My name is Emily Hathaway, and I am currently doing an internship with Queer Heritage South at Marlborough Productions. I recently finished the third and final year of my BA Anthropology course at the University of Sussex, and I conducted my dissertation research on queer digital archives. As a queer woman, I was interested in the ways that archives can represent queerness but also how they can affect the lives of those who interact with them. In exploring the digital archive, I became more and more fascinated with the power that they hold. I decided to conduct my dissertation research on this very topic. 

In the beginning of 2026 I interviewed six queer members of the public during a session where we explored and engaged with the Museum of Transology and Queer Heritage South archives. My aim was to explore how queer digital heritage archives are experienced by the people they aim to represent, andts and feelings of queer people as they interact with the archives. 

Looking Inward