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This video excerpt is a conversation between Katherine Cheairs and Umi Hsu, recorded at our April 30th #COVIDDOULA Zine Session #1 - #SpreadCalm: Grounding. Rituals can provide a foundation for peace and daily survival. This morning session featured a grounding exercise, and tips for healing and health from the WHAT DOES A COVID-19 DOULA DO? zine, shared by zine contributors, Umi Hsu, Director of Content Strategy at ONE Archives Foundation, and Katherine Cheairs, co-curator ...of Metanoia: Transformation through AIDS Archives and Activism. A collaboration with What Would an HIV Doula Do? collective, this zine responds in words, actions, and images to the unfolding, unprecedented crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0w91ZxjsR0

Please join us on Monday, 11/9 at 5pm PST for "Mobilized by Memories: Countering Incarceration Culture from WWII Japanese American Incarceration to ICE." Put on in partnership with In Plain Sight, This panel features Tina Takemoto, Nancy Ukai, Karen Ishizuka, traci kato-kiriyama, and is moderated by Umi Hsu. Register: https://one.usc.edu//mobilized-memories-countering-incarce This panel explores the various practices and strategies used by Japanese American artists, schola...rs, and community organizers to protest state violence and represent the history of Japanese American incarceration by the U.S. government during World War II. The panelists will speak to movement-building, direct action, art practice, and archive interventions as acts of resistance against white supremacy and an American culture of incarceration. This program draws connections between WWII Japanese American incarceration and the present calls to abolish all forms of immigrant detention. What is the relationship between the artist, community, and archive? How do artists use historical objects to make the invisible, visible? How can cultivating collective memory lead to political consciousness and mobilization? This event is organized by ONE Archives at the USC Libraries Curator, Alexis Bard Johnson with assistance from Addy Zou. Image: Karen Ishizuka, Santa Anita Assembly Center, CA - In Plain Sight Captured by artist Nancy Baker Cahill’s 4th Wall app, 2020, courtesy of Tina Takemoto.

This poster pairs an image from a protest against Anita Bryant in 1978 at the Dupont Circle Fountain in Washington DC with the text our time has comegay vote ’78. The poster was sponsored by and the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club and the Gay Activists Alliance of Washington DC, who also organized the protest. The photograph and the text allude to the anti-homosexual campaign Save Our Children, launched by Bryant in Dade County, Florida to counter an ordinance that prohi...bited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Bryant then helped repeal similar anti-discrimination laws in St. Paul, Minnesota, Eugene, Oregon, and Wichita, Kansas. The Briggs Initiative in California (Prop 6), which aimed to ban gays and lesbians from working in public schools, came at this same time, but it failed. Bryant’s campaign and those that followed across the country galvanized not only the religious right but also the gay liberation movementas their rights and the rights of those they loved were on the ballot. Tomorrow is Election Day 2020, although millions of us have already voted. Much like in 1978, issues on the ballot include LGBTQ rights and those of other marginalized groups. And now, as then, we must fight against bigotry, homophobia, sexism, racism, classism, and ableismwith our voices and our votes. This post was written by Alexis Bard Johnson, Curator at the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. The #ONEOutFront project was made possible thanks to a generous grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)'s Digitizing Hidden Collections program. Image: "Our Time Has Come: Gay Vote '78," 1978. ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.

"This province-wide project will provide a platform to both increase social interaction and community involvement among older populations. It will also create a living legacy through a collaborative development of an open, accessible archive." https://www.dal.ca//shedding-light-on-nova-scotia-lgbt-his #ONENewsScoop #LGBTQNews

Our community has mobilized to overturn oppressive propositions such as the Briggs Initiative of 1978, otherwise known as Proposition 6, which sought to ban LGBTQ+ people from working in California's public schools. Harvey Milk, among others, was instrumental in defeating Proposition 6. The 2008 passing of Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage, was met with a strong response of protests, boycotts, and state and federal challenges. Prop 8 was ultimately overturned and... ruled unconstitutional by a federal court. We curate news stories related to current LGBTQ politics and elections. Subscribe to ONE News Scoop to get a daily curation LGBTQ news from reliable sources: https://www.onearchives.org/one-news-scoop/ Image: "Stop the Briggs Initiative" protest in Westwood, 1977. Pat Rocco records, ONE Archives at the USC Libraries; "March against Prop 8 - Long Beach , Nov 7, 2008." Weathers photograph album 15, 2005-2011, ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.

This is an overwhelming time for many of us in the LGBTQ+ community. We would like to remind you of the fights we’ve fought and gains we’ve won. And we are still winning! LGBTQ elected officials have been representing our community since the 1970s. You’ve most likely heard of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected in Californiato the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco in 1973. Milk sponsored a civil rights bill that included protections based on sexual orie...ntation in 1976. Before his untimely death, he was pushing for the development of a board of civilians to oversee the police. Do you know about Elaine Noble, the first openly lesbian or gay candidate elected to a state legislature? It happened in 1975, in Massachusetts. Elaine Noble was active in the implementation of school desegregation in Boston, and was sometimes critiqued by members of the LGBTQ+ community for prioritizing race. Now, in 2020, at least 1,006 openly LGBTQ people are running; 31% of these candidates identify as people of color (the general candidate population is 10% people of color), according to LGBTQ Victory Fund's Out on the Trail report. We curate news stories related to current LGBTQ politics and elections. Subscribe to ONE News Scoop to get a daily curation LGBTQ news from reliable sources. https://www.onearchives.org/one-news-scoop/ Image: Elaine Noble, Advocate records, ONE Archives at the USC Libraries; Harvey Milk at parade, 1978. Pat Rocco records, ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.

