The Card Catalog Archives · Rhetoricity · Interventions

This work interrogates the 200+ years of erasure and dispossession on the Palouse and the archive's complicity in perpetuating these narratives. Drawing from personal family archives, landscape studies, and traditional sources, it explores accountability, inheritance, and responsibility — and how the archive, by attempting to erase and control, has shaped future possibilities of land and relationships.

This project looks to the present as a link to the past in order to imagine new liberatory futures built around relationality, solidarity, and radical care. Using a framework of multidirectional memory, it traces legacies and patterns of power as mediated through juridical, historical and archival processes throughout the so-called Northwest.

The "Absence archive" centers on memories, histories, and narratives that are forgotten and deliberately erased within archival practices. Through four case studies focusing on the human body — hands, parts, and bodily memory — this project deconstructs the violence behind utilizing gaps within archival practices of "development" and "civilization," and probes the rethinking of archival practice itself.

In the early 20th century, thousands of Filipinos immigrated to the United States to find work after colonization, only to be exploited as non-white agricultural laborers. Drawing on decolonial theory, labor process theory, transnational migration theory, and kuwentuhan, this project analyzes how and why Filipinos immigrated, their union-making methods, and the importance of sharing their stories to honestly history the U.S. and the labor it extracted.

This zine revisits the indigenous literary voices of non-violent resistance in the wake of religious extremism and state-backed oppression impinging on Pakistan since its creation. It explores postcolonial limitations and decolonial possibilities in third-world literature and culture — examining Global North–South literary relations through movements of resistance, solidarity, and Sufi traditions of refusal.

The myth of intrinsic conflict between marginalized communities has been promoted by a white supremacist culture, even as Asian and Black communities share experiences of being victimized by the same racist system. This mini-archive curates films and recipes that center transcultural and transnational solidarity — elevating past and ongoing efforts of resistance that speak back to imperial powers.

Medical apartheid is not uncommon in the history of health and medicine. People from marginalized communities — especially from the Global South — have become the site of medical and health experimentations. This article examines medical experiments on docile bodies, focusing on Global South medical apartheid and its inseparable connection to the historical colonizing process of people and heritage.

Foodways are paths, behaviors, and results of human interaction with food — and when colonial powers influence the supply chain, they actively create food genocide. This zine examines Osage Nation foodways as displayed in current Ozark archives, weaving together food sovereignty, archival remediation, and the McCaleb research drafts to argue for re-indigenizing — not merely decolonizing — the archive.

Drawing from anti-imperial transnational feminist approaches, this project emphasizes the necessity for Global South solidarity to disrupt settler colonial knowledge production that disregards non-western epistemology and bodies. It investigates the contours of global inequalities to build epistemic justice against memory injustices — being attentive to stories of violence conducted in Gaza, and refusing the silence of academia.

In Mexico, various indigenous languages are spoken alongside Spanish — including Mixteco, spoken throughout Oaxaca. The Endangered Language Alliance reports fewer than 2,000 Mixtec speakers in the United States. This project is a journey of language reclamation: preserving Mixteco's stories, songs, and ways of thinking, and resisting the colonial erasure of indigenous languages.

This zine focuses on the narratives of people who have been sterilized — especially Indigenous, Native American, and Mexican women in the U.S. — through two documentaries (No Más Bebés, 2015 and Amá, 2022) and archival images from The Freedom Archives and The American Indian Digital History Archive. It moves coerced sterilization out of forgotten archival space and into public memory work.