Wikipedia:Meetup/Lez Wiki 2025

Lez Wiki 2025
Lesbian Herstory Archives edit-a-thon

When and Where
Date	Sunday, June 8, 2025 and Sunday June 29, 2025
Time	1:00 - 4:00pm
Address	Lesbian Herstory Archives 484 14th Street, Brooklyn NY
City, State	Brooklyn, New York 11215

Join us in person at the Lesbian Herstory Archives for a day of creating and updating Wikipedia pages related to Lesbians and Lesbian organizations. Let's work together to ensure the stories and contributions of Lesbians are accurately represented online.

No prior editing experience is necessary - we'll provide training and resources to help you get started. Come be a part of preserving and celebrating Lesbian history!

Details

Sign-up is required!

• Date: Sunday, June 8, 2025 and Sunday June 29, 2025
• Time: 1-4pm
• Location: Lesbian Herstory Archives, 484 14th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215
• Technology for editing: Please bring your own device for editing, ideally a laptop.

You can register for the June 8th session here (currently at capacity - join the waitlist!) and for the June 29th session here. Registration for the June 29th session opens on June 15th.

This is a mask-mandatory event. Because of space, we are limited to 20 attendees.

Editing Resources

• Beginner's Guide to Editing Wikipedia
• Five Pillars of Wikipedia
• Making edits to existing content

Example of keyword searching technique on the Internet Archive

• Editing FAQ
• Simplified Manual of Style
• Tutorial on Visual Editor

Where to find sources:

• Internet Archive
• Google Scholar
• JSTOR

Task List

Existing articles to add to

Joan Nestle

• Contemporary Lesbian Writers, Pollack & Knight
• "Joan Nestle (b.1940)," Linda Rapp
• "Reading Joan Nestle's Queer Desire," Susan Driver
• "Building a Home of Our Own," Polly Thistlewaithe

Cheryl Clarke

• Contemporary Lesbian Writers, Pollack & Knight
• "An Interview with Cheryl Clarke and Amiri Baraka in Newark," Darnell Moore
• "Cheryl Clarke: Screaming to Be Out," interview with Marci Blackman
• African American Writers: Portraits and Visions, Lynda Koolish

Beth Elliott

• Outwords oral history

Cherríe Moraga

• Contemporary Lesbian Writers, Pollack & Knight
• Voices of Feminism Oral History Project
• Feminism on the Border: Chicana Gender Politics and Literature, Sonia Saldívar-Hull
• Latina Self-Portraits: Interviews with Contemporary Women Writers, Kevane & Heredia

Lucía Sánchez Saornil

• Free Women of Spain, Martha Ackelsberg
• "Where is Spain?...The Poetry of Lucía Sánchez Saornil," Zachary Ludington
• "A Queer Problem: Writing Sapphic Anarchism in Spanish Civil War fiction," Charlotte Byrne

Urvashi Vaid

• "Urvashi Vaid: The Vassar and Boston Years," Outhistory exhibit
• Gay Rights Activists, Kate Burns
• Leading the Parade: Conversations with America's Most Influential Lesbians and Gay Men, Paul Cain

Sexual Minorities Archives

• "Sexual Minorities Archives: ‘Queer Archiving = Queer Activism,'" Minnie Bruce Pratt
• "Archival Justice: An Interview with Ben Power Alwin", K.J. Rawson
• Lavender Legacies Guide, Society of American Archivists

Billye Talmadge

• Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis, Marcia G. Gallo
• Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context, Vern L. Bullough
• Making Gay History: The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights, Eric Marcus

Becky Birtha

• Contemporary Lesbian Writers, Pollack & Knight
• Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African-American fiction, Weise, Carbado & McBride
• Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States, Emmanuel Nelson

Graciela Sanchez

• Voices of Feminism Oral History Project
• "The Queer Roots of the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center", Gloria A. Ramirez
• "Remember the Alamo, Part II," Bárbara Renaud González

Dyke march

• Expand sections on geographical marches
• Add citations

Lenn Keller

• "Stories of Our Lives: Lenn Keller," Lavender Seniors of the East Bay

Gloria Joseph

• "Feminists We Love: Gloria I. Joseph," Aishah Shahidah Simmons

Ma-Nee Chacaby

• "A Two Spirit Journey by Ma-Nee Chacaby," CBC Books

Bernice Bing

• "The Irresistible Cool of Bernice Bing," Jonathan Griffin
• "Quantum Bingo," Lydia Matthews
• Blog post, Sylvia Woolner
• "The Worlds of Bernice Bing," AAWAA
• Encyclopedia of Asian American Artists

Salsa Soul Sisters

• The A to Z of the Lesbian Liberation Movement, JoAnne Myers
• The Question of Equality: Lesbian and Gay Politics in America since Stonewall, David Deitcher
• "Salsa Soul Sisters," National Museum of African American History and Culture

New articles to create

Jemima Writers Collective

• Black Lesbian writing group from New York City

Disabled Lesbian Alliance

• Organization created by Connie Panzarino
• Pushing the Limits: Disabled Dykes Create Culture, Silvera & Tremain
• "Remediating Disability Activism in the Lesbian Feminist Archive," Rachel Corbman

Jana Rickerson

• Co-organizer of the First Black Lesbian Conference, San Mateo County LGBTQ Commissioner

Albatross

• Lesbian satire magazine published out of East Orange, New Jersey

West Coast Lesbian Conference

• Annual Lesbian feminist conference, controversial due to trans inclusion and infighting in its third iteration

Catherine Nicholson

• Co-founder of Sinister Wisdom
• Tribute, Sinister Wisdom
• Rebels, Rubyfruit, and Rhinestones, James T. Sears

Mary Anne Pugin

• Deaf Lesbian activist

Not enough info for an article at this time, but here's the stuff I found that might be most helpful in the future.

• "deafness and deaf women", On Our Backs
• "Remediating Disability Activism in the Lesbian Feminist Archive," Rachel Corbman
• Chronology of GUAA Events
• "Sense and Sensibility", Desert Outlook

Juanita Diaz-Cotto

• Black, Puerto-Rican academic, scholar, and activist
• Founder of Latina Lesbian History Project
• Also known as Juanita Ramos

★If any source links lead to a Google Drive error page, you can find that source in this Google Drive folder.
★For more pages to edit or explore, check out the Lesbian Feminism portal

Attendees

June 8

• Sestephh
• Abnoormality
• Cadeja98
• Itssofiaviera
• Coushawthorne157!
• Nnneennnee
• Kiwi hell
• CellarObjects
• Priyankanadia
• Superraptor123
• LottieValiente
• Namesforcolors
• Ughdrea
• Macyrussellb
• Bklibcat67

June 29

• Disasteresque
• Correcting.things17
• Snookiemonster
• Earthseed99
• LilPotates
• Lee Robinson 1992
• Becca.Cahill
• Emilyconnie
• Naturalog17
• Bilabial Babe
• Bklibcat67