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"Living Outside the World of Sexual Categories" (2 pages), 2004 A digital scan of two pages of the Michigan Daily from November 18th, 2004, featuring two halves of an article about the experiences of transgender students at UM. This covers the 2004 University's Report of the Task Force on the Campus Climate for Transgender, Bisexual, Lesbian and Gay Faculty, Staff and Students. This includes personal accounts from transgender students (Denise Brogan, André Wilson, Stephen Rassi) and information spreading awareness about the personal and legal struggles of transgender and transsexual individuals in general. -
Transgender/Transsexual photo exhibit, Michigan Union Art Lounge, 1997 A digital scan of a page of the Michigan Daily from December 5th, 1997, featuring an article about the photo exhibit "Crossing Over: Images of Transgender Performance Across Cultures" and a photo of a student viewing the exhibit. This exhibit showcased photos of Indian kinnar, drag queens in Greenwich Village, and other individuals taking part in "cross-dressing" traditions. These photos were the result of fieldwork by anthropology professor Sarah Caldwell and graduate student Brian Mooney. -
Spectrum Center Gender Explorers support group ad, Sept. 14, 2009 Zoomed-in screenshot of a digital scan of a page of the Michigan Daily from September 14th, 2009, featuring an ad for a Spectrum Center support group called Gender Explorers. This was "a support group for transgender and transsexual students" hosted by the Spectrum Center. -
Listing for talk "Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation" (2/28/1990) Zoomed-in screenshot of a digital scan of a page of the Michigan Daily from February 28th, 1990 featuring a listing for an on-campus discussion called "Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation." The talk was advertised as an event that would feature "transsexual, transvestite, Lesbian and Gay male speakers." -
“Advertisement for the University of Michigan’s Problem Pregnancy Counseling,” Add placed in the Michigan Daily newspaper advertising abortion referral services. -
Closing Scene at the Old Bailey This newspaper illustration shows scenes from the trial of Oscar Wilde in 1895. It was published by The Illustrated Police News, a tabloid paper specializing in sensational stories about real-life crime that covered the trial heavily. The drawings show Wilde in court, and also the auctioning of his art collection to pay his legal fees.