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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.
THE FUTURE The future of the LA&M is exhilarating. The commemoration of our 25th anniversary shows the perseverance and power within the Leather / BDSM / kink / fetish communities to formalize the professional collection and documentation of this incredible and unique history. The social impact of archives is just starting to be felt on an individual and institutional level: in the development of personal and community identities, preservation of culture, historical context and significance, and representations of communities by communities. You are here, you belong here. The more direct engagement with archival materials, the more history becomes active, participatory, pertinent. To see oneself within a historical context promotes inclusion, empowerment. This is crucial to remember when we think about the history of alternative sex communities. As Gayle Rubin discusses in the essay in the previous section, it wasn’t very long ago that most, if not all of these materials were being stored in private attics and basements. The absence of physical materials created by leather communities made it very difficult to build knowledge about these subcultures and communities. The more access and research using these collections, the less misrepresentation about alternative sexuality there will be within the historic record. The more diversity within collections, the more represented and holistic leather history will be. The future of the LA&M holds more professional staff, inclusion and dynamism within collections, and more representational belonging of all alternative sex communities. In turn, these collections will demand the attention and use of scholars worldwide as we assert our historical presence and impact. 62
PROGRAMS HIGHLIGHT: WOMEN’S LEATHER HISTORY PROGRAM WLHP The Women’s Leather History Project continued as a multi-year project through 2015, when the LA&M decided to extend our commitment to collecting, preserving, and exhibiting women’s leather history by transforming the project into a program. Rather than continuing to focus on short term, project-based deliverables, the change to a program adds vision and scope to the WLHP. The Women’s Leather History Program (WLHP) at the Leather Archives & Museum is an ongoing program created to generate strategic initiatives linked to programmatic vision, fundraising, collections development, facilitate exhibit updates, generate digital content related to women’s leather history, and sustain and continue to develop relationships with leather communities, organizations, and clubs who are integral in the development of dynamic women’s collections. The Leather Archives & Museum is very excited about this change, and what it means for sustainability and long-term commitment to collecting women's leather history. 63
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- Page 68 and 69: RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS: GENERAL RESEAR
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- Page 78 and 79: Great Lakes Leather Alliance Jakob
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PROGRAMS HIGHLIGHT:<br />
WOMEN’S LEATHER HISTORY PROGRAM<br />
WLHP<br />
The Women’s <strong>Leather</strong> History Project continued as a multi-year project through 2015, when<br />
the LA&M decided to extend our commitment to collecting, preserving, and exhibiting women’s<br />
leather history by transforming the project into a program. Rather than continuing to focus on<br />
short term, project-based deliverables, the change to a program adds vision and scope to the<br />
WLHP.<br />
The Women’s <strong>Leather</strong> History Program (WLHP) at the <strong>Leather</strong> <strong>Archives</strong> & <strong>Museum</strong> is an<br />
ongoing program created to generate strategic initiatives linked to programmatic vision,<br />
fundraising, collections development, facilitate exhibit updates, generate <strong>digital</strong> content related<br />
to women’s leather history, and sustain and continue to develop relationships with leather<br />
communities, organizations, and clubs who are integral in the development of dynamic<br />
women’s collections.<br />
The <strong>Leather</strong> <strong>Archives</strong> & <strong>Museum</strong> is very excited about this change, and what it means for<br />
sustainability and long-term commitment to collecting women's leather history.<br />
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