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# **{B/qKC}** is a *decentralized* archival project challenging out-dated institutional practices within the frame and study of Black queer history.
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Under a reinvigorated wave of white nationalism and fascism post-2016, our historical record continues to be warped, distorted, and/or erased; **we are actively being indoctrinated**.
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Under a reinvigorated wave of white nationalism and fascism post-2016, our historical record continues to be warped, distorted, and erased; **we are actively being indoctrinated**.
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Our treasured mementos, amassed by institutional libraries, archives and universities, and are effectively being <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/03/07/nx-s1-5321003/pentagon-images-flagged-removal-dei-purge-trump" target="blank">deleted by President Donald J. Trump and his Project 2025 agenda.</a>
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Our treasured mementos, amassed by institutional libraries, archives and universities, are effectively being <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/03/07/nx-s1-5321003/pentagon-images-flagged-removal-dei-purge-trump" target="blank">deleted by President Donald J. Trump and his Project 2025 agenda.</a>
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Thousands of miles away, the worst manifestations of fascist indoctrination occur in Palestine, <a href="https://librarianswithpalestine.org/gaza-report-2024/" target="blank">where israel has deliberately bombed and destroyed museums, archives, libraries and, as a result, thousands of irreplaceable historic materials to erase Palestinian existence from our memories</a>.
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And across the world, the worst manifestations of fascist indoctrination occur in Palestine, <a href="https://librarianswithpalestine.org/gaza-report-2024/" target="blank">where israel has deliberately bombed and destroyed museums, archives, libraries–as a result, destroying many significant historic materials to erase Palestinian existence from our memories</a>.
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*The ways we decide to document and collect our histories can no longer be done passively or uncritically. Memory work must be an active, radical process.*
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There is a damning need to be stewards of our own histories and protect them at all costs. The ways we decide to document and collect our histories can no longer be done passively or uncritically. Memory work must be an *active*, radical process.
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{B/qKC} was founded as a radical community archive on March 1st, 2024, operating on the principles accessible *storytelling*, *repair* of our historical record, and intergenerational *power building*–all within the frame and study of midwestern Black queer experience.
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{B/qKC} was founded as an official community archive on March 1st, 2024, operating on the principles of accessible *storytelling*, *repair* of our historical record, and intergenerational *power building*–all within the frame and study of midwestern Black queer history.
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<img src="/assets/img/bqkc-diagram.png"
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##### 3. **DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE**
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We aim to teach any and all communities about the significance of this archive's materials, and the overall importance of radical memory work.
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##### 4. **PRESERVATION OF AT-RISK MATERIALS**
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We aim to create digital snapshots of Black queer historical materials, ensuring a record of Black queer midwestern histories can be saved, maintained, and reproduced physically––ensuring long-term sustainability of our stories.
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We aim to create digital snapshots of Black queer historical materials, ensuring a record of Black queer midwestern histories can be saved, maintained, and reproduced physically–ensuring long-term sustainability of our stories.
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##### 5. **PERMANENT AND DECENTRALIZED PRESENCE**
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We aim for Black queer stories to occupy public spaces physically and digitally to ensure permanence of our stories, while simultaneously increasing Black queer visibility.
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permalink: /collections/tisha-taylor/
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---
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{% assign featured = site.data[site.metadata] | where: "objectid", "tishacoll010" | first %}
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{% assign featured = site.data[site.metadata] | where: "objectid", "tishacoll028" | first %}
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title: Contact
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layout: about
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permalink: /contact/
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credits: true
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# featured-image value can be one objectid for a photo object in this collection, a relative path to an image in this project, or a full url to any image. If left blank, no featured image will appear at top of About page.
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about-featured-image: garycoll006
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heading: "Holla' at us"
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# Edit the markdown on in this file to describe your collection
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# Look in _includes/feature for options to easily add features to the page
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---
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# Have questions? Wanna drop a comment? Feedback? A loving note? Recognize someone?
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Send any and all inquiries to 1800nasi at tutamail dot com.
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Folks local to Kansas City, Missouri can schedule an in-person studio visit with Founder Nasir Anthony Montalvo <a href="mailto:1800nasi@tutamail.com?subject=Studio Visit, [INSERT NAME]&body=Please include a selection of dates, times and your interest when reaching out for a visit. See you soon! <3" target="_blank">by email appointment.</a>
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---
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## Subscribe to our newsletter!
