This blog is taken from the zine 'VIEW OF OUR STREET' a companion zine to the exhibition A View of OUR STREET 16 June 2023 - 9 September...

Auckland Zinefest is just around the corner! To celebrate, we’re looking at the rise of zine publishing and the role it plays in...

Image: Badges from the Charlotte Museum Collection Image: Broadsheet Magazine June 1977 Front Cover, from the University of Auckland...

In honour of New Zealand Music Month, we’re shining a spotlight on some of the lesbian and queer women who have made waves in Aotearoa’s...

A brief look at the life and loves of Katherine Mansfield. After discussing female companionship, it would be difficult not to talk about...

The famous poet Sappho may be well known, but not many details about her life are clear. Born around 615 B.C., her life and its events...

Female companionship is something that has always existed but has shifted slightly depending on changing societal attitudes. These...

Last night I watched the movie, "the miseducation of Cameron Post." The movie's plot was about a teenager forced to go to conversion...

Dame Lynda and Dame Julie (Jools) Topp, AKA the Topp Twins, have had incredibly varied and successful careers spanning four decades....

Homewares: A decanter and a figure of dolls from the Charlotte Museum. The collection and exhibitions at Charlotte Museum have a wide...

International Lesbian Day is a day for celebration in the lesbian community, but what exactly is International Lesbian Day? And what is...

Walking around the Charlotte Museum I found myself intrigued by a tin in one of the glass cabinets with the word Lezzo placed across it...

A symbol of summer, music festivals bring up memories of grassy picnics, hazy dancing, a cacophony of acoustic bass, vocals, and drums...

“Reading between the lines is a life-long skill acquired by lesbians.” – Doreen Agassiz-Suddens All over the world and across every...

Lockdown has currently put a hold on all our archiving work at the Charlotte Museum until we go back down to Level 2 or Level 1. But...

As the old saying goes “history is written by the victors.” Although originally relating to stories of war and conquest, this notion...

The cover page of Broadsheet Magazine Jan 1978, issue no. 56. While doing some archiving work for the Charlotte Museum, our team was...

"I'm a feminist, but..." A familiar phrase to many who tune into Deborah Francis-White's award-winning podcast, The Guilty Feminist....

The Charlotte Museum is excited to be exhibiting SafeKeeping by Veronica Slater. The exhibit includes two bodies of work, a...

In June 2019 the 43 rd Lesbian Spring Meeting (LFT) met in Cologne. The theme was to look up at the stars, where we have come from, what...