Finding Aid for the Michelle Johnston papers
1991-1993
LSC.2200
Finding aid prepared by Stacy Wood, 2013; Sabrina Ponce, 2017; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
UCLA Library Special Collections
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1575
(310) 825-4988
spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Online finding aid last updated 03 January 2018.
Title: Michelle Johnston papers
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.2200
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.2 linear feet
(1 half box)
Date (inclusive): 1991-1993
Abstract: This collection contains the transcripts of a series of conversations that took place between Michelle Johnston and four other
women through the Prodigy internet service provider between 1991 and 1992. Johnston documented and donated this collection
of transcripts to the June L. Mazer Archives in order to insure the voices of "ordinary dykes" were included in the archives.
As such these are ordinary conversations between women living in California, some of them lesbians who were out, and some
who were not.
Language of Materials: Materials are in English.
Physical Location: Stored off-site at SRLF. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button
located on this page.
Creator:
Johnston, Michelle, active 1991-1993
Conditions Governing Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. All requests to access special collections material must be made in
advance using the request button located on this page.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Michelle Johnston papers (Collection 2200). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Michelle Johnston, 1993.
Processing History
Processed by Stacy Wood, 2013. Description enhanced and further physical processing completed by Sabrina Ponce in 2017.
Sponsor
The
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive at UCLA is an outreach and collection-building partnership between the
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives , the
UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) , and the
UCLA Library . These collections expand the pool of primary source materials available to researchers and to the community at large. This
partnership was initiated by CSW and is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to inventory, organize,
preserve, and digitize more than eighty Mazer collections pertaining to lesbian and feminist activism and writings.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography/History
Michelle Johnston documented and donated this collection of transcripts to the Mazer Archives in order to ensure the voices
of "ordinary dykes" were included in the archives. As such these are ordinary conversations between women living in California,
some of them lesbians who were out, and some who were not. All conversations took place online and none of the correspondents
knew one another in any other context.
Scope and Content
This collection contains the transcripts of a series of conversations that took place between Michelle Johnston and four other
women through the Prodigy internet service provider between 1991 and 1992.
Organization and Arrangement
Materials organized by correspondent.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Johnston, Michelle, active 1991-1993 -- Archives.
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive at UCLA.
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives.
Lesbian online chat groups.
Box 1, Folder 1
Collection description
June 22, 1993
Scope and Contents note
A description of the collection and the origins of the conversations contained. These donations precipitated by Michelle Johnston's
desire to include the voices of "ordinary dykes" in the archives, and as such these are ordinary conversations between women,
some lesbians who are out, some who are not.
Box 1, Folder 2
Conversations between Michelle Johnston and Mary Lou Morreal
October 26, 1991-February 10, 1992
Box 1, Folder 3
Conversations between Michelle Johnston and Jeanne Natali
November 13, 1991-March 7, 1992
Box 1, Folder 4
Conversations between Michelle Johnston and Kathi Beall
December 25, 1991-March 13, 1992
