The study of history is more than just dates and names; it also involves understanding how people lived their lives in the past. One way historians can reconstruct these lived experiences is through...
In colonial and authoritarian contexts, queer cultural practices were often suppressed and hidden from view due to legal and social sanctions against nonconforming gender identities and sexual...
Oral history is an important tool for collecting memories and stories from people who have lived through significant events or movements. Gay oral histories are particularly valuable because they...
How can oral histories reconstruct erased or undocumented queer experiences in Central Asian contexts? Oral history is an important method for collecting and analyzing personal stories about past...
Collective memory refers to the shared experiences, cultural values, beliefs, and norms that are passed down through generations within a community. Oral histories are narratives about these...
LGBTQ Memory Practices and Cultural Storytelling
The role that personal memories play in defining our identities is often underestimated. For individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual,...
Historical reconstruction is an important part of queer studies. Historians who study queer culture often rely on written accounts to understand how people lived their lives, but these accounts are...
History is full of underrepresented stories that have been left untold, but technology has made it possible for historians to uncover them through various methods. Queer literature is one such field...
I will explore how queer memory resists the philosophical erasure that is often present in dominant historiographies. The concept of "queer" has been used to describe people who do not identify as...
This article is about how oral histories reconstruct hidden or erased queer experiences in Central Asian contexts. Queerness refers to non-heterosexual gender identities and sexual orientations....