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Thursday, May. 11, 7:30pm
THE ARCHIVETTES
Join us for the screening of THE ARCHIVETTES at OT301 in collaboration with IHLIA and Noah Littel!
Admission
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Screening of THE ARCHIVETTES (2018, Megan Rossman) at Amsterdam’s OT301 followed by a guest talk from Noah Littel on the history of LGBTQ+ archive in Amsterdam and the Netherlands.
“Our history was disappearing as quickly as we were making it. ” With that realization, Deborah Edel and Joan Nestle co-founded the Lesbian Herstory Archives, the world’s largest collection of materials by and about lesbians. For more than 40 years, through many of the major milestones in LGBTQIA+ history, the all-volunteer organization has literally rescued history from the trash. Now the co-founders are in their mid-70s, and the group faces a number of challenges: A transfer of leadership. The rise of digital technology. A renewed call to activism in a politically charged moment. The Archivettes is a documentary film that explores how this group came together to combat lesbian invisibility and create “a place that says yes.”
This screening is brought to you in collaboration with IHLIA – LGBTI Heritage.
Noah Littel (they/them) is a PhD candidate at Maastricht University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Their PhD research project focuses on the history of LGBT+ archives in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and West-Germany, from the 1970s onwards. Based on archival research and oral history interviews, they study the pre-history and emergence of these archives, and follow their development throughout the 1980s and 1990s. In addition, they analyze processes of inclusion and exclusion in the archival practices of these archives.
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