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Podcast: Pretty Heady Stuff
Episode: Margaret Galvan travels between visual archives to sense how memory is preserved & proscribed
Description: Margaret Galvan is Assistant Professor of visual rhetoric in the Department of English at the University of Florida. Her research examines how visual culture operates within the print media of feminist and queer social movements in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Her first book, In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s explores how publishing practices and archives have shaped understandings of the visual within feminist and queer activism.
This episode is being released on World AIDS Day. Margaret’s book is partly focused on the tragedy of AIDS for a generation of people that saw the vi...