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Political is Personal: Scholarly Manifestations of the Feminist Sex Wars
By sarah beth 8 August 2012 @ 2:31pmquod.lib.umich.edu - More background on the Barnard ConferenceGLQ 17.1 (2011) | Excerpts from "Diary of a Conference on Sexuality"
By sarah beth 8 August 2012 @ 2:25pm0-muse.jhu.edu.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca - The "diary" was intended for distribution at the 1982 Barnard Conference on Sexuality that included information on conference events, organizers' experiences, political writings and artwork. After complaints from Women Against Pornography, Barnard...Karen Busby | Little Sisters v. Canada: What Did the Queer-sensitive Interveners Argue? [Canadian...
By sarah beth 30 July 2012 @ 1:51pmwebdev.cc.umanitoba.ca - Customs Canada's targeting of Little Sisters' shipments since 1984 is one of the contexts of open repression in which OOB was produced -- a context that may have contributed to its focus on openly transgressive, potentially "irrepressible"...The Body Politic | Gerald Hannon | "Men Loving Boys Loving Men"
By sarah beth 30 July 2012 @ 12:50pmwww.clga.ca - This is the CLGA reprint of the very controversial 1977 Body Politic article, for which both Hannon and the newspaper were subject to censorship and sanction. It's a very challenging read, but I think the final paragraphs might begin to...APUO Librarians | "Librarians silenced at CLA conference"
By sarah beth 1 June 2012 @ 3:23pmapuobibliolib.wordpress.com - This situation just gets more awful every time I read news about it... Part of the activities of the Day of Action included a group of a dozen volunteers (many of them retired LAC employees) promoting a white shirt / black ribbon campaign at the...Psychiatric Survivor Archives
By sarah beth 1 June 2012 @ 3:19pmwww.psychiatricsurvivorarchives.com - On Parliament St., this archive is just east of the CLGA in a neighbourhood that has come up in recent conversations with my librarian, Alan, about gentrification in and around the Church-Wellesley neighbourhood. It also archives the histories of...BoingBoing | "Canada's national archives being dismantled and scattered" [reader submission letter...
By sarah beth 27 May 2012 @ 10:31pmboingboing.net - The CAUT update, already bookmarked here somewhere, is useful, but I also appreciate the submitter's commentary, especially their focus on the fact that Daniel Caron, who is directing the cuts, has a degree in economics, not history, library...RDA Toolkit Free Trial Offer
By sarah beth 23 May 2012 @ 4:26pmwww.rdatoolkit.org - To use in early June for research on creation of a thesaurus for pornography. Also: http://home.earthlink.net/~cyndemoya/ http://www.ala.org/glbtrt/popularresources/vocabUniversity of Toronto Academic Librarians | "Serious situation developing at LAC, alert your...
By sarah beth 6 May 2012 @ 6:39pmutlibrarians.wordpress.com - A detailed description of all cuts up to the Apr. 30th announcement that the NADP will be cancelled.Literary Review of Canada | Susan Crean: "National Archives Blues: Is a precious Canadian asset...
By sarah beth 6 May 2012 @ 6:37pmreviewcanada.ca - A reflection on earlier LAC cuts, which includes a beautiful description of archival research and it's "philosophical" and "psychological" dimensions. We'll see if the same plays out for me, but after my trip to the CLGA, I remarked to someone by...CBC | "Federal subsidy for sexy Summum Magazine under fire"
By sarah beth 5 May 2012 @ 7:00pmwww.cbc.ca - I won't dispute that the magazines are probably terrible. They sound like dull, glossy, hetero softcore, which there really is enough of, but 1) the reasoning, "sexy pictures aren't culture," is asinine, and 2) so is Reader's Digest. Quebec...Inside Higher Education | "When Can Faculty Show Porn?"
By sarah beth 23 April 2012 @ 11:18amwww.insidehighered.com - A couple of professors in the US have taken heat for showing their students porn. One, a feminist, showed an anti-porn documentary that included illustrative clips of hardcore porn. But if you check out the article, you'll see that the complaint...The Hamilton Spectator | Oops! A morning news broadcast to remember
By sarah beth 21 April 2012 @ 9:04pm Comments (2)www.thespec.com - It started as a routine visit to the dentist. Joey Stewart, 32, was in his downtown dentist office Friday morning getting a temporary crown. While waiting for it to harden, his dentist flipped on the TV to CHCH. Suddenly, Stewart and his dentist...A LOT: Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony
By sarah beth 14 April 2012 @ 9:31pmalotarchives.org - Unfortunately, their collection policy page says their policy is under development and refers readers to "the Report on Archives' Collection Policies Regarding Oral History Tapes" -- but I haven't been able to figure out who the document might be...The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, Ferris State University
By sarah beth 13 April 2012 @ 1:00amwww.ferris.edu - I'm bookmarking this because 1) seeing the name of the museum in a hilarious anti-racist blog was enough to stop me in my tracks, and 2) despite very different contexts, I think there are some parallels between this collection and the collections...Terry Cook | Archival Science and Postmodernism: New Formulations for Old Concepts
By sarah beth 10 April 2012 @ 6:03pm Comments (5)www.mybestdocs.com - Raphael's recommendation of an illuminating text to accompany Derrida's Archive Fever. :)Exhibit: Publishing Framework for Data-Rich Interactive Web Pages
By sarah beth 10 April 2012 @ 1:40pmsimile-widgets.org - This is the framework I'm planning to use to make the data I collect in spreadsheets accessible to other researchers. It's a lot friendlier than just uploading the documents somewhere and letting folks ctrl-f (and more accessible, since I can...Woman who survived attack on Pickton's farm to testify at public inquiry
By sarah beth 10 April 2012 @ 2:18amwww.news1130.com - The disappearances and murders of women on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside were a consequence of the displacement documented by Becki Ross, Jamie Lee Hamilton, and others in the West End Sex Work History Project. This is also an accurate...2012 Good For Her Feminist Porn Awards
By sarah beth 8 April 2012 @ 3:19pm Comments (1)goodforher.com - I am so excited about this. But it falls before the deadline for the GSRF and the notice is too short for the Access to Research Tools award. So the question is: how do I get AU to foot the bill for it as a research trip?West End Sex Work History Project, 1975-1985
By sarah beth 30 March 2012 @ 1:12pmwww.westendsexworkhistory.com - “The Expulsion of Sex Workers from Vancouver’s West End, 1975-1985: A Cautionary Tale” Long reputed to be the “prostitution capital of Canada,” Vancouver, British Columbia has been at the centre of legal and political...
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