Program

ACLS Digital Justice Seed Grants, 2026

Project

Archiving Gender Activism: A Bilingual Platform for Transfeminist Struggles

Department

Romance Languages and Literatures

Abstract

This project proposes a bilingual digital archive of 21st-century transfeminism activist histories in Córdoba, Argentina. Trans organizers in Córdoba describe the precarity of their political work, how it is easily lost or taken without acknowledgment. Training activists in archival practices (including Mukurtu CMS) will build a sustainable infrastructure in which materials remain under the stewardship of the communities who produced them. A collaboration between U.S.-based feminist academics and a prominent Argentine trans-rights activist, this project models how digital humanities can function in solidarity with Global South movements: grounded in local histories, accountable to community-defined ethics, and guided by the principle that archiving can be a practice of collective care.