What Is Solidarity History?

Season 2, Episode 4: “This is When Our Information Structures Get Tested”

KJ Rawson is the founder and director of the Digital Transgender Archive. Rae Garringer talks to KJ about the DTA, the need for information structures in an era of book bans, and turn-of-the-century West Virginia gender-bending outlaws.

Season 2, Episode 3: “A Place to Build the Education That I Wanted”

Ashby Combahee is the founding organizer of the Southern Memory Workers Institute at Highlander Research Center, which brings to gather archivists, oral historians, documentarians, and folks doing similar work to dream big about better worlds.

Season 2, Episode 2: “Our Movements Need More Archivists”

Dartricia Rollins is co-founder and oral historian with Georgia Dusk: A Southern Liberation Oral History. We talk about the need for more movement archivists, and all sorts of other great things. Here are links to topics we cover: Georgia Dusk: https://www.georgiadusk.com/ [https://www.georgiadusk.com/] Auburn Avenue Research Center: https://www.fulcolibrary.org/auburn-avenue-research-library/ [https://www.fulcolibrary.org/auburn-avenue-research-library/] Charis Books and More: https://www.charisbooksandmore.com/ [https://www.charisbooksandmore.com/] Charis Circle: https://www.chariscircle.org/ [https://www.chariscircle.org/] For Keeps Books: https://www.forkeepsbooks.com/ [https://www.forkeepsbooks.com/] SisterSong: https://www.sistersong.net/ [https://www.sistersong.net/]

Season 2, Episode 1: “You might as well have fun while you're at it, because you're already in trouble.”

In this episode we talk to Michelle Caswell, professor of Archival Studies in the Department of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Director of UCLA’s Community Archive Lab (https://communityarchiveslab.ucla.edu/). [https://communityarchiveslab.ucla.edu/).] Michelle is also the co-founder of the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA, https://www.saada.org/), [https://www.saada.org/),] and author of Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work (Routledge Press, 2021), which is available open access here [https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003001355/urgent-archives-michelle-caswell?_gl=1%2A102i69d%2A_ga%2ANDYxODI4NDgwLjE2OTEyNDgyMzE.%2A_ga_0HYE8YG0M6%2AMTY5Mjg5ODE5NS4zLjAuMTY5Mjg5ODE5NS4wLjAuMA..].

Episode Five: “Become Obsolete In The Best Way Possible”

In this episode we talk to Anita Varma, assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Media at The University of Texas at Austin and Lead of the Solidarity Journalism Initiative (yes, we did take our name from her project; yes we did tell her). We talk about what solidarity looks like in journalism and what a world that didn’t need this initiative would be like.