Northeastern University’s Digital Transgender Archive is heading to the West Coast. Courtesy of a $500,000 Mellon Foundation grant, the DTA, a free, publicly available archive of more than 10,300 digitized historical documents telling the histories of trans people, will be opening a new lab on Northeastern’s Oakland campus.
KJ Rawson, DTA project director and associate professor of English and women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Northeastern, says that although the archive is completely digital, the DTA has lab space in Boston where researchers, including Northeastern co-ops, work. Having a West Coast lab “opens up so many more possibilities,” Rawson says.
