Series VII. BORN-DIGITAL RECORDS, 1990-2018 (#E.1-E.3)

Series VII, BORN-DIGITAL RECORDS, 1990-2018 (#E.1-E.3), includes born-digital files created by Cogswell and others, including documents, e-mails, audiovisual materials, graphics, photographs, and web sites. Files relate to Cogswell's activist work, her writings, and other business and creative projects.

Electronic files (#E.1-E.2) were received on three 3.5 inch diskettes and one external hard drive. Disks were imaged using FTK Imager. Data on two of the diskettes were unrecoverable. Data on the remaining diskette (#E.1) has been converted to PDF/A for preservation and delivery. Data received on the external hard drive (#E.2) has been deposited in Harvard's Digital Repository Service and the digital content can be accessed in the reading room at the Schlesinger Library. A digital folder list extracted from the hard drive will be linked to the #E.2 folder entry below. A selection of Cogswell's web sites are being captured as part of Schlesinger Library's web archiving program.

The hard drive of born-digital content (#E.2) contains files, many of which Cogswell created or collected while living in Paris, France. Some of the content relates to specific projects or organizations found in Cogswell's paper files; other files relate to projects not represented elsewhere in the collection. There are additional Goudou Explosive materials, including correspondence, promotional materials, account and images of the Paris Pride March (2008-2009?) and some Lesbian Avengers material for a French conference at Bagdam Espace Lesbien à Toulouse (April 2009) where Cogswell and Simo spoke. These materials include French promotional and information materials, and notes for a speech. The hard drive also contains additional files for The Gully, including articles; e-mails from readers and the media; applications from writers; newsletters; correspondence with authors; requests for articles, reprints, copyright permission; and reader opinions. Additional Homocom files include e-mail correspondence, board meeting minutes, finance and tax information, grant applications and other information on funding sources, letters of inquiry and letters of support, promotional information, and audio and video content. Many of these materials relate to Homocom's special projects, including Journalism 101 workshop/boot camp; Out for the Truth journalism workshop; and In Our Own Words Project.

The hard drive also contains many of Cogswell's articles she published as a freelance writer for Gay City News, International Herald Tribune, and Courier-Journal, among others. Included are drafts and final versions; research materials, such as reports and articles; contractor agreements; interviews; and related e-mails. Also included is information regarding Cogswell's blog Kelly Sans Culotte, as well as drafts of two of Cogswell's unpublished novels set in Paris: "Venal Seine" (2000-2004) and "Mortifying the Flesh" (2002), and a cookbook draft: "Down Home in a Kentucky Cuban Cocina" (2017). Other film and writing project materials include correspondence, media inquiries, research materials, notes, and story ideas related to Two 4 The Road, a partnership between Cogswell and filmmaker and photographer Harriet Hirshorn to produce short web videos (2007). There is also correspondence, information, web page draft, book sample cover designs, business plan, small press start up costs, sample contracts and possible book projects related to the setting up of a small press publishing company, Tetrapod, with Amy Parker; as well as a business plan, recipes, and expenses related to Cogswell's unrealized bourbon bar business venture in Paris. Series contains content also in Spanish and French. See also Series II and Series III for additional materials related to Cogswell's activist and writing work. Series is arranged chronologically.