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<iframe src="https://1800nasi.substack.com/embed" width="480" height="320" style="border:1px solid #EEE; background:white;" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>
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<br>
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---
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{% include feature/card.html header="Rest in heavenly peace to Danny Cashmere..." text="...and the long list of Black queer people in this archive who have been taken from us. Your light shines ever bright on us." objectid="garycoll005" width="50" centered=true %}
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A majority of {B/qKC}'s materials are protected by third party rights or licensed under **CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International)**.
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<div class="float-img float-right">
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<blockquote class="quote-box">
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<p class="quote-text">"We, as a Black gay community, we need a place where we can say, hey, this is ours. This is us." </p>
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<p class="quote-attrib">From <a href="/items/garycoll029.html" target="_blank">"The Father: interview with Gary Carrington"</a></p>
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</blockquote>
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</div>
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This means:
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- You are allowed to **share** — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
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*You are responsible for obtaining necessary permissions*. {B/qKC}'s collections contain a wide range of content. You are responsible for clearing the necessary rights in order to use the materials in question. For example, if you want to download a photo that is still protected by copyright for use in a research paper, you must determine whether your proposed use requires consent from the copyright holder, and, if so, you must secure the permission of the copyright holder. In some cases, you may also need to secure the consent of people who appear in photographs in our collections.
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If you have any questions, please contact us!
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If you have any questions, please [contact us](/contact/)!
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title: Data
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layout: about
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heading: "Our Data"
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sub-heading: a deep dive into {B/qKC}'s decentralized, digital archival methods
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---
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# What is decentralization?
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# Charting a new path forward for digital community archives!
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In accordance with our [mission](/about/), {B/qKC} aims to be the *true* steward of our archive, and make this database openly accessible for years to come.
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## Archival Metadata
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Rather than relying on a third-party service like Google, DropBox, or Squarespace–with rising costs for usage and ethical concerns around our data and their corporate practices–we've chosen to build this site using **open, decentralized and self-hosted infrastructure**.
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## Huh? Why all this in the first place?
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It's hard to imagine our world without central governing authorities–which has ultimately translated to how a majority of us use the web.
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Need to search something? You Google it. <br>
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Need to share something online? You Tweet or Instagram it. <br>
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Need to store something? You upload them to an arbitrary "cloud."
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<div class="float-img float-right">
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<blockquote class="quote-box">
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<p class="quote-text">“The platforms that host our networked public sphere and inform us about the world are unelected, unaccountable, and often impossible to audit or oversee.”</p>
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<p class="quote-attrib">— Chelsea Barabas, Neha Narula, Ethan Zuckerman,<a href="https://www.dci.mit.edu/projects/the-decentralized-web-defending-internet-freedom-through-decentralization-back-to-the-future" target="_blank"> "The Decentralized Web: Defending Internet Freedom through Decentralization: Back to the Future?" (2017)</a>
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</p>
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</blockquote>
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</div>
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We won't deny these haven't been positive developments in some ways. Billions of people across the World have access to the Web in ways we never have before, without at all having to become experts. But therein lies the problem.
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Ease of use has translated into intense consolidation of the internet. Just a few companies (Meta, Alphabet Inc., Amazon) have control over most of the web, meaning they can also control:
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- what users get access,
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- what content is promoted or hidden,
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- and whether entire archives can disappear overnight.
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Billionaire Elon Musk, for example, infamously purchased Twitter in October 2022 for $44 billion, and became its CEO. With nothing standing in his way besides capital, Musk was able to completely reivent, albeit extremely controversially, one of the web's most used applications–all the while aligning himself with political leaders in the process.
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However, there is a growing movement to "decentralize the web" by divorcing from these corporations and using technology to put power into the hands of the people.
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## So what does "decentralized" mean here?
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At its core, **decentralization means distributing power instead of concentrating it in one place**.
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In a centralized system, a company, like Google, for example, owns massive data centers, their own proprietary software, and sets the rules for how users will engage with their materials–including how they can use our data in exchange for the use of their services.
