An Anti
Racist
Archive
This can leave us feeling that our experiences are not shared by others and create a profound sense of alienation. This Archive has cultivated a space where people of colour can reflect on, discuss and share their experience in a collective space.
The Anti-Racist Archive is intended to be open, flexible and experimental. But it is also here to capture a moment in time and build a legacy for the Centre and its collaborators.
University collaborations with community partners are often short-term, with little sustained investment and follow up from the institution. The PGR experience is equally transitory, often lasting a few years before all ties are severed and most traces of their existence are removed. This archive is a means to say:
We Were Here.
We Were Here
Volume1
2022-2023
Media type: journaling, video, audio, photography.
Themes: identity, culture, higher education and activism
In the first year of the Centre Archive we established the core principles of the archive and framed it as an explicitly anti-racist space. This not only resulted in a range of creative pieces but also an anti-racist blog series which continues today.
Volume 2
2023-2024
Media type: journaling, digital booklet, audio.
Themes: home and food
During the second year of the Centre Archive we focused on the themes of home and food for diasporic and displaced communities, resulting in a multimedia recipe book.
Volume 3
2023-2024
Media type: journaling, digital booklet, audio, video.
Themes: home and belonging
How does food bring people together? Why don’t we go to the Peaks more, when it is just on our doorstep? Is it because we are not interested in walking or nature, or is it because we have been made to feel unwelcome there? What does it mean that some people’s claim to a home can be taken away by others? Centre partner, The Lit Collective, explored these questions during a creative writing programme which resulted in producing a short video and anthology of poems, pictures, and general imaginings.
