As Victoria gears up for Pride Week, the Transgender Archives at UVic received news Wednesday, they had been named one of the top 12 LGBTQ museums in the world.
FodorB次元官网网址檚 Travel, a New York-based travel website, who for 80 years has provided advice for adventurers of all kinds, ranked the Trans Archives in seventh place, on a list that included similar collections of LGBTQ resources in Australia, Berlin, the Netherlands and L.A.
| Aaron Devor, chair in Transgender Studies at UVic, during CAUT meetings in Ottawa in Nov.2017 which included the presentation of the CAUT Equity Award. Photo contributed |
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B次元官网网址淚B次元官网网址檓 very pleased. ItB次元官网网址檚 an honour, weB次元官网网址檙e in great company,B次元官网网址� says Aaron Devor, chair of the Transgender Studies program at UVic, pointing out the archives are the only trans-specific collection on the list.
B次元官网网址淯Vic is ahead of the game and we have the largest collection in the world and it is quite extensive, representing 18 countries on five continents,B次元官网网址� he explains.
Only one other Canadian collection, TorontoB次元官网网址檚 Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, made the cut at Number 9.
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B次元官网网址淭he University of Victoria maintains records of trans activism and art stretching back more than a century, contributed by gender non-binary and two-spirit people and supporters from nearly two-dozen countries,B次元官网网址� it continues, adding the archives also serve as a classroom, research area, archival vault, and exhibit space that hosts a variety of talks, community events, and performances.
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In Oct. 2017, the Trans Archives welcomed American author, and trans advocate Kate Bornstein who spoke to a packed house.
This past March, the third iteration of the Moving Trans History Forward conference welcomed hundreds from the LGBTQ community to hear speakers like historian, poet and transwoman Andrea Jenkins and Canadian Cree two-spirit artist Kent Monkman.
B次元官网网址淲e welcome anybody and everybody to come by and see what we do,B次元官网网址� Devor says, adding you donB次元官网网址檛 need to be UVic faculty or a student to access the collection, available to the public at any time from 10:30-4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday.
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