Community Partners

The South Asian Canadian Digital Archive (SACDA) is an initiative of the South Asian Studies Institute at the University of the Fraser Valley. It is a pan-Canadian digital archive that documents the rich and multifaceted history and heritage of the South Asian diaspora in Canada. By collaborating with individuals, families, community organizations, and heritage institutions,…

VIVO Media Arts Centre (est.1973) is a non-profit, artist-run centre operating in Vancouver, Canada, on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. VIVO supports and preserves experimental, non-commercial, emergent, collaborative, non-normative, generational, and community-driven practices. Our Crista Dahl Media Library and Archive stewards a significant repository of international analog and born-digital…

Visual Communications is the nation’s premier Asian American and Pacific Islander media arts organization, dedicated to the honest and accurate portrayals of the Asian Pacific American peoples, communities, and heritage through the media arts. The organization’s mission is to develop and support the voices of Asian American and Pacific Islander filmmakers and media artists who…

Skid Row History Museum & Archive at the Los Angeles Poverty Department houses a living archive of primary and secondary source material on the low income residential community of Los Angeles Skid Row. Primary materials include numerous videos and transcribed interviews with people living and working in Skid Row whose efforts have contributed to envisioning…

La Historia Historical Society Museum is a 501C3 nonprofit organization established in 1998 by residents of the El Monte and South El Monte barrios. The museum’s archival collection focuses largely on visual media and has begun capturing individual narratives through oral histories. La Historia Historical Society Museum aims to make lasting contributions to the cultural…

JUNE L. MAZER ARCHIVES is the largest major archive on the West Coast dedicated to preserving and promoting lesbian and feminist history and culture. By creating a safe place for women to explore the richness of lesbian history, perhaps adding to it themselves, we are paving the way for future generations to understand more fully…

THE CHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (CHSSC) was organized in 1975 to bring together people with a mutual interest in the important history and historical role of Chinese and Chinese Americans in Southern California; pursue, preserve and communicate knowledge of this history; and promote the heritage of the Chinese and Chinese American community in…

https://sacda.ca/index.php The South Asian Canadian Digital Archive (SACDA) is an initiative of the South Asian Studies Institute at the University of the Fraser Valley. It is a pan-Canadian digital archive that documents the rich and multifaceted history and heritage of the South Asian diaspora in Canada. By collaborating with individuals, families, community organizations, and heritage…

Los Descendientes de Tucson is a 501 (c) 3 organization dedicated to the promotion and preservation of the rich heritage of the presidio and the ‘Old Pueblo’. Founded in 1990, mission is to preserve the unique cultural influences by safeguarding, documenting & educating community on the rich tangible and intangible heritage, historical places, culture, and…

Website: https://thedunbartucson.org/IG: @thedunbarpavilion Dunbar History: Before 1909, Arizona schools were not segregated. In 1909, the Arizona legislature passed a law mandating that Arizona’s African-American school children be segregated from the other races for their first 8 years of school. When Arizona became a state in 1912, they changed the wording of the law from “mandatory”…

https://www.arizonaqueerarchives.com || https://www.azqueerarchives.orgazqueerarchives@gmail.com The Arizona Queer Archives (AQA) is Arizona’s first Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex (LGBTQI) collecting archives.As a community-focused archives, the AQA uses and pullsqueer— as theory and practice — into the way we go about collecting, preserving, and making our collections accessible and to develop an archives that is for, by,…

https://wfmu.org/ WFMU-FM is a listener-supported, non-commercial radio station broadcasting at 91.1 Mhz FM in Jersey City, NJ, right across the Hudson from lower Manhattan. It is currently the longest running freeform radio station in the United States. The station also broadcasts to New York City and to Rockland County, NY at 91.9 FM, and to…

https://www.facebook.com/QueensNeighborhoodsUnited Queens Neighborhoods United (QNU) is a grassroots collective made up of members from Jackson Heights, Corona, and Elmhurst. QNU believes in establishing community control over land-use, policing, and immigration policies that directly impact us and displace us, our families, homes, businesses, places of work, and neighborhoods. Through grassroots organizing, leadership development, advocacy, and community…

‭ https://lesbianherstoryarchives.org/lhaspecialcollections@gmail.com [reach LHA Special Collections team only]info@lesbianherstoryarchives.org [reach LHA for all other inquiries] We founded The Lesbian Herstory Archives in the 1970s when a group of women involved in the Gay Academic Union realized that Lesbian history was “disappearing as quickly as it was being made. ” Our mission is to gather and preserve…

Interference Archivehttps://interferencearchive.org/ The mission of Interference Archive is to explore the relationship between cultural production and social movements. This work manifests in an open stacks archival collection, publications, a study center, and public programs including exhibitions, workshops, talks, and screenings, all of which encourage critical and creative engagement with the rich history of social movements.…

https://www.cidihca.com/ (FR) Socials:Instagram: @cidihcaFacebook: @cidihca.montreal About The Centre international de documentation et d’information haïtienne, caribéenne, et afro-canadienne (CIDIHCA) is a research and information centre which collects, organizes, classifies, and makes accessible a wide range of resources on Haiti, the Caribbean, and Afro-Canadian communities. Its archives and library include over 20,000 holdings–microfilms, books, journals, newspapers, photographs,…

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Founded in 1983, the Archives Gaies du Québec (Quebec Gay Archives) have a mandate to acquire, preserve, and disseminate handwritten, printed, visual, audio, or other materials which testify to the history of the LGBTQ2S+ organizations and individuals in Quebec. The AGQ currently holds 228…

www.movinlegacy.com || info@movinlegacy.com Movin’ Legacy is an archiving organization that is dedicated to the promotion of African and African diaspora systems of dance, regarding dance as an institution that preserves histories and safeguards culture’s evolution. Through archival collections, public performances, and educational outreach, Movin’ Legacy seeks to document the contributions of Black dancers, choreographers, and…

www.nphm.org || info@nphm.org The National Public Housing Museum (NPHM) is the only cultural institution in the United States dedicated to preserving and interpreting the history of public housing. Located in the last remaining building of Chicago’s historic Jane Addams Homes, the museum is committed to illuminating the stories of public housing residents and advocating for…

2214 Ridge Ave, Evanston, IL 60201www.shorefrontlegacy.orgLaurice@ShorefrontLegacy.org The Shorefront Legacy Center is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and sharing the histories of Black communities along Chicago’s suburban North Shore. As a community-driven archive, we are committed to documenting the experiences of individuals, families, organizations, and businesses that have shaped the region’s cultural and social landscape. Through our…