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LGBTQ2+ Histories at Toronto Metropolitan University
Subject
The topic of the resource
gay community
gay and lesbian youth
students' clubs
HIV/AIDS
lesbians
bisexuals
transgender people
asexuality
arts
health
LGBT rights
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An account of the resource
A collection of materials relating to LGBTQ2+ people, issues, and organizations at Toronto Metropolitan University.
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Toronto Metropolitan University Library
Date
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1963-2015
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posters
stickers
tshirts
buttons
newspaper articles
brochures
Language
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English
Contributor
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Toronto Metropolitan University Library and Archives
The ArQuives
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Title
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Amid turmoil, concern over LGBT representation
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The topic of the resource
gay culture
racism
tolerance
Description
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A newspaper article describing the lack of diversity within the TMU staff, as it conflicts with the diverse climate of the student body.
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Rebecca Granovsky-Larsen
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Ryerson Free Press
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2007-09
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The ArQuives does not hold copyright
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Newspaper clipping
Language
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English
2000s
2007
racism
RyePRIDE
Ryerson Free Press
Ryerson Students' Union
Ryerson University
Toronto Metropolitan University
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Title
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LGBTQ2+ Histories at Toronto Metropolitan University
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The topic of the resource
gay community
gay and lesbian youth
students' clubs
HIV/AIDS
lesbians
bisexuals
transgender people
asexuality
arts
health
LGBT rights
Description
An account of the resource
A collection of materials relating to LGBTQ2+ people, issues, and organizations at Toronto Metropolitan University.
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Toronto Metropolitan University Library
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1963-2015
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posters
stickers
tshirts
buttons
newspaper articles
brochures
Language
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English
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Toronto Metropolitan University Library and Archives
The ArQuives
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Title
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Blackbird
Subject
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film
arts
visibility
christianity
Description
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A poster advertising the screening of a gay-themed film.
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RyePRIDE and Racialised Students' Collective
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2015-06-23
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The ArQuives does not hold copyright
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Poster
Language
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English
Type
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Poster
2010s
2015
arts
homophobia
racism
RyePRIDE
Ryerson University
Toronto Metropolitan University
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Title
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LGBTQ+ Oral Histories
Description
An account of the resource
A selection of oral histories from The ArQuives collections.
Date
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1970-2005
Format
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Cassette tapes, digital video
Language
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English
Contributor
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LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory (Elspeth Brown, PI)
Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives
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URL
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Interview with Clarissa Lagartera
Subject
The topic of the resource
lesbians
racism
students' clubs
Description
An account of the resource
Tom Warner interviews Clarissa Lagartera about her gay identity and coming out, activism as a young person, campaign for president of the students' association at the University of Winnipeg, performing as a drag king, the lack of lesbian community in Winnipeg and Manitoba, and the divisions between gay men and lesbians. She also discusses intergenerational issues among lesbians, issues that queers of colour face and a queer of colour group she was involved with, and setting up an LGBT centre at the University of Winnipeg.
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Tom Warner
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1998-09-09
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Cassette Tape
Language
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English
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2003-047/54T
biphobia
drag
drag kings
homophobia
lesbians
Manitoba
queers of colour
racism
students
Winnipeg
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Title
A name given to the resource
LGBTQ2+ Histories at Toronto Metropolitan University
Subject
The topic of the resource
gay community
gay and lesbian youth
students' clubs
HIV/AIDS
lesbians
bisexuals
transgender people
asexuality
arts
health
LGBT rights
Description
An account of the resource
A collection of materials relating to LGBTQ2+ people, issues, and organizations at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Publisher
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Toronto Metropolitan University Library
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1963-2015
Format
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posters
stickers
tshirts
buttons
newspaper articles
brochures
Language
A language of the resource
English
Contributor
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Toronto Metropolitan University Library and Archives
The ArQuives
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Title
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Not every colour feels welcome in the rainbow
Subject
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racism
gay culture
night life
bars
Description
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A newspaper article about racism in Toronto's gay male community.
