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SFYOU: Meet the professor engineering the Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony, Elise Chenier

By: Meera Eragoda, Staff Writer Name: Elise Chenier Pronouns: She/her/hers Department Affiliation: Professor in the SFU History Department Hometown: Toronto, Ontario Occupation: History professor, Director of the Archive of Lesbian Oral Testimony It’s likely that the majority of people reading this have not heard about something called the Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony (ALOT). The brainchild of Elise Chenier, an oral historian and professor at SFU, ALOT was founded in 2010 and is primarily a digital collection of audio and video recordings centring around people who have identified as lesbian at some point in their lives. The goal of ALOT is…

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