Trans Memory Archive

Correa, María Belén; Estalles, Cecilia; Pericles, Carla; Bordei, Ivana; Muñíz, Magalí; Figueredo, Carolina

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“…In 2012, in order to achieve the dream of the dead activist Claudia Pía Baudracco, María Belen Correa started collecting photographs of trans people. Progressively the archive started a process of institutionalization, and it received international funding (Correa et al, 2019). The AMT combines a wide range of memory practices: it organizes exhibitions in public and private institutions, YouTube and Instagram sessions in which they read letters, posting photographs and personal memories on social networks, and recently has published their first catalog.…”

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“…LGTBIQ+ memory politics has emerged as an attractive research topic. Recent studies addressed the archival turn in grassroot feminist organizations (Eichhorn, 2013), in particular some of them have paid attention to the emergence of trans* archives in the global south (Correa et al, 2019; Theron and Kgositau, 2015). Queer studies’ approaches to identity have helped to address epistemological challenges in order to study LGTBIQ+ oral history and memories (Doan, 2017; Jennings, 2004), as well as also to develop relevant insights into queer memories in times of the digital turn (Cherasia, 2020), and the materiality of the archive (Tortorici, 2018; Van Doorn, 2016).…”

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The archival riot: Travesti/Trans* audiovisual memory politics in twenty-first-century Argentina

Simonetto

Butierrez

2022

Memory Studies

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This article analyzes the making of travesti/trans* memory politics in Argentina. Focused on audiovisual initiatives, archives, catalogs, novels, and digital activism, it studies how these policies emerged in the wider context of the archival and digital turn. While placing the dialogues with Argentine centrality of memory in social conflict and Latin American archival grassroots politics, this text addresses the role of remembrance in the production of travesti/trans* identity. This article argues that trans* memory initiatives acted as politics of belonging that worked in two levels: defining the limits of a common identitarian past, and reaching a wider cisgender audience to highlight the social violence that defined travesti/trans’ precarious lives. This article shows how by placing travesti/trans* memories in tension with national retelling of the past, they are building politics of belonging to legitimate their claims of social reparation to make new trans* futures possible.

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The archival riot: Travesti/Trans* audiovisual memory politics in twenty-first-century Argentina

Simonetto

Butierrez

2022

Memory Studies

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“…In terms of the memory construction process, this has meant that those who have been identified as marginal or external to the dominant (cis-hetero-patriarchal) system, have had to deal with a collective history of – often violent – eradication. As a consequence, they have produced counter-narratives and counter-memories (Foucault, 1977) that seek – as in the specific case described in this article – to challenge official memories, contrasting these with multiple, non-linear, unconventional temporalities and narratives as well as to build their own collective (political) memory (Correa et al, 2019; Dinshaw et al, 2007; Doan, 2017; Freeman, 2010; Halberstam, 2005; Hirsch and Smith, 2002).…”

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Collective memory and trans history in the Italian context: Archival practices and the creation of the first trans archive in Italy

Voli

Virtù

2023

Memory Studies

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In recent years, there has been a growing scholarly interest in the relationship between history, memory, archiving and trans experiences. This body of work has shown how questioning the praxis of archiving from the vantage point of trans experiences has the potential to problematise cis-heteronormative assumptions around the body, time and space and to queer the epistemological premises around what constitutes archives and archival practices. In this article, we present the experience of the project ArchiviST* – Archivi Storia Trans (Trans History Archives) which aims to create the first archive exclusively dedicated to the history of trans lives and activism in contemporary Italy. The project has been promoted by Trans Identity Movement, the most influential and long-lived trans association in Italy. Since its birth in 1979, Trans Identity Movement informally collected a substantial documentary heritage concerning trans and LGBTQIA+ history as a political practice to preserve the counter-memories of its people and movements. The ArchiviST* project carries out the inventorying and digitising of the materials, together with the collection of original video-recorded interviews with pioneering activists of the trans movement. By presenting a reflection on the process of ‘reconstructing’ an archive in this context, we unpack and explore some of the key issues surrounding trans archiving and collective memories in the Italian context: what counts as collective memory? What types of relationships are established between trans memories and the documents present in the archive? What memories have (not) been told, and what voices and subjects have (not) emerged as protagonists? We encourage a reflexive attitude towards the practice of trans archiving to problematise established historiographical categories, such as time, private/public, political engagement, life history and memory and to recognise the ethical and methodological challenges that such a path poses to historiography and archive research in general.

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“… 6 Despite its content dating back to the 1980s, El Archivo de la Memoria Trans was not founded until the 2010s. Its content was initially collected from individuals who voluntarily shared pictures and stories through Facebook (Correa et al ., 2019). The 1960s pictures of Casa Susanna , a weekend destination in upstate New York for cross-dressers and trans women, were discovered in 2003 and made publicly available in 2005 (Daubs, 2016).…”

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The Saint of Christopher Street: Marsha P. Johnson and the Social Life of a Heroine

Ashley¹,

Sanchinel²

2023

Feminist Review

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This article analyses the legacy of Marsha P. Johnson as a heroine through the notion of labour, emphasising how heroine narratives are both a product of labour as well as a form of labour. After offering a short account of Marsha P. Johnson’s role in the Stonewall riots and STAR, we explore the development of trans communities’ ability to create, sustain and disseminate heroine narratives, emphasising Tourmaline’s pivotal archival role in establishing Johnson’s legacy. Then, we elucidate the role of heroine narratives in creating and sustaining a collective identity. We argue that community attachment to Marsha P. Johnson reclaims the place of trans communities in LGBTQ+ history but is often done in a manner that obscures the whiteness of mainstream trans advocacy. We suggest that the recent increase in interest towards the life-sustaining labour of STAR House reflects the evolution of trans collective identity in the post-visibility era.

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Trans Memory Archive

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The archival riot: Travesti/Trans* audiovisual memory politics in twenty-first-century Argentina

The archival riot: Travesti/Trans* audiovisual memory politics in twenty-first-century Argentina

Collective memory and trans history in the Italian context: Archival practices and the creation of the first trans archive in Italy

The Saint of Christopher Street: Marsha P. Johnson and the Social Life of a Heroine

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