Creator
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Diana Esken
Publisher
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The Eyeopener
Date
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1999-11-17
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The Eyeopener holds the rights to this material
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Newspaper clipping
Language
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English
1990s
1999
gay bars
gay men
racism
Ryerson University
The Eyeopener
the Village
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Not a Place on the Map: The Desh Pardesh Project
Subject
The topic of the resource
diaspora, artists, South Asian, people of colour, festivals, identity, racism
Description
An account of the resource
Toronto’s Desh Pardesh festival (1988–2001) was a multidisciplinary arts festival that showcased underrepresented and marginalized voices within the South Asian diaspora. These oral history interviews with artists and organizers involved in the festival were created by the South Asian Visual Arts Centre in 2016.
Creator
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South Asian Visual Arts Centre
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2016
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South Asian Visual Arts Centre
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CLGA holds additional records related to Desh Pardesh and Khush
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PDF, WAV
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English
Type
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Sound
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Add CLGA accession # once donated
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1988–2001, Toronto, South Asia
Contributor
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LGBTQ Oral HIstory Digital Collaboratory, SAVAC
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Title
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Oppression (Sketch)
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oppression, racism
Description
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This image depicts a sketch found in the Desh Pardesh archives that discusses oppression and breaking boundaries.
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CLGA
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PDF
Language
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English
Type
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Still Image
breaking silences
Desh Pardesh
oppression
racism
SAVAC
South Asian Visual Arts Centre
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Not a Place on the Map: The Desh Pardesh Project
Subject
The topic of the resource
diaspora, artists, South Asian, people of colour, festivals, identity, racism
Description
An account of the resource
Toronto’s Desh Pardesh festival (1988–2001) was a multidisciplinary arts festival that showcased underrepresented and marginalized voices within the South Asian diaspora. These oral history interviews with artists and organizers involved in the festival were created by the South Asian Visual Arts Centre in 2016.
Creator
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South Asian Visual Arts Centre
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2016
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South Asian Visual Arts Centre
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CLGA holds additional records related to Desh Pardesh and Khush
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PDF, WAV
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English
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Sound
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1988–2001, Toronto, South Asia
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LGBTQ Oral HIstory Digital Collaboratory, SAVAC
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URL
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Oral History Interview with Anthony Mohamed (2015)
Subject
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Alliance for South Asian Aids Prevention (ASAAP), Racism, HIV/AIDS, Desh Pardesh, arts festival
Description
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In this interview Anthony Mohamed, and HIV/AIDS activist and attendee of the Desh Pardesh festival discusses several social movements that took place for the LGBTQ community from the 1940s till the 1990s. He discusses the impact of racism within the South Asian community and against it, and how Desh combatted against these experiences.
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South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC)
Date
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2015-06-24
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Anna Malla
LGBTQ Oral History DIgital Collaboratory (Elspeth Brown, PI)
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
Format
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PDF, AIF
Language
A language of the resource
English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Sound, Text
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
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1990s Toronto, 1940s Toronto, 1950s Toronto, 1960s Toronto, 1980s Toronto
arts festival
Desh Pardesh
HIV/AIDS
LGBTQ rights
oral history
racism
SAVAC
social movements
South Asian
South Asian Visual Arts Centre
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Not a Place on the Map: The Desh Pardesh Project
Subject
The topic of the resource
diaspora, artists, South Asian, people of colour, festivals, identity, racism
Description
An account of the resource
Toronto’s Desh Pardesh festival (1988–2001) was a multidisciplinary arts festival that showcased underrepresented and marginalized voices within the South Asian diaspora. These oral history interviews with artists and organizers involved in the festival were created by the South Asian Visual Arts Centre in 2016.
Creator
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South Asian Visual Arts Centre
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2016
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South Asian Visual Arts Centre
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CLGA holds additional records related to Desh Pardesh and Khush
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PDF, WAV
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English
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Sound
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1988–2001, Toronto, South Asia
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LGBTQ Oral HIstory Digital Collaboratory, SAVAC
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Oral History Interview with Heidi McKenzie (2014)
Subject
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Cultural Essentialism, Racism, Bi-racial
Description
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Heidi McKenzie was the co-coordinator of the Desh Pardesh festival alongside Steve Pereira for a year and a half, beginning in 1994. She discusses in this oral history interview the notion of multiculturalism in Desh discourse, representation in the board of Desh Pardesh and her experience as a bi-racial person in the Desh environment. She touches on cultural essentialism as experienced by bi-racial people, and concludes with a discussion on difficulties of modern artists.