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In 2022, Alphabet (Google’s parent company) made [$224 billion](https://proton.me/blog/google-privacy-washing)–nearly 80% of its total revenue–from advertising: which includes Google Search, Google networks, and YouTube ads. Our personal data directly fuels this advertising revenue.
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<div style="text-align: center;">
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<img src="/assets/img/Centralized-Vs-Decentralized-Vs-Distributed-systems.png" alt="a blue diagram with three different topologies illustrating the differences between centralized, decentralized and distributed networks." style="max-width: 80%; height: auto;">
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<figcaption class="figure-caption text-center text-muted" style="font-size: 0.85rem;" margin-top="0.5rem">
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An overview of centralized, decentralized, and distributed networks, illustrating the key differences in their structures and control mechanisms. In a centralized network, all nodes are connected under a single, central authority In a decentralized network, no single authority server controls the nodes; they operate with individual entity, typically with multiple hubs. (Truong, Nguyen & Jayasinghe, Upul & Um, Tai-Won & Lee, Gyu Myoung. (2016). A Survey on Trust Computation in the Internet of Things)
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</figcaption>
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</div>
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<br>
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We've deliberately gone against a centralized framework–opting for open-access tools and a decentralized storage model that allows us to remain in control of our data and share it with you (and of course, keeps yours safe while you browse).
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---
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# How this website works (in plain language)
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This archive might look like a regular-degular website, but under the hood, it's built very differently and with deep intention!
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## 1. The Website – Built with CollectionBuilder (Lib-Static methodology)
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<div style="text-align: center;">
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<img src="/assets/img/lib-static-values.png" alt="a table explaining the Lib-Static Methodology, broken into four keypoints." style="max-width: 80%; height: auto;">
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<figcaption class="figure-caption text-center text-muted" style="font-size: 0.85rem;" margin-top="0.5rem">
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Collection-Builder is a project meant to follow the Lib-Static approach. The Lib-Static approach, created in 2018 by Evan Williamson, Devin Becker and Olivia Wikle, "focuses on practical, sustainable workflows using data-driven static web templates hosted on simplified infrastructure while leveraging (and building) the in-house specialized skills of librarians in metadata, data, and organization. This provides librarians unique agency and ownership over their systems, as well as meaningful opportunities for professional development leading to fundamental digital skills." (Lib-Static)
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</figcaption>
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</div>
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<br>
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To start, this website is built using an open source tool called [CollectionBuilder](https://collectionbuilder.github.io/). Created by librarians at the University of Idaho, CollectionBuilder is a set of flexible, static web templates that are populated purely from our archive's metadata.
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This means:
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- There's no third-party service involved: bye-bye annual subscription fees and murky T's & C's!
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- Pages are simple HTML files, allowing for more useabiltiy and access!
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- The site is pretty fast (you let us know!), stable, and inexpensive to maintain!
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## 2. The Archive – Files being served via IPFS (InterPlanetary File System)
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<div style="text-align: center;">
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<img src="/assets/img/Centralized-data-storage-system-vs-IPFS-interplanetary-file-system-1-1024x576.webp" alt="" style="max-width: 80%; height: auto;">
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<figcaption class="figure-caption text-center text-muted" style="font-size: 0.85rem;" margin-top="0.5rem">
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A graphic illustrating the fundamental differences between a traditional centralized client-server system and the decentralized architecture of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS). (Extrimian, "IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) Wiki," 2024)
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</figcaption>
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</div>
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<br>
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All of the images, media and data files part of {B/qKC} are being loaded from the [InterPlanetary File System (IPFS)](https://ipfs.tech/), a decentralized peer-to-peer file system.
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Instead of files living on one server in one massive data center:
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- files each get their own unique "fingerprint,"
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- mulitple copies of these files can exist across different nodes in the IPFS network,
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- no single entity controls access to IPFS.
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This makes our archive highly resistant to deletion or takedown, and ensures files remain accessible even if a node in the network goes down. That also means if this website were to shutdown, the archive would still be accessible!
