Curated by Felicity Tayler, Research Data Management Librarian at uOttawa Library, the exhibition Desire Lines. Displaced Narratives of Place highlights these lines, bounded by metadata describing three magazines published in Toronto between 1978 and 1987 : Fireweed, Border/Lines, and Fuse (formerly known as Centerfold), as well as their network of artists and writers who have mobilized around them.
“For the librarian, curatorial practice and data infrastructure necessarily centre the ethics of access to information, to the technologies of memory and identity-making.”
Felicity Tayler
— Research Data Management Librarian at uOttawa Library
The exhibit highlights several pieces from the Library’s Archives and Special Collections (ARCS) Unit. From the Women’s Archives Periodicals Collection, the literary magazines Fireweed and Tiger Lily offer perspectives from the voices of Indigenous women and Women of Colour. From the Women’s Archives CWMA collection, the Mama Quilla II album cover and the Pink Type pamphlet are examples of lesbian feminist cultural activism through music and alternative publishing networks.
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