Sustainable Futures

Community Revival Through Descendant Voices

This report describes a three-day event hosted in New Orleans by Shift Collective in November 2023, called Architecting Sustainable Futures…

In 2018, Shift Collective hosted Architecting Sustainable Futures (ASF) bringing together community-based archives, archivists and funding…

The inaugural Architecting Sustainable Futures convening in 2018 was a catalyzing moment for community-based archives (CBAs). By bringing…

“Black in Appalachia: Research, Education & Support is a non-profit that works in collaboration with public media, residents, university…

By Morwenna Gwenan Haf Osmond, WWP’s Research and Educational Programs Coordinator

Since its inception in 1995, Shorefront has operated with a proverbial “shoestring” annual budget. It was too big to be small and too small…

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This conversation was originally held as one of the keynote presentations for the Item Not Found: Accounting for Loss in Libraries…

This post was co-written with our friends at WITNESS and based on several mutual support conversations we’ve had over the last several…

This is Ida. She is from the south side of Chicago.

We are Black memory workers committed to documenting the Black experience during the Covid-19 pandemic and the current uprisings…

Long before this spring, many people were already facing the fact that a lot of the prevalent ways of working in cultural memory have…

Working with social justice nonprofit Don’t Shoot Portland calls for community programming with the focus always centering on educational…

It’s been hard to concentrate on anything the last few weeks as the Covid-19 pandemic spreads through our communities, the US, and the…

The spread of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) and our collective actions to mitigate its impact on our personal safety, public health, and the…

Honoring those that have preceded us and our community is of utmost importance, not only to preserve but also to continue our cultural…

A novice researcher on the importance of history, sex workers, and the difference a community archive can make.

What makes a community center? The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center was founded in Greenwich Village in 1983 (then…

On February 9, 2019, I gave the keynote address at the annual Scholar and Feminist Conference organized by the esteemed Barnard Center for…