Katie's chapters, by contrast, are big, splashy panels that reflect her outgoing personality ("I'm just your average teenage girl," she says after being offered movie roles and the crown of homecoming queen).
With frizzy hair and hunched shoulders, Emmie shows up in tiny vignettes, sandwiched between blocks of text, that make her look as small and insignificant as she feels. School is stressful for shy, quiet Emmie Katie, meanwhile, is breezily popular, confident, and beautiful. Read the original article.In her first children's book, cartoonist Libenson (The Pajama Diaries) offers strikingly different visions of seventh grade through two very dissimilar narrators. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Since the 1980s she has advocated for LGBTQ rights, union organization, equity and anti-racist policies in the province of Nova Scotia. This piece was co-authored by Anne Bishop an activist, author, educator, food security advocate, labour organizer and community development worker. We need to see additional systemic changes in, for example education, to ensure these important contributions of older lesbians are not lost. But we’re doing it differently as the Lesbian Oral History project is created by and for lesbians.
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Our projects - the Nova Scotia LGBT Seniors Archive and the Lesbian Oral History Project - hope to do what lesbian pulp fiction did for many lesbians in the ‘50s and '60s - help them feel seen. READ MORE | OPINION | Not everyone is male or female – the growing controversy over sex designation It helped many lesbians of that era feel seen despite not being the target audience. To mitigate this lack of representation, the archive sought funding from the provincial government to develop the Lesbian Oral History Project, which will allow older lesbians (specifically those born between 1946-64) across Nova Scotia to share their stories.ĭo you have a story to share with us? Tell us here.ĭespite the publishers’ constraints and who they were written by, many of these books formed what became known as “ lesbian survival literature.” The stories depicted queer women living and loving in difficult times, where desire and self-determination were more important than happy endings. READ MORE | 'I'm married to a man, but I'm still bisexual': Queer women speak about erasure Through community consultations, the Nova Scotia LGBT Seniors Archive became aware of the lack of archival records in the province pertaining specifically to older lesbian histories, including their contributions to Nova Scotia history in general and 2SLGBTQQIA+ history more specifically. The long history of 2SLGBTQQIA+ discrimination and hatred has led to an under-appreciation of the various contributions made by lesbians in advancing human rights legislation.Īs part of the recently founded Nova Scotia LGBT Seniors Archive, the Lesbian Oral History Project is collecting the stories of older lesbians from across Nova Scotia to preserve and share our history.
Women attend a pride event in Vancouver, in 2018. (Shutterstock) Oral histories can create intergenerational teaching and learning opportunities for people to understand the struggles and hard-fought wins. But lesbian oral history archival projects - like ours - are helping counteract this.
As many of us age, we risk losing this rich history. We have found that there is a struggle for our stories to be heard. Older lesbians are not an invisible artifact of the times, but rather the keepers of a rich history of the lives of women who love other women. Despite their efforts to advocate for change, the stories of older lesbians often go unnoticed or underappreciated. The generations of lesbians who were instrumental in the early fight for equal rights and protections for 2SLGBTQQIA+ Canadians are now in their senior years. We’re involved in community projects called the Nova Scotia LGBT Seniors Archive and Lesbian Oral History Project that focus on gathering stories from the generation that began using lesbian, and those who still can’t.ĢSLGBTQQIA+ history cannot be complete without these women’s stories, but breaching their fiercely protected invisibility raises ethical questions: Can we describe them in their own language? Why does this matter? READ MORE | Inquiry into LGBTQ+ hate crimes could improve how police and communities respond
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