ERC Starting Grant · 2025
In the In the 21st century, a new wave of anti-LGBT+ sentiments have emerged in global and local politics, often framing queerness as newly invented and imported from outside the local borders. Challenging this erasure from collective memory are queer memory activists and grassroot infrastructures such as archives and cultural festivals, which store, curate and circulate queer memories and resist heteronormative histories. Research into memory activism’s role in (re)imagining local and transnational pasts and futures has become a focal point of queer archival turn two decades ago. However, histories, memories, and meanings of queerness outside the global West are still chronically…
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