Utopia is Somewhere Else

Being multi-faceted, violence is hard to define and distinguish. Sometimes it is overt like raid, confiscation and beating; sometimes it is subtle, covert and soft. Some consider an experience as violent, while others understand that very experience in a different way. Here is a story of two novelists and their books. One has experienced violence […]

Tender Resistance and the Violent Times of the AIDS Crisis

Within the archival collections of The ArQuives are ephemera and objects that document queer history, especially those primarily produced in or concerning Canada. Such queer archives preserve personal papers, photographs, periodicals, posters, and pins in order to, as scholar Ann Cvetkovich describes, “sustain a queer future by reminding us of our queer pasts” (35). Walking […]