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Archives of Justice Minding the Historical Gap

Understanding the past from the perspective of people who are often left out of the narrative: Black, brown, Asian, Indigenous, colonized and migrant people, particularly those who identify as women, trans, non-binary and queer.

For so many of us, History as we learn in school is dissonant with what we know to be true about the past of our communities. Our relationship to History is shaped by our erasure from it as actors and participants of historical processes. For some of us we only seem to appear in History as subjects of study; as colonized, racialized fragments in the colonial and national archives that inform History.

Archives of Justice: Minding the historical gaps is an invitation to understand the past from the perspective of the people who experienced it and are often left out of the narrative: Black, brown, Asian, Indigenous, colonized and migrant people, particularly those who identify as women, trans, non-binary and queer. Starting by simply listening to people, Archives of Justice links their stories to historical processes and events, drawing connections between people, sites, geographies and human processes to help us better understand their contributions to and participation in important moments and processes in the contemporary history of our humanity.

Historians agree that there are gaps, silences, omissions and even lies in the official documents of the past. These gaps disproportionally erase the political interventions and legacies of women, of Black , Indigenous …

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