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This semester Invisible Histories has been working on digitizing, transcribing, and cataloging oral histories taken by Donna Jo Smith, a southern activist who interviewed fellow gay rights advocates, activists, and rabble-rousers during the 80s and 90s.

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🎨 Let's Make Queer Art! Join Invisible Histories on June 18, 2025 at 12 PM CST / 1 PM EST for a Queer Crafternoon—a special Pride Month gathering for LGBTQ folks and allies to make art, build community, and celebrate our stories through creativity. Sign up at https://givebutter.com/crafternoon

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This is exactly how they criminalized queer publications and other materials in the past.

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@invisiblehistories.bsky.social Repost: All hands on deck! Nonprofit status threatened. Call your federal Congressional Members. Read more here: bit.ly/saveusaction. The U.S. House of Reps’ Ways and Means Committee released a budget bill that directly threatens the status of 501(c)3 nonprofits.

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Shoutout to our Interns! Meet Abby (she/sher)! Thank you to our awesome interns for all that they do!

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Accusing journalists of being terrorists is straight out of the autocrat playbook. Let’s not empower the autocrat in the White House to shutdown nonprofit news. Tell Congress to vote against the nonprofit killer bill TODAY.

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Republicans tacked the so-called “nonprofit killer” onto the end of their tax proposal. The legislation would give presidential administrations the ability to revoke groups’ nonprofit status by deeming them “terrorist supporting organizations” with virtually no recourse or due process.

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The nonprofit killer bill is a press freedom killer bill, too. The last time this bill reared its ugly head, we explained how it could be used against nonprofit news. The House is voting on it TODAY. It must reject it.

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All hands on deck! Nonprofit status threatened. Please call your federal Congressional Members TODAY. Read more here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... The U.S. House of Representatives’ Ways and Means Committee released a budget bill that directly threatens the status of 501(c)3 nonprofits.

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Invisible Histories is partnering with the Southern Memory Workers Collaborative to conduct a survey of southern memory work practice! Activists, organizers, and cultural workers who are passionate about libraries and archives, this one is for y'all💞 Take the survey: https://bit.ly/memoryworker

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Not a great way to wake up. It includes everything from granting the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury unilateral authority to revoke the 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status of nonprofits, to taxing foundation endowments... thenonprofittimes.com/npt_articles...

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Register for our annual teach in at givebutter.com/teachin2025 We’ve got some awesome presentations lined up for y’all!! Schedule coming soon✨🌈

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Stop using your university or state/federal emails for anything, anything at all that isn't directly, specifically work related AND that you don't want to be fully publicly accessible. This goes for any university computer, phone, or device as well.

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Sending solidarity to our fellow history defenders and defiers of knowledge destruction. History is a weapon against oppression. Wield it.

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Collection highlight! In 2019, Invisible Histories preserved the collection of Bronzie Demarko, a drag artist from Florence, Alabama. Bronzie's collection includes flyers, scrapbooks, pageant crowns and dresses.

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We're so excited to join Mississippi in Action & artist D'Angelo Lovell Williams on Saturday, May 10th, to talk about the history of the history of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in Mississippi! Register: https://bit.ly/msquilt

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Call for Proposals! Are you a librarian, archivist, historian, or memory worker preserving LGBTQ history? Join us for the 2026 Queer History South Conference! Submit a proposal by visiting invisiblehistory.org/qhs2026.

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Trans History is Southern History. This pride month Join Invisible Histories on June 17th, 2025, at 6:00pm CST to learn about and celebrate the history of trans identity and gender nonconformity in the Deep South! Registration: https://givebutter.com/transsouth

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A preview of a new guide and zine workbook we will be releasing in June. Stay tuned!

