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Out North

An Archive of Queer Activism and Kinship in Canada

9781773271002

Figure 1 Publishing
Available: 06/02/20
8.67 x 11.31 · 288 pages
9781773271002
CDN $45.00 · cl

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Craig Jennex and Nisha Eswaran

The ArQuives, the largest independent LGBTQ2+ archive in the world, is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and celebrating the stories and histories of LGBTQ2+ people in Canada. Since 1973, volunteers have amassed a vast collection of important artifacts that speak to personal experiences and  significant historical moments for Canadian queer communities. Out North: An Archive of Queer Activism and Kinship in Canada is a fascinating exploration and examination of one nation's queer history and activism, and Canada's definitive visual guide to LGBTQ2+ movements, struggles, and achievements.

Craig Jennex is an assistant professor of English at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario. He is editor, with Susan Fast, of Popular Music and the Politics of Hope: Queer and Feminist Interventions (Routledge, 2019). His work has been published in TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Popular Music and Society, GUTS: Canadian Feminist Magazin e, and The Spaces and Places of Canadian Popular Culture, among others. He has been a volunteer at The ArQuives since 2012.

Nisha Eswaran is a writer and academic in Toronto, Ontario. Her work has appeared in Postcolonial Text, South Asian Review, Kajal, and Jamhoor . She is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, where she researches friendship and anti-colonial history in South Asian literature.