Archiving Our Past, Queering Our Future: A virtual conversation with LGBTQ+ Archives panelists Jack MacCarthy (OUTWORDS) and Wendy Chapkis (Querying the Past)

EqualityMaine’s Network for Older Adults invites you to Archiving Our Past, Queering Our Future: A virtual conversation with LGBTQ+ Archives panelists Jack MacCarthy (OUTWORDS) and Wendy Chapkis (Querying the Past) on Wednesday, March 18th from 5:30 PM to 6:45 PM [EST]. Closed captions will be turned on.

Jack Tynan MacCarthy (he/they) is the Communications Director of OUTWORDS, where he oversees marketing, events, partnerships, and serves as a co-host and producer of OUTWORDS’ Queering Precedent podcast. Jack is also an award-winning writer, an intimacy coordinator, performer, parent, and former life coach. The New York Times has called Jack’s work “a lot of fun,” and Kate Bornstein called it “brilliant.”

Wendy Chapkis (she/they) is a Professor Emerita of Sociology and Women & Gender Studies at at the University of Southern Maine. She is the author of many articles and 3 books (Beauty Secrets: women and the politics of appearance; Live Sex Acts: women performing erotic labor; and Dying to Get High: marijuana as medicine). In 2016, as the Faculty Scholar for the Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine, she created the Querying the Past: Maine LGBTQ Oral History Project. In her presentation, Dr. Chapkis will discuss the oral history project, as well as her work on the documentary film “Bar Stories from Queer Maine” and the “Stepping Out: Portland queer history trail.”