{"id":8713,"date":"2025-08-18T16:09:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/?post_type=event&#038;p=8713"},"modified":"2026-05-02T12:15:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:15:30","slug":"we-will-not-be-erased-queer-archives-trans-histories","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/we-will-not-be-erased-queer-archives-trans-histories\/","title":{"rendered":"We Will Not Be Erased: Queer Archives, Trans Histories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"We Will Not Be Erased: Queer Archives, Trans Histories\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cB4CNEd3m-I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For over forty years, cultural historian Steven Watson has documented the stories and artwork at the leading edge of artistic and cultural movements, including the movement for queer and trans liberation. Working in collaboration with filmmaker William Markarian-Martin, Steven recently launched <a href=\"https:\/\/artifacts.movie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Artifacts<\/a>, making his collection of rare, firsthand accounts from pioneers such as Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, Holly Woodlawn, and many others accessible to students, researchers, and anyone interested in connecting to queer and trans history. Watson\u2019s archival collection foregrounds the importance of engaging with and animating trans and queer histories in order to combat the present-day erasure of trans lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watson will be in conversation with trans artist and activist Tourmaline, whose work on narrating, preserving, and celebrating Marsha P. Johnson\u2019s life has drawn extensively on Watson\u2019s Artifacts. Tourmaline\u2019s repertoire of film and book projects on Marsha includes the first full-length biography on her life, <em>MARSHA: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson<\/em> (Penguin Random House, 2025). This event is part of a series that began with <a href=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/event\/marsha-the-joy-and-defiance-of-marsha-p-johnson\/\">Tourmaline\u2019s Helen Pond McIntyre \u201848 Lecture<\/a> at BCRW on November 6, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For over forty years, cultural historian Steven Watson has documented the stories and artwork at the leading edge of artistic and cultural movements, including the movement for queer and trans liberation. Working in collaboration with filmmaker William Markarian-Martin, Steven recently launched <a href=\"https:\/\/artifacts.movie\/\" target=\"_blank\">Artifacts<\/a>, making his collection of rare, firsthand accounts from pioneers such as Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, Holly Woodlawn, and many others accessible to students, researchers, and anyone interested in connecting to queer and trans history. Watson\u2019s archival collection foregrounds the importance of engaging with and animating trans and queer histories in order to combat the present-day erasure of trans lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11723,"template":"","tags":[57,6,36,35,15,34],"class_list":["post-8713","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-film","tag-gender","tag-history","tag-queer","tag-sexuality","tag-transgender"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/8713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/8713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11722,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/8713\/revisions\/11722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}