While the single-word search is better than having to match a whole line exactly and lets me put in some extra information for some records, like when there is an intertextual reference and I want to put in the title of the referenced text ["Flashdance"] and what kind of media it is [" film "]. That's work that only has to be done once, so it will go a bit quicker in the future, and when it's done, I can copy the validation list as the beginning of a thesaurus of terms for indexing lesbian pornographic periodicals.
The CLGA carries Bad Attitude and Lesbo , too, so the same list could be used for those magazines, and expanded if they cover content that OOB does not, and at the end a tag cloud could be generated to make it easier to search all of the publications at once! Erm, but that plan might be a bit ambitious for this project. Indexing takes a really, really, really long time. I'd say the article's pseudonymous attribution um, "Fewkes Knightly"?
Mark A. McCutcheon May 22, - am. I've been thinking more about your comment here, and a discussion Alan and I had when we indexed the cover pages. It took me a few minutes to get the joke anyway, but pseudonymity or anonymity alone, in the context of a lesbian publication in the US in the 80s, actually doesn't say much about whether to take the content seriously or humourously.
Even the archivists collecting the magazines use fake names Alan said "but that's not your real name, right? And that's after 30 additional years of activism I use an anonymized version of my own name in some news articles to make them a little less Google-able when I apply for jobs about sex work, too. So here is the record for the cover page, which includes a few anonymized entries even for the magazine's editors and publishers:. Author Hyder, L. Scully, Noreen Corinne, Tee.
Title Cover images. Location San Francisco, CA. Hyder leather. For comparison between the record and the text it references, the pages in question are here , here , and here.
Also: these are the things that make indexing fun. The data entry is a bit dry, but it's a surprisingly rich record of the publication and its context. McCutcheon May 23, - pm.
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Comments Mark A. McCutcheon mccutcheon. Also: I'm pleased to learn that domestic storage is a priority for the archives. Yeah, I was trying to sleep when that finally clicked and woke myself back up giggling So here is the record for the cover page, which includes a few anonymized entries even for the magazine's editors and publishers: Id Publication On Our Backs Issue vol. Christopher and her contemporaries gave voice to a community that felt they were being ignored by mainstream politics and media — making the invisible, visible.
Through the years, On Our Backs dealt with issues around censorship that affected its own production, publication and distribution. The magazine critically reflected on its pages about the anti-pornography movement, the law, the complex relationship between the feminist and lesbian movements and representations of sex, and its own struggles and victories. Curating this exhibition meant striving to reproduce the same aesthetic, political and educational values of the magazine while, at the same time, facing enormous legal restrictions in the country that has the highest level of censorship in Europe.
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