Welcome to Out of The Archives (OTA)—our attempt to bring treasures of LGBTQIA history from the Sexual Minorities Archives to your ears and eyes—part podcast/part oral history/part experiment.
This episode, Voices from Queerentine, is a collection of recordings from queer folk about staying connected to queer history, culture and community in a time of physical separation and isolation. This episode a song from badweatherfriend called "Trying Not To Dream"--you can hear this song and more and buy their music by following this link. If you'd like to find out more about the Sexual Minorities Archives or see the catalogs and request a piece of media from Out Books on Wheels pl...
19 Apr 2020
Episode 2: Raúl and Hanky Code
"...a lot of these things came from this need of self-preservation...it was sartorial coding, it was language, we came up with our own slang." Conversation with Raúl Cornier about the history origins and realtime application of hanky code (recorded: July 2019). In this episode, I talk with Raúl about his research involving SMA source materials, material from other archives, pop culture and personal experience involving the "sartorial code" of gay and queer sex and identity. A spe...
12 Apr 2020
Episode 1: Ben and the SMA
"...and, if you put it together, that's what keeps people oppressed: is being disconnected from our own information--about the value of our lives." Conversation with Ben Power about the history of the Sexual Minorities Archives (recorded: Nov 2018). In this episode, we feature the life and work of Ben and the Archives that literally traveled with him from Chicago to Western Massachusetts and changed and grew alongside his own transformations. We touch on some of the ways the Archives exists t...
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