Land acknowledgement: we live, laugh, and love on the land of the Mi'kmag.
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance - where we think about trans folks who have been murdered, and ones that have taken their life as a result of hatred.
- My talk about doing history work (how long do you want this to be?) at 12:30, right?
- An introduction to the Elderberries (just 5 minutes)
- And a storytelling round table which I will record — history, you know — the topic will be, “The LGBT Folk (or Queer Folk) in my community when I was growing up.”
History Work
- Introduce Dan - moved to Halifax in 1981 Kings, came out a couple years later, I love this city
- Got involved in Wayves.
- long lecture: the addiction of journalism: it gets you involved in EVERYTHING.
- So in the 1990s, people started giving me information - random chunks
- Then, the wiki - a guy named Mike Godfrey had heard about this web publishing thing. at the time you needed to write HTML a kind of code. Ward Cunningham created Wiki. Mike installed it and wrote hundreds of pages - some serious, some silly.
- 2002 : I created a catalog of drag queens in it - to counter boredom
- 2004: 1000 pages, Dan takes it over
- Why wiki is so cool
- today: . I just created a page for Halfiax Poet Laureate Tanya Davis because she wrote a poem when Raymond Taavel was murdered, which Hugo Dann wrote about for his
- Do you see how I get rabbitholed?
Doing History Now
- All kinds of things to do
- Interviews
- Archiving objects
- Captioning pictures
- Lecture on picture captions
- Lecture on photo albums
- Why it's so important to do this work
- Allison Self Introduction
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