A feminist archive in a shop unit on Herner Straße, founded in 1995 and describing itself as being for women, lesbians and girls. It keeps what the mainstream archives did not: a subject-sorted newspaper clipping archive, magazines, posters, films, books, unpublished reports, and the personal papers of activists.
The lesbian holdings are the part worth travelling for. The papers of the LAG Lesben in NRW are here, along with material on lesbians in sport and on lesbians under National Socialism, which became a touring exhibition. The archive is part of the i.d.a. network and feeds the Deutsches Digitales Frauenarchiv, so some of it can be read before you arrive.
It also runs guided walks through Bochum on women's history, one of them under the name Krawallschachteln. Visits work by appointment as well as during the open afternoons.
The people in this picture are AI-generated.
