InSustainable FuturesbyNastassia Rambarran·Feb 21“Like wata from stone”: Unearthing buried Caribbean Queer historyIt was November 2019 and during a marathon hang-out session my friend Vic Garnes and I decided we needed to make the fact that queer people…
InSustainable FuturesbyWarrior Women Project·Feb 3Rethinking Digital Storage for Community-Based ArchivesOver the last few decades, the standard procedure for storing and backing up data has been ‘put it in the cloud.’ Many of us use cloud…
InSustainable FuturesbyBergis Jules·Dec 17, 2025If Federal Museums Aren’t Allowed to Tell the Truth About the Past, it’sTime to Start Supporting…By Michelle Caswell and Bergis Jules
InSustainable FuturesbyZakiya Collier·Apr 24, 2024From Field Building to Technical Infrastructure: Growing Support for Community-Based ArchivesIn 2018, Shift Collective hosted Architecting Sustainable Futures (ASF) bringing together community-based archives, archivists and funding…
InSustainable FuturesbyYusef Omowale·May 9, 2021Remembering IdaThis is Ida. She is from the south side of Chicago.
InSustainable FuturesbyTai Carpenter·Apr 28, 2020Archiving for Our Futures: How Preservation Sustains Social ChangeWorking with social justice nonprofit Don’t Shoot Portland calls for community programming with the focus always centering on educational…
InSustainable FuturesbyBergis Jules·Apr 4, 2020Supporting Community-Based Archives Through the Covid-19 CrisisThe spread of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) and our collective actions to mitigate its impact on our personal safety, public health, and the…
InSustainable FuturesbyRosa Russ·Apr 3, 2020La Historia Society Museum: Preserving the History of the BarriosHonoring those that have preceded us and our community is of utmost importance, not only to preserve but also to continue our cultural…
InSustainable FuturesbyYusef Omowale·Apr 22, 2019Encountering the archive.A novice researcher on the importance of history, sex workers, and the difference a community archive can make.
InSustainable FuturesbyLou McCarthy·Apr 7, 2019For the Community, By the Community: The LGBT Center National History ArchiveWhat makes a community center? The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center was founded in Greenwich Village in 1983 (then…
