Margaret Galvan joins Charis Books & More on Saturday, October 7 at 7:30pm ET (6:30pm CT) for a discussion of her new book, In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s, in conversation with Julie Kubala. 

For the in-person event, face masks are required for all attendees. Seating will begin at 7:00pm ET. If you are attending online, please pre-register here. This event is free and open to the public. To learn more, please visit Charis Books & More.

Exploring a number of feminist and cultural touchstones—the feminist sex wars, the HIV/AIDS crisis, the women in print movement, and countercultural grassroots periodical networks—In Visible Archives examines how visual culture provided a vital space for women artists to theorize and visualize their own bodies and sexualities.

"Margaret Galvan asks all the right questions about queer and feminist visual storytelling from the 1980s: Where were these works situated? How did communities use them? How have they been archived? Both commentary upon as well as an integral part of the activist project begun by the creators themselves, In Visible Archives helps keep these remarkable works visible for us all." —Justin Hall, California College of the Arts, editor of No Straight Lines

"This wonderful book demonstrates the critical importance of community-based archives. Utilizing primary source materials, Margaret Galvan has produced an original and consequential contribution to the history of the feminist sex wars, and her attention to the visual aspects of those documents provides long overdue recognition to the period’s artists, designers, and activists." —Gayle Rubin, University of Michigan