Exploring Trans Archives

Description

Three Sheridan Libraries curators — Jo Giardini, Joseph Plaster, Siân Evans — will discuss individually selected objects from Special Collections, including trans oral histories, artist books, and zines. Brief talks will be followed by an opportunity to spend hands-on time with collections related to trans cultural production.

This event is part of the Tabb Center's Spring 2024 speaker series highlights cultural production by trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming artists, writers, historians, poets, and musicians, co-sponsored by the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute. Drawing on Special Collections materials and supporting collections development, it explores the aesthetic possibilities of artworks and literature, and their relationship to questions of community formation, selfhood, becoming, and the dialectic of history and futurity. Conversations with visiting artists and scholars will include discussions of institutional development, curation, and access, and will aim to engage wide audiences. Learn more about the series.