Leather Archives & Museum: 25 Years (1991-2016) [digital]
The official catalog celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Leather Archives & Museum. The catalog features essays, collection photographs, and highlights over the LA&M's institutional life. The official catalog celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Leather Archives & Museum. The catalog features essays, collection photographs, and highlights over the LA&M's institutional life.
academics, and alternative sex communities alike. Therefore, work with archival holdings at the LA&M means approaching every collection with respect and honor, recognizing the specific needs of those holdings on a micro level, and understanding the interrelatedness of these collections and their context on a macro level. meaningful, and crucial part of the LA&M’s mission and vision. Archival work at the LA&M is emotional, physical, and cerebral. The core values of archivists are access and use, accountability, advocacy, diversity, history and memory, preservation, professionalism, responsible custody, selection, service, and social responsibility. As the archivist at the LA&M, I feel a dual responsibility — a responsibility to you all, members of the alternative sex and culture communities, as well as a responsibility to educate and provide access to a history that has been systematically and systemically ignored and kept out of traditional repositories. Our existence as a museum, archive, and Sexuality collections are compelling many institutions to examine how certain histories have experienced archival silencing and/or erasure; the LA&M collections have furthered the conversations and reexamination of evidence, documentation, and value of historical materials. Community museums, libraries, and archives are pivotal in this shift. Digital access to these (formerly) hidden collections, including associated metadata and controlled vocabulary used to describe these materials, provide dialogue and clarity within BDSM/leather/alternative sex communities as well as history and archival communities about the importance of identity and cultural formation connected to radical sexuality. LA&M collections will continue to uncover the relevance, interdisciplinary historical impact, enduring value, and significance of alternative sexuality within scholarship, 56
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academics, and alternative sex communities<br />
alike. Therefore, work with archival holdings<br />
at the LA&M means approaching every<br />
collection with respect and honor,<br />
recognizing the specific needs of those<br />
holdings on a micro level, and<br />
understanding the interrelatedness of these<br />
collections and their context on a macro<br />
level.<br />
meaningful, and crucial part of the LA&M’s<br />
mission and vision.<br />
Archival work at the LA&M is emotional,<br />
physical, and cerebral. The core values of<br />
archivists are access and use, accountability,<br />
advocacy, diversity, history and<br />
memory, preservation, professionalism,<br />
responsible custody, selection, service, and<br />
social responsibility. As the archivist at the<br />
LA&M, I feel a dual responsibility — a<br />
responsibility to you all, members of the<br />
alternative sex and culture communities, as<br />
well as a responsibility to educate and<br />
provide access to a history that has been<br />
systematically and systemically ignored and<br />
kept out of traditional repositories.<br />
Our existence as a museum, archive, and<br />
Sexuality collections are compelling many<br />
institutions to examine how certain histories<br />
have experienced archival silencing and/or<br />
erasure; the LA&M collections have<br />
furthered the conversations and reexamination<br />
of evidence, documentation,<br />
and value of historical materials. Community<br />
museums, libraries, and archives are pivotal<br />
in this shift. Digital access to these<br />
(formerly) hidden collections, including<br />
associated metadata and controlled<br />
vocabulary used to describe these<br />
materials, provide dialogue and clarity within<br />
BDSM/leather/alternative sex communities<br />
as well as history and archival communities<br />
about the importance of identity and cultural<br />
formation connected to radical sexuality.<br />
LA&M collections will continue to uncover<br />
the relevance, interdisciplinary historical<br />
impact, enduring value, and significance of<br />
alternative sexuality within scholarship,<br />
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