Digital content
Aiyanna Maracle
Aiyyana Maracle (1950-2016) was a Haudenosaunee multi-disciplinary artist, scholar, educator, story-crafter, and storyteller. Born on the Six Nations territory on the Grand River (near Ohsweken in southern Ontario), Maracle grew up in Rochester and Buffalo, New York. Spending time in Vancouver, Toronto, Chippewa territory, and Montreal, in 2010 she returned to Six Nations.
Describing herself as a “transformed woman who loves women,” Maracle’s work steers people towards a decolonized understanding of gender and sexuality. This digitized collection includes works from Maracle recorded mostly during her time in Vancouver, Montreal, and at Goddard College.
Fantasia Fair Print Materials
Fantasia Fair started in 1975 in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and continues annually to this day, making it the longest-running transgender conference in the United States. Fantasia Fair was renamed to TransWeek in 2022. This digital collection includes textual publications from Fantasia Fair in addition to related print materials spanning the years of 1975-2001.
Reed Erickson Scrapbooks
Reed Erickson (1917-1992) was an American philanthropist, and founder of the Erickson Educational Foundation (EEF) in 1994. This collection consists of nine scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, hand picked between 1966-1983.
EEF
Starting in 1964, the Erickson Educational Foundation (EEF), a philanthropic organization funded by Reed Erickson, published newsletters, pamphlets, and books.
Red Jordan Arobateau
This collection primarily consists of records related to Red Jordan Arobateau’s life as an author, poet, and playwright. These include early and late drafts of written works, personal papers, photographs, audio-visual materials, and several artefacts.
FTM Newsletter
The FTM Newsletter was created by Lou Sullivan and first published in 1987. It became the most widely circulated & highly respected publication exploring transmasculine experiences. All 67 issues are now available online.
Transvestia
Transvestia was the first widely distributed magazine focused on the cross-dressing community. All 111 issues (1960-1986) are now digitized and available online!
Trans Activism Oral History
The Trans Activism Oral History collection is a project of the LGBTQ History Digital Collaboratory. The collection consists of video and audio interviews, collected 2019-2020, with Trans+ activist elders and allies from across North America.
Word of Mouth
Word of Mouth is a digital exhibit showcasing the Trans Activism Oral History collection. It tells some of the story about how Trans+ communities and networks developed in North America throughout the latter half of the twentieth century.
Tapestry Magazine
Founded by Merissa Sherrill Lynn, Transgender Tapestry is a magazine published from 1979-2008 by the Tiffany Club and then the International Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE). While we hold all physical copies, the Digital Transgender Archive has all issues available online.
Transgender Scrapbooks
From 1971-1982, 13 scrapbooks were compiled from newspaper & magazine clippings published in the UK. The content relates to gender & sexual identity and is organized in thought-provoking, and sometimes humorous, ways.
Japanese Serials Collection
UVic Libraries’ Transgender Archives holds a selection of Japanese language serials including, FTM Japan, Queen, and the Takarazuka Revue Script Collection.
*Please email speccoll@uvic.ca to request access to this restricted material.
TransArchives @ DTA
We at the Transgender Archives thank our partners at the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) for digitizing nearly 800 of our physical items and for making them available online. View our items on the DTA website.