55Upitty
- Bib ID:
- 6572127
- Author:
- 55Upitty, author
- Online Access:
- Archived at ANL
- Related Online Resources:
- Publisher site
- Description:
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- [Australia] : 55Upitty, 2012-
- 1 online resource
- Series:
- PANDORA electronic collection.
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: Available online. Address as at 5/9/14: http://55upitty.com/
- Summary:
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"This project is about challenging people's ideas about older LGBTI women; it's about our feisty over-55 upitty women. We want to pull apart the clichés about women and aging; about the diminishing of sexuality and the relaxation of passions; about what older dykes and queers and lezzos wear and think and believe. Diversity, political awareness and activism, style and beauty, so valued and represented in youth-oriented queer cultures, is not the sole purview of the young, and this project aims to represent - through collaboration, photographic portraits, and interviews - the older LGBTI woman. This project aims to record the history of women who have been, and the women who still are, involved in lesbian, feminist, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer activism and culture, but also to represent that we are still here. That age does not make us irrelevant, asexual, harmless, style-less, conservative, invisible, or insignificant. This project will create an archive, but a living archive, not to be merely relegated to dusty 'history', but a present-archive, mapping and representing our past, our present and our visions of the future ..."--About
- Notes:
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- Title from title screen (viewed on 28 May 2014)
- Selected for archiving
- Life Dates:
- 2012-
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Unpublished
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