Project: Transnational Sexualities: Collective Memory Project in Twin Cities

In this project, students in the GWSS/GLBT 3404 Transnational Sexualities (Topic: Queer Memory Work: Temporalities, Places, Struggles) explored the queer and ethnic past and present of the Twin Cities during the Spring of 2023 and designed a memory walk as a final product. They focus on the ‘memory walk’ as a critical methodology whereby people visit the places of memory and encounter the cultural and political stories that hegemonic historical narratives overlook. The sites of memory that students have worked on are as follows: The Locker Room, Loring Park, UMN Campus, Hmong Village, Amazon Bookstore Cooperative, and East Phillips/Little Earth neighborhood. This collective work entails digital and physical archival work, visits to and collaboration with local organizations, and contact with public audiences. The class and Minnesota Transform collaborated to digitize this memory project.

Explore the digitized class projects by following these links to their respective MNT project library pages:

• The Locker Room: Minneapolis Queer Community Care within Bathhouses 1960s -1980s
• Feminist and Black-Owned Bookstores
• Hmong Village: Resilience, Home, and Hope
• Indigenous Resistance and Community Care in the East Phillips/Little Earth Neighborhood
• Authoritative power against Queer/Trans people of color “Tracing the stories of Andrea Anderson and Cece McDonald”
• Queer on Campus