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## 3. The Cloud – We run our own digital space
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<div style="text-align: center;">
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<img src="/assets/img/internet_topologies_with_ynh-0393b688fbcafc252b94fa13ef9635c6.png" alt="" style="max-width: 80%; height: auto;">
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<figcaption class="figure-caption text-center text-muted" style="font-size: 0.85rem;" margin-top="0.5rem">
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A graphic from YunoHost illustrating the concept of "self-hosting": meaning, in this case, owning and administrating your own server, typically at home, to host your personal data and services yourself instead of relying exclusively on third parties. (YunoHost Docs, "About self-hosting")
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</figcaption>
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</div>
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<br>
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This website is self-hosted on our own physical server using [YunoHost](https://doc.yunohost.org/en/admin/about_self_hosting/#:~:text=Self%2Dhosting%20means%20owning%20and%20administrating%20your%20own,instead%20of%20relying%20exclusively%20on%20third%20parties)–an open-source technology designed to make ethical self-hosting possible.
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This means no Amazon Web Services, no Google Cloud, no third-party entity quietly watching your traffic or collecting data from you.
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By choosing to host this website on our server, we get to control how this site operates, how data is handled, and stay accountable to the people whose stories live here.
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<blockquote class="quote-box">
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<p class="quote-text">GOOD TO KNOW: {B/qKC} uses the 3-2-1-1-0 preservation strategy: meaning there are 3 copies of all our archival materials (2 of these on IPFS and our server), stored on 2 different types of media, with 1 copy off-site, 1-copy offline, and all with 0 backup errors.</p>
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</blockquote>
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# Our ultimate why
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## We refuse to help Big Tech power destructive data centers and use our data for nefarious ends.
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In the 2020's, alone, we've seen Big Tech's concentrated, profit-driven power consistently put technological advancements over human beings. Some stark examples:
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- [Google and Amazon's Project Nimbus](https://tech.co/news/what-is-project-nimbus-google): a $1.2 billion contract between Google and Amazon with the Israeli government and its military, signed in 2021, aiming to provide cloud computing infrastructure, artificial intelligence (AI) and other technology services for its war on Gaza
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- [ICE and Palantir use 'probability' to detain people](https://newrepublic.com/post/205333/ice-palantir-app-raid-deportation): Palantir helped developed an application for ICE as part of a $29.9 million agreement called "Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement (ELITE)": described as "a targeting tool designed to improve capabilities for identifying and prioritizing high-value targets through advanced analytics."
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- [Data Center boom will excaerbate Earth's deterioration](https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/11/roadmap-shows-environmental-impact-ai-data-center-boom): Cornell researchers have found that, by 2030, the current rate of AI growth would annually put 24 to 44 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the emissions equivalent of adding 5 to 10 million cars to U.S. roadways. It would also drain 731 to 1,125 million cubic meters of water per year–equal to the annual household water usage of 6 to 10 million Americans.
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## We choose to remain the stewards of our stories.
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We must continuously ask ourselves who benefits from our technological uses, and who stands most at-risk.
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As a Black queer digital community archive, we push against the notion that technological advancement is worth losing our planet and the people within it.
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For archivists and memory workers (or otherwise) looking for advice on how to "deGoogle" their collections, please reach out!
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{% include feature/button.html text="Contact Us" link="/contact/" color="success" %}
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<br>
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# Archival Metadata (check out our [Copyright & Terms](/copyright/) before you download!)
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The table below provides sorting and basic search of the archive's contents.
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Use the "CSV" button below to download the filtered metadata you see on the page.
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Alternatively, click the "Download" button at the top right to view the full archive's metadata in various formats.
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{% include data-download-modal.html %}
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{% include data-table.html %}
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# include CollectionBuilder info at bottom
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credits: true
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# featured-image value can be one objectid for a photo object in this collection, a relative path to an image in this project, or a full url to any image. If left blank, no featured image will appear at top of About page.
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about-featured-image: garycoll019
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# set background-position for featured image, "center", "top", "bottom"
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position: center
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# major heading to display over featured image
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heading: "Donate"
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# paragraph text below heading in featured image
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sub-heading:
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# additional padding added to the feature to increase size. Give value in em or px, e.g. "5em".
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padding: 6em
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# Edit the markdown on in this file to describe your collection
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# Look in _includes/feature for options to easily add features to the page
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---
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---
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# Supporting this archive
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# Help take care of this archive like the community it comes from.
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{B/qKC} is a fiscally-sponsored artist project. {B/qKC} is kept open by people like *you* who choose to donate to this work. By limiting the people we accept donations, grants and sponsorships from, we remain accountable to the people who truly believe in our work.
