LOCATION
GLBT Historical Society Museum, 4127 18th St., San Francisco, CA 94114
ADMISSION
$10.00 | Free for members
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This event celebrates the launch of a new exhibition, “Curve Magazine Cartoons: A Dyke Strippers’ Retrospective.” The program will include remarks from curator Julia Rosenzweig and light refreshments. This exhibition will include pieces from the archives of Curve magazine and the GLBT Historical Society.
The landscape of lesbian cartoons in the 1990s was small yet vibrant; full of passion, satire, self-deprecation, and deep-cutting political and social commentary. Publishing these cartoons in the early years of Curve magazine (which was named Deneuve magazine between 1991-1995) was a natural fit, aligning with the pivotal lesbian publication’s cheeky voice and journalistic integrity, and enhancing both the aesthetics of the pages and its witty content. In the 1990s, these alternative artists had few platforms to publish their voices and their art. Curve magazine is proud to have been at the forefront of amplifying these marginalized voices and allowing them to further spread lesbian representation, culture, and humor.
This exhibition opens Thursday, July 13 and will remain on display through fall 2023. Click here for more information about the exhibition.
About the Curator
Julia Rosenzweig (she/they) is the Archive and Outreach Manager at The Curve Foundation. She is also an active contributor to the Lesbian Herstory Archives (LHA), where she co-manages the Lesbian Elders Oral Herstory Project, a project that documents lesbian elders’ life histories through intergenerational dialogue and knowledge-sharing. Julia has researched, archived, and curated a variety of LGBTQIA+ materials, including lesbian activist posters, episodes of Martha Shelley’s 1970s radio show Lesbian Nation, and Community Gallery institutional papers. Julia graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a degree in Italian Studies, and completed her MSLIS at Pratt Institute School of Information. Julia brings an ethos of community-building and understanding through conversation to The Curve Foundation. She is honored to steward archives that center the narrative control, empowerment, and agency of their creators.
Location
GLBT Historical Society Museum, 4127 18th St., San Francisco, CA 94114
Admission
Admission is free for members and $10 for non-members. This event will likely sell out, so guests are encouraged to reserve their tickets early. Tickets are available here.
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