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Aligning bodies: Collecting, arranging, and describing hatred for a critical queer archives

Cifor, Marika

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/94939

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Title
Aligning bodies: Collecting, arranging, and describing hatred for a critical queer archives
Author(s)
Cifor, Marika
Issue Date
2016
Keyword(s)
  • Hatred
  • Arrangement and description
  • Quuer archives
Abstract
This conceptual paper frames hatred as an organizing principle—a central premise from which other materials by proximity derive classification, arrangement, and value—of LGBTQ archives and collections. Recognizing hatred as such points to the need to build queer and critical archives, and to develop archival practices that reflect the experiences and desires and meet the needs of LGBTQ individuals and communities. Examining the arrangement and description of hate mail and messages, archival collecting around hate crimes, and documenting and describing queer and trans self-hatred demonstrates that hatred is a useful lens for examining and deconstructing normative power and its affective circulations and structures. Naming hatred as an organizing principle is key to developing new queer and critical ways of thinking about how to be ethically and politically engaged on behalf of queer and other marginalized knowledge-formations and communities, and new ways of acting on those concepts in archival practice.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Illinois School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/94939
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2016.0010
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Copyright 2016 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Library Trends 64 (4) Spring 2016: Reconfiguring Race, Gender, and Sexuality PRIMARY
Library Trends 64 (4) Spring 2016: Reconfiguring Race, Gender, and Sexuality. Edited by Emily Drabinski and Patrick Keilty