Archival Belonging: A Guide to Community- and Care-Centered Archiving

FAIN: PE-295939-24

Texas After Violence Project (Austin, TX 78704-0025)
Hannah Whelan (Project Director: May 2023 to present)

The creation of an open access curriculum and toolkit teaching community-centered oral history and archives practices and the expansion of a fellowship program by recruiting nine mentors and developing three webinars and workshops.

The Texas After Violence Project (TAVP) proposes Archival Belonging: A Guide to Community- and Care-Centered Archiving (Archival Belonging), a three-year project to develop a curriculum and toolkit for community archivists and memory workers that is grounded in community-centered archival ethics and practices. Building on TAVP’s community-centered fellowship program, the Archival Belonging project seeks to build capacity among community archives and memory workers to more effectively and ethically collect, preserve, and share stories of people with backgrounds and identities that are underrepresented and underserved in archives. Archival Belonging aims to help create archives that are safe, thoughtful, and inclusive spaces that provide access to previously ignored or endangered stories in ways that center the communities they serve.