Queer and Trans Archival Research Methods Workshop
About this Event
Mainstream archives have usually been seen as spaces for social control in which gender and sexual non-conforming lives have been framed through the stigmatising discourses of medicine, policing and media. Researchers of queer and trans histories, archivists, and memory practitioners have developed creative methods to reimagine the limits of these sources and consider how those living beyond gender and sexual norms might have understood themselves beyond the ways they were inscribed into the archive.
From the vantage point of community archival creation and activation, a disruptive movement of queer and trans community archives has emerged across the globe, expanding what counts as an archive, what gets archived, and how it is cared for, catalogued, and displayed, while transforming how queer and trans communities relate to their past.
Drawing on these two rich epistemological traditions and practices, this workshop introduces participants to different methods for working with archives, communities, documents, and objects. The workshop will help participants understand differences between working with traditional and community archives, strategies for writing with fragmentary archival documents, ethnographic approaches to archival research, and co-creative methods
All welcome, however registration is limited. The workshop will be held in person at the University of Liverpool. Additional details to follow.
This workshop is funded by Methods NW and part of the Queer Methods in the Social Sciences Workshop series.
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