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In honor of Pride Month in the United States, we are shining a light on MEAP-funded projects that document LGBTQ+ activism and experiences from around the world. MEAP recognizes the importance of preserving collections that document queer history, particularly in parts of the world where LGBTQ+ communities are threatened by repressive political regimes.
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Queering Polish Memory
A collection of publications, photographs, ephemera, correspondence and other documents organized by Fundacja Q, a multifaceted organization dedicated to collecting and exhibiting queer history, promoting queer storytelling and artmaking, and creating a welcoming space for the LGBTQ+ community in Eastern Europe. The Fundacja Q Archive aims to counteract the vulnerability of ‘queer memory’ by preserving queer history, including evidence of Polish queer activism from the late 1980s until the present.
Recently published items in this collection include a number of gay and lesbian magazines from Poland in the 1990s that are rife with everyday news and events, as well as cheeky cartoons and film reviews; leaflets about safer sex practices and certain LGBTQ+ association activities; and other materials addressing the 1990s AIDS crisis.
Playing Relative: Alliance-Making in Urban Malaysia
A survey of visual art archives in contemporary Malaysia to document counter-cultural practices: photo media artist Yee I-Lann, performance artist, educator Ray Lagenbach and writer-photographer Bernice Chauly.
This project documents materials from the 1990s and 2000s that trace alliance making practices in cultural practices in Malaysia. The happenings, art events and projects that characterized these two decades of counterculture practice crossed the boundaries of racial, language and genre communities and occurred across multiple Malaysian cities, a coming together rarely witnessed in Malaysia’s contemporary climate of racial politics.
These collections illuminate universally resonant questions on urban disenfranchisement, strategies of cultural resistance and the role that culture plays in social justice.
Finding aids, survey reports, and inventories are available for all three collections. Explore online >
