Dykeish Archive and Queer Research

DYKEISH is an ongoing journal of my discoveries found researching queer histories and digging through queer archives, academia, books, and collections of ephemera.

Additionally, it is a home for my own contributions to queer history-making. I love documenting queer lives, loves, and friendships with my photographic and artistic projects.

Reading Radclyffe Hall’s ‘The Well of Loneliness’ at sixteen years old made me feel understood in my queerness for the first time. Reading about people experiencing the same feelings, joys, and sorrows that I was feeling but from a hundred years in the past gave my experiences legitimacy. Furthermore, it connected me to a tradition of queerness that stretched back hundreds of years. There is no feeling that is more special than connecting to the past and feeling solidarity and kinship with ancestors you never knew you had.

I hope that my work can help queer people of today feel connected to their pasts and find the joy that I did in doing so and, additionally, document some of the queer lives of today that I am blessed to bear witness to; in the hopes that I can help queer people in the future find understanding in the queers of today.

“Someone will remember us / I say / even in another time” – Sappho, trans. Anne Carson.