Connecting Across Queer Memory Work

How do archival and exhibition practices serve as life-saving acts?
How can archives respond to/hold moments of grief?
Where are queer memories held and how can they be cared for in archives, in bodies?
What is the relationship between technology, care, and storytelling?
What do we need as practitioners of lesbian/queer care and connection in a world still in the midst of epidemics including AIDS and Covid?

Join Alexandra Juhasz (AIDS activist, scholar, and media artist), Alexis Bard Johnson (Curator and Interim Director, ONE Archive at the USC Libraries), Lou McCarthy (Director of Archives, The Center), Mev Luna (Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art Practice and Theory, Parsons & PP/VR Library Steering Committee member), and Liza Minno (American Studies, NYU & PP/VR Library Steering Committee member) for an intimate conversation on these and your own questions.

This evening is meant for archivists, curators, scholars, and anyone interested in the work of queer and trans archives particularly in a time of defunding and other setbacks. We welcome archivists, curators, artists, scholars, and community members to join this discussion prompted by Holding Patterns, on view at the Center and at the ONE Archives in Los Angeles. More here and registration.

Inspired by the Lesbian Lives conference taking place in New York (Oct 24-26), this event is intended as a space to share, raise questions, and connect. It should be informal and fun. Afterwards we will go to the Parkside Lounge for the Meow Mix reunion.