario Ferré, Carmen Lugo Filippi, Magali García Ramis, Mayra Santos-Febres, Sonia Fritz and Ana María García, among others, contest the official Puerto Rican cultural nationalist discourse on …
Introduction To "Independent Stardom: Freelance Women In The Hollywood Studio System", Emily Carman
Introduction To "Independent Stardom: Freelance Women In The Hollywood Studio System", Emily Carman
Film and Media Arts Faculty Books and Book Chapters
During the heyday of Hollywood’s studio system, stars were carefully cultivated and promoted, but at the price of their independence. This familiar narrative of Hollywood stardom receives a long-overdue shakeup in Emily Carman’s new book. Far from passive victims of coercive seven-year contracts, a number of classic Hollywood’s best-known actresses worked on a freelance basis within the restrictive studio system. In leveraging their stardom to play an active role in shaping their careers, female stars including Irene Dunne, Janet Gaynor, Miriam Hopkins, Carole Lombard, and Barbara Stanwyck challenged Hollywood’s patriarchal structure.
Through extensive, original archival research, Independent Stardom uncovers this …
Marriage By Force? Contestation Over Consent And Coercion In Africa, Annie Bunting, Benjamin N. Lawrance, Richard L. Roberts
Marriage By Force? Contestation Over Consent And Coercion In Africa, Annie Bunting, Benjamin N. Lawrance, Richard L. Roberts
Ohio University Press Open Access Books
With forced marriage, as with so many human rights issues, the sensationalized hides the mundane, and oversimplified popular discourses miss the range of experiences. In sub-Saharan Africa, the relationship between coercion and consent in marriage is a complex one that has changed over time and place, rendering impossible any single interpretation or explanation.
The legal experts, anthropologists, historians, and development workers contributing to Marriage by Force? focus on the role that marriage plays in the mobilization of labor, the accumulation of wealth, and domination versus dependency. They also address the crucial slippage between marriages and other forms of gendered violence, …
College Life Quotes, Maine Women Writers Collection, University Of New England
College Life Quotes, Maine Women Writers Collection, University Of New England
Haven't A Studious Inclination: College Life In The Early 20th Century (Multi-Page Items)
Quotes used in the exhibit: Haven't a Studious Inclination: College Life in the Early 20th Century, on display at UNE in 2016.
Faroosh And Elina, Faroosh, Elina, Tsos
Faroosh And Elina, Faroosh, Elina, Tsos
TSOS Interview Gallery
Faroosh was a cameraman for a private television program in Afghanistan working on a documentary about the Taliban. When he and his crew were discovered, the Taliban attacked them and he and his wife fled to Turkey, walking 12 hours to get there. Upon arrival the police arrested and harassed them. Turkey was not a safe place. After several suicide bombings in the area, they decided to move on to Greece, where they are in a refugee camp without any progress in their situation. They have no money to move forward and no ability to work and the economic situation …
Fawad And Zakeela, Fawad, Zakeela, Tsos
Fawad And Zakeela, Fawad, Zakeela, Tsos
TSOS Interview Gallery
Fawad and his wife, Zakeela, have three children. Zakeela was a beautician, and Fawad was a singer in the Baghlan district in Afghanistan. The music he produced was not in accordance with the strict restrictions of the Taliban. They threatened his life and assaulted him many times, so he decided to leave with his family to Kabul. Fawad’s day job was as an FM radio producer; at night, he moonlighted as a singer and musician. He produced music for ceremonies and weddings, often performing for the women’s part, which the Taliban did not accept. Eventually, his life was again threatened, …
Ilhan, Nura, Radwa, Ziagull And Children, Ilhan, Tsos
Ilhan, Nura, Radwa, Ziagull And Children, Ilhan, Tsos
TSOS Interview Gallery
Ilhan, his wife Nura, and their children resided near Kabul, in a region where both the Taliban and ISIS were active. As Shias, Ilhan’s family faced numerous menaces, including threats from ISIS that they would be beheaded if they did not display ISIS flags. Ilhan’s sister Radwa, who is deaf and mute, was forced to marry a regional leader. In addition to being threatened on religious grounds, Ilhan’s family was also threatened by an elder of their town. Out of desperation, Ilhan’s family sold their house appliances, escaped Afghanistan, and arrived at the …
Miriam Williford Papers - Accession 157, Miriam Williford
Miriam Williford Papers - Accession 157, Miriam Williford
Manuscript Collection
The Miriam Williford Papers consist of correspondence, newspaper clippings, lecture and teaching materials, research notes, professional files, rough notes and drafts of publications, copies of historical manuscripts from other repositories, and other Papers, The collection pertains to Willifords’ teaching and publishing activities, and to her involvement with professional organizations and seminars such as the Latin American Studies Association (1975). Her research files include extensive material on Jeremy Bentham and his interest in Latin America, and includes correspondence with Simon Bolivar and other leaders of Latin American independence; papers on the administration of Mariano Galvez, Chief of State of Guatemala from …