Sister Outsider and Audre Lorde in the Netherlands: On Transnational Queer Feminisms and Archival Methodological Practices

Frank, Chandra

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“…They spent time together, being with the statue of the bronze woman, in silence. They let the archive speak to them (Frank, 2019), and asked 'What are you trying to say?' (Sawyer and Osei-Kofi, 2020, this issue).…”

Section: Affect | Embodiment | Futuritymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They spent time together, being with the statue of the bronze woman, in silence. They let the archive speak to them (Frank, 2019), and asked ‘What are you trying to say?’ (Sawyer and Osei-Kofi, 2020, this issue). They wrote what they heard—‘the sound of water, the sound of the movement of iron, from mine, to scales, to ship, to sea, to iron’ ( ibid.…”

Section: Affect | Embodiment | Futuritymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Archival Experiments, Notes and (Dis)orientations

Swaby¹,

Frank²

2020

Feminist Review

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The archive dictates what can be said about the past and kinds of stories that can be told about the persons catalogued, embalmed, and sealed away in a box of files and folios. (Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother, 2007, p. 17) If the archive is a remnant, it is one that keeps whispering to me, insisting on its place in my everyday life. What I might have said to her instead is this: I am a disquieted archive that fumbles in words. A thing made up of infinite, untraceable traces. (Julietta Singh, No Archive Will Restore You, 2018, p. 26) There has been substantial work in recent years, from different contexts and traditions, on the use of archives. The possibilities and limitations of the archive, as theoretical concept as well as material site, are picked up widely by queer, feminist and decolonial scholars. The past decade has seen an increase in publications, special issues, events and exhibitions grappling with the idea of the archive and its role in feminist, queer and diasporic contexts. Recent significant special issues include Radical History Review (2014), which questions what it means to 'queer' the archive; Australian Feminist Studies (2017), exploring the role of archives in new modes of feminist research; and a special issue on decolonial archival praxis in Archival Science (2017). Feminist Review has also published a number of articles on archives and archival practice, from pieces that rethink the role of the archive in feminist visual art (Zapperi, 2013) or the role of archives in the articulation of black diaspora feminist identity and consciousness (Burin and Sowinski, 2014;Swaby, 2014), to a manifesto for feminist archiving that underlines alternative methods for reading the archive (Digital Women's Archive North, 2017). The Feminist Review Collective also offers a three-month fellowship for early career scholars to critically engage with the Feminist Review archive. These interventions demonstrate the continued engagement with the archive as a complex, lively and material site.From the 1990s onwards, the humanities and social sciences have experienced what is termed the 'archival turn'. Most notably, the 'archival turn' has been picked up outside of the discipline of history, which produced a wide range of scholarship on what is understood by the 'archive ' and 'archives' (Steedman, 2011). However, the 'archival turn' has not produced rigorous interdisciplinary scholarship in which the materiality of the archive, reflexive accounts, racial taxonomies of archival collections and the work of archivists are put into conversation with each other. We are interested in exploring the interdisciplinary and innovative ways in which scholars, activists and artists push the conversations on what constitutes an archive. This includes an engagement with the 'digital archive' and how the digital 931874F ER0010.

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Section: Affect | Embodiment | Futuritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Affect | Embodiment | Futuritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Archival Experiments, Notes and (Dis)orientations

Swaby¹,

Frank²

2020

Feminist Review

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“…The letter makes clear that we are Black lesbian women from South Africa, Suriname and Indonesia. I had forgotten about that letter, which is not dated, but was written sometime in 1983, but when Chandra showed it to me, I realized this is an intersectional analysis, which moreover shows our shared colonial histories with the Netherlands and with each other (Frank, 2019). It was great to see that our joint study sessions, our hours of discussions, and the feverish devouring of Black American and Black British feminist stencils and pamphlets gave us an analysis of the Netherlands that still stands.…”

Section: Afropessimism and Afropessimism 20mentioning

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Afropessimism

Wekker

2020

European Journal of Women's Studies

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“…And in this way, Eric Ketelaar (2001) conceptualises the relationship between the archival texts and the individuals interacting with them as an active process, where the individual uses their agency to activate the threads of history, experience and subjectivity held within the material itself. It is in this way that the archive retains life and becomes alive (Frank, 2019).…”

Section: Engaging With the Living Archive: Archival Encountersmentioning

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“…Further, any actual or imagined intergenerational silences may be leant into, with younger generations reflecting in response to the calls posed by their predecessors. This, as Chandra Frank (2019, p. 17) argues, constitutes the aliveness of the archive, ‘urg[ing] necessary conversations with present-day feminist and anti-racist organisers’ moving to similar diasporic, political and ideological rhythms.…”

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June Givanni’s Pan-African Cinema Archive: A Diasporic Feminist Dwelling Space

Jaganathan¹,

Malik²,

Givanni³

2020

Feminist Review

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What is the role of cultural archives in creating and sustaining connections between diasporic communities? Through an analysis of an audiovisual archive that has sought to bring together representations of and by African, Caribbean and Asian people, this article discusses the relationship between diasporic film, knowledge production and feminist solidarity. Focusing on a self-curated, UK-based archive, the June Givanni Pan-African Cinema Archive, we explore the potentiality of archives for carving out spaces of diasporic connectivity and resistance. This archive assembles the holdings of pan-African films and film-related materials, built over several decades by June Givanni, a Guyanese-born London-based film curator. Givanni’s archive embodies her long relationship with the intersecting worlds of African and Asian diasporic cinema, which hold deep connections to Black British heritage through global networks spanning across empire. In the making of this cultural analysis, we employ a co-produced, decolonial methodological approach by designing and producing the article in collaboration with Givanni over a two-year period. We aim to foreground the role of feminist labour (academic and practitioner) as agents of change who are reclaiming stories, voices and memory-making. The wider backdrop to this co-produced analysis is the ongoing resilience of a cultural amnesia that has pervaded the Black British experience and the current fragility of Black arts and cultural spaces in the UK. Our question is how might archives help us map the connections between racialised ideas of belonging, memory politics and the reconfiguration of colonial power whilst also operating as a site of feminist connectivity?

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Sister Outsider and Audre Lorde in the Netherlands: On Transnational Queer Feminisms and Archival Methodological Practices

Cited by 10 publications

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Archival Experiments, Notes and (Dis)orientations

Archival Experiments, Notes and (Dis)orientations

Afropessimism

June Givanni’s Pan-African Cinema Archive: A Diasporic Feminist Dwelling Space

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