Wikipedia:Meetup/Lez Wiki 2026

Lez Wiki 2026
Lesbian Herstory Archives edit-a-thon

When and Where
Date	Sunday, June 7, 2026 and Sunday June 14, 2026
Time	2:00 - 5:00pm
Address	Lesbian Herstory Archives 484 14th Street, Brooklyn NY
City, State	Brooklyn, New York 11215

Join us in person at the Lesbian Herstory Archives for a day of creating and updating Wikipedia pages related to Lesbians and Lesbian organizations. Let's work together to ensure the stories and contributions of Lesbians are accurately represented online.

No prior editing experience is necessary - we'll provide training and resources to help you get started. Come be a part of preserving and celebrating Lesbian history!

Details

Sign-up is required!

• Date: Sunday, June 7, 2026* and Sunday June 14, 2026
• Time: 2-5pm
• Location: Lesbian Herstory Archives, 484 14th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215
• Technology for editing: Please bring your own device for editing, ideally a laptop.

Register at this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lez-wiki-a-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-tickets-1990138664318

This is a mask-mandatory event. Because of space, we are limited to 20 attendees.

The June 7 session has been CANCELLED due to an emergency plumbing issue.

Editing Resources

• Beginner's Guide to Editing Wikipedia
• Five Pillars of Wikipedia
• Making edits to existing content

Example of keyword searching technique on the Internet Archive

• Editing FAQ
• Simplified Manual of Style
• Tutorial on Visual Editor
• Reliable Sources and Perennial Sources

Where to find sources:

• Internet Archive
• Google Scholar
• JSTOR

Task List

Existing articles to add to

Mabel Hampton

• Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman
• "The New Black, Part 2: Mabel and Bayard," Mickey Weems and David Parker
• Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia, Steve Hogan and Lee Hudson

Merle Woo

• Asian American Poets: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, Guiyou Huang, Emmanuel S. Nelson
• "Merle Woo" in Outstanding Lives: Profiles of Lesbians and Gay Men, Christa Brelin, Michael J. Tyrkus

Beth Brant

• "How Beth Brant Uplifted the Voices of Native American Queer Women," Janice Gould
• "Remembering Beth Brant," Julie Enszer and Tim Retzloff
• Contemporary Lesbian Writers of the United States, Sandra Pollack and Denise Wright

Samois

• "Samois: Pioneering Lesbian S/M History," Gayle Rubin
• Sadomasochism and the BDSM Community in the United States, Stephen Stein
• Porno Chic and the Sex Wars: American Sexual Representation in the 1970s, Carolyn Bronstein and Whitney Strub

Rosely Roth

• "Rosely Roth: The Trailblazing Jewish Woman Behind Brazil's Stonewall," Kathryn Lum
• "Memory, Activism and Visibility: Rosely Roth's Legacy in the Brazilian Lesbian-Feminist Movement" (in Spanish), Leandra Alencar Soares Lima de Passo and Tayssa Nobre Lobo
• The LGBTQ+ History Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained, Michael Bronski, Kit Heyam, Valerie Traub

Rauda Morcos

• "Aswat (Voices): An Interview with Rauda Morcos," Karen Krahulik
• Mundo Obrero/Workers World (2007.04.19)
• "Queer in Palestine," Curve Magazine

Coalition of African Lesbians

• Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights: (Neo)colonialism, Neoliberalism, Resistance and Hope, Nancy Nicol, et al.
• "African Lesbians Coalesce," off our backs
• "Interview with the Coalition of African Lesbians on a communal, solidarity-based approach to wellbeing"

AMASONG

• "We are women, hear us sing," Illinois Times
• "Musica Practica," Nina Gilbert
• Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Café Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights, David Margolick

Sara Facio

• Desires and Disguises: Five Latin American Photographers, Amanda Hopkinson
• Urban Photography in Argentina: Nine Artists of the Post-Dictatorship Era, David William Foster

New pages to be created

Lesbians in Cork

• "'Being part of LINC changed my life': Ireland's support organisation for queer women celebrates 20th anniversary," Peter Dunne
• Crossing the Threshold: The Story of the Marriage Equality Movement, Gráinne Healy and Ailbhe Smyth
• Tenth Progress Report: The Family, All-Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution
• Queer Republic of Cork: Cork's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Communities, 1970s-1990s, Orla Egan

Raquel Gutiérrez

• "Artists acknowledge the moments of transformation: In Conversation with Raquel Gutiérrez," Billy Lezra
• "Josh T. Franco Interviews Raquel Gutiérrez"

★If you are having trouble accessing any of the PDFs, you can also find them in this Google drive folder

Attendees

• LesbianThriftGod
• Brnt83529
• Cheekychooky
• Earth.2iris
• Ark112000
• SierraRosemarie
• Bananapeps
• Riolasaurus rex
• CygnusPavo2
• Kitestar
• Bklibcat67