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    Matchmaking in the Archive
    19 Conversations with the Dead and 3 Encounters with Ghosts

    E.G. Crichton (Author), Jonathan D. Katz (Contributions by), Chris E. Vargas (Contributions by), Michelle Tea (Contributions by)

    9781978823143, Rutgers University Press

    Hardback, published 10 February 2023

    264 pages, 24 color illus.
    20.3 x 12.7 x 2.3 cm, 0.059 kg

    "E.G. Crichton has created a testament to lineage and liberation for all of us who know that diving into the past is also simultaneous discovery into our own psyche. This is a touching study of how identity, art, and lineage tie into the physical artifacts of our lives. Riveting and a true pleasure to read." 
    - Susie Bright (Editor-at-Large and Executive Producer of The Bright List at Audible and Author of Mommy's Little Gi)
    "E.G. Crichton's Matchmaking has shown us wonderful new ways of bringing together archives, history, and art. In this account of her work, the living and the dead, objects and records, and people mingle promiscuously, bringing new worlds to light."
    - Graham Willett (historian of queer Australia) “Matchmaking in the Archive connects today’s artists and queer ancestors…After reading it, there is a certain and distinct pleasure in a time jump, in nonlinear thinking, in reaching back and forth across decades as though all people from all time, living and dead, are sitting at one table, sharing a meal, passing dishes round and round, sharing and tasting the same things together.…If you have any interest in the history and lives of our LGBTQ ancestors, then, yes, this is a book I recommend for you." - Nico Hall (Autostraddle)

    Though today’s LGBTQ people owe a lot to the generations who came before them, their historical inheritances are not always obvious.
     
    Working with the archives of the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society, artist E.G. Crichton decided to do something to bridge this generation gap. She selected 19 innovative LGBTQ artists, writers, and musicians, then paired each of them with a deceased person whose personal artifacts are part of the archive. 
     
    Including 25 pages of vivid images, Matchmaking in the Archive documents this monumental creative project and adds essays by Jonathan D. Katz, Michelle Tea, and Chris Vargas, who describe their own unique encounters with the ghosts of LGBTQ history. Together, they make the archive come alive in remarkably intimate ways. 

    Introduction to Q+Public Books by series editors E.G. Crichton and Jeffrey Escoffier
    Preface
    Section I Resurrection: One Life at a Time
    Section II 19 Conversations with the Dead
    Section III 3 Encounters with Ghosts
    Animating the Dead by Jonathan D. Katz
    Magical Thinking by Michelle Tea
    Mi Transtepasado/My Trancestor: Amelio Robles &
    Aacute
    vila     by Chris E. Vargas
    Section IV Lineages of Desire
    Acknowledgements
    Notes on Participants and Contributors
    About the Author
    Index

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