Book Event for 'That's What I Am'
Sat, 26 Jul
|The Charlotte Museum
As part of our Aotearoa Queer History Month celebrations Lois Cox will be here to sign books and talk about her oral history project.
Time & Location
26 Jul 2025, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
The Charlotte Museum, 1A Howe Street, Freemans Bay, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
Guests
About the event
Author Lois Cox will be joining us to talk sign books and talk about the oral history project.
'The book draws on oral history interviews conducted in the late 1990s with sixteen lesbians from Aotearoa who were over the age of 50 at the time. It tells the women's stories through the decades, capturing memories of childhood, adolescence and early adulthood, falling in love and establishing relationships.
The storytellers talk of navigating identity and social stigma and forging connections in Wellington's evolving lesbian community. Together, their lives paint a vivid portrait of resilience and solidarity. This book is based on the Older Lesbians Oral History Project, running in North America since 1998. It was written just after the interviews were complete and is now published for the first time.
A vital document for the history of lesbian communities in twentieth century Aotearoa and a must-read for anyone interested in lesbian…