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Join us for Book Club!
SIGN-UP LINK: here Sunday, May 12th from 2-3:30pm. Please join us as we discuss Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges are not the Only Fruit.
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Sign up for our book Club!
This will be a monthly event with new books being announced each month. To sign up for April’s discussion of Hijab Butch Blues, please fill out this form The discussion will be about the entirety of the book 🙂
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Collection Highlight: The Well of Loneliness
If you’ve been keeping up with the OLA, you’d know that we recently moved to a new location in OTR! With moving comes a lot of unpacking, and as a new volunteer, this has given me a great opportunity to get a look at many of the pieces in our collection. One of my favorites…
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Open House October 22, 4-6pm
We recently moved and we can’t wait to show you our new home! We have more space to care for the LGBTQ+ history we collect and to welcome visitors. We hope you’ll join us in October to see it for yourself.
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ARCHIVES will be CLOSED last 2 Weds of March–Women’s History Month talks!
To our followers: The Ohio Lesbian Archives will be CLOSED this Wednesday, March 22 and Wednesday, March 29 because we’ll be busy (preparing and) giving two talks — at the University of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky University. The UC Women’s Center contacted us and we had an enthusiastic meeting with the Director and a few…
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REMEMBERING MARIE DENNIS
Violet Marie Dennis, of Cincinnati, Ohio, died of heart failure August 17, 2022. She was 80 years old and had a forty-five year history with the lesbian and feminist community. Marie was the only one of us who had a car back in the mid to late 1970’s so she would act as the traveling…
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Help Design Our New Logo!
The Ohio Lesbian Archives needs a new logo, and we need your help to make it happen!
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A collaboration with The Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County
We are happy to collaborate with the downtown public library! Displays, events (virtual for now), & sharing rare materials from our collection. The history and future of the Ohio Lesbian Archives | Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library (cincinnatilibrary.org) ~ This article was written by Library staff, Clarity Amrein after interviewing me. She is currently…
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Join us for a film & discussion!
The Archives will be showing a film on LGBT history this coming Sunday Oct 20th 1:00-3:00pm followed by a discussion, closing with a story time performance by SPARKLE LEIGH Clifton United Methodist Church – the parlor FREE! Please join Archives volunteers for a stimulating early afternoon!
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OLA’s Amazing Year Jan-Sept 2019
OUR AMAZING YEAR SO FAR—2019 by Phebe (Karen) Beiser, Co-Founder & Co-Director In January Annabelle & Phebe spoke to the monthly PFLAG meeting. We also had an Ohio State University librarian come to see our collection; she was very interested in our three feminist bookstore collections. February saw two researchers. On February 22nd, Laura flew…