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Series IV. Written Works, 1973-2016, inclusive

Extent

7.5 Linear Feet in 17 manuscript boxes and 1 flat box.

Extent

767 kilobytes in 28 computer files.

Scope and Contents

Series IV. Written Works includes both published and unpublished written works by Diane Torr, as well as research files that she maintained on a variety of topics. A bulk of the series is comprised of Torr's journals, maintained from 1973-2016. Torr published the book Sex, Drag, and Male Roles: Investigating Gender as Performance in 2010. She also contributed to several anthologies and works by other authors, including Dick for a Day, edited by Fiona Giles (1997); Sex Tips: Advice from Women Experts Around the World by Jo-Anne Baker (1999); and Aroused: A Collection of Erotic Writing, edited by Karen Finley (2001). Torr also wrote shorter pieces on a variety of personal and professional topics, such as dance, performance, birth, death, eroticism, aging, and gender. This series also includes correspondence with literary publishers, and with authors during the writing of Female Masculinity by Jack Halberstam (1998) and Memories of the Revolution: The First Ten Years of the WOW Cafe Theater by Holly Hughes et al (2015).

Arrangement

This series is arranged alphabetically. Torr's journals are grouped together and arranged chronologically.

"3 Images", undated, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Applying Aikido to Dance", undated, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Artist Statements, 2001-2005, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Arts and Humanities Research Council -- Fellowship applications, 2004-2005, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Beats on the Beach", 2001

Digital materials

"Beats on the Beach" (Material Type: Electronic Record)

"Buck Naked: How Big is the 'Dance' Community?" by G.R. Wolfe, 1996

Box: 23, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

CAT Lab research proposal on voyeurism, 1984

Box: 23, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Collaborative stories with drawings, undated, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 63, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Correspondence with literary publishers, 1995-1999, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Dance as expression of eternal through the temporal polarities", undated, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Darren's Day Out", undated, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Dear Julie Burchill," East Village Eye, January, 1982

Box: 23, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Disco Dancing: Women Moving Together", undated, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

DIY Writing Retreat, June, 2007

Box: 23, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Drag King Workshop book proposals, 1994-2001, inclusive

Digital files, 1998-2001, inclusive

Digital materials

Digital files (Material Type: Electronic Record)

Paper materials, 1994-1998, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Asymmetry", undated, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Body Thought Movement", undated, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Essay on transgender portrayal in performance, 2001

Digital materials

Essay on transgender portrayal in performance (Material Type: Electronic Record)

Eulogy for Robert Burns, Kilmarnock Memorial, undated, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Experiential Knowledge vs. Prejudiced Opinion", undated, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Female Masculinity -- Correspondence with Jack Halberstam, 1997, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Feminism, What Relationship to Capitalism", 1977

Box: 23, Folder: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Gender Behavior and the Codification of Gesture", 2001

Digital materials

"Gender Behavior and the Codification of Gesture" (Material Type: Electronic Record)

"A Girl's Guide to Being a Man", 2001-2003, inclusive

Digital materials

"A Girl's Guide to Being a Man" (Material Type: Electronic Record)

"Guy Fawkes Night", undated, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 35 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"History of Erotica and the Erotic Subject", undated, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 36 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Houston to Varick", undated, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"How to be a Great Guy" -- Contribution to Dick for a Day, edited by Fiona Giles, 1996-1997, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 38 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"If You Don't Mind...", 2007

Box: 23, Folder: 39 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"James Brown", September 23, 2009

Box: 23, Folder: 40 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journals, 1973-2016, inclusive

Journal, 1973

Box: 24, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1975-1981, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1975

Box: 24, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1976

Box: 24, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1976

Box: 24, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1976

Box: 24, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, circa 1976

Box: 24, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1977

Box: 24, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1977

Box: 25, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1977

Box: 25, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1978

Box: 25, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1978

Box: 25, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1979

Box: 25, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1979

Box: 25, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1979

Box: 26, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1979-1980, inclusive

Box: 26, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal -- "How to Survive the New Health Catastrophes", 1980

Box: 26, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1980-2004, inclusive

Box: 26, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1981

Box: 26, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1981

Box: 26, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1981

Box: 27, Folder: 1-2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Processing Information

Folder 2 contains folded documents that were removed from the journal and flattened for improved housing.

