5/15/2023 0 Comments The persistent desire joan nestle![]() ![]() This has certainly been the case for Joan Nestle. Beyond this, for some of us (both privileged in our comfortable out-ness, and sometimes exhausted by our decision to offer up our own identities as fodder for debate) the personal is not only political, but also professional. ![]() These are things that many people take for granted, but whose weight have never evaded-or been allowed to evade-the consciousness of the LGBTQIA2+ community. ![]() We have all heard that second-wave feminist slogan “the personal is political,” and I have always felt that it hits especially close to home for queers, who have had to fight for the rights to the most deeply personal aspects of ourselves: our genders, our lovers, our bodies, our lives. Meghan enthusiastically furthers her queer agenda through side projects including presentations, workshops, and zines that encourage the inclusion of queers in history, archaeology, and archives. She earned a master’s in archaeology, collecting oral testimony from LGBTQ2+ Inuit to incorporate gender and sexual diversity into narratives of the past. Meghan Walley works as the project archivist for the Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony in Vancouver, BC. ![]()
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