Queer Legacies Project

Queer Legacies Project (QLP) is an in-person workshop series developed by the American LGBTQ+ Museum in partnership with The Feminist Institute and SAGE, a service and advocacy organization for LGBTQ+ elders with centers in the Bronx, Harlem, Chelsea, Brooklyn, and Staten Island. QLP aims to illuminate the personal histories and ephemera of NYC’s LGBTQ+ elders through facilitated archiving workshops. The project will convene LGBTQ+ elders to emphasize the importance of their personal archives and stories within the greater narrative arc of LGBTQ+ history in the U.S. These workshops will help participants preserve their personal archives for future generations by cataloging the stories and ephemera that reflect the valuable histories of their lives.

The workshop will be held in person at the Harlem SAGE Center on March 11, March 18, and March 25 from 2-5 pm.

If you are over 60 and are interested in joining SAGE, please click here! Membership is highly encouraged for all archiving workshop participants. We will have staff on hand to help you sign up on-site if preferred.

SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES | ALL IN-PERSON WORKSHOPS
2:00p – 3:00p, Presentation [Full Group] | Our featured archivist will give a lecture/presentation

3:00p – 4:00p, Group 1 Digital Archiving | Half of our group [Group 1] will begin the process of archiving their materials while the other half [Group 2] discusses their collections with our videography team

4:00p – 5:00p, Group 2 Digital Archiving | Group 2 will begin archiving their materials while Group 1 discusses their collections with our videography team

Guest Archivists
MARCH 11: Steven G. Fullwood is the co-director of the Nomadic Archivists Project (with Miranda Mims), a pioneering initiative that partners with individuals, community groups, organizations, and institutions to establish, preserve, and enhance collections that illuminate the global Black experience. Steven founded the In the Life Archive in 1999. This project aimed to collect, preserve, and make available to the public materials created by and about LGBTQ people of African descent.

MARCH 18: keondra bills freemyn is a writer and archivist focusing on digitalarchives, social movements, and Black cultural production. She is Co-Executive Director, Archives + Strategy at Black Lunch Table, an independent oral history archive centering visual artists, and founder of Black Women Writers Project, an archival initiative highlighting the contributions of Black women and gender expansive writers to the literary canon. keondra is a Society of American Archivists Digital Archives Specialist and has worked on archival projects centering marginalized communities with Project STAND, Library of Congress, Smithsonian, New York Public Library and DC Public Library. keondra is author of the poetry collection Things You Left Behind and has contributed to several anthologies including Black Librarians in America: Reflections, Resistance, Reawakening and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of African American Women’s Writing. She is an alumna of Fordham University (BS), Columbia University (MPA), and University of Maryland College Park (MLIS) and holds a Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies from Harvard University.

MARCH 25: Melissa Aslo de la Torre