Joss Greene Papers, 2009-2011 and undated

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Abstract:
The Joss Green Papers include fliers, programs, awards, photos, speeches, student publications, artifacts, class syllabi, personal drawings, notes, and materials related to queer and trans education and advocacy from his undergraduate time at Scripps (2008-2011). Also, inluded are programming from on-campus allyship workshops attended and facilitated by Greene. As a transgender man attending Scripps College in the early 2010s, Greene's papers record a LGBTQIA+ history of Scripps and the Claremont Colleges, centered on campus activism and education. The collection highlights a greater political movement for queer and trans liberation, with material related to the protest against CA Prop 8 (a 2008 California constitutional amendment to ban marriage equality), a petition to include a Queer Studies major at Scripps College, and art advocating for gender-neutral bathrooms on campus.
Extent:
0.4 Linear Feet (1 document box)
Language:
Languages represented in collection: English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item],Joss Greene Papers (D.Mss.0979). Ella Strong Denison Library, Scripps College, Claremont, California.

Background

Scope and content:

The Joss Green Papers include fliers, programs, awards, photos, speeches, student publications, artifacts, class syllabi, personal drawings, notes, and materials related to queer and trans education and advocacy from his undergraduate time at Scripps (2008-2011).

Biographical / historical:

Joss Taylor Greene was born May 27, 1989 in North Andover Massachusetts. He attended Scripps college from 2008-2011, graduating summa cum laude with Honors in Gender and Women's Studies and History. His senior thesis was titled, "Irresponsibility, Deviance, and 'Bad Citizenship': Interrogating Racial Hierarchy in Policy Discourse and HIV/AIDS Representation." Greene went on to get a M.A. in Gender and Women's Studies at Rutgers University in 2015 and a M.A. in Sociology at Columbia University in 2016. He received a PhD in Sociology in 2021 from Columbia University and researches the institutionalized treatment of gender as both binary and cisnormative within the U.S. prison system.

Acquisition information:
Donated by Joss Greene.
Processing information:

Processed by Corey LoDuca in Fall 2021.

Arrangement:

Documents organized alphabetically by folder title.

Accruals:

No additions to the collection are anticipated.

Physical location:
Please consult repository.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection open for research.

Terms of access:

Please contact Ella Strong Denison Library staff for all requests for permission to reproduce or to publish.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item],Joss Greene Papers (D.Mss.0979). Ella Strong Denison Library, Scripps College, Claremont, California.

Location of this collection:
1030 Columbia Avenue, #2031
Claremont, CA 91711, US
Contact:
(909) 607-3941
Denison@scrippscollege.edu
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