Nov 17, 2024
While these objects have a referential quality, they are still unable to fully function as a comprehensive archive and narrative of that crushing and transformative era. Much of that time, those people, objects and acts, are gone. And so these ephemera stand in for all that is fleeting, marginalized, and in doing so, obligate us to try and remember.
Julian Wong-Nelson, “An Archive of Fleeting Moments: Queer Citation and Ephemeral Objects” (2017)