Journal, 1981-1983, inclusive

Box: 27, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1982

Box: 27, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1983-1984, inclusive

Box: 27, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1985-1987, inclusive

Box: 27, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1986

Box: 27, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1987

Box: 27, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1987

Box: 27, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1989

Box: 28, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1991

Box: 28, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1992-1993, inclusive

Box: 28, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1995

Box: 28, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1995-1996, inclusive

Box: 28, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1996

Box: 28, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1998

Box: 28, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 1999-2006, inclusive

Box: 29, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2002

Box: 29, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2002

Box: 29, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2002-2003, inclusive

Box: 29, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal -- Arts and Business Training Materials, 2003

Box: 29, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal -- "Ideas", 2003

Box: 29, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2003

Box: 30, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2003

Box: 30, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2003

Box: 30, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2003

Box: 30, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal -- "AHRC Notes", 2004

Box: 30, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal -- "Germany, Berlin, UK, Places to check out", 2004

Box: 30, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2004

Box: 30, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2004

Box: 30, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal -- "Bits From Books", circa 2004-2005, inclusive

Box: 30, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal -- "DK Stuff", 2005

Box: 30, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal -- "Forming a Company", 2005

Box: 30, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal -- "Helensborough", 2005

Box: 31, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2005

Box: 31, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2005

Box: 31, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal -- "LLAFF", 2006

Box: 31, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2006

Box: 31, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2006

Box: 31, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2006

Box: 31, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2006

Box: 31, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal -- "Films and Dreams", 2007

Box: 31, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, August, 2007

Box: 31, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2007-2008, inclusive

Box: 31, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2008

Box: 32, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2008

Box: 32, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2008

Box: 32, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2008

Box: 32, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2008-2009, inclusive

Box: 32, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2008-2009, inclusive

Box: 32, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2008-2012, inclusive

Box: 32, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal -- "The Duck Dance", April 10, 2009

Box: 32, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, circa 2009

Box: 32, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2009-2010, inclusive

Box: 32, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2010

Box: 33, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2010-2011, inclusive

Box: 33, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2011

Box: 33, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2011

Box: 33, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2011

Box: 33, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2012

Box: 33, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2012

Box: 33, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2012

Box: 33, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2012-2014, inclusive

Box: 34, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2012-2015, inclusive

Box: 34, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2013

Box: 34, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2013

Box: 34, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2013

Box: 34, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2013-2014, inclusive

Box: 34, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2014

Box: 34, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2014

Box: 34, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2014

Box: 34, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2014-2016, inclusive

Box: 34, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2015

Box: 34, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2015-2016, inclusive

Box: 34, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, 2015-2016, inclusive

Box: 35, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal -- "DK - La Rochelle", undated, inclusive

Box: 35, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal -- "DK - Hamburg (Here), San Sebastian, undated, inclusive

Box: 35, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal -- Umbrella dance and sketches, undated, inclusive

Box: 35, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, undated, inclusive

Box: 35, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, undated, inclusive

Box: 35, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, undated, inclusive

Box: 35, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, undated, inclusive

Box: 35, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, undated, inclusive

Box: 35, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, undated, inclusive

Box: 35, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, undated, inclusive

Box: 35, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, undated, inclusive

Box: 35, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, undated, inclusive

Box: 36, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, undated, inclusive

Box: 36, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, undated, inclusive

Box: 36, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, undated, inclusive

Box: 36, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Journal, undated, inclusive

Box: 36, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Kings of the Hills" by Diane Torr and Jane Czyzselska, undated, inclusive

Box: 36, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Kunst und Praxis der Verkleidungskunst von der Frau zum Mann", undated, inclusive

Box: 36, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Lake Cuntry Drag King Fling" -- Contribution to Aroused: A Collection of Erotic Writing, edited by Karen Finley, 2001

Digital files

Digital materials

Digital files (Material Type: Electronic Record)

Paper materials

Box: 36, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Let's see here: seven written responses to a photograph", 2010

Box: 36, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Letter from Manhattan", 2001

Digital materials

"Letter from Manhattan" (Material Type: Electronic Record)

