MemoRights - Cultural Memory and LGBTQ Activism

22/11/2024

The results of the **MemoRights – Cultural Memory and LGBT+ Activism** project are now available! You can access and download all the materials for free at this link https://linktr.ee/MemoRights

09/08/2024

A partir de agosto, desde el Núcleo de Estudios sobre Memoria (CIS-CONICET/IDES-UNTREF), Claudia Feld, Valentina Salvi, Marina Franco, Luciana Messina, Soledad Catoggio y Julieta Lampasona impartirán el curso virtual de posgrado "¿Cómo estudiamos las memorias sociales? Herramientas metodológicas para la investigación".

A lo largo de cinco módulos, el curso propone reflexionar sobre diversos tópicos, dilemas y desafíos en el estudio de la memoria. Algunos de los ejes abordados son: la singularidad del trabajo de campo en investigaciones sobre memorias sociales, el trabajo con testimonios y archivos, el problema de las temporalidades, y la escucha e interpretación de voces y memorias controvertidas.

El curso se organiza en módulos escritos de lectura asincrónica y en foros virtuales de debate y reflexión colectiva. El equipo docente está conformado por investigadoras especializadas en estos temas.

Fecha de inicio: 13 de agosto de 2024.

Para consultar el programa: https://www.ides.org.ar/formacion/curso-virtual/estudiamos-memorias-sociales-herramientas-metodologicas-investigacion

Para inscribirse, visite https://virtual.ides.org.ar/login/index.php o envíe un correo electrónico a [email protected]

21/11/2023

🆕 The article "Memoryscapes of Liberation: Activist Mnemonic Labour in the Q***r Press" has been published in the journal "Cultural Studies." This publication is an outcome of the MemoRights - Cultural Memory and LGBTQ Activism, funded by the European Commission as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action. The projec was based at Utrecht University in collaboration with the University of Buenos Aires and the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.

The article delves into the experiences of Argentinean homosexual organizations during the 1960s-70s, exploring the role of memory in homosexual liberation movements through the q***r press. The q***r press disseminates narratives globally, fostering shared memoryscapes for activism. Memoryscapes shape activist mnemonic labor, guiding purposes and providing mediation arenas. The empirical focus of the article is the analysis of publications from Nuestro Mundo and Frente de Liberación Homosexual.

In this article, I will explore the role of memory in the context of homosexual liberation movements. I will do this through the lens of the q***r press, which will serve as a doorway for the explo...

03/11/2023

Aquí el artículo
"Memoryscapes of Liberation: Activist Mnemonic Labour in the Q***r Press" sobre Nuestro Mundo y
https://tinyurl.com/MemoFLH

Programa S**o y Revolución en el
https://sexoyrevolucion.cedinci.org/s/la-comunidad-del-archivo/page/bienvenide



Algunas referencias

- Bellucci, M. "Orgullo. Carlos Jáuregui, una biografía política." Buenos Aires: Finale Abierto.
- Ben, P., and Insausti, S.J. "Dictatorial rule and sexual politics in Argentina: The case of the Frente de Liberación Homosexual, 1967–1976." Hispanic American historical review, 97 (2), 297–325.
- Fernández Galeano, J., 2019. "Cartas desde Buenos Aires: El movimiento homosexual argentino desde una perspectiva transnacional." Latin American research review, 54 (3), 608–622.
- Garrido, G., 2021. "The world in question: a cosmopolitical approach to gay/homosexual liberation movements in/and the ‘Third World’ (from Argentina to the United States)." GLQ: A journal of Le***an and gay studies, 27 (3), 379–406.
- Insausti, S.J., 2015. "Los cuatrocientos homosexuales desaparecidos: memorias de la represión estatal a las sexualidades disidentes en Argentina." En: D. D’Antonio, ed. "Deseo y represión: sexualidad, género y estado en la historia argentina reciente." Buenos Aires: Ediciones Imago Mundi, 63–82.
- Insausti, S.J., 2019. "Una historia del Frente de Liberación Homosexual y la Izquierda en Argentina." Revista estudos feministas, 27 (2), 1–17.
- Insausti, S.J., and Fernández Galeano, J. 2020. "Archivos digitales q***r." En
- Latrónico, N., 2009. "My memories as a gay militant in NYC." En: T. Aviccoli-Mecca, ed. "Smash the church, smash the State!" San Francisco: City Lights, 48–55.
- Queiroz, J. 2020. "Third world gay revolution." en
- Simonetto, P., 2017. "Entre la injuria y la revolución: el Frente de Liberación Homosexual Argentina, 1967–1976." Buenos Aires: Universidad de Quilmes.
Modarelli, A., and Rapisardi, F., 2019 [2001]. "Fiestas, baños y exilios. Los g**s porteños en la última dictadura", Buenos Aires: Página 12.

27/02/2023

"Il Manifesto" ha dedicato parole di elogio al numero 51 della rivista Bibliomanie su "Omosessualità: educazione e sistemi legislativi", a cui il progetto MemoRights - Cultural Memory and LGBTQ Activism ha contribuito. Qui il link per il completo accesso al numero https://www.bibliomanie.it/?page_id=29&issue=51

10/01/2023

The article "'Bella ciao'. A portable monument for transnational activism" is now online on the International Journal for Cultural Studies.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13678779221145374

Written by Daniele Salerno and Marit van de Warenburg, the article analyzes the adaptations and uses of the Italian anti-fascist song "Bella ciao" for different political causes, focusing in particular on its feminist activist reuses in abortion rights movements in Argentina and Poland.

