... some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 The basic meaning of archive ––a repository that houses historical artifacts––has been continually expanded by metaphoric uses of the term invoking “any corpus of...

... Trans Memory Archive. After Claudia Pía's untimely death in 2012, María Belén moved forward with the project and began collecting photographs from other Argentine transwomen in digital space. Using a closed Facebook group, transwomen uploaded personal photographs and shared anecdotes that spanned...

... exhibition by the PQHP, Lucky after Dark , presented a cross-section of this archive, including a newly acquired slide collection from social clubs between 1967 and 1990. Amounting to several thousand photographs taken at three clubs owned by Robert “Lucky” Johns, as well as hundreds of hours of video, it is...

... publication, which forms part of the larger collection of an African trans archive, the authors provide a credible reference source to those doing research on, working with, or interested in knowing some of the history of African trans and gender-nonconforming persons, communities, and movements. A brief...

...Chase Joynt; Kristen Schilt Abstract This article is a piece of experimental writing by Chase Joynt, a moving-image artist and writer, and Kristen Schilt, a professor of sociology. In this short piece, the authors track their affective and experiential engagements with objects found in the archives...

... aesthetic, cultural, and archival relevance of physical and metaphorical sequins in the lives and memories of trans and queer Latinas/os. As I have argued here, embodied knowledge, or “theories in the flesh,” which Bamby Salcedo and other trans women in Los Angeles shared with me, helped me to develop the...

... provocative project. The book is a processed and curated archive, one that has been augmented with artworks and essays, itself now an artifact for analysis. Like all good art, it offers more questions than answers and makes demands of the viewer. The project brings up issues important to archival work...

...Joshua Trey Barnett; Brandon J. Hill Abstract In this essay, the authors pose and respond to three questions about their process of generating and contributing to an archive of transgender military experiences: First, why create an archive of transgender military experiences? Second, what...

...Syrus Marcus Ware Abstract In this article, the author considers the erasure of racialized and indigenous histories from white trans archives, time lines, and cartographies of resistance. The author examines interventions by black queer and trans historiographers, critics, and activists who have...

...Maxe Crandall; Selby Wynn Schwartz Abstract This article explores the performance practices of Sean Dorsey, modern dance's first out transgender choreographer, in order to consider one embodied strategy for staging transgender histories. Utilizing extant LGBTQ archives, and then collecting oral...

...Nicholas Matte Abstract This article looks at the Sexual Representation Collection (SRC) at the University of Toronto's Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies to demonstrate some of the ways that trans materials can be archived and made accessible without using a trans-centric, queer...

... institutional trans* archives can be used to identify these trans* women and other members of the early MtF cross-dressing community. It proposes a research methodology that uses aliases and identification codes, originally intended for protection and anonymity, to connect archival holdings to individuals...

...Marika Cifor Abstract An affective archival encounter with a hair likely belonging to Victoria Schneider, a trans woman, sex worker, and activist, prompts the author's exploration of affect and embodiment in trans archives. This artifact animates how archives can value trans bodies in their...

... that body, or at least the Portica/Cook document, as an object for inclusion in a future trans* archive and as an appropriate object of study for an exploration of trans* archival praxis. It suggests that trans* archival methodologies that seek to recuperate or resignify documents produced in the...

... feminist hypertext and as such can be regarded as a living archive of transgender embodiment. Due to the work's current offline status, questions arise as to how it might be factored beyond its material presence, as a temporal placeholder for radical and affective archiving. Major sociocultural factors...

...Tobias Raun Abstract The article engages with trans male video blogs on YouTube, framing them as living archives that offer unique opportunities to access and share embodied trans knowledges—which have previously been limited or inaccessible—such as information about and visual accounts of medical...

... to serve as important resources for online information and discourse. This essay, first, locates the website within the history of transgender online publics and, second, considers their current complex position in the trans media landscape. In part, they serve as an accessible, living archive of...

...Elspeth H. Brown Abstract This piece discusses current trans oral history projects that bring together feminist methodologies, transgender studies, and queer archives. I offer a map of some of these oral history projects, and their archive partners, while offering some reflections concerning how...

...Julian Gill-Peterson Abstract How has a reliance on the medical archive distorted the intelligibility of trans of color life in the past? This essay interrogates the limit points of black trans and trans of color life in the early twentieth century. Examining a case at the Johns Hopkins Hospital...

...Ariel B. Handy; Thomas W. Johnson Abstract The Eunuch Archive (EA) is an online community of individuals who identify as a eunuch or have strong interests in castration. The Eunuch Archive contains various discussion forums ranging from safe castration methods to the physical and psychological...