A collection of interviews, conducted by Smith College students, of women who identify as lesbian, bisexual, woman-identified-woman, queer, or who prefer not to identify with sexuality categories. The project provides a complex and nuanced collective story of American lesbian history and experience.
A collection of life histories of women who have dedicated their lives to social and political activism. Fifteen interviews document both the diversity and the persistence of women's activism, as organizers and as cultural workers, in a variety of social movements such as women's health, economic justice, LGBT liberation, peace, education, and environmental sustainability.
Exhibits
Taking the Archives Public: Online exhibits for teachers, students and researchers
For their final projects, the students of ARX 340, the capstone seminar of the Archives Concentration, created physical and online exhibits using archival materials from the Sophia Smith Collection and College Archives. These exhibits are currently on display in Alumnae Gym through September 2012.
Wendy Essery (2012) prepares her exhibit on
"Smith's Distinguished Women of Science"
This small exhibit of Zine covers was designed by SSC intern Joanna Johnson (2012) and highlights selections from our Girl Zines Collection. The physical collection consists of hundreds of original zines (independently printed and distributed small magazines), created from the 1980s to the present by various young women. Topics include "third wave" feminism, lesbianism, sexuality, and fat liberation.
Go to the Archives Concentration website and follow the links to view more student exhibits.
Meet the Archives Interns
See what our Summer 2011 interns were up to in their video, "Meet the Archives Interns"
