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GQS 220 | What is Queer?

What to wear to the revolution? The politics of queer style, then & now

Finding your Historical Artifact

For this assignment you will pretend to be a curator creating a digital exhibit on queer identity and queer style. You will need to select two items for the exhibit: one contemporary, one historical. The resource below will help you find the historical item/artifact for the exhibit/assignment. This could be an image, or a short piece of text or article from the time period. In otherwise, a primary source. See the assignment description for full details.

What's a primary source?

Primary sources are original, uninterpreted information.  Scholars analyze primary sources in order to answer research questions. Examples of primary sources vary by discipline.

Examples in the humanities:

  • a novel
  • a painting
  • a theatre performance

Examples in the social sciences:

  • a political, social, or economic theory
  • a dataset
  • the results of an experiment published in a peer-reviewed journal

Example in the sciences:

  • the results of an experiment published in a peer-reviewed journal

Digital Image Sources

Books

Primary Source Databases