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A Chicago-based collective of trained Black archivists who prioritize Black cultural heritage preservation and memory work.

Chicago, IL
Joined June 2020
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We are beyond excited about this important collaboration! Many thanks to our friends at @fromthecenter for being intentional, liberation minded partners in this project, and to the folks who trust us to be collaborators in their archiving projects.
Allow us to officially introduce 'Diamond in the Back,' a community archiving partnership between Sixty, The @Blackivists, and memory workers in Chicago’s Black communities–a project supported by @MellonFdn. sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/di…
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If you missed the conversation between @TheBarbaraSmith @prisonculture @netabomani last week during our launch event, or want to run it back, it's now archived on @bcrwtweets Youtube channel at: youtu.be/BWknjQ6nzhw
Join us tonight from 6:30-8pm ET for the virtual launch of Sojourners for Justice Press: Black Abolitionist Feminist Publishing with @prisonculture @netabomani and special guest @TheBarbaraSmith. Free with RSVP: eventbrite.com/e/sojourners-…
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Check out: Disorderly Distribution:The Dispersal of Queen Mother Audley Moore’s Archives and the Illegibility of Black Women Intellectuals tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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In my new article in @TheBlackSchlr,I talk about what it was like to try to track down Moore’s archive, what we REALLY mean when we say a Black woman doesn’t have an archive, and ask do we really want radicals like Moore to be confined to one repository?
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🧵If #RosaParks was the mother of the Civil Rights Movement, then Queen Mother Audley Moore midwifed modern Black Nationalism. Moore lived for almost 100 years. Her career spanned Garvey’s UNIA to the Million Man March. Yet, WHERE the records of her life are remains a mystery..
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Happening today!
Next in The @Blackivists’ ✨free✨ virtual series is “Make it Last Forever: A Digital Preservation Workshop” w/ @ZZcollier on Nov 6th, focusing on low-cost and free tools/services for your digital preservation needs. ASL & live captioning provided. RSVP: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/ma…
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We look forward to seeing you at our next workshop! Many thanks to our friend, @ZZcollier, for facilitating.
Next in The @Blackivists’ ✨free✨ virtual series is “Make it Last Forever: A Digital Preservation Workshop” w/ @ZZcollier on Nov 6th, focusing on low-cost and free tools/services for your digital preservation needs. ASL & live captioning provided. RSVP: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/ma…
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If you haven’t registered, there’s still time: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/wh…
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Are you ready for Sunday’s workshop “Where the Money Reside” with The @Blackivists and @AndreaArchivist? Are you ready to learn about ways to get support for your #archive project dreams? We are. sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/wh…
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Sojourners for Justice Press (SJP) is a micro press that opens its platform to people working experimentally with print based media, founded by Mariame Kaba (@prisonculture) and co-directed by @netabomani. Read more about us at: sojourners4justice.com
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Join The @Blackivists + @AndreaArchivist on Sun, Oct 16 for “Where the Money Reside,” a ✨free✨ virtual workshop on finding 💸 support for archival work and projects. For artists, archivists, and everyone, all experience levels + ages. ASL/Caption incl. sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/wh…
😍😍 for the quote and this picture of @misterBooth!
"For The Blackivists, I think that’s really all we are trying to do, which is help organizations create whatever self-sustaining documentation program or archiving program that they can in hopes that it does live on beyond us." buff.ly/3RcNvyG
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We're looking for someone to fill the role of Artist Researcher for Sixty Collective, a new artist database platform launching in 2023: buff.ly/3fcKDoi
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We are hopeful that folks take in and, most importantly, act upon (!!) the call to action that we outline in the article. Centering care and attending to and interrupting harm in and by archives should be obvious guiding principles for both archivists and historians.
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Many, many thanks to @drashleyfarmer for orchestrating this important collaboration! This is a 3-part piece: an interview between Dr. Farmer and collective members, a case study about our partnership with @HoneyPotPerf and a call to action for historians and memory workers.
🧵about 1.5 years ago I asked @blackivists if they would be interested in collectively thinking through both #Archiving While Black and being a Black Archivist for an issue of the @AmHistReview on "Confronting the Past." As a fangirl, I was so happy they agreed!
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Did You Know? Before Uber or Lyft, SNCC developed a system of shared rides for organizers in the South called the Sojourner Motor Fleet.
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This Sunday’s event will be stellar, thanks to the participation of @ChicagoMuseum @blackivists @greenstarmvmt @FoodForTheSoul @stonetemple3622 @UCANchicago @OpenBooks @SitStayRead @saic_homansq and our many other partners! Come get some FREE TAMALES AND ELOTES too! – at Chicago, IL
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The Blackivists retweeted
Show some love. Send love funds, donate supplies directly , or share💚💞💞❤️💕🧿🙏🏾
Happy Friday Lovelies , The Love Train is trying to raise $3,200 in love funds to get 40 Chicago youth back to school supplies. Please show love if you can and a RT is love as well. 🙏🏾❤️💕🫶🏾 To send funds directly: @/$NitasLoveTrain gofund.me/db743252
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The Blackivists retweeted
Welcome to the world, Fat Liberation Archive, especially the page of #zines! fatlibarchive.org/category/z… Made by @maxairborne and volunteers. If you have something you’d like included or want to help w/ transcriptions & image descriptions fatlibarchive @ gmail #zinelibraries
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The Blackivists retweeted
"Missing persons cases is a Black issue. But it’s really important to note that it’s a Black women and girls issue specifically. In Chicago, Black women and girls are reported missing more than any other race or gender." — @trinattrill theroot.com/hundreds-march-i…
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For the past year I have been working with the @blackivists on a project that centers their work, the experience of being Black in the #archives and being a Black archivist. This 3-part collaborative piece will appear in the @AmHistReview includes a convo...
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