Meghan McDonough
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Biography
Meghan McDonough is a documentary director, editor, and journalist whose work focuses on queer history and community. Her short film Old Lesbians was commissioned by The Guardian, selected for Aesthetica/Audible’s 2023 Listening Pitch, shortlisted for the IDA Documentary Awards, and screened internationally at institutions including the British Film Institute and the American LGBTQ+ Museum. She has worked at Quartz and NBCUniversal Local, and her freelance work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Scientific American, and Thomson Reuters Foundation. She is a BRIClab Film + TV resident (2024–2025) and is currently developing her first feature documentary.
Known For
For the last quarter century, Houston native Arden Eversmeyer journeyed across the country to record hundreds of oral "herstories" with a mostly invisible population that is rapidly disappearing. Old Lesbians honors Arden's legacy by animating the resilient, joyful voices she preserved in the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project, from first crush to first love, from the closet to coming out, and finally from loss to connection.
Old Lesbians
A batch of mushy sourdough. Two radioactive lizards. Three cans of Campbell’s tomato soup. When COVID-19 lockdowns began in 2020, people around the world began reporting more vivid dreams.