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We've made several changes to our archiving collecting scope. Here is what and where we are collecting as we open our new physical archive. Have something you'd like to talk to us about? Email us at [email protected]

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🌈 Be a Fruit. We Recruit! 🍑📚 Want to save your personal history and be part of Southern LGBTQ history? Join Invisible Histories for an info session on how to become apart of our LGBTQ commmunity archive on May 14, 2025, at 6:00pm CST! 🔗 Sign up now: https://givebutter.com/recruit

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Shoutout to our Interns! Meet Ollie (He/they)! Thank you to our awesome interns for all that they do!

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The AHA, along with the ACLS and the MLA, have filed a lawsuit to restore the programming and institutional integrity that have been stripped away from the NEH. Announcement and PDF of filing in district court are here: www.historians.org/news/america...

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Due to increased state surveillance, Invisible Histories staff will no longer be communicating with .gov and .edu emails. If you have previously used a university or institutional email to communicate with us, please switch all communication to a non-institutional email.

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Invisible Histories is seeking LGBTQ+ storytellers, memory workers, and community archivists to participate in our virtual Queer History Teach In on Sunday, June 8th, 2025. Application due by May 4, 2025 at 11:59pm CST. Apply Here: https://bit.ly/teachin25

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Our NEH grant was just administratively terminated. This is discriminatory and an overreach of executive powers. BUT we promise to not betray marginalized people for funding. We will resist. We will fight back. We will save these histories. Join us.

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We owe so much to the support of the Mellon Foundation especially the Public Knowledge department. We're thrilled to see them supporting the humanities even more at this critical moment.

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Call for Proposals! Are you a librarian, archivist, historian, or memory worker preserving LGBTQ history? Join us for the 2026 Queer History South Conference! Submit a proposal by visiting invisiblehistory.org/qhs2026.

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🌈 Be a Fruit. We Recruit! 🍑📚 Want to save your personal history and be part of Southern LGBTQ history? Join Invisible Histories for an info session on how to become apart of our LGBTQ commmunity archive on May 14, 2025, at 6:00pm CST! 🔗 Sign up now: https://givebutter.com/recruit

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Intern spotlights! Meet Nora (she/her)! Shoutout to our awesome interns and thank you for all that y’all do!

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Don't let them normalize anti-trans rhetoric. Fight for trans people like they've always fought for everyone else. One of the ways we can push back is by asking for and sharing pronouns. At Invisible Histories our pronouns are: Josh he/him, Maigen she/her, Margaret they/them. What are your pronouns?

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Check out this amazing resource of LGBTQ publications daily.jstor.org/reveal-digit...

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Intern spotlights! Meet Angelina (she/her)! Shoutout to our awesome interns and thank you for all that y’all do!

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Happy Lesbian Visability Week! Thank you to @curvemag | @curvefdn for selecting our Co-Founder, Maigen Sullivan, as part of their 2024 Curve Power List. https://www.curvemag.com/articles/revealing-the-2025-curve-power-list/ #LVWUSA25 | #CurvePowerList25

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Invisible Histories is seeking LGBTQ+ storytellers, memory workers, and community archivists to participate in our virtual Queer History Teach In on Sunday, June 8th, 2025. Application due by May 4, 2025 at 11:59pm CST. Apply Here: https://bit.ly/teachin25

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Intern spotlights! Meet Nyssa (she/her)! Thank you to our awesome interns for all that they do!

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Continuing to build our collection of southern LGBTQ Tshirts! From t-shirts to tapes, nightlife to oral histories—these items represent decades of Southern LGBTQ life. These tshirts are preserved from Club City Lights and Metro 2.0, two historic Black-owned gay bars in Jackson, MS.

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Intern spotlights! Meet Julianna (she/they)! Thank you to our awesome interns for all that they do!

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“Orwellian is overused, but it’s hard not to conjure poor old Winston when faced with an agenda so naked.”

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Our staff had work stolen to train AI. You can check this website to see if your work was also stolen to train. Meta AI. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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We wanted to get in on the action figure making but AI is theft and detrimental for the environment so we did it old school. Can't make out what those accessories are? Don't worry neither can we.

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