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A community to discuss news and other topics regarding the Internet Archive, also known by its domain: archive.org.

The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to texts, movies & music, as well as billions of archived web pages.

If you find something neat in the archives, or an interesting article about the organization or its work, please share it with us! Questions are welcome, too.

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Vanishing Culture: Cultural Preservation and Queer History (blog.archive.org)

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It’s a creative act to find and make sense of my own history, one that requires a leap of faith in order to fill in the silences, erasures, omissions, and genuine mysteries that old books and documents, records and artifacts, represent. A lot is left to the imagination. Much of what survives from the past asks more questions than we can answer. This is true for queer and trans archival traces, as it is for other aspects of humanity that are poorly accounted for in public records, or actively discriminated against through surveillance and omission in equal parts.

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