Contextualizing Queer Histories & Archives: Legacies of Activism, Resistance, and Solidarity

The Global Campus LGBTQ+ Club invites you to a virtual event on Zoom, featuring Josie Cohen-Rodriguez (she/they) the Coordinator for WSU’s LGBTQ+ Center in Pullman and co-founder of the WSU Queer Archives. In this talk, Josie will share some of her research and will cover a broad range of queer histories ranging from the role of colonization towards the policing of gender, to the first trans clinic and research institute in pre-war Germany. Related to trans histories, she will discuss the pathologization of gender/sexuality post-WWII, and the limitations it has created for queer communities as they navigate healthcare systems towards bodily autonomy and self-determination. Finally, she will close with a discussion of how contemporary community/place-based queer archives throughout the Pacific Northwest challenge and expand ways in which we can conceptualize diverse histories.

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