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{B/qKC} is a fiscally-sponsored artist project. {B/qKC} is kept open by people like *you* who choose to donate to this work. By limiting the people we accept grants and sponsorships from and relying on crowdfunding, we remain accountable to the people who truly believe in our work.
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We have had over 100+ donations in the two years before launching this website in early 2026. We would *love* to encourage folks to contribute monthly/regularly.
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*Please contact us for more donation options.*
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<script src="https://app.thefield.org/home/donation/general/650187/0"></script>
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<iframe src="https://app.thefield.org/home/donation/general/650187/0" width="500" height="600"></iframe>
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## Our donors
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Any organizations looking to support this work should contact us directly. Please us the button below to email us.
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<div style="text-align: center; margin: 2rem 0;">
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{% include feature/button.html
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text="Inquire"
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link="mailto:nasiranthonymontalvo@gmail.com"
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text="Inquire about sponsorship/group donation"
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link="mailto:1800nasi@tutamail.com?subject=Organizational Sponsorship, [INSERT NAME]&body=Please include information about your interest in sponsoring or donating to {B/qKC} as an organization. Thank you for your support! <3"
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color="success" %}
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</div>
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---
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## Donating my material to the archive
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We are currently able to digitize materials related to Soakie's!
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We are currently able to digitize materials related to [Soakie's](/read/soakies/)!
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Unfortunately, we are not readily available to digitize additional archival materials at this time, but hope to soon! This project has traditionally been pursued in volumes, and it is the current mission of {B/qKC} to permanently memorialize Soakie's in various shapes and forms.
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Unfortunately, we are not readily available to digitize additional archival materials at this time, but hope to soon! This project has traditionally been pursued in volumes, and it is the current mission of {B/qKC} to permanently memorialize Soakie's in various shapes and forms before continuing on.
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For information on our digitization policy, please contact us.
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<div style="text-align: center; margin: 2rem 0;">
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{% include feature/button.html
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text="Inquire"
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link="mailto:nasiranthonymontalvo@gmail.com"
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text="Inquire about material donation"
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link="mailto:1800nasi@tutamail.com?subject=Material Donation, [INSERT NAME]&body=Please include information about materials you'd like to donate to {B/qKC}, and/or questions about our digitization policy. We will be in touch soon! Thank you for your care. <3"
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color="success" %}
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</div>
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
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---
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title: Edye Gregory And Ray Rondell
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layout: about
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permalink: /read/edye-and-ray.html
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permalink: /read/edye-and-ray/
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# include CollectionBuilder info at bottom
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credits: false
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# featured-image value can be one objectid for a photo object in this collection, a relative path to an image in this project, or a full url to any image. If left blank, no featured image will appear at top of About page.
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
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---
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title: The Erasure and (Sexual) Subjugation of Black Queer Kansas Citians; A Brief Historical Look
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layout: about
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permalink: /read/erasure.html
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permalink: /read/erasure/
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# include CollectionBuilder info at bottom
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credits: false
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# featured-image value can be one objectid for a photo object in this collection, a relative path to an image in this project, or a full url to any image. If left blank, no featured image will appear at top of About page.
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@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ BY [NASIR MONTALVO](https://1800nasi.net) ● ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE KAN
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<p class="quote-attrib">Frantz Fanon, "Black Skin, White Masks"</p>
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</blockquote>
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The Dixie Belle Bar is lauded, perhaps, as one of the most nostalgic places for Kansas City's LGBT nightlife from 1983 to 2006[^1]–but it was also once one of Kansas City's most racist queer establishments. On July 27, 1993, Yul Stell, a Black organizer with [Men Of All Colors Together--Kansas City](https://kansascitydefender.com/lgbtqia2/men-of-all-colors-together/), penned an open letter to the Dixie Belle [^2]. In the letter, he condemned the bar for displaying a confederate flag and called out racial practices the bar upheld–requiring that Black folk show four to five pieces of identification for entry into the establishment and placing a quota on Black folk who could be in the bar at one-time[^3]. Since the bar closed in 2006, Dixie Belle has developed a cult-like following: former patrons have hosted throwback events and posted nostalgic photos, and the bar was most recently featured as a stop on the Kansas City Rainbow Tour [^4].
