Podcast appearances and mentions of lauren hortie

“First I was a freak, then I was a queer, then I was a femme, then I was a lesbian feminist, I still am all these things, and then a queer femme lesbian feminist, I don't know if it's clear but maybe it's good that it's not clear. My primary definition is as a 50s femme.” - Joan Nestle For episode 25 we talked to Joan Nestle, Lauren Hortie, Mary Woo Sims, Nadine Boulay and Selly Chiam about lesbian identification and identity formation surrounding the word lesbian. Then afterwards we had a discussion with the archives director Elise Chenier and our archivist Meghan Walley of the clips and our take on the question what does the word lesbian mean? Thank you for a great year! Follow this channel for more great content! Please share, like, and send us feedback about the podcast.

“The part that makes it really interesting and specific to Toronto is the extra element of immigration and uncomfortable multiculturalism. We like to look back and think about how accepting Toronto is but really although there were certainly a lot of immigrants building our history, there was a lot of discrimination too." - Lauren Hortie For episode 12 we talked with Lauren Hortie, co-producer of the short film Midnight at the Continental. We addresses gentrification, immigration, movement hijacking, and butch femme politics and bar culture in 1955 Toronto. Look out for our next episode where we talk to Doug O’Keefe about his interview with the invincible Marge Summit for the Leather Archives Museum Collection. Follow this channel for more great content! Please share, like, and send us feedback about the podcast.

“The larger oral history makes clear, and her published writing makes very clear, that Anita thought that she had, over the course of her life, 50s, 60s, 70s, distanced herself from the straight community because she was troubled and disgusted by heterosexual relationships. She separated herself from the black lesbian community because she found it was dominated by butch femme and she didn't like that. And she was also alienated from the black civil rights movement and black politics because she encountered sexism there. And there's one point in the interview when she talks about black male nationalists wanting their women to stop working for white men and work for them. So by the 70's she landed in the women's movement and while she was critical of racism in the women's movement I think ultimately she found a more friendly home in the multiracial women's movement. " - Marc Robert Stein For episode 11 we spoke to Marc Robert Stein about his interview with Anita Cornwell, author of Black Lesbian in White America in 1983. We discuss race, tensions of what is inherent and what is performed in gender, and the effect of race, class, gender, sexuality and geography on a lived historical experience. Next week we will speak with Lauren Hortie, co-producer of the short film Midnight at the Continental which addresses queer geography and butch femme politics in a 1955 Toronto. Follow this channel for more great content! Please share, like, and send us feedback about the podcast.

Carmel Kilkenny speaks with Lauren Hortie, one of the teachers at the Oasis Skateboard Factory School to find out what's behind the alternative school's success.