Joseph

@queertauqua.bsky.social

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PhD Philosophy in History (ABD) Queer Artist, Historian, & Library worker Expect some dissertation musings, performance art, Chautauqua Movement, reenactments, queer theory, book discussion reads, and research assistances (aka fur babies) postings.

Sewing machine with cut outs of fabric to make military fits.
Black and white photo of three heads of puppets, an advertisement for Queertauqua, bound scripts all inside a steamer trunk. Text in pink “Scripts is ready. Cast is assembled. Puppets are waiting.” At bottom right.
Lego set of Keith Haring’s Dancing Figures.
A miniature longhaired dachshund (yellow glowing eyes) with a stuffed red/white/blue/yellow ball running in slow motion towards the camera.
Sleeping red longhair mini dachshund on a red blanket (there is another dachshund under the blanket) with B&W movie This Could Be the Night (1957) on a tv above a fireplace at right background. Fig house plant in background in front of window with with snow falling heavily.
Picture of All That She Carried by Tiya Miles at left with long-haired red dachshund (Linus) at right with Christmas tree in background.
Cover image of “In the Lives of Puppets” by TJ Klune with several page tabs.
Image of Audre Lorde, feminist, poet, librarian, amazing mind and spirit, with quote “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare.” Image from http://carmenkynard.org/audre-lorde/
Image of an audience of a traveling Chautauqua (circa 1920). Red circle around a child in the front row looking dazed, anxious, stressed, bored, all the feelings.
Picture of three dachshunds; piebald on left; shorthair red dapple top right; long hair red bottom right.
Correspondence to Charles Horner from a box in the archives at Iowa University. Dated May, 16th 1917 (?).
Marketing brochure for the 1929 Redpath-Horner Premier Circuit Chautauqua. Both images are the same with the exception of a photograph and the dates/location changes.
A page from a brochure of The Sterling Circuit of the Redpath-Horner Chautauqua presented in Whitewater, Kansas August 12-16, 1921 advertising Wherahiko Rawei and The Jackson Jubilee Singers.
Holding up a copy of “Queer Oz: L. Frank Baum’s Trans Tales & Other Astounding Adventured in Sex & Gender” by Tison Pugh. Cover image has a cartoon image of the Tin Man and the Scarecrow holding hands. The text “Queer Oz” and the author’s name are in gradient rainbow.
Except found on p. 120 of “Love’s Coming of Age” (1911). “It is beginning to be recognized that the sexes do not or should not normally form two groups hopelessly isolated in habit and feeling from each other, but that they rather represent the two poles of (italics) one group - which is the human race.