The Alternative Archive and Gendered Dispossession

Name: The Alternative Archive and Gendered Dispossession
Start: 2025-01-18T14:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-01-18T15:00:00-07:00
Location: 215 S. Tejon Street, 80903

Schedule

Sat Jan 18 2025 at 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

215 S. Tejon Street, 80903 | Colorado Springs, CO

The Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum presents the 2025 lecture series, featuring a wide range of speakers offering diverse perspectives and unique insights on Pikes Peak regional history. Admission is free, but registration is required.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM
In this talk, Dr. Royal will discuss the relationship between gender and the law via her research/recovery of depositions, or testimonios, provided by Mexicanas/os in the late nineteenth century during land adjudication proceedings. Roybal argues that these testimonios form an “alternative archive” that offers insight into the multi-layered history of settler colonialism in the US Southwest as it relates to property, gender, and herencia (inheritance). Most histories about this period have traditionally privileged the male voice in terms of who/what is represented in the archive. The alternative archive reveals how Mexicanas/os enacted agency when they reinforced the significance of gender through their legal testimonies and resisted the US nation-state’s disciplinary power to dispossess them of their land and identities.