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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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