His work stands in direct defiance to calls for a returnto real evidence.

This silence in the archive in combination with therobustness of the fort or barracoon, not as a holding cell or space of confinement but as anepisteme, has for the most part focused the historiography of the slave trade on quantitative

Double-sided tape. And they’re bronze. So that’s a lot of tape

it was exactly. And did it have an effect on those people after? I’m not sure.” Theyare much more about the ephemeral

He draws this memory map for himself — it’sdiagrammed in the book — and at a certain point he realizes that the map cor-responds directly to an etching he had seen. Basically, it’s about how visual im-ages take over one’s memories. I was thinking about that because you were talkingabout the unreliability of memory, and I think it’s interesting that images some-times replace one’s memory. Also, my memories are sort of tied up with readingthe Narcissus myth, and so what I’m writing about in the plaque is being partiallystructured by the structure of that myth

And although several women insisted that their bedrooms and bedside tableswere not particularly lesbian or queer spaces, what became clear throughout ourconversations is that, in fact, these spaces reflect the lesbian or queer women whokeep them.

I was also intrigued by the number of pill bottles and medications thatI discovered, a reminder that each of us has our own struggles with health andwellness

Many women kept lists of daily tasks or journals — although several admit-ted to lapsing in their duty to record their own experiences of daily life.

The bedsidetable also appears to be an aspirational space, where women place their books inthe hope that this might inspire them to invest a few minutes before bed for leisurereading.

Others kept their toys in drawers or in boxes, but it wasclear that the bedside is a sexual space for many of the participants.

Third, the Bedside Table Archives is an intervention into the exceptionalismof established lesbian and gay archives that tend to privilege the unusual or extra-ordinary events, organizations, and people who have contributed to our queer socialhistories.

The archival character of the project is also whatdistinguishes the Bedside Table Archives from Tammy Rae Carland’s Lesbian Bedsphotography series, which also documents the intimate realm of the bedroom butdoes so to achieve an aesthetic purpose and not necessarily an interventionist goal.

Representing realities like these might compromise thefilm’s message that institutions are unhelpful, even hostile, spaces. Butthat complication could be a helpful one, especially if Dunye intendsto encourage future researchers to use those spaces, or to donate theirown papers to archives

hese archives articulate “alternative realities,”in relation to a dominant culture, and by doing so, recognize that “mul-tiple realities or truths [...] share the same social or philosophical space”(115). The multiple realities or truths offered by different archives maycontradict each other, but in doing so, they open events, experiences,and histories to interpretation and investigation that would not be pos-sible otherwise.

Violence must be taken offstage tacticallyin order to produce startling and transformative lines of empathy, butthis empathy is mainly directed toward the pain of the privileged forbeing enslaved by a system of barbarous power in which they weredestined, somehow, to be caug

nstead, feminist ethics overturns dominant assump-tions about the universality of masculinist conceptions of morality and, asarticulated by Gilligan, advocates that we all pay greater attention to care –what it is, who does it, who needs it, how it is distributed and circulated – andthat we place care at the centre of our moral constructions.

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ame, regardless of their relationshipto the act being documented in the record

Negotiations betweenthe GLBTHS and SFPL to share some of their resources and collections demonstrate, however, ongoingdifferences between grassroots and institutional archives even when they are in dialogue with oneanother.

Even therelatively short history (roughly “one hundred years”) of homosexuality as an identity category

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"whipping boys" of fairly recent publicdiscourse concerning African-Americans and national policy,

At a time when current criticaldiscourses appear to compel us more and more decidedly toward gender "undecidability," itwould appear reactionary, if not dumb, to insist on the integrity of female/male gender.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan's celebrated "Report" of the late sixties, the "Negro Family" has noFather to speak of- his Name, his Law, his Symbolic function mark the impressive missingagencies in the essential life of the black community, the "Report" maintains, and it is, sur-prisingly, the fault of the Daughter, or the female line. This stunning reversal of the castrationthematic, displacing the Name and the Law of the Father to the territory of the Mother andDaughter, becomes an aspect of the African-American female's misnaming

Sentimentality, unlike other revolution-ary rhetorics, is after all the only vehicle for social change that neitherproduces more pain nor requires much courage

The desire for unconflictedness mightvery well motivate the sacrifice of surprising ideas to the norms of theworld against which this rhetoric is being deployed. What, if anything,then, can be built from the very different knowledge/experience ofsubaltern pain? What can memory do to create conditions for freedomand justice without reconfirming the terms of ordinary subordination

decolonization of the mind through the lens of language.

When postcards of cross-dressed people are included in a sexuality collection, isthere a presumption that cross-dressing can or should be treated as a sexual identity?Does the HSC imbue these postcards with specific evidentiary value, as objects thatare “document[ing] historical shifts in the social construction of sexuality,” whenthey may have more relevance for other historical phenomena?

A man shall perhaps rush by and trample down plants as high as his head, and cannotbe said to know that they exist, though he may have cut many tons of them, littered hisstables with them, and fed them to his cattle for years

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