New Directions in Queer Oral History by

New Directions in Queer Oral History

This comprehensive international collection reflects on the practice, purpose, and functionality of queer oral history, and in doing so demonstrates the vibrancy and innovation of this rapidly evolving field.

Drawing on the roots of oral history’s original commitment to ‘history from below’ queer oral history has become an indispensable methodology at the heart of queer studies. Expanding and extending the existing canon, this book offers up key observations about queer oral history as a methodology, and how it might be advanced through cutting edge approaches. The collection contains a mix of contributions from established scholars, early career researchers, postgraduate students, archivists, and activists, ensuring its accessibility and wide appeal.

The go-to reference for queer oral history for scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and community-engaged practitioners, New Directions in Queer Oral History advances rigorous methodological and theoretical debates and constitutes a significant intervention in the world of oral history.

Foreword

Nan Alamilla Boyd

Introduction: Archives of Disruption

Amy Tooth Murphy, Emma Vickers, Clare Summerskill

Part 1: Narrating LGBTQ Histories: Presence, Absence, and the Space Between

1. (Un)speakable Pasts: Reflections on Working at the Edges of Queer Oral History

Geraldine Fela

2. Locating Lesbians, Finding “Gay Women,” Writing Queer Histories: Reflections on Oral Histories, Identity, and Community Memory

Valerie J. Korinek

3. Queer Intergenerational Reticence: A Religious Case Study

George J. Severs

4. Reading Both Ways: Lesbian Oral Histories and Bisexual Visibility

Lauren Jae Gutterman

5. Finding “Evidence of Me” Through “Evidence of Us”: Transgender Oral Histories and Personal Archives Speak

Noah Riseman

6. Destabilising Identities and Normative Narratives: The Methodological Challenges of Navigating Oral History Interviews with LGBTQ+ Children of Holocaust Survivors

Jacob Evoy

Part 2: Re/making Meaning: Navigating Discourse, Composure and Intersubjectivity

7. Beyond Composure and Discomposure in a Shifting Queer Identity Narrative

Victoria Golding

8. “Fuck the Gay Movement”: Dissemblance and Desire in a Black AIDS Oral History

Dan Royles

9. Unfinished Business: Documenting Australian Lesbian Feminism

Sophie Robinson

10. Bisexual Women’s Storytelling and Community-building in Toronto

Margaret Robinson

11. Filling the Boxes in Ourselves: Conducting a Queer Oral History of Bisexuality and Multiple-gender-attraction

Martha Robinson Rhodes

Part 3: Making a Queer Mess: Embodiment, Affect and Exceeding Our Limits

12. Towards a Queer-chronology: Telling Stories in the Queer/Ed Archives

Jamie A. Lee

13. “I Gotta Go”: Mobility as a Queer Methodology

Anne Balay

14. LGBTIQ Activism and “Insider” Interviewing: Reflecting on Oral Histories from the Campaign for Australian Marriage Equality

Shirleene Robinson

15. In Search of Queer Composure: Queer Temporality, Intimacy and Affect

Amy Tooth Murphy

Part 4: Negotiating Identity: Sharing Authority in Creative Practice

16. Dry Your Eyes, Princess: Oral Testimony and Photography ? A Case Study

Emma Vickers

17. “It’s Telling Your Story to Your Family”: Why Positionality Matters When Interviewing an Older Lesbian for a Verbatim Play

Clare Summerskill

18. An Army of Listeners: Interviewing Lesbians as a Practice of Liberation for All

El Chenier

19. “Free to Be Me”: Oral History Research with Lesbians and Bisexual Women Seeking Asylum in the UK

Jane Traies

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