The archive contains many kinds of objects that are created as part of social movements by the participants themselves: posters, flyers, publications, zines, books, T-shirts and buttons, moving images, audio recordings, subject files, and other materials.
Through our programming, we use this cultural ephemera to animate histories of people mobilizing for social transformation. We consider the use of our collection to be a way of preserving and honoring histories and material culture that is often marginalized in mainstream institutions.
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*Walkout: A Brief History of Student Organizing
Online Only
June 1, 2020 – December 31, 2020
Upcoming Events
*Collections Work Party
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 @ 6:30 PM
Join the collections management working group to do some processing work at the archive! We’ll be processing new donations, filing material, re-alphabetizing, and whatever else we identify as collections care. No experience necessary – if you’re interested in getting more familiar with the collection, this is a great opportunity. RSVP to Beth at rudigbeth@gmail.com.
MoreGender-expansive Families Propaganda Party
Sunday, March 24, 2024 @ 12:00 PM
March 24, 2024 12-4pm Interference Archive is hosting a propaganda party on March 24 to make and share graphic and informational material that we can use in our organizing work.
MorePalestine Lives! Listening Party at Starr Bar
Thursday, March 28, 2024 @ 7:00 PM
Due to a large turnout at our last event, we are having another listening party, this time with our friends at Starr Bar. Join us for an evening of vinyl records by Palestinian musicians and in solidarity with Palestine. Learn about the records, listen to the music together, discuss the songs, and build towards a […]
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Audio Interference 86: Queer Soccer, “Being Together Everywhere”
Reb Ngu, one of our volunteers, interviews their teammate, Lua Ferreira, about their queer/trans pick-up soccer group, which Lua started in the summer of 2020. They talk about losing soccer as kids and recovering it as adults, the transforming effects of play, maintaining the group as a free and open space, and learning how to […]
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*Exhibition Catalog: Walkout: A Brief History of Student Organizing
May 2020 marked the 50th anniversary of the Kent State and Jackson State massacres, which set off a historically large-scale student strike across the nation. With the anniversary as an entry point and frame of reference, this 96-page full color publication uses posters, buttons, pamphlets, flyers, zines, and more—to examine the broader scope of student movements that both led up to and followed those of May 1970.