{"id":732811,"date":"2026-06-12T21:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T21:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/732811\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T21:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T21:36:09","slug":"sfu-professor-creating-an-archive-of-2slgbtq-stories-in-surrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/732811\/","title":{"rendered":"SFU professor creating an archive of 2SLGBTQ+ stories in Surrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At Simon Fraser University\u2019s Surrey Campus, a presentation was hosted by Professor of Gender, Sexuality &amp; Women\u2019s Studies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfu.ca\/gsws\/about-us\/people\/faculty\/jen-marchbank.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jen Marchbank<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The presentation showcased Marchbank\u2019s newest project, a collection of oral history interviews from the 2SLGBTQ+ community of Surrey for the purpose of creating a digital archive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As stated by Marchbank during her presentation, the queer history in cities such as Surrey that reside on the periphery of larger metropolises like Vancouver is often overlooked. This project aims to combat that by sharing the lived experiences of 2SLGBTQ+ throughout Surrey. To learn more about the project, we sat down for an interview with Jen Marchbank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At Simon Fraser University\u2019s Surrey Campus, a presentation was hosted by Professor of Gender, Sexuality &amp; Women\u2019s Studies,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-732811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}