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...Robert Summers Vaginal Davis is a former Los Angeles–based visual and performance artist who now lives and creates art in Berlin. Scholarly research on her work began to appear in the late nineties and has focused solely on her live, queer, performance art. But research on her queer archives (her...

...Daniel Marshall; Kevin P. Murphy; Zeb Tortorici © 2014 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2014 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Editors’ Introduction Queering Archives: Historical...

...Marc Stein This essay considers the archival practices, historiographic habits, and political orientations that might explain the resistance to or rejection of the notion that sex radicalism, defined broadly to include various challenges to sexual respectability, was an important component of US...

... on the extensive paper files queer family class migrants and refugees must produce as part of the application process, the article theorizes these carefully curated documents as archives of intimacy and trauma respectively. These archives of intimacy and trauma are technologies of mobility—not only moving migrants...

...Martin F. Manalansan, IV Scholars such as Anjali Arondekar, Antoinette Burton, and Ann Cvetkovich have suggested that the archive is a space for dwelling and a quotidian site for erotically charged energies, meanings, and other bodily processes. Following and extending these ideas, this essay seeks...

...Rebecka Taves Sheffield The Bedside Table Archives is a curatorial project that borrows from arts-based research practice, oral history, and archival theory to produce a collection of records relating to women's queer homemaking practices in the intimate realm of the bedroom. This article...

...Leah DeVun; Michael Jay McClure The archive has been theorized as unstable and even fever-ridden, but what might it mean to deploy it in ways that counter its logic or to activate it in ways that we might call queer? Using the example of Leah DeVun's photographic exploration of the ONE National Gay...

...María Elena Martínez This essay analyzes problems related to the colonial archive and queer history through the case of Juana Aguilar, a suspected hermaphrodite who was tried for sodomy in early nineteenth-century Guatemala. These problems include the power dynamics involved in the archiving...

...Ben Cowan This essay reflects on archival digitalization and its implications for researchers interested in historicizing queerness. The essay seeks a conversation about how new archival tools boost our access to particular constructions of subjectivity while simultaneously limiting the extent...

...Daniel Marshall; Kevin P. Murphy; Zeb Tortorici © 2015 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2015 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Editors’ Introduction Queering Archives: Intimate...

... reflects on the author's own embodied experience as researcher within the social and spatial dimensions of the Lesbian Herstory Archives (LHA). Informed by critical geographic studies and queer theories, the author suggests that the usefulness of in/stability—all at once together and in conflict—is part...

...Peter Limb; Richard Knight; Christine Root This article surveys collections and archives of antiapartheid movements across the globe, covering organizations and activists, and not only print but also image, sound, and film materials. Particular attention is given to archives with a global span...

... are a chronicle. But they are also sexual objects, Bowie's own sexual archive. He was aroused both by the memories they stored and his textual and visual renderings. He refers to masturbating to his drawings—even while executing them. The archive is imbricated in its recorded sexual encounters in intriguing ways...

...Cait McKinney This article investigates the creation of an online photo database at the Lesbian Herstory Archives (LHA). The status of images of sexuality in this collection presents opportunities for reflecting on the cultural politics of digitization in community archives, including...

...Anjali Arondekar; Ann Cvetkovich; Christina B. Hanhardt; Regina Kunzel; Tavia Nyong'o; Juana María Rodríguez; Susan Stryker; Daniel Marshall; Kevin P. Murphy; Zeb Tortorici “Queering Archives: A Roundtable Discussion” provides a reflection on histories of queer archives studies, while marking out...

..., creating an unequal climate of gendered power relations that comprised dating, sex work, and frequent rape. This article considers how the violent embrace shaped historical narratives of US power in East Asia, obscuring both imperial power and systemic sexual violence in military archives and later...

... Colonization by Documentation: British Representations of Ireland in Maps, Archives, and Travelogues Diane F. George William J. Smyth, Map-making, Landscapes, and Memory: A Geography of Colonial and Early Modern Ireland, c. 1530 – 1750. Cork: Cork University Press, 2006. Stiofán Ó Cadhla...

...Rachel Gelfand Abstract Drawing on critical aging studies, this article argues that queer relations inform understandings of loss, family, and belonging. What happens when older adults review, rehearse, and reappropriate historical texts? What is possible when archives serve as a space of dialogue...

...Tamar W. Carroll Abstract This article discusses the role of public history events and community archives in transmitting memories of the HIV/AIDS epidemics and the lessons of social activism to younger generations. By intentionally centering the stories of members of marginalized communities...

...Ashkan Sepahvand; Meg Slater; Annette F. Timm; Jeanne Vaccaro; Heike Bauer; Katie Sutton Abstract In this roundtable, four curators of exhibitions showcasing sexual archives and histories—with a particular focus on queer and trans experiences—were asked to reflect on their experiences working...