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Tag: archivists

  • Asexuality in the Archive

    Asexuality in the Archive

    This interactive workshop introduces how asexuality was treated as a medical issue in the Victorian Age and its impact on contemporary media representation. It will begin by examining how nineteenth-century doctors constructed a set of symptoms that supposedly diagnosed individuals as asexual. Together, we’ll look at how this conceptualisation is mirrored – or challenged –…

  • Archiving Queer Futures: Eman Abdelhadi in conversation with Nat Raha

    Archiving Queer Futures: Eman Abdelhadi in conversation with Nat Raha

    You can now watch the recording of this event online. Lavender Menace hosted an online discussion between two activist scholars on imagining and archiving queer futures. Dr Eman Abdelhadi is an academic, activist and writer who thinks at the intersection of gender, sexuality, religion and politics. She is an assistant professor and sociologist at the…

  • Archiving Queer Futures: Eman Abdelhadi in conversation with Nat Raha (online)

    Archiving Queer Futures: Eman Abdelhadi in conversation with Nat Raha (online)

    Join Lavender Menace for an online discussion between two activist scholars on imagining and archiving queer futures.  Dr Eman Abdelhadi is an academic, activist and writer who thinks at the intersection of gender, sexuality, religion and politics. She is an assistant professor and sociologist at the University of Chicago, where she researches American Muslim communities.…

  • Queer Traces: open evening

    Queer Traces: open evening

    Join us for the opening night of our exhibition Queer Traces by curator and volunteer archivist Alex Lednicky! 

  • Queer Traces exhibition

    Queer Traces exhibition

    Curator and volunteer archivist Alex Lednicky presents Queer Traces, an exhibition which traces queer history through the books and ephemera at the Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive.