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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.
-In the United States, treasured mementos for marginalized communities, amassed by institutional libraries, archives and universities, are effectively being deleted.
+In the United States, our treasured mementos, amassed by institutional libraries, archives and universities, are effectively being deleted.
-And across the world, in Palestine, museums, archives, and libraries have been bombed by the IDF–as a result, destroying many significant historic materials important to our World's historical record.
+And across the world, in Palestine, museums, archives, and libraries have been bombed by the IDF–as a result, destroying many significant historic materials important to our World's historical record.
-There is a damning need to be stewards of our own histories, protecting them under our rightful. The ways we decide to document and collect our histories can no longer be done passively or uncritically. Memory work must be an *active* process.
+There is a damning need to be stewards of our own histories, protecting them under our rightful care. The ways we decide to document and collect our histories can no longer be done passively or uncritically.
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+Memory work must be an *active* process.
{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.