What Do You Get...

Sady Sullivan

When you put a bunch of oral historians together in a room? Lots of talk about digital storage and server space! bahdumbum

But it was a good conversation last night up at the Columbia Oral History Research Office with Ann Cvetkovich, author of An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (2003).

Ann discussed the unique strengths of the ACTUP Oral History Project, an activist archive of 100 interviews with surviving members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, coordinated by Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman.  Video clips of the interviews are available online and the full transcripts are available for download. A very powerful collection.

image courtesty of actupny.org image courtesty of actupny.org

 

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