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“Making Invisible Histories Visible” Resource Guide To The Collections
In 2014, we completed work with the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and the UCLA Library on the NEH Grant which resulted in over 80 collections processed by UCLA. From that project, emerged this guide entitled, “Making Invisible Histories Visible”which describes the scope of the work, the people involved and the lesbian and feminist women’s collections that were processed.
“Making Invisible Histories Visible: Preserving the Legacy of Lesbian Feminist Activism and Writing in Los Angeles” project was a three year project to arrange, describe, digitize, and make physically and electronically accessible two major clusters of Mazer collections related to West Coast lesbian/feminist activism and writing since the 1930s. Edited by Kathleen A. McHugh, Brenda Johnson-Grau,and Ben Raphael Sher, the guide is now available in PDF format. Please use the link below to read online or to download & read in any PDF reader.
UCLA Partnership
The partnership project was initiated by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women to inventory, organize, preserve, and digitize several of Mazer’s key Los Angeles-themed collections and the resulting online finding aids. The partnership is important because the collections received state of the art preservation and expanded the pool of primary source materials available to researchers and community at large.
Beginning with the first grant in 2009, the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and the UCLA Library processed and digitized five (5) of the major collections held at the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives. Since then, more grant money has been secured and the UCLA Library has now processed over 80 more collections donated to the Mazer Archives. This partnership helps ensure Lesbian history is accessible to the world!
Click to see the over 80 collections housed in the UCLA Library
Click to see individual finding aids by typing the collection name into the OAC search
All collections processed by UCLA are covered by a Deed of Gift Agreement and Collaboration Agreement between the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives and UCLA (View PDF Agreement)
“I forget sometimes, what we do is important. We are making history. I’m still making history, right now, today. We think we are just living our lives, but future generations are going to look back at us and say `Wow.`”