Queering Oral History collection
Scope and Contents
The collection includes oral history recordings of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual people in Rhode Island. The interviews document experiences related to identity including sexuality, gender identity and expression, race and ethnicity as well as art & creative expression, dating, marriage and families, activism, religious faith, social life and occupations.
Dates
- 2020
Creator
- Thomas, Virginia (Collector, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open to research via www.provlibdigital.org.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright has been assigned to Providence Public Library.
Biographical / Historical
Dr. Virginia Thomas is a scholar of American Studies who completed her PhD at Brown University in 2020 with a focus on race, gender and sexuality in U.S. culture and history. She taught a course titled “Queering Oral History” at Brown University in Spring 2020. Students were trained in oral history skills and interviewed members of the Rhode Island LGBTQ+ community.
Extent
5.72 Gigabytes (12 digital audio recordings )
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
Material was acquired from the collector.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Virginia Thomas, 2020.
- African Americans
- Brown University.
- Cabo Verdean Americans -- Rhode Island
- Coming out (Sexual orientation)
- Drag performance
- Gay activists
- Gay parents
- Gay pride celebrations
- Gay pride parades
- Gender expression
- Gender nonconformity
- HIV-positive persons
- Intersectionality (Sociology)
- Miriam Hospital (Providence, R.I. )
- Police brutality
- Providece Youth Student Movement (Providence, R.I. )
Creator
- Thomas, Virginia (Collector, Person)
- Santana, Ancha (Interviewee, Person)
- Maselli, Anthony (Interviewee, Person)
- Mencer Ackerley, Billy (Interviewee, Person)
- Nixon, Eli (Interviewee, Person)
- Ayuso, Joann (Interviewee, Person)
- Stone, Kira (Interviewee, Person)
- Ishihara, Kohei (Interviewee, Person)
- Garza, Matthew (Interviewee, Person)
- Veras, Michelle (Interviewee, Person)
- Davis, Rodney (Interviewee, Person)
- Means, Selene (Interviewee, Person)
- Flores-Maldonado, Vanessa (Interviewee, Person)
- Jiang, Jessica (Interviewer, Person)
- Sprague, Caroline (Interviewer, Person)
- Montgomery, Madeline (Interviewer, Person)
- Finch, Colin (Interviewer, Person)
- Wakudumo, Pauline (Interviewer, Person)
- Freiman, Jane (Interviewer, Person)
- Yang, Kelvin (Interviewer, Person)
- Hanesworth, Alexandra (Interviewer, Person)
- Kashani-Sabet, Leila (Interviewer, Person)
- Malimban, Caitlin (Interviewer, Person)
- Gonzalez, Alejandra (Interviewer, Person)
- Title
- Queering Oral History collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Kate Wells
- Date
- 2021
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Providence Public Library Repository
150 Empire Street
Providence RI 02903 United States of America
401-455-8021
special_collections@provlib.org