{"id":47307,"date":"2023-09-14T12:04:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T19:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=47307"},"modified":"2025-09-23T10:53:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:53:49","slug":"avery-dame-griff","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/www.humanities.org\/speaker\/avery-dame-griff\/","title":{"rendered":"Avery Dame-Griff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Avery Dame-Griff<\/strong> (he\/him) is a lecturer in women&#8217;s and gender studies at Gonzaga University specializing in LGBTQ studies, political organizing, and the history of technology. He founded and serves as primary curator of the Queer Digital History Project, an independent community history project cataloging and archiving pre-2010 LGBTQ spaces online. 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