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The Dixie Belle Bar is lauded, perhaps, as one of the most nostalgic places for Kansas City's LGBT nightlife from 1983 to 2006[^1]–but it was also once one of Kansas City's most racist queer establishments. On July 27, 1993, Yul Stell, a Black organizer with [Men Of All Colors Together--Kansas City](/read/mact-kc/), penned an open letter to the Dixie Belle [^2]. In the letter, he condemned the bar for displaying a confederate flag and called out racial practices the bar upheld–requiring that Black folk show four to five pieces of identification for entry into the establishment and placing a quota on Black folk who could be in the bar at one-time[^3]. Since the bar closed in 2006, Dixie Belle has developed a cult-like following: former patrons have hosted throwback events and posted nostalgic photos, and the bar was most recently featured as a stop on the Kansas City Rainbow Tour [^4].
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- - -
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
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||||
---
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title: Men of All Colors Together–KC
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||||
layout: about
|
||||
permalink: /read/mact-kc.html
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||||
permalink: /read/mact-kc/
|
||||
# include CollectionBuilder info at bottom
|
||||
credits: false
|
||||
# featured-image value can be one objectid for a photo object in this collection, a relative path to an image in this project, or a full url to any image. If left blank, no featured image will appear at top of About page.
|
||||
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||||
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
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||||
---
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||||
title: "Out There"
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||||
layout: about
|
||||
permalink: /read/out-there.html
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||||
permalink: /read/out-there/
|
||||
# include CollectionBuilder info at bottom
|
||||
credits: false
|
||||
# featured-image value can be one objectid for a photo object in this collection, a relative path to an image in this project, or a full url to any image. If left blank, no featured image will appear at top of About page.
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
|
||||
---
|
||||
title: Remembering Soakie's
|
||||
layout: about
|
||||
permalink: /read/soakies.html
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||||
permalink: /read/soakies/
|
||||
# include CollectionBuilder info at bottom
|
||||
credits: false
|
||||
# featured-image value can be one objectid for a photo object in this collection, a relative path to an image in this project, or a full url to any image. If left blank, no featured image will appear at top of About page.
|
||||
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ It is with great honor that I welcome her collection to {B/qKC}.
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||||
<blockquote class="quote-box">
|
||||
<p class="quote-text">The "starla_carr_collection" is one of the inaugural collections digitized and donated to {B/qKC}. The collection consists of various photos from Carr's time as a seamstress, performer and go-er of Soakies in the early 2000s.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p class="quote-text"><a href="/pages/collections/collection-starla.html" target="_blank">view the starla_carr_collection</a></p>
|
||||
<p class="quote-text"><a href="/collections/starla-carr/" target="_blank">view the starla_carr_collection</a></p>
|
||||
</blockquote>
|
||||
|
||||
### **Tisha Taylor**
|
||||
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ It is with great honor that I welcome her collection to {B/qKC}.
|
||||
<blockquote class="quote-box">
|
||||
<p class="quote-text">The “tisha_taylor_collection” is one of the inaugural collections digitized and donated to {B/qKC}. The collection consists of various photos from Taylor’s time at Soakie’s and Kansas City’s Black Pride in 1999. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p class="quote-text"><a href="/pages/collections/collection-tisha.html" target="_blank">view the tisha_taylor_collection</a></p>
|
||||
<p class="quote-text"><a href="/collections/tisha-taylor/" target="_blank">view the tisha_taylor_collection</a></p>
|
||||
</blockquote>
|
||||
|
||||
### **Gary Carrington **
|
||||
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ It is with great honor that I welcome his collection to {B/qKC}.
|
||||
<blockquote class="quote-box">
|
||||
<p class="quote-text">The “gary_carrington_collection” is one of the inaugural collections digitized and donated to {B/qKC}. The collection consists of various photos from Carrington’s time at Soakie’s, as well as clippings from KC Exposures.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p class="quote-text"><a href="/pages/collections/collection-gary.html" target="_blank">view the gary_carrington_collection</a></p>
|
||||
<p class="quote-text"><a href="/collections/gary-carrington/" target="_blank">view the gary_carrington_collection</a></p>
|
||||
</blockquote>
|
||||
|
||||
**Closing Shift: Gentrification of Downtown Kansas City**
|
||||
|
||||
Reference in New Issue
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