Creator
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South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC)
Date
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2014-09-22
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Anna Malla
LGBTQ Oral History DIgital Collaboratory (Elspeth Brown, PI)
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
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PDF, WAV
Language
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English
Type
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Sound, Text
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
||||osm
1990s Toronto
bi-racial
bi-racial racism
Desh Pardesh
multiculturalism
racism
SAVAC
South Asian Visual Arts Centre
steve pereira
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Not a Place on the Map: The Desh Pardesh Project
Subject
The topic of the resource
diaspora, artists, South Asian, people of colour, festivals, identity, racism
Description
An account of the resource
Toronto’s Desh Pardesh festival (1988–2001) was a multidisciplinary arts festival that showcased underrepresented and marginalized voices within the South Asian diaspora. These oral history interviews with artists and organizers involved in the festival were created by the South Asian Visual Arts Centre in 2016.
Creator
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South Asian Visual Arts Centre
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2016
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South Asian Visual Arts Centre
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CLGA holds additional records related to Desh Pardesh and Khush
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PDF, WAV
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English
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Sound
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1988–2001, Toronto, South Asia
Contributor
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LGBTQ Oral HIstory Digital Collaboratory, SAVAC
Hyperlink
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URL
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Oral History Interview with Michelle Mohabeer
Subject
The topic of the resource
film, artists, oral history, Pakistan, homophobia, Desh Pardesh
Description
An account of the resource
Mohabeer discusses her experience of moving to Canada during the 1970s, when racism, sexism and homophobia were rampant. She also discusses briefly her experience as a Pakistani person in a time where Paki-bashing was common place. Mohabeer then goes on to discuss how she channeled their experiences into her films, discussing two significant ones — Coconut Cannon Cutlass and Child Play, both which were featured at the Desh Pardesh festival. She then discusses their reception, and the lack of engagement with the material at the festivals. She concludes by stating that Desh could recur in the modern day, but it would be different in that the problems of the modern day, and the community organizing of the modern day is different also.
Creator
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South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC)
Date
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2015-05-07
Contributor
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Anna Malla
LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory (Elspeth Brown, PI)
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
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PDF, WAV
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English
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||||osm
1990s Toronto, 1970s Toronto
Child play
Coconut Cane Cutlass
community organizing
Desh Pardesh
filmography
homophobia
oral history
paki-bashing
racism
SAVAC
sexism
South Asian Visual Arts Centre
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Not a Place on the Map: The Desh Pardesh Project
Subject
The topic of the resource
diaspora, artists, South Asian, people of colour, festivals, identity, racism
Description
An account of the resource
Toronto’s Desh Pardesh festival (1988–2001) was a multidisciplinary arts festival that showcased underrepresented and marginalized voices within the South Asian diaspora. These oral history interviews with artists and organizers involved in the festival were created by the South Asian Visual Arts Centre in 2016.
Creator
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South Asian Visual Arts Centre
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2016
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South Asian Visual Arts Centre
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CLGA holds additional records related to Desh Pardesh and Khush
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PDF, WAV
Language
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English
Type
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Sound
Identifier
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1988–2001, Toronto, South Asia
Contributor
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LGBTQ Oral HIstory Digital Collaboratory, SAVAC
Hyperlink
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URL
<iframe src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/325282645&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" width="100%" height="20"></iframe>
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Oral History with Leila Sujir (2014)
Subject
The topic of the resource
Identity Politics, Desh Pardesh, Oral History, Immigration, India Hearts Beat, Leile Sujir, arts festival, Dreams of a Night Cleaner, Quebec
Description
An account of the resource
Leila Sujir is an artist that first worked at Desh Pardesh in the late 1980s. Her work India Hearts Beat screened in Toronto, and she was invited to discuss it. She felt that Desh was a space of both validation and contention. She argues it gave emerging artists a space to present their work and gave a sense of importance to it, which was difficult in the racialized landscape of 1980s Toronto. Sujir also cites that the cultural context of Desh presented an overarching identity politics that concerned the population of Toronto. She felt that there was contention between groups, there was a competition of oppression and the rise of an “identity minefield”. Sujir also discusses her work Dreams of a Night Cleaner to conceptualize how physicality and space was a major component of her artistic work. She concludes the interview by discussing the erasure of oppression in her home province, Quebec and discusses briefly a new project in the UK.