This video excerpt is Alexandra Juhasz and Tony Valenzuela's conversation at our May 8th, 2020 #COVIDdoula Zine Session 3 - "I don’t respond well to doomsday scenarios": thinking about HIV and COVID-19 together, and apart. The conversation was moderated by Theodore (ted) Kerr, co-curator of Metanoia: Transformation through AIDS Archives and Activism. At the heart of the WHAT DOES THE COVID-19 Doula Do? zine is a multi-generational connection through HIV, across viral load an...d diagnosis. In this brief discussion, Tony Valenzuela and Alexandra Juhasz drew upon their roles as cultural producers and activists within the HIV response to talk about the (dis)connections between HIV and COVID-19. Both talked about living with illness, the role of cultural production, and what they think it means to be of service now. A collaboration with What Would an HIV Doula Do?, this zine responds in words, actions, and images to the unfolding, unprecedented crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read and download the full zine on our website. #COVIDdoula https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtyWt4jpNcs

Inspired by the West Coast Lesbian Feminists conference held in 1973, two women from the Lansing Area Lesbian Feminists set out to organize their own Midwest Lesbian Conference in May of the following year. The conference and music festival (not to be confused with the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival founded two years later) took place at Michigan State University and over 200 women attended the 3-day event. The conference included workshops related to health and wellness, le...gal issues, social spaces, parenting, and the concerns of Black lesbians. This conference was also the impetus for the creation of "Lesbian Connection," a magazine described as the free worldwide forum of news, ideas and information for, by and about lesbians. The conference organizers worked with women’s groups from several different states to gather resources, support, presenters, and attendees. They found it difficult to promote the conference and their frustration led to the publication of Lesbian Connection. This free, bimonthly magazine still in publication today. This poster was designed by artists from the Women’s Graphics Collective, a group that worked in conjunction with the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union. It was digitized thanks to a grant from CLIR. This post was written by Loni Shibuyama, Archivist at the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. Image: "In Celebration of Amazons; Midwest Lesbian Conference," Women's Graphics Collective, 1974. ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.

"Many of the attacks are happening in close races in competitive districts." https://www.nbcnews.com//political-candidates-face-uptick- #ONENewsScoop #LGBTQNews

"While many collections are useful for my research, I focused on two main themes within the available papers: youth led efforts to navigate a hostile society and those all-important community center, school programs, and other services provided by the community and/or government institutions. The Project 10 Collection is one such example. Founded in 1986 by Dr. Virginia Uribe, Project 10 was an intervention program aimed at providing counseling for LGBTQ youth in the Los Ange...les Unified School District. The collection highlights include foundational documents to understanding the organization and objectives of the program as well as media reaction to its existence." Eric Denby, 2019 LGBTQ Research Fellow This excerpt is from Eric's blog post, titled "LGBTQ Youth Organizing from 1965 to 1995 in the United States." You can check out Eric's entire blog here: https://www.onearchives.org/lgbtq-youth-organizing-1965-19/ Image: A poster featuring a black and white drawing of Virginia Uribe over a pink triangle. This was carried by ACT UP members in the Long Beach and Los Angeles pride parades in 1989. ONE LGBTQ Poster Collection, #ONEArchives at the USC Libraries. #FromTheReadingRoom

On 10/28 at 5pm PDT join us and Our Family Coalition for a trivia hour featuring a Jeopardy-style LGBTQ history game. This edition features questions drawn from ONE Archives Foundation’s LGBTQ History Lesson Plans and our October educator webinars. Pay what you can to participate; we’ll be awarding prizes, so start studying now! Register here: https://www.onearchives.org/lgbtq-history-trivia-for-educa/

This video excerpt is Molly M. Pearson's presentation at our April 30th, 2020 #COVIDdoula Zine Session 2 - Bear Witness, Look Around, Confess: Tips on Documenting Our Pandemic. A collaboration with What Would an HIV Doula Do, the WHAT DOES A COVID-19 DOULA Do? zine responds in words, actions, and images to the unfolding, unprecedented crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read and download the full zine on our website.... https://youtu.be/tmKlzneGU5g

TODAY! We're excited for our webinar with Prof. Craig Loftin, Olivia Garrison, and Our Family Coalition! Join us at 3:30pm PDT to learn how the WWII period expanded understandings of gender & sexuality and ways to teach this in Grades 8-11. $30 to join! Register here: https://www.onearchives.org/educators-webinar-world-war-ii/