The Ladder: A Magazine for Lesbians

Today, on August 28th, we acknowledge the anniversary of the 1971

Guest blog post: Animals of Rome

Since 2022, undergraduate and graduate students studying Classics have been working with the Edgar William Pyke coin collection. Students have used the collection to inform their papers, to help Special Collections & Archives create more robust descriptions, and as research sources for their graduate work. Anthony Gallipoli (MA '24) recently competed his MA in Classics with an examination of the symbolism of the five animals depicted on the Roman Republican legionary standards.

Aché: a publication by and for Black Lesbians

Special Collections & Archives (SCA) is thrilled to announce that we have acquired several issues of Aché: A Journal for Lesbians of African Descent. This groundbreaking magazine ran from 1989 to 1993 and was a space where Black lesbians in the Bay Area of San Fransisco could share perspectives and information about their community.

Doctor Transit

SCA is excited to announce the recent acquisition of a rare, signed copy of Doctor Transit by Isidor Schneider. The first-print copy is inscribed by the author, reading “For Frank Hill from his friend Isidor Schneider.” There is also Frank Hill’s embossed stamp of ownership in the book, reading, “Hill, Dogwood House, New City, New York.” Despite my best efforts, I have not been able to find more information on Mr. Hill and his connection to Schneider.

Turnabout: A Magazine of Transvestitism

New Exhibit: Gender Studies Isn't New

On June 28, 2023 a Waterloo professor and two students were injured in a hate motivated attack during a class examining gender. The attack occurred in a climate of increasingly aggressive rhetoric in the public arena rooted in bias against transgender and gender non-conforming communities. This wasn’t the first-time gender-motivated violence occurred on a Canadian campus: In 1989, fourteen women were killed in an engineering class at the École Polytechnique in Montreal in an anti-feminist shooting.

Passing of Michael Fritsch and Eric McCormack

Photographs of Michael Fritsch and Eric McCormack

Michael Fritsch (left) in 1967 and Eric McCormack (right) in 1988

Lydia Dotto 1949-2022

Lydia Dotto with King Penguins in Gold Harbour, South Georgia Islands, Antarctica

Special Collections & Archives (SCA) is sad to announce that Lydia Dotto passed away on September 17, 2022.

Knitting through history

Hello everyone! My name is Tenille and this summer I am working as the Srivastava intern co-op student at Special Collections & Archives (SCA).

 Although we are slowly but surely working our way back to some sense of pre-Pandemic “normality” (however that might look for you), these pandemic years have left an indelible mark on each of us. For many, like myself, those long periods of forced solitude and isolation were a time of self-reflection and anxiety. They were also an opportunity to try out new things and pick up new hobbies. For me, that hobby was knitting.

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