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...

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

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

“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...

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

Our Beginnings Since 2000 a group of women discussed how to preserve the many lesbian cultural objects such as labrys, paintings,...

Could violence be liberating? Not a commonly posed question concerning women’s relationship to the serious issue of domestic and related...

In 2001 a small archives group was set up in Auckland to try to encourage people to write their stories and send them to LAGANZ (Lesbian...

The Charlotte Museum Trust contains within its archives a selection of lesbian feminist newsletters and magazines from the 1980s. Run by...

Recently I had the pleasure of playing tourist in the fine city of Auckland, casting aside my commuters’ hat in favour of walk socks and...

You know that feeling when you come across a photo of a woman knitting and you know you know her partner from somewhere but for the life...

See these items and more at the Charlotte Museum! Shown below are some of the interesting items we have on display at the museum.