... as a 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 English...

... the 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...

...* futures through (imperfect) reparation and survival. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 black Haiti living archive postcolonial disablement trans* futures 3. This concept of a living archive comes from Stuart Hall ( 2001 ), who considers the constituting of an archive away...

... histories himself, Dorsey develops a trans archival practice founded in collaboration, an ethic of care, and grassroots activism that he extends into live performance. Tracing the arc of Dorsey's practice in generating choreography from the archive, the authors ask how embodied artists move with history...

... to develop an archive of primary source materials, often from personal collections kept in closets, basements, and dusty boxes. We are particularly focused on these materials from the “archival closet,” ephemeral archival materials that provide one-of-a-kind documentation from their day-to-day lives...

..., race, and class and, in so doing, allowed them to live—briefly in life, but indefinitely in the archive—a publicly nonbinary life. Garland's narrative, therefore, offers a compelling model of trans agency and authority that leans into, rather than flees from, the potentially disqualifying lumping...

... reflection into apartheid South Africa and the lives of trans people before democracy leads to a short description how Gender DynamiX, while only in its emerging stage, embarked in archiving and documenting material and history of trans people throughout the country. This placed Gender DynamiX as the key...

... ( Cummings 1993 : 88). This article explores how archival materials, such as photographs, letters, community magazines, membership directories, and newsletters can be cross-referenced and interconnected to constitute a research methodology that can be applied to early community members' trans* lives...

..., cultures, histories, and lives. While Terry Cook critiques the archivist as an instrument in the creation or destruction of collective memory through politicized decisions of inclusion and exclusion, Herzog's portraits provide an archival intervention that gestures toward our collective memory and enables...

.... TW : Hair is a loaded material. It's a semi-living archive of everything that passed through you. Viewers feel they have had an authentic experience of bearing witness, that they have watched a transformation. It's very pleasurable. They are witnessing the hair fall off my body as they watch...

... already passed on, include Sumaya Dalmar, Duchess, and countless others. I call these names as an act of remembrance and reverence, but also as a suggestion for where to begin looking for our trans-of-color archive—in names called and stories shared. Trans lives of color follow a different...

... Press . Freeman Elizabeth . 2010 . Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Fuentes Marisa J. 2016 . Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press . Gordon...

... and what we lived. When I began to scan photos, when I attended the exhibitions, I realized the value that these photos have because each photo represents a story. I hadn't understood that value before, and being in the archive helped me to understand. I feel a little like a photographer because I...

... was asking meta-level questions pertaining not only to what we can know of the recoverable past but also to how we know it and who can know it, what gaps and elisions the archive might contain, whose lives are deemed worthy of remembrance, and what counts as knowing in the first place. Queer archival works...

...K. J. Rawson A similar challenge presents itself with another tension of terminology in this issue—the use of archive versus archives . Archival professionals have passionately argued that the only viable use of archives is in the plural, referring to an established professionalized...

..., and the transgender community. I argue that this is the result both of its history and of broader societal forces that limit the production of material by and for these communities. While unique, many elements in the Tretter story hold true for other GLBT archives and may help researchers contextualize what they find...

... of the lives of gender non-conforming people” and note that their collection begins with materials dating to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ( Devor 2014 ), while the Digital Transgender Archive is focused on linking disparate “transgender-related historical materials” through a central...

... 2014 ), the lived experiences and attitudes of most transgender service members and veterans remain obscure. Responding to this, we have been engaged in a multiyear data collection project. In this essay, we trace our ongoing efforts to contribute to a multimedia archive of transgender military...