The Trans Memory Argentina archive begins as a closed Facebook group where friends from the 1980s and 1990s can connect to connecting. It is successful and the digital space soon is filled with anecdotes, letters, and cronicas. After, the photographer ceci estalles suggested that “enlargement ahead of anecdotes,” says Nasri.
The big jump ahead is exhibition This one left, it was killed, it was one dead (This is left, killed him, he died), with close pictures of friends in prison, exile, or otherwise nothing. Shortly after, Archive’s team began to dream of building a larger presence.
Today, Nastri works with Archive’s managers, which are often older adult witnesses in community history, as they are archived, and settled, and settled in documents. For them, working is an act of resistance. In Argentina, 9,000 people (in 2021) changed their national identity documents to show their sexual identity. People between the ages of 40 and 79 only cost only 17 percent of that number in the last 60 recounts only 4 percent.
The Trans Memory Archive in Argentina holds more than 100 documentary collections with 25,000 items, recordings, brosquies, magazine articles, magazine documents, and personal records. Their job is self funded by projects, Book salesand Monthly contributions.
On the website, there are images from childhood, exile, activism, letters and postcards, carnival celebrations, private parties, birthdays, sex work, everyday life, portraits, as well as ones from people’s professional lives. The documentary archive made by PIA currently resides with 40 other similar Latin America archives.
At the end of June, during the winter of Argentina, Hernández told me a video call that the future generations should know about what they experienced. His generation saves persecution and harassment from the police the dictatorship. Without this archive, Nasri believes that not only a significant part of history to lose, but many times are forgotten. “Something that this community is strong family bond,” he explained. “They have a tragic history but shared it in a happy way.”
