49 The Fire of Speculation

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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49 The Fire of Speculation is an episode from Archive Fever by Clare Wright and Yves Rees.

This episode is 32:58 long.

This episode was published on Dec 12, 2024.

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