Pride Storytelling Project

Our 2024-25 cohort is currently documenting stories of local LGBTQIAA2S+ History! 

Capital City Pride has identified a lack of documentation of LGBTQIAA2S+ experience and history in Thurston County. We are excited to partner on the Pride Storytelling Project to support LGBTQIAA2S+ community members to join a cohort of oral historians. This local documentation effort aims to foster a new generation of Queer storytellers equipped with the skills, confidence, and ethical framework necessary to share their own community’s stories and histories.

We welcomed 7 cohort members from an overwhelmingly skillful candidate pool. Cohort members meet monthly between October and June and will visit archives, design projects, and record and transcribe interviews. In year 2, (Oct 2025 - June 2026), we will invite new and continuing cohort members to design a creative project from the materials gathered for public presentation in the spring of 2026. Capital City Pride, our 2024-26 Community Roots project partner, initiated the Pride Storytelling Project with us because they identified a lack of historical accounts of LGBTQIAA2S+ history in local library and archival collections. We look forward to taking steps to address this gap in community partnership.

Read more about our cohort!

Thank you!

Inspire Olympia for supporting this initiative!

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