Feedback - Round 1

Hi Hannah,

Sorry I am late on sending out my feedback. I hadn't had a chance to read your page and wanted to do it justice. It is really impressive! I like the way you've organized it and the case studies you've included. I was going to suggest Ellen Greenblatt's book as another source for outreach/activism/reference but I just realized that you've already included it in your 'Further Reading' section - thorough!

I don't have any critiques for your page, just questions based on my own interest. In your research, did you find any information specifically on bisexual people and their experience with LGBTQ+ archives? Since they occupy a liminal space in the queer community (often excluded or accused of possessing 'heterosexual/passing privilege'), I was wondering if this was reflected at all in their representation in the archives.

Again, awesome wiki page!

MarisaParker (talk)‎

Hi Marisa,

Thanks for your comments!

I didn't find any discussion of the experience of bisexual individuals with LGBTQ archives in my research. I think your question is a really interesting one though. There is definitely still a lot of prejudice towards and misunderstanding of bisexuality in broader society, so it would be fascinating to explore whether or not this was reflected in the representation of bisexual individuals in archives that purport to be LGBTQ in scope. However, there doesn't appear to be any literature on the topic and to examine the holdings of some archives to determine whether or not there appears to be a lack of representation would be to step outside the neutral perspective of a wiki. So I won't be looking at that here but it would be an interesting research topic!

HannahWiseman (talk)‎

Hi Hannah,

Thanks for your thoughtful response. It is a bit outside of the scope of the wiki page assignment. I've done some research on my own but haven't found anything yet so I was hopeful that you'd encountered some (archival) literature on the topic during your research. Hopefully I can find out more after I take the research methods course!

Thanks again :)

MarisaParker (talk)‎