Womonspace : building a lesbian community in Edmonton, Alberta, 1970-1990
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Abstract
This thesis investigates the methods used by one group of women to increase the social spaces available to Edmonton lesbians.Ultimately, this paper analyzes the contributions of social space to community identity.In this case, Edmonton's longest running lesbian organization "Womonspace" serves as a unique testament to the importance of social methods for strengthening a sense of community identity.In 1981, the founders of "Wornonspace" set out to provide lesbians with a safe place in which to socialize and to foster a positive lesbian identity.The impetus for a growing lesbian organization came in part from a shared sense of oppression from both straight feminist groups and sexist gay male organizations.The mandate of the group stressed safeguarding the privacy of its members.Womonspace organizers believed that overt political involvement discouraged closeted lesbians from joining the group.Thus, organizers did not adopt a political agenda.Not every member agreed with this policy.However, the goal of building a community and increasing social networks for lesbians called for a reasonable alternative to the more public face of activism.Ultimately, the efforts ofWomonspace strengthened the visibility of Edmonton's once scattered and indiscernible lesbian population.Dances provided the central social event followed by a number of other leisure activities.Word of mouth, along with a monthly newsletter, kept lesbians abreast of social happenings in and around Edmonton.Before long, the organization attracted women from both the city and from nearby rural areas.Thus, Womonspace expanded and transformed the cultural development with Womonspace and the Edmonton lesbian community of twenty-years ago.These women envisioned a safe space in which to meet, socialize, and enhance lesbian visibility.All Womonspace participants identified a need to shape the lesbian community they inhabit and eliminate social and political barriers experienced by most lesbians.This thesis is dedicated to the expressions of lesbian experience in Western Canada.Lastly, but not least of all, I want to thank my family and my partner for their continuing support.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".