Black Feminist Internationalism and Eurasian Knowledge Production

What do we do with the parts of history that were never written down? The encounters that left no diary entries. The solidarities that passed quietly between people. The knowledge carried through touch, gesture, desire, or memory—rather than official record. These moments are not marginal. They make up much of what I encounter when tracing Read more

I am happy to introduce the Gazette#2 “TEACHING AUDRE LORDE’S “NOTES FROM A TRIP TO RUSSIA”. The Gazette can be accessed here (https://publuu.com/flip-book/361412/2293999) This issue of The Archive Revisited turns to an often-overlooked text within Audre Lorde’s body of work — her 1976 essay “Notes from a Trip to Russia.” Though it opens Sister Outsider Read more

Following the Beyond Borders meeting series hosted by the WGSS Department at the University of South Florida, we warmly invite submissions for a special issue of The Archive Revisited Gazette celebrating Chukchee poet Antonina Kymytval’ and her brief but profoundly resonant encounter with Audre Lorde during the 1976 Afro-Asian Writers Conference in Tashkent. Lorde’s essay Read more

In the Tamiment Library at NYU, among the folders and boxes of Hermina Dumont Huiswoud Papers,” lies a postcard that seems, at first glance, unremarkable: a small photographic print depicting a veiled woman* – the asterisk I add to trouble gendered assumptions – somewhere in Soviet Central Asia.1 The image is fractured – creased through Read more

The Archive Revisited invites contributions discussing various archival artifacts related to the topic of Black Feminist Internationalism and Eurasian Knowledge Production. The project welcomes a diverse range of contributions—scholarly and creative, textual and visual. Entries can be short reflections or longer article-sized papers, and contributions in different languages are welcome. Read more