Stories of Straightening Up
Reading Femmes in the Archives of Romantic Friendship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13086808 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pamela VanHaitsma (0009-0004-1474-2379, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1-24 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | QED A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2327-1574 • E-ISSN: 2327-1590 |
| Publisher | Michigan State University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.14321/qed.6.3.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W3005838362 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 24 |
Archives are central to GLBTQ worldmaking. Recognizing the importance of archives, and building on increased interest in “archive stories,” this essay shares archive stories of what I theorize as “straightening up.” My conception of straightening up emerges from stories of reading and being read as a self-identified queer femme in the archives of romantic friendship. Ultimately, the essay underscores the inventive possibilities of archive stories, showing how stories of straightening up may prompt queer scholars to reflect critically on questions of archival embodiment and reading
Aesthetics · Art · Friendship · Linguistics · Literature · Queer · Queer theory · Reading (process · Romance · Social science · Sociology · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · Digital and Traditional Archives Management · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Philosophy
Femme
Presence, Absence, and Victoria's Hair
Pleasure and Pain in Black Queer Oral History and Performance
Reanimating Archiving/Archival Corporealities
Archival ambience and sensory memory
Affecting relations
Be/longing in the archival body
Fear of a Black femme
Charity and Sylvia
The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865-1895
No Kisses Is Like Youres
Romantic Friends or a "Different Race of Creatures"? The Representation of Lesbian Pathology in Nineteenth-Century America
Making Her (In)Visible
Ephemera as Evidence
Something More Tender Still than Friendship
My Body, My Closet
Orientations
The Female World of Love and Ritual
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |