Research Centers, Archives, Libraries, and Special Collections (USA)

Archives, libraries, special collections, and research centers in the United States related to women, gender, sexuality, feminisms, LGBTQ+ studies, and similar topics.

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  • Catalyst is a nonprofit research and advisory organization helping organizations drive systemic change for all women in the workplace.​ 
  • Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective is a group of researchers, educators, students, archivists and technologists dedicated to preserving imperiled Chicanx and Latinx histories of the long Civil Rights Era.
  • Families and Work Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing research for living in today’s changing workplace, changing family, and changing community.
  • The Feminist Institute is documenting feminist contributions to culture by preserving and digitizing archival materials for students, researchers, and the public to access.
  • The Fenway Institute conducts policy research on issues affecting LGBTQIA+ health, HIV policy, hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections, tuberculosis, and other issues.
  • The Guttmacher Institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights worldwide.
  • The Institute for Research on Male Supremacism provides in-depth research and timely analysis of male supremacist mobilization, ideology, and violence.

Archives, Libraries, Special Collections

  • The ACT UP Oral History Project is an archive of 187 interviews with members of ACT UP – the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power – New York. 
  • Archives of Women of the Southwest is a collection of personal and organizational records related to women and women’s issues in the southwest region of the United States.
  • Archives on Black Women – A List of Collections from BlackFeminisms.com
  • Black Woman’s Suffrage explores linkages between women’s suffrage and other social causes of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as well as racism within the Suffrage Movement.
  • The Digital Transgender Archive expands access to trans history for academics and independent researchers alike in order to foster education and dialog concerning trans history.
  • Invisible Histories locates, collects, researches, and creates community-based, educational programming around LGBTQ history in the Deep South.
  • Jewish Women’s Archive documents Jewish women’s stories, elevates their voices, and inspires them to be agents of change.
  • Lesbian Herstory Archives exists to gather, preserve, and provide access to records of Lesbian lives and activities.
  • Library of Congress Women’s History Digital Collections, including Carrie Chapman Catt papers, Mary Church Terrell Papers, National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, and more.
  • LGBTQ Religious Archives Network coordinates and supports the preservation of personal papers and organizational records from lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender religious movements.
  • Queer Digital History Project is an independent community digital history project documenting pre-2010 LGBTQ digital spaces online. 
  • Queer Zine Archive Project preserves queer zines and makes them available to other queers, researchers, historians, punks, and anyone else who has an interest in DIY publishing and underground queer communities.
  • OUTWORDS Archive captures, preserves, and shares the stories of LGBTQIA2S+ elders to build community and catalyze social change.
  • Women Working, 1800-1930, is an exploration of women’s impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression, hosted by Harvard Library.

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