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Pandora's "Box": Pornography, Sex Work, and Archival Practice
Owner: sarah beth
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This is a service project for the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives that involves indexing some of their pornographic periodicals, while treating the periodical content as primary material towards my own research on sex worker narratives.
I've decided to follow others' examples and use The Landing to try to keep my May-October research course organized. I am determined not to use email for everything and neglect blogging. (In part because my grade depends on not neglecting the blogging.)
Image: a low-resolution copy of Cathy Lee Prochazka's photo essay from behind the scenes of the strip show burLEZk, titled "Pandora's Box." It appeared on page 23 of the Nov-Dec 1989 issue of On Our Backs.
Brief description: CLGA internship and MAIS research project
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JD Samson & MEN | Off Our Backs
By sarah beth November 16, 2012 - 12:25amThis seemed like just the thing to cap off the On Our Backs indexing blog. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGF94Q9J-Pk (off our backs was the sex-negative feminist counterpart to On Our Backs.)Why Index the Ads?
By sarah beth August 22, 2012 - 2:40pmLesbian small businesses and 'How to to tell when your porn rag has made it big'"Daddy": Reader-Submitted Story (Fall 1987) and Letters to the Editor (Winter 1988)
By sarah beth August 21, 2012 - 7:23pm Comments (4)I was pleasantly surprised to find an entirely reader-submitted exchange in the pages of On Our Backs, which touches on some of the content I have been finding troubling in the magazine. The exchange concerns the story "Daddy," by Ann Wertheim,...Derrida's Archive: It's a Thing, It's Not a Thing, It's Magic, It's Computers, It's ......
By sarah beth August 17, 2012 - 1:04am Comments (1)It helps to know (or to think I know) how Jacques Derrida came to write about archives at all. Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression is properly about psychoanalysis, and a book about Freud that I have not read, and deconstruction, but it begins...Ouch, My Brain: Foucault and Agamben on "Archive" and "Testimony"
By sarah beth August 10, 2012 - 2:15am Comments (94)The good thing about this post is that next to these readings, anything at all that considers the archive a tangible collection of artifacts or records, any literary theory that deals with testimony as a genre or document, will be a breeze, no...
Gender and Sexuality: Online Bibliographies and Databases
Last updated January 2, 2012 - 8:31pm by sarah bethSometimes Google Scholar is wonderfully useful for finding out obscure tidbits of information about people's freaky sexualities. But sometimes a more focused search is required (and less likely to turn up unpleasant results -- Google with...-
Sex work in the context of "the neoliberal university"
Last updated March 20, 2013 - 8:11pm by sarah beth Comments (4)Note to undergraduate students who find this page: THIS IS NOT A PEER-REVIEWED SCHOLARLY SOURCE. This is a draft of a lecture presented in "Sex Work and Sex Workers" and "Queer Communities and Pop Culture" at Brock University in 2011. You may... -
How to Get a Decent Grade on an Essay, or “Writing Tips for Students Who Suck at Writing”
Last updated April 13, 2014 - 11:57am by sarah beth Comments (4)Writing is a fact of university life, but not everyone likes to do it, and not everyone is particularly good at it. If you don’t make it out of undergrad without at least the ability to communicate clearly, you’re going to be pretty... -
Research participants needed: Troubling student-to-professor disclosures
Last updated July 30, 2014 - 9:56am by sarah bethPARTICIPANTS NEEDED FOR RESEARCH ON TROUBLING STUDENT-TO-PROFESSOR DISCLOSURES I am looking for volunteers to take part in a study of university instructors’ experiences fielding disclosures of a troubling nature from their students....
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...
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