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Maxine Wolfe, a coordinator of the Lesbian Herstory Archives and keeper of the archive’s T-shirt collection, champions the power of political T-shirts. “People wonder why we would save T-shirts,” she tells BAZAAR.com over the phone. “Most people, when they think about politics, they don’t think about T-shirts. But I think that [making or wearing T-shirts] is one of those things that people have been doing forever as a way of creating an identity and being visible.”
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Wolfe describes several of the shirts in the collection that were created by marginalized groups claiming space for themselves, including one made by the Salsa Soul Sisters, the oldest Black lesbian organization in the United States. Salsa Soul Sisters formed out of the Black Lesbian Caucus of the gay liberation movement in the mid-’70s in response to existing gay organizations neither welcoming nor supporting the concerns of women of color. The group held regular community meetings on topics including racism and single lesbian parenting, and published Azalea: A Magazine by Third World Lesbians and the Salsa Soul Gayzette.