The article is one of the results of the ERC projects "Remembering Activism. The Cultural Memory of Protest in Europe" - ReAct (led by Ann Rigney) and the Marie Sklodowska-Curie project MemoRights - Cultural Memory and LGBTQ Activism.

Here the abstract:
‘Bella ciao’ is one of the best-known partisan songs of the Italian anti-fascist Resistance (1943–5) and is part of the repertoire of protest of many movements across the globe. In 2018, the song was revived by its use in the popular TV series La casa de papel. This article examines how ‘Bella ciao’ is adopted by activists worldwide. It does so by analyzing the song through the concept of ‘portability’: the capacity of a cultural artifact to be a model that can be adapted to different contexts. After an examination of ‘Bella ciao’'s historical uses, the article focuses on the song's feminist versions for supporting different causes and in particular abortion rights. The reuses of the song speak of memory in terms of not only a product – what we remember – but also a process: the creative use of the cultural legacy of past movements for the shaping of new stories.

‘Bella ciao’ is one of the best-known partisan songs of the Italian anti-fascist Resistance (1943–5) and is part of the repertoire of protest of many movements ...

19/09/2022

On Tuesday 20 September at 17.00-18.30 Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University, will be giving an online talk to the Utrecht Forum for Memory Studies entitled “Political Memory Art in the Global South”. In this talk, he will present some key concepts and key arguments from his most recent book Memory Art in the Contemporary World: Confronting Violence in the Global South (Lund Humphries, 2022).

Here to register: https://fd21.formdesk.com/universiteitutrecht-gw/Utrechtmemorystudies

Doris Salcedo, 1998 On Tuesday 20 September at 17.00-18.30 Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University, will be giving an online talk to the Utrecht Forum for Memory Studies entitled

30/05/2022

Sherocco è un festival dei diritti e delle culture arcobaleno. Si terrà ad Ostuni dal 23 al 26 giugno. Il programma comprende la Summer School SHEROCCO ACADEMY e una lectio magistralis di Paul Preciado. Maggiori info sul sito: sheroccofestival.it

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𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔

𝐺𝑢𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑎, 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑎𝑛𝑧𝑖𝑎. 𝐿𝑎 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑙 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑜 (𝑑𝑒𝑙 𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑟𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑜)

📆 venerdì 24 giugno 2022 ore 19.30
📌 la luna nel pozzo, Ostuni (Br)

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Con il supporto del Dipartimento Turismo ed Economia della Cultura di Regione Puglia, Teatro Pubblico Pugliese , Comune di Ostuni e Puglia Promozione.

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24/05/2022

It is out on the Journal of Contemporary History an article by Javier Fernández Galeano (University of Valencia) on the subjectivity of "mariquitas" and the Judicial Prosecution of Homosexuality in Francoist Andalusia. The article is freely accessible.

Abstract:
"This article argues that the mariquita’s subjectivity became a prevalent trope when individuals were prosecuted under charges of homosexuality in Franco’s Spain. The mariquita was a liminal homosexual male who was expected to be family-oriented,
devout, and involved in flamenco culture and Catholic festivals. I focus on judicial records to underscore the mariquita trope as a popular strategy for questioning the implementation of a stringent legal regime while demanding the social conformity of
sexual minorities. The interventions of this article in the literature on nonconforming sexualities are twofold: (1) It contributes to the international scholarship by tracing the centrality of Catholicism and southern Spanish folk culture on mariquita subjectivity and social attitudes towards sexual minorities. This complicates the premise that liberalism has historically been the primary
ideological frame informing sexual minorities’ resistance to repressive policies. In Spain, under a dictatorial regime, sexual
minorities’ adaptative strategies and identities incorporated
aspects of traditional rural femininity alongside modern forms of q***r self-expression, such as drag shows in urban cabarets. (2) It contributes to the Spanish historiography, by revising the
xisting metrocentric research on homosexuality under rancoism and emphasizing the discrepancy between medico-legal discourses and recurring expressions of conditional
oleration by rural communities"

This article argues that the mariquita's subjectivity became a prevalent trope when individuals were prosecuted under charges of homosexuality in Franco's Spain. The mariquita was a liminal homosex...

17/05/2022

In 1971, the co-founder of the Black Panther Party, Huey Newton, writes a letter to the militants of the black movement. For Newton the struggles against racism, homophobia and sexism are part of the same cause and share comparable memories and stories. Black, gay liberation and women's movements were to be allied...

Read more on the importance of the story of Newton's letter for LGBT+ and feminist activists on the blog of the project ReAct-Remembering Activism
https://rememberingactivism.eu/2022/05/10/the-cross-pollination-of-memories-between-black-and-lgbt-activism/



References:

Lisa Corrigan on cross-pollination: https://www.academia.edu/26140242/Cross_pollinating_the_Revolution_From_Havana_to_Oakland_and_Back_Again

Michael Rothberg on multidirectional memory: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=9997

Germán Garrido on the relationship between third world anticolonial and anti-imperialist struggles and gay liberation: https://read.dukeupress.edu/glq/article-abstract/27/3/379/173577/The-World-in-QuestionA-Cosmopolitical-Approach-to

Juan Queiroz on the Third World Gay Revolution: https://www.moleculasmalucas.com/post/el-third-world-gay-revolution