Collection context
Summary
Background
- Scope and content:
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Trahan’s collection includes correspondence, flyers advertising performances, reviews, and zines, as well as several videotapes of performances. The productions include "Body Talk = Survival: Intersections of Disability, Race & Sex," "Queen of the Girls," "Built: Readings and Performance Exploring Butch Identity," "Memories from a Coma," "Orgasms for Survival," "The Love Room," and "I Walked with Death Today." GSSO linked terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000381; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008520; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_004301
- Biographical / historical:
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Julia/Dolphin Trahan is a disabled and lesbian performance artist. Her work often explores sexuality and gender, challenging the idea of the disabled body as asexual and genderless.
- Acquisition information:
- The collection was donated to the GLBT Historical Society by an unknown person before 1997.
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- 1991-1996
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on July 14, 2025, 2:55 p.m.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright to material has not been transferred to the GLBT Historical Society. All requests for reproductions and/or permission to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the GLBT Historical Society Archivist. Permission for reproductions and/or permission to publish or quote from material is given on behalf of the GLBT Historical Society as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
- Preferred citation:
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Julia/Dolphin Trahan Papers. GLBT Historical Society
- Location of this collection:
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989 Market Street, Lower LevelSan Francisco, CA 94103, US
- Contact:
- (415) 777-5455