"The Man for a Day Handbook", 1998-2006, inclusive

Correspondence, 2006

Box: 36, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Notes and research, 1998-2004, inclusive

Box: 36, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Memories of the Revolution: The First Ten Years of the WOW Cafe Theater Questionnaire, 2000

Box: 36, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Meteor Showers", August 12, 2009

Box: 36, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Miracle Baby", October 13, 2008

Box: 36, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Mirth", February 8, 2009

Box: 36, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Model Monologue", undated, inclusive

Box: 36, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"A movement of gestures depicting a section of daily life as related", undated, inclusive

Box: 36, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Myriam", October 11, 2008

Box: 36, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"N-Tube", April 21, 2009

Box: 36, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Naked", February 9, 2009

Box: 36, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Notes on contract improvisation with Julia, undated, inclusive

Box: 36, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

On dance and choreography, undated, inclusive

Box: 36, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

On drag and gender experimentation, June 6, 2009

Box: 36, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

On the drag king scene, 1997

Box: 36, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

On evolution, undated, inclusive

Box: 36, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

On pornography and eroticism, undated, inclusive

Box: 37, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

On Queen Elizabeth II, undated, inclusive

Box: 37, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Performing Masculinity -- Reader reviews, 2008

Box: 37, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Personal writings, 1978-2015, inclusive

Box: 37, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"The Politics and Practices of Cross-Dressing for Women", undated, inclusive

Box: 37, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Protective Texts: Are We Safe Yet?", undated, inclusive

Box: 37, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Release, Aikido, Drag King, Aikido, Release", undated, inclusive

Box: 63, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Relinquish", undated, inclusive

Box: 37, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Research files, 1961-2011, inclusive

Claude Cahun, 1992-2010, inclusive

Box: 37, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dance techniques, 1980-2004, inclusive

Box: 37, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Death, 1990-2000, inclusive

Box: 37, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Drag, 1993-1999, inclusive

Box: 37, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dusty: The Classie Biography by Lucy O'Brien, with annotations, 1999

Box: 38, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Feminist issues, 1993-2006, inclusive

Box: 38, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Fluxus, 2002

Box: 38, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Gender and performance, 1991-1992, inclusive

Box: 38, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Gender and sexuality, 1995-2006, inclusive

Box: 38, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

LGBTQ+ rights, 1992-2010, inclusive

Box: 38, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Masculinity, 1991-1994, inclusive

Box: 38, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Monique Wittig, 2003

Box: 38, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Patrick O'Connor, 1989-1993, inclusive

Box: 38, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Performance art, 1961-1997, inclusive

Box: 38, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Performance: Live Art 1909 to the Present by Rose Lee Goldberg, with annotations, circa 1978

Box: 38, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Philosophy and art, 2004

Box: 38, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Robert Burns, 1992-2004, inclusive

Box: 39, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sex education and reproductive health, 1992-1997, inclusive

Box: 39, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sign languages and hieroglyphics, undated, inclusive

Box: 39, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sound and vocal performance, 1998-2000, inclusive

Box: 39, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Style and clothing references, 1942-2003, inclusive

Box: 39, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Transgender history, 1974-2011, inclusive

Box: 39, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Settle", May 15, 2007

Box: 39, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sex, Drag, and Male Roles: Investigating Gender as Performance, 2010-2011, inclusive

Box: 39, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sex Tips: Advice from Women Experts Around the World by Jo-Anne Baker, 1999

Digital files

Digital materials

Digital files (Material Type: Electronic Record)

Paper materials

Box: 39, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Shiatsu and Understanding the Five Element Theory of Acupuncture", undated, inclusive

Box: 39, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Summing Up", October 12, 2008

Box: 39, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Teshikur", May 21, 2007

Box: 39, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Things to take camping", undated, inclusive

Box: 39, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"To pass from words to ideas is but one step", undated, inclusive

Box: 39, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Touring the U.S. on the Cheap", undated, inclusive

Box: 63, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Untitled pieces, 1985-2008, inclusive

Box: 39, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Untitled scripts, 2007, undated, inclusive

Box: 39, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Vote", May 14, 2009

Box: 39, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Which Witch", undated, inclusive

Box: 39, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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