Toward A Queer History of Housing Activism in NYC
Thu, Oct 10, 2024
6:00 PM–7:30 PM
Virtual Workshop via Zoom.
Watch the video recording of the workshop below.
Watch the video of this workshop on the queer history of housing activism in NYC with archivist and public historian Maggie Schreiner. Follow along as the project continues to develop on Instagram @queerhousinghistory.
Learn about the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries’ STAR House in the early 1970s, campaigns to change the rent regulation system recognize same-sex partners during the early AIDS crisis, and advocacy by ACT UP New York to find housing for HIV+ Haitian migrants detained at Guantánamo Bay in the early 1990s. A slideshow presentation on these topics will incorporate print materials and photographs, oral histories, and archival radio clips. The second component of the workshop will be a counter-mapping exercise: using a digital map, participants will have the opportunity to share their queer and trans housing stories. The third and final component will be a facilitated conversation in which participants will have the option to share their story with the group, and discuss further avenues of research. The workshop will be introduced and moderated by Prithi Kanakamedala, Faculty Coordinator of Public Scholarship Practice Space (PS2).
About the Workshop Leader
Maggie Schreiner is a PhD student in the CUNY GC History program, and a Summer Fellow at the Center for Humanities’ Public Scholarship Practice Space (PS2). Maggie was the lead curator for Interference Archive’s 2015 exhibition We Won’t Move: Tenants Organize in NYC and has developed collaborative history projects with CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities, UHAB, Met Council on Housing, and others. Maggie is a long-time organizer with Interference Archive and Librarians and Archivists with Palestine.
This event is hosted and sponsored by the Public Scholarship Practice Space (PS2) from the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center.
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