The Archive Revisited
Black Feminist Internationalism and Eurasian Knowledge Production
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Artifacts and Stories: The Passport as an Archive: On Freedom, Belarus, and Black feminist Internationalism
Collage created by the author using archival documents and Canva, 2026. Some archival artifacts that initially seem unrelated to a project may stay with you long after you leave the reading room. For me, the first was a postcard depicting a veiled figure in Soviet Central Asia, preserved among Hermina Dumont Huiswoud’s papers. It did… Read more
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Artifacts and Stories: On Decolonial Method: Reimagining the Archive Beyond Evidence and Proof
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
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Gazette №2
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
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News: Call for Contributions: Beyond Borders: Black-Indigenous Encounters between Audre Lorde and Antonina Kymytval
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
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Artifacts and Stories: The Fractured Postcard: Haunting Encounters with Hermina Huiswoud’s Archive
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
