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Title Make your own history : documenting feminist and queer activism in the 21st century / co-edited by Lyz Bly and Kelly Wooten
Published Los Angeles, CA : Litwin Books, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 180 pages) : illustrations
Series Litwin Books Series on Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies ; no. 2
Litwin Books series on gender and sexuality in information studies ; no. 2.
Contents Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Archives as Activism: a Preface -- Introduction: Scholars Archivists and Invisible Alliances -- Introduction: Starting the Conversation -- Zines and Riot: Grrrl Cut and Paste Your Own History -- My Life In Zines -- Self-Publication with Riot Grrrl Ideals: Zines =/= Vanity Press Publications -- Archiving the Movement: The Riot Grrrl Collection at Fales Library and Special Collections -- Outreach and Instruction at the Sallie Bingham Center -- Archiving the Underground -- LGBT Archives: Queer Your Own History
Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind: A Queer Ecological Approach to the ArchiveAccessibility, Accountability, and Activism: Models for LGBT Archives -- Inventing History: The Watermelon Woman and Archive Activism -- Electronic Records The Future of History -- Perfecting the New Wave of Collecting: Documenting Feminist Activism in the Digital Age -- No Documents, No History: Traditional Genres, New Formats -- Second Wave: Our History Is Not Yet Past -- The Juggling Act: Cooperative Collecting and Archival Allies -- She Who Owns the Press
Summary Make Your Own History: Documenting Feminist and Queer Activism in the 21st Century addresses the practical and theoretical challenges and advantages of researching, documenting, and archiving recent and contemporary activists in the feminist and queer movements. In the last few decades, the place and practice of activism has shifted from a physical "headquarters" where activists convene to plan and strategize, to the reality where planning happens at various desks and kitchen tables across the country (or world) and activists then convene at one site for an action (the prime example of this being the WTO protest in Seattle in 1999). So much of the work is taking place in the digital environment and/or within smaller do-it-yourself (DIY) and anarchist subcultures where ideas are often shared via zines and other ephemeral materials. The challenge of the archivist and the scholar, whose work is traditionally paper-based, is to keep up with the changing modes of communication of these individuals and organizations and to make sure these activists' work is not left out of the historical record
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Feminism -- History -- Sources
Feminism -- Archival resources
Feminism -- Computer network resources
Gay rights -- History -- Sources
Gay rights -- Archival resources
Gay rights -- Computer network resources
Society.
Feminism
Feminism -- Archival resources
Feminism -- Computer network resources
Gay rights
Feminism -- historia -- historiografi.
Feministisk teori.
Queerteori.
Sexualitet -- homosexualitet.
Arkiv.
Publicering.
Nätverk -- Internet.
Kvinnorörelsen.
Feminism.
Arkivering.
Dokumentation -- metodik.
Genre/Form History
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Form Electronic book
Author Bly, Lyz, editor
Wooten, Kelly, editor
ISBN 1936117959
9781936117956