King's College London

Archival injustice works to diminish a minoritised population’s mainstream visibility and legitimacy. For LGBTQ+ people, this often happens through stereotyping in and erasure from public discourses and research repositories. These elements (further) minoritise queer knowledge and threaten the preservation of queer cultural heritage.

This Activist-in-Residence project offers a response to such knowledge exclusion and representational discrimination. It does so by centring the archival justice work of Otherness Archive – a grassroots, noncommercial organisation and online platform that preserves, documents and champions LGBTQ+ visual culture and moving image history.

Through archival and curatorial activism, Otherness Archive challenges ongoing culture wars that seek to stigmatise, deplatform and further marginalise LGBTQ+ people in public life.

Through a workshop series and public film screening programme, this partnership will bring together Otherness Archive, Queer@King’s and the different communities they serve to co-develop inclusive, intersectional understandings of LGBTQ+ cultural heritage and activist strategies for its preservation. Through this, we aim to co-produce conceptual frameworks and practical resources by which researchers, activists, archivists, artists, curators, educators and ordinary LGBTQ+ people can resist knowledge discrimination, misrepresentation and archival injustice