This internship allowed me to further explore my interest in exhibit curation, this time completely on my own. It helped me understand some of the challenges that come with that process, especially when dealing with a group with close to zero research done about it. I was also able to practice collaborating with peers, and getting advice on my work from my supervisor and fellow intern.

I will continue my work with TQHP into the fall, this time acting in the role of an oral history interviewer, doing multiple interviews with members of Tidewater's queer community, to further contribute to the archive of interviews and testimonies already hosted by the project.

In my humanities education, I have been taught the value of perspective. Each person's view of events and the importance of those events matter, because it shows us our own motivations and values. My ideas for my projects came out of projects I had done in classes before, one where I collaborated with an entire class on an exhibit, and one where I created an educational zine. In my education I have encountered unique assignments that really make me question what matters to me, and how can I best express that. I brought these classroom experiences into my internship and those experiences inspired the work I wanted to do. The uniqueness of the humanities requires us to think of unique solutions, which is what drove me to this internship in the first place. TQHP has done an immeasurable amount of good for queer history, but that history is still inaccessible to most of the community, and the aim of my internship was to help remedy that, even just a little.

The group that I discussed in my digital exhibit, House of Camelot, is very unknown and no scholarly research about it exists outside of TQHP (as far as I know), this then required me to intertwine not just what I know about HOC in my exhibit, but also what I can infer about them through my research. Doing this has some ethical questions on if it is right to report on a subject with little to no answers, but through my work in my history classes, I've come to the conclusion that if done with grace and respect, some speculation is often warranted. I hope that the ideas and questions that I raise in my exhibit, even if they are wrong, eventually lead to more attention being given to HOC and groups like it, hopefully culminating in the many knowledge gaps I encountered being filled in. I found that my training in the historical field made me better equipped to handle a sensitive subject like this, and I was able to provide not only a narrative of House of Camelot itself, but also the historical context it was contained in.