Southern Arizona Gender Alliance records
Collection area: Arizona Queer Archives
Collection dates: bulk 2001 to 2016
This collection is primarily comprised of records of the Southern Arizona Gender Alliance related to the 2006 and 2007 Trans Awareness Week in Tucson including details and calanders on events and workshops, participant feedback, and news articles. Organizations like the U of A, Wingspan, and the Southern Arizona Gender Alliance (SAGA) are featured, along with Tucson Pride and publications like Colorez (a Southern Arizona based queer magazine). Erin Russ donated this collection and wrote and editorial on trans voices and inclusion in 2007 that was published in Colorez. This collection is part of the Arizona Queer Archives (AQA), a community focused archive through the Institute for LGBT Studies at the University of Arizona. It was transferred to Special Collections in 2020.
This collection was donated by Erin Russ and contains information on the Southern Arizona Gender Alliance (SAGA). SAGA is a nonprofit oganization in Tucson that was born out of a Wingspan meeting in 1998. SAGA's work is to create support and justice for trans and gender non conforming individuals in Southern Arizona. This collection specifically focuses on Tucson's Trans Awareness Week and Transgender Day of Remembrance, which is annually commemorated on November 20th. Transgender Day of Rememberance honors transgender individuals who have been murdered, and began to honor the memory of trans woman, Rita Hester who was stabbed to death in her Boston apartment in 1998.
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