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South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC)
Date
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2014-11-28
Contributor
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Anna Malla
LGBTQ Oral History DIgital Collaboratory (Elspeth Brown, PI)
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
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PDF, WAV
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English
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1980s Toronto, 2000s Quebec
Desh Pardesh
diaspora
Dreams of the Night Cleaners
Identity politics
immigration
memory
oral history
racism
Rosemary Brown
SAVAC
South Asian
South Asian Visual Arts Centre
Tony Morrison
Toronto
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LGBTQ+ Oral Histories
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A selection of oral histories from The ArQuives collections.
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1970-2005
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Cassette tapes, digital video
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English
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LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory (Elspeth Brown, PI)
Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives
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Brown, Elspeth
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Lee Kam, Lezlie
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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moving image
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1 hr 20 minutes (PT 1)
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Oral History with Lezlie Lee Kam, PT 1 (27 April, 2017)
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Brown, Elspeth;
Lee Kam, Lezlie
Publisher
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Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives
Date
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1970s-1980s
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Lee Kam, Lezlie
Brown, Elspeth
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CLGA
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mp4
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English
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video
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dyke; lesbian; black power; Carib; Callaloo; world majority; activism; LOOT; Lesbian Organization of Toronto; Carnaval; Mas; migration; immigration; racism; Caribbean-Canadian; Trinidad; butch fem; lesbian separatism; Michigan Womyn's Music Festival; transphobia; coming out; Catholicism; York University; 1970s
Description
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This is the first of two oral histories with Lezlie Lee Kam, a 55+, gender-mysterious, world majority person and dyke; a Trini; a Carib; Brown; and a Callaloo-a mix of Chinese, Carib, Indian, Portuguese, and Venezuelan. She was born in Trinidad and left for Toronto in 1970. In this interview, Lezlie discusses her childhood in Trinidad with her 3 brothers with her working-class father and her more well-off mom; at age 11, when she was beginning her education in a convent school, her parents separated. Lezlie stayed with her father and 3 brothers, while her mother moved to Toronto in 1968. Lezlie was involved with Mas, as was her dad, who was a band leader; she's continued to be involved with Carnaval since. When Lezlie was 16, she moved to Toronto to be with her mother in Toronto, despite not wanting to leave. Discusses her attraction to girls from a young age, while also at the same time dating boys. Two of her brothers emigrated in 1976; she describes the debates she had with her mother around her mother's expectations that she do gendered labour in the household, while her brothers did nothing.
Lezlie was only one of four non-white kids in high school in 1970: she describes racism, being called a 'monkey' by the boys, and her (humorous) response, her accent, and her efforts to modulate it once in Canada. Lezlie came out, to herself, while she was at York U 1972-1976. She discusses radical student politics at York, and the expectation that all non-whites sit at the 'black table' in solidarity with black power. She learned about Cuba, South American indigenous issues, and Caribbean literature.
Discusses her first relationship with a woman, Sonia, a mixed race Trinidadian who attended Ryerson, and the physical passion that ensued after figuring it all out for the first time; they were together for 3 years, when they were caught kissing, and Sonia's family shipped her back to Trinidad.
Lezlie describes her activism with LOOT, the Lesbian Organization of Toronto (LOOT), in the late 1970s. She worked at the coffee house, on the phones, and wanted to be a person of colour for other lesbians who looked like her. Describes her work at LOOT and encountering butch-fem roles and lesbian separatism in the contemporary scene. Race and racism was not a topic of discussion among the white LOOT activists. Discusses the transphobia she encountered at the Michigan Womyn's Musical Festival, as well as how very few other women of color were there.
Night life, late 1970s: describes the 4 women of colour in the scene, who went to The Studio, a bar where gay men and lesbians mixed. They stood out, and became disco queens; they checked out the Camu (sp?) on Trinity, near Eastern. The Camu was a working class butch-fem bar, with tuxedos and ball gowns, the whole thing; they were the only people of colour. Discusses her own sense of gender then, and more recently. She was never butch or fem herself.
This interview continues in a second interview on June 16, 2017.
butch fem
Callaloo
Carib
Caribbean
Carnaval
coming out
dyke
immigration
lesbian
Lesbian Organization of Toronto
lesbian separatism
LOOT
Mas
Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
migration
oral history
racism
Toronto
transphobia
Trinidad
York University