{"id":200,"date":"2026-04-28T20:02:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bushidseportfolio\/?page_id=200"},"modified":"2026-04-30T18:57:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:57:59","slug":"tidewater-queer-history-project-internship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bushidseportfolio\/academics\/writing\/tidewater-queer-history-project-internship\/","title":{"rendered":"A Light in The Darkness (Internship Reflection)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For this internship, I wanted to create a study of history and place. Knowing the<br>history is one thing but seeing and interacting with it is a different story. For this, I<br>wanted to find something that would let me apply various skills I have accumulated over<br>the years, while also learning new things, and hopefully learning more about the history<br>of Norfolk. An internship with Professor Cathleen Rhodes, Department of Women&#8217;s<br>Studies, Director of Gay Cultural Studies, and the Tidewater Queer History Project<br>(TQHP), whose \u201c\u2026mission is to document and archive the stories of queer people of<br>Hampton Roads\u201d, fit the bill.<\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bushidseportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40973\/2026\/04\/Bush-Internship-Final.docx.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\"  data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Bush-Internship-Final.docx<br\/><\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this internship, I wanted to create a study of history and place. Knowing thehistory is one thing but seeing and interacting with it is a different story. For this, Iwanted to find something that would let me apply various skills I have accumulated overthe years, while also learning new things, and hopefully learning more&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bushidseportfolio\/academics\/writing\/tidewater-queer-history-project-internship\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":32262,"featured_media":0,"parent":142,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bushidseportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bushidseportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bushidseportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bushidseportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bushidseportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bushidseportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bushidseportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200\/revisions\/219"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bushidseportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/bushidseportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}