Lesbian Testimony Podcast
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“I came out when I was 40. So a lot of the period that we were covering which is about 1970 to 99, I came out in 1990 so I missed a lot of it. And it was invisible to me, the whole lesbian culture, completely invisible to me. Turned out half my
“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 de
“Cultures of dissemblance refers to a culture of practice within African American communities, specifically that black women practice. It’s about dissembling– hiding or shielding what your own interior feelings are, your own personal perspectiv
“To see her here now with us in this space of joy and laughter… It really worked for her life. It was exactly what she needed and she’s known that all along which I thought was so special. I don’t think you see that in many lives: people who ha
“Something broke down a few years ago and we moved to really hard and confusing times. We are still in the EU and we are still a democratic country but at some point everything started collapsing.” - Lena BielskaFor episode 22 we talked to Le
“The only reason you would network is if you got in your car and drove to Kelowna. That was the networking, you had to show up. In that was a restriction, but also there was this wonderful freedom becase, wow, to be face to face with a couple o
“People are making films, people are doing photography projects. There’s a lot of celebratory things that are also happening here to say that the narrative around having an LGBT experience here on the continent isn’t always going to be sufferin
“Lesbians weren’t ok in the feminist movement. And then lesbians became ok in the feminist movement but then lesbian feminists didn’t want S&M lesbians or dykes to be apart of their feminist movement. So, we get accepted and then we discriminat
“We want to archive and collect stories on our own terms. A big part of documenting the history is documenting the history for us, by us. And that’s the big seed of everything, everything starts from the story. Everything starts from these inte
“Because I couldn’t define it in terms of sexuality, it’s like you would try to define it in terms of gender.” - Interview with Ann, Beth, and Susan facilitated by Michael RiordonFor episode 17 we talked to Michael Riordon about his experienc
overlooked tolerances"Upper class women could have romantic friendships before the 20th century as a result of their upper class status. They weren't dependent on men because they had their own money. So money and finances is an important par
“The idea of the whole project was to catch seniors before they dropped their clogs.” - Greta Hurst For episode 15 we talked with Greta Hurst about her collecting of queer oral history from older queer folk in Vancouver community through the
“Women had only been able to buy houses in their own names for less than a handful of years. The fair credit act only really comes in in the early 1970s. The world that they imagined, where lesbians could carve out a life that was meaningful wa
“I call myself a combination between Barbara Walters and Oprah Winfrey in that I try to understand people’s motivations. I try to understand what brings someone to where they are." - Doug O'KeefFor episode 12 we talked with Doug O’Keef about
“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
“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
“Self Activity of Femmes: I like this clip because it shows femme women as searching out lesbian partners. They’re not passive in finding sexual partners. The actually seek them out and they are very important in the development of lesbian life
“Coming from a time when women were still associated with the private sphere, those relationships would be felt as very private, but with the lesbian feminist generation, being very visible and saying this is my identity and creating community
“We didn’t want to go up there to save anybody or tell anybody how they should think about identity of sexuality or family structure. We just wanted to let people speak and ideally what we can provide is to get that story and those voices out t
"In archive intervention, artist actually use the archives to create new artwork but it's not just research based it's also a way to expose some of the silences in archives." - Rebecka SheffieldFor episode 7 we spoke to Rebecka Sheffield abou
“When we actually began to unpack these women’s histories, it wasn’t that, perhaps as they initially thought, that oh they only became a lesbian in their forties and fifties when they officially came out, it was quite evident that this had been
"Often a person you’re interviewing will take themselves through the emotion, to the other side." - Cameron DuderFor episode 4 we spoke to Cameron Duder about their interview of Shirley Petten who won a same sex benefits landmark ruling again
“Gender is both a social construct, a desire, and also what material possibilities impact on it." - Joan NestleFor episode 4 we spoke to Joan Nestle a long-time activist, educator, and writer who has made landmark contributions to lesbian cul
For episode 3 we spoke to Candice Klein, a graduate student in the History department at SFU, about one of her oral history interviews she donated to the Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony through the Lesbian Generations in Vancouver collection
Our guest for this podcast is Ma-Nee Chacaby, a lesbian, two-spirit, Ojibwa-Cree elder from Ontario. We will be discussing her new memoir “A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder,” her LGBT activism, coming into a
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