Out of The Archives

This episode, Voices from Queerentine, is a collection of recordings from queer folk about staying connected to queer history, culture and community in a time of physical separation and isolation.  This episode a song from badweatherfriend called "Trying Not To Dream"--you can hear this song and more and buy their music by following this link. If you'd like to find out more about the Sexual Minorities Archives or see the catalogs and request a piece of media from Out Books on Wheels please follow the links below!  Also below, find links to several Black-led LGBTQ Organizations to learn more or to donate this pride month!Facebook: www.facebook.com/FollowtheSMA/.Website: sexualminoritiesarchives.wordpress.com.Out Books on Wheels: https://sexualminoritiesarchives.wordpress.com/out-books-on-wheels/.  Black-led LGBTQ Organizations: House of GG: brainchild of Trans-revolutionary Miss Major Griffin, creating safe and transformative spaces for community to heal, and nurturing them into tomorrow's leader.  Focusing on trans woman of color in the South.houseofgg.orgSNaPCo: builds power of Black trans and queer people to force systemic divestment from the prison industrial complex and invest in community support.snap4freedom.orgLGBTQ+ Freedom Fund: posts bail for LGBTQ people held in jail or immigrant detention and raises awareness of the epidemic of LGBTQ overincarceration.lgbtqfund.org Black and Pink: founded by a formerly incarcerated white gay anarchist and now led by a formerly incarcerated black non-binary director and other trans folk, connecting incarcerated LGBTQ+ people to pen pals in the free-er world and educating and agitating for prison abolition.blackandpink.org

"...a lot of these things came from this need of self-preservation...it was sartorial coding, it was language, we came up with our own slang."Conversation with Raúl Cornier about the history origins and realtime application of hanky code (recorded: July 2019). In this episode, I talk with Raúl about his research involving SMA source materials, material from other archives, pop culture and personal experience involving the "sartorial code" of gay and queer sex and identity. A special thank you to fellow SMA/SMEF volunteer and Board Director, Vickie Palmatier for transcribing this conversation--if you'd like to see a copy of this transcript, including photos of a couple artifacts mentioned during this podcast, please follow link here.If you'd like to get involved and/or make a donation to support the work and existence of the archive please follow the links below!Facebook: www.facebook.com/FollowtheSMA/.Website: sexualminoritiesarchives.wordpress.com.Donate/Support: sexualminoritiesarchives.wordpress.com/suppo…ives/.Find more info about Fascination, a gear/fetish/kink night in Boston, by visiting their online home: http://www.fascinationboston.net/.

"...and, if you put it together, that's what keeps people oppressed: is being disconnected from our own information--about the value of our lives."Conversation with Ben Power about the history of the Sexual Minorities Archives (recorded: Nov 2018). In this episode, we feature the life and work of Ben and the Archives that literally traveled with him from Chicago to Western Massachusetts and changed and grew alongside his own transformations. We touch on some of the ways the Archives exists today, some of the gay, lesbian and transgender pioneers enshrined there and the roots of the SMA in butch and lesbian community organizing and mutual support.If you'd like to see a transcript of this conversation, including photos of a couple artifacts mentioned during this podcast, please follow link here.If you'd like to get involved and/or make a donation to support the work and existence of the archive please follow the links below!Facebook: www.facebook.com/FollowtheSMA/.Website: sexualminoritiesarchives.wordpress.com.Donate/Support: sexualminoritiesarchives.wordpress.com/suppo…ives/.