This course employs the lenses of critical bookmaking, feminist archival practice/theory, personal reflection and the sociocultural dynamics of gender to examine the 50th anniversary of coeducation at Phillips Exeter Academy. The primary activity will be to produce a Book of Voices: reflections by alums, students and community members on their experiences as girls, women, queer and trans students/adults at PEA. The project will consider the impact of coeducation on personal experiences as well as academic disciplines and administrative departments. Themes will include access, belonging, nostalgia, unconscious bias, language (including the word "coeducation"), safe spaces, empowerment, equality and passing. Working from the assumption that lived experience is knowledge, students will craft handmade books of personal stories for inclusion in the Academy archives to highlight and reinscribe diverse, sometimes untold, histories into institutional memory. Students will undertake a critical exploration of feminist, gender, queer and intersectional theories to frame this radical gesture of inclusion in order to examine how these theories illuminate issues in gender and education. Students will learn bookbinding techniques, consider how books (and related objects) represent, disseminate, exclude and validate knowledge, and explore how a book literally and metaphorically can "take up space" in institutional history. Key resources include: Ramia Mazé's Bookmaking as a Critical Feminist Practice; Marika Cifor and Stacy Wood's Critical Feminism in the Archives; Kimberle Crenshaw's "On Intersectionality"; Nancy Weiss Malkiel's "Keep the Damned Women Out": The Struggle for Coeducation; literature by Julia Alvarez, Adrienne Rich, Elizabeth Alexander, Kim McLarin '82, Roxane Gay '90 and Stephanie Han; and the bookmaking practices of Clarissa Sligh and Julie Chen. Guest speakers, local field trips, archival research and community outreach will contribute to this Book of Voices, a living testimony of the history of coeducation at PEA.