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EPISODE · Dec 12, 2024 · 32 MIN

49 | The Fire of Speculation

from Archive Fever · host Claire Wright and Yves Rees

Don your rainbows (and beards) and get ready for the lavender haze of Australian history: Danielle Scrimshaw, author of She and Her Pretty Friend: The Hidden History of Australian Women Who Love Women (Ultimo, 2023), is in the studio to offer a queer eye for the straight historian. Why is queer history so important for the LGBTQIA+ community in the present? Can archive fever spark the fires of romance? And how can we uncover queer lives in heteronormative archives—is the answer ‘speculation as method’?

Don your rainbows (and beards) and get ready for the lavender haze of Australian history: Danielle Scrimshaw, author of She and Her Pretty Friend: The Hidden History of Australian Women Who Love Women (Ultimo, 2023), is in the studio to offer a queer eye for the straight historian. Why is queer history so important for the LGBTQIA+ community in the present? Can archive fever spark the fires of romance? And how can we uncover queer lives in heteronormative archives—is the answer ‘speculation as method’?

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