Acknowledgments

So many people who helped make this project possible! I would like to thank Kelly Anderson for her support in the process of making the project and throughout my time at Smith. She has dealt with all of my questions and thoughts and feelings and I’m so grateful for her patience and insights. Thank you to Nanci Young and Mary Biddle and everyone in Special Collections at Smith for helping me access these documents, scanning them, and giving me guidance about the collections. Thank you to Professor Sara Stoudt for her help thinking through visualizing the data. Thanks to Lauren Low who created incredible data visualizations about the survey. Thanks to Travis Grandy and Mario Valdebenito for all of their help in designing and executing this website. Thank you to all my LGBT role models and elders, especially those from my church, for helping me grow into my sexuality. Thanks to my incredible friends for listening to all my ideas and worries and musings, for helping me have a queer picnic and honor our lesbian ancestors at Smith, and for being incredible people who inspire me every day. And thank you to my family, for always supporting me on my journey and showing me what love looks like. Finally, thank you to Smith and Smithies, who have blessed me with these queer worlds and taught me lessons that I’ll take with me my whole life.