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The GLQ Gallery features Allyson Mitchell's 2010 installation for the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, A Girl's Journey into the Well of Forbidden Knowledge. In a plus-sized version of a sculpture gallery, two large ladies, in luminescent gold and silver, face two walls of books, attached to each other and to a giant crochet brain overhead by a crochet rope that links their crotches to the brain. Mitchell recreated a version of the Lesbian Herstory Archives reading room in Brooklyn by covering the walls of the gallery with trompe l'oeil wallpaper made from drawings of the books on the shelves. In addition to photographs of the installation, the GLQ Gallery features examples of Mitchell's original drawings.
In a brief commentary on the installation, Ann Cvetkovich discusses how Mitchell brings lesbian feminist history and culture to a larger public and creates an "archive of feelings" through the affective labor of redrawing the Lesbian Herstory Archives shelves. The Gallery also features Mitchell's Deep Lez I statement, a manifesto that calls for a return to lesbian feminist culture as a resource for contemporary queer cultures.

Scaling Up and Sharing Out Dyke Culture: Killjoy's Kastle's Haunted Block Party / Heather Love -- Lesbianizing the Institution: The Haunting Effects of Killjoy Hospitality at the Art Gallery of York University / Emelie Chhangur -- Feminist Killjoys (and Other Wilful Subjects) / Sara Ahmed -- Killjoy in the ONE Archives: Activating Los Angeles's Queer Art and Activist Histories / David Evans Frantz -- Inside Job: Collaboration and Queer-Feminist Contagion in Killjoy's Kastle / Helena Reckitt -- Valerie Solanas as the Goddamned Welcoming Committee / Felice Shays -- Valerie Solanas Script -- Playing Demented Women's Studies Professor Tour Guide, or Performing Monstrosity in Killjoy's Kastle / Moynan King -- Demented Women's Studies Professor Tour Guide Script -- The Sound of White Girls Crying / Nazmia Jamal -- Paranormal Killjoys / Ginger Brooks Takahasi -- Menstruating Trans Man / Chase Joynt -- A Ring around Your Finger Is a Cord around Your Genitals! / Chelsey Lichtman -- Once upon a Time I Was a Riot Ghoul / Kalale Dalton-Lutale -- Riot Ghoul / Andie Shabbar -- Inconvenienced / Madelyne Beckles -- On the Cusp of the Kastle / Karen Tongson -- Processing Killjoy's Kastle: A Deep Lez Performance / Ann Cvetkovich -- Facebook Statements:"We Learn More Every Time We Do This" -- Refl ections of a Real-Life Feminist Killjoy: Ball-Busters and the Recurring Trauma of Intergenerational Queer-Feminist Life / Kyla Wazana Tompkins -- R.I.P. Little Frida's / Chris E. Vargas -- Home Sick: Horror, Gothic Storytelling, and the Queers Who Haunt Houses / S. Trimble -- The Graveyards of Community Gathering: Archiving Lesbian and Feminist Life in London / Catherine Grant -- Leave Britney Alone! and Other Ghostly Feelings / Tobias B.D. Wiggins.