Current Projects
1. California State Library: Preserving California’s LGBTQ+ History 2020
a. For the past two years, LASD staff has been working on the 2020 California State Library (CSL) Project, which recently came to an end in June 2022. The 2020 CSL Project was a large-scale project with three components: (1) digitize, preserve, and reorganize our oversized materials; (2) digitize, create metadata, and make available photograph collections; and (3) process and preserve LASD collections. During this project, we intentionally prioritized the collections of BIPOC and Transgender members of the LGBTQ+ community to preserve and disseminate their narratives, which have been historically underrepresented, misrepresented and/or trivialized in archives across the U.S. We are currently working on making these resources available online.
a. For the past two years, LASD staff has been working on the 2020 California State Library (CSL) Project, which recently came to an end in June 2022. The 2020 CSL Project was a large-scale project with three components: (1) digitize, preserve, and reorganize our oversized materials; (2) digitize, create metadata, and make available photograph collections; and (3) process and preserve LASD collections. During this project, we intentionally prioritized the collections of BIPOC and Transgender members of the LGBTQ+ community to preserve and disseminate their narratives, which have been historically underrepresented, misrepresented and/or trivialized in archives across the U.S. We are currently working on making these resources available online.
2. BIPOC LGBTQ+ timeline
a. The decision to center BIPOC stories and materials for the CSL Project 2020 has led to the creation of a 116 page research document on local LGBTQ+ BIPOC-led organizations that have formed in San Diego, Imperial Valley, and Northern Baja California. This document is being edited into a timeline of BIPOC LGBTQ+ activism and organizational histories, which will directly benefit members of the local LGBTQ+ community and anyone who visits the Archives to learn more about the history of our community. Without the tireless activism and leadership of BIPOC community members like Marti Mackey, Karen Vigneault, John Guinn, and Jim Cua, and many more, San Diego’s LGBTQ+ community would not have made the progress it has. This timeline will be made available to the community and to researchers towards the end of this year.
a. The decision to center BIPOC stories and materials for the CSL Project 2020 has led to the creation of a 116 page research document on local LGBTQ+ BIPOC-led organizations that have formed in San Diego, Imperial Valley, and Northern Baja California. This document is being edited into a timeline of BIPOC LGBTQ+ activism and organizational histories, which will directly benefit members of the local LGBTQ+ community and anyone who visits the Archives to learn more about the history of our community. Without the tireless activism and leadership of BIPOC community members like Marti Mackey, Karen Vigneault, John Guinn, and Jim Cua, and many more, San Diego’s LGBTQ+ community would not have made the progress it has. This timeline will be made available to the community and to researchers towards the end of this year.
3. Trans Policing Disparities Project - 2022
Lambda Archives is excited to announce that we have officially started the Trans Policing Disparities (TPD) project and are actively seeking prospective candidates to participate and share their stories!
Launched in June 2022, Trans Policing Disparities is a grant-funded living project, conceptualized, created, and led exclusively by trans folx, that aims to illuminate the systemic oppression & violence disproportionately experienced by the trans community, at the hands of law enforcement institutions and officials.
The act of sharing our lived experiences through storytelling has been recognized as a powerful tool and under a trauma-informed approach, TPD is mobilized around providing a space in which trans individuals can share their narratives, as an outlet of healing from experiences of institutional harm, harassment, violence, and abuse from law enforcement.
Through community-based participatory collaboration and engagement, participants can further utilize this platform towards LASD’s overall mission of recording, preserving, and disseminating the stories and narratives of historically underrepresented folx whilst challenging the systemic institutions responsible for producing and perpetuating such disparities to begin with.
Lambda Archives is excited to announce that we have officially started the Trans Policing Disparities (TPD) project and are actively seeking prospective candidates to participate and share their stories!
Launched in June 2022, Trans Policing Disparities is a grant-funded living project, conceptualized, created, and led exclusively by trans folx, that aims to illuminate the systemic oppression & violence disproportionately experienced by the trans community, at the hands of law enforcement institutions and officials.
The act of sharing our lived experiences through storytelling has been recognized as a powerful tool and under a trauma-informed approach, TPD is mobilized around providing a space in which trans individuals can share their narratives, as an outlet of healing from experiences of institutional harm, harassment, violence, and abuse from law enforcement.
Through community-based participatory collaboration and engagement, participants can further utilize this platform towards LASD’s overall mission of recording, preserving, and disseminating the stories and narratives of historically underrepresented folx whilst challenging the systemic institutions responsible for producing and perpetuating such disparities to begin with.
Interested participants must fulfill the criteria below:
*Former residents are eligible to participate if experience(s) occurred while residing in SD, IV, BC.
**Applicable only to experiences that occurred within the San Diego
County Imperial Valley, and Baja California (Tijuana) regions.
If you are interested in participating as a narrator/interviewee or would like to learn more information about Trans Policing Disparities, please write to: info.tpdproject@gmail.com.
- Identify as trans, gender non-conforming (gnc), non-binary (enby), gender-queer (gq), two-spirit (2spirit), intersex, and/or a drag performer.
- Be 18+ years of age.
- Reside in San Diego County, Baja California, or Imperial Valley regions.
- Must have lived experience of navigating publicly as a trans person.
- Have an experience of interacting with law enforcement personnel including
- (but not limited to): police, border patrol, ICE, military police, campus police, county sheriffs**
*Former residents are eligible to participate if experience(s) occurred while residing in SD, IV, BC.
**Applicable only to experiences that occurred within the San Diego
County Imperial Valley, and Baja California (Tijuana) regions.
If you are interested in participating as a narrator/interviewee or would like to learn more information about Trans Policing Disparities, please write to: info.tpdproject@gmail.com.