Announcing The Southern Memory Workers Collaborative
Hi lovely friends!
We’re so excited about a new project that we went to the extravagant length of starting a blog!
We’re teaming up with amazing folks from Invisible Histories, Georgia Dusk, Highlander Center, Solidarity History, and others to launch [ …anticipation-building pause …] The Southern Memory Workers Collaborative.
The Project
Our movements need memory workers now more than ever. However, the barriers to learning the skills associated with archival science, oral history, and related fields remain significant, especially in the Southern U.S.
The Southern Memory Workers Collaborative is a network of organizers and cultural workers who are dedicated to documenting, preserving and stewarding stories, traditions, and liberatory practices in the U.S. South.
The Collaborative seeks to identify and increase training opportunities for Southern movement memory workers and to deepen connections between cultural workers and memory workers across the region by conducting a survey.
Learn more over at the Georgia Dusk website: https://www.georgiadusk.com/southern-memory-workers
How You Can Help
Are you a *southern* memory worker? Tell us about your memory work practice and learn more about how to join the Southern Memory Worker Collaborative!
Do you feel called to document moments by taking photos or video? Yes!
Are you interested in storytelling and oral history? Yes!
How about zine-making? Yes!
Do you save the pieces of papers that others toss? Yes!
Interested in mapping? Yes!
Interested in public history? Yes!
Love journaling, writing poems, or writing in general? Yes!
Collect buttons, t-shirts, books, or other material? Yes!
Love archiveeeeesss?! Yes!
Finally, do you live in one of the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia
The Southern Memory Workers Collaborative is a network of organizers and cultural workers who are dedicated to documenting, preserving and stewarding stories, traditions, and liberatory practices in the U.S. South.
As we develop this project we want to learn from YOU! About what skills you are interested in developing or sharing and what resources your community, organization, or collective needs.
Help us out by participating in our survey: bit.ly/memoryworker