Digital Transgender Archive
The DTA is a product of collaboration among many individuals and institutions, including the following partners and projects:
- California State University, Northridge
- Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives
- Center for Sex and Culture
- Country Queers: A Multimedia Oral History Project
- Gender DynamiX
- Gerber/Hart Library and Archives
- GLBT Historical Society
- Human Sexuality Collection @ Cornell University
- James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center @ San Francisco Public Library
- Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection @ University of Minnesota
- Joseph A. Labadie Collection @ University of Michigan
- Lili Elbe Archive
- New York City Transgender Oral History Project
- ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives @ the USC Libraries
- Sexual Minorities Archives
- Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study @ Harvard University
- Transgender Archive @ Transgender Foundation of America
- Transgender Archives @ University of Victoria
- Transgender Oral History Project
- University of Texas, San Antonio
Abstract
The purpose of the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) is to increase the accessibility of transgender history by providing an online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world. Based in Worcester, Massachusetts at the College of the Holy Cross, the DTA is an international collaboration among more than twenty colleges, universities, nonprofit organizations, and private collections. By digitally localizing a wide range of trans-related materials, the DTA expands access to trans history for academics and independent researchers alike in order to foster education and dialog concerning trans history.
The DTA uses the term transgender to refer to a broad and inclusive range of non-normative gender practices. We treattransgender as a practice rather than an identity category in order to bring together a trans-historical and trans-cultural collection of materials related to trans-ing gender. We collect materials from anywhere in the world with a focus on materials created before the year 2000.