Interested in Being Interviewed?
If you'd like to be interviewed by the Queer Newark Oral History Project,
please write to Beryl Satter or Darnell Moore at
queernk@andromeda.rutgers.edu
To get involved with a particular aspect of the project, please see the descriptions below and contact the committtee's chair.
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Library Committee
Committee Chair: Beryl Satter, satter@andromeda.rutgers.edu
The goals of this committee are:
1) Locate a permanent library home, ideally in the city of Newark, for all interviews, documents, and artifacts about Queer Newark that are generated by the “Queer Newark: Our Voices, Our Histories” conference and by the ongoing Queer Newark Oral History Project.
2) Investigate innovative, cost-effective methods of using faculty and library professionals to train students and interested community members in top-quality archiving, cataloguing, transcription, and digitalization/ web design techniques. This is necessary in order for our oral histories and related materials, as well as those of Drew University’s project “Mapping Newark” and other similar archives, to be made accessible to as broad a public as possible.
a. For cost-effective archiving and accessibility, we plan to draw upon the model used by Dr. Jacqueline Goldsby’s “Mapping the Stacks” project, which archived and made accessible numerous collections of African-American history in the Chicago area. See http://mts.lib.uchicago.edu/ for information on “Mapping the Stacks.”
3) Push for the creation of an Oral History Research Office in Dana Library, Rutgers-Newark, which could potentially oversee the Queer Newark Oral History Project and other oral history projects centered in Newark’s culture and history.
Members:
Darnell Moore, mooredarnell@gmail.com
Carlos Decena, cudecena@rci.rutgers.edu
Robert Snyder, robertwsnyder@earthlink.net
Timothy Stewart-Winter, timsw@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Queer Newark Oral History Project Committee
This committee will work on the long range oral history project. We would like people involved who have experience doing oral history.
Members:
Kara Olidge, kolidge@hmi.org
Timothy Stewart-Winter, timsw@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Peter Savastano, p.savastano@comcast.net
Teaching & Mentoring Committee
The primary goals of this committee are as follows:
1. To develop educational initiatives that create synergy among university, high schools and other affiliated officials, staffers, faculty, and staff who have a stake in building an preserving Queer Newark archives through initiatives that promote skills-building as part of regular coursework as well as networking and mentoring relationships; 2. To incorporate work within the Newark Queer Archives initiative as part of regular coursework that includes oral history methodology, archives creation, preservation, and display; 3. To develop opportunities for collaborative intellectual ventures (as part of independent study work, internships, or other formalized arrangements) that allow students from various schools and universities meet, interact, and work together on building and strengthening the archives.
Members:
Carlos Decena, cudecena@rci.rutgers.edu
Resource Development Committee
Committee Chair: Bryan Epps eppsb782@gmail.com
The primary role of the Resource and Development Committee is to ensure that the activities, events and programs within the Queer Newark Project (QNP) have the financial/material resources to be effective. The Committee will also work to provide a level of financial oversight for the project and its respective committees. Basic responsibilities of the committee include: 1) budgeting and financial planning in collaboration with QNP committees and “management”. 2) fundraising, and cultivating relationships with prospective donors including but not limited to: foundations, government entities and community stakeholders. 3) working with prospective volunteers and committees to cultivate resources i.e. in-kind services, volunteer time, etc. 3) develop processes, policies and record keeping for development and spending.
Student & Community Outreach Committee
Committee Chair, Darnell L. Moore, mooredarnell@gmail.com
The Student & Community Outreach Committee will serve as the central liaison between the conference organizers and the university and broader community. We will develop and implement outreach strategies so that we can communicate our goals and programs to various stakeholders and publics.
Arts & Entertainment Committee
Committee Chair:Kiyan Willliams, kiyanwilliams@gmail.com
The goals of this committee are to 1) organize three presentations (~five minutes in length) by Newark-based artists whose work engages themes of LGBT identities/experiences; 2) organize the evening entertainment, including a poetry slam and vogue performances that will transition into an evening celebration of dance and music. The Committee will explore the many facets of Newark arts scene (including galleries, art councils, and youth organizations) for visual and performance art that explores LGBT identity, same-sex desire, and gender non-conformity. Pandora Scooter will hold poetry workshops prior to the conference that will build towards the poetry slam during the evening of the conference.
Members:
Pandora Scooter, pandora@pandorascooter.com
Rodney Gilbert, Rahghil@aol.com
Bibliography Committee
Committee Chair: Whitney Strub, wstrub@andromeda.rutgers.edu
This committee will create a comprehensive bibliography of scholarly work, journalism, and websites relating to queer Newark. Its goal is to provide the best possible background reading for anyone interested in learning about queer Newark. It will include sections on the history of Newark, on LGBT history, and on comparative urban histories, as well as theoretical work on sexuality, identity, queerness, culture, and urban space.
Marketing & Public Relations Committee
Committee Co-Chairs:
Tamara A. Fleming, tfleming@femworksllc.com
Christina Strasburger, cstras@andromeda.rutgers.edu
The Marketing and Public Relations committee for the Queer Newark: Our Voices, Our Histories oral history project is charged with identifying effective marketing, branding, communication methods and media to ensure that the project and its inaugural conference on November 12, 2011 is promoted in the Rutgers community and the city of Newark. The committee addresses internal as well as external marketing and strategic communication issues and needs. It also supports the efforts of the Project’s other committees, specifically those related to Arts & Entertainment and Community Outreach.
