State of the Field Panel

Join us on March 5th, 2025, at 12:00pm CST for a virtual panel about the state of the fields of archiving & histories amid attacks on DEIA-related programs and marginalized histories. This panel will focus on how southern archivists, librarians, memory workers, museum and education professionals, and impacted community members can best respond and survive the current political landscape. We will invite our audience to share what they are witnessing in their states and how we can best share information and support each other across impacted states.

Panelists: Isaac Fellman, Assistant Director at the Digital Transgender Archive, C.T. Salazar, Director of Archives at Delta State University, Ashby Combahee, Archivist with Highlander and co-founder of the Southern Memory Workers Institute, and Jose Vazquez, Communcations Director at the ACLU of Alabama.

About Invisible Histories

Invisible Histories focuses on four key elements related to advancing LGBTQ Southern History:

Community Engagement
Archiving, Preservation, Research & Scholarship
Education
Professional Development & Best Practices

Invisible Histories acts as an intermediary between institutions, organizations, and everyday folks. We strive to break barriers between organizations and their local communities to ensure that preservation and research exist in a co-productive and relationship centered way. In addition to direct collection and preservation, Invisible Histories is invested in providing scholars with direct access to materials as well as creating a network of people conducting LGBTQ Southern archiving, preservation, education and research to make scholarship more accessible. We focus on providing education around the Queer South to those within and outside the region through speaking, exhibiting, online materials, and publications. Finally, Invisible Histories seeks to help develop a new generation of scholars working in the Queer South as well as work alongside other professionals in the field to develop best practices for this work.

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