{"id":10682,"date":"2022-03-16T11:06:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T16:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/?p=10682"},"modified":"2023-04-06T14:45:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T19:45:02","slug":"queer-latino-archives-art-amanda-cervantes-jose-luis-benavides-amigas-latinas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/es\/2022\/03\/16\/queer-latino-archives-art-amanda-cervantes-jose-luis-benavides-amigas-latinas\/","title":{"rendered":"Dos artistas latinos queer tienden puentes entre generaciones a trav\u00e9s de los archivos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_69da7746dbdf2\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\" data-bg-animation-delay=\"\" data-bg-overlay=\"false\"><div class=\"inner-wrap row-bg-layer\" ><div class=\"row-bg viewport-desktop\"  style=\"\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-2 vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col padding-3-percent inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2016, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/joseluisbenavides.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jose Luis Benavides <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was working on an experimental documentary, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lulu en el Jardin<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, about his mother\u2019s experience as a queer Latina in the \u201970s and \u201980s. At the time, the Chicago video artist and documentary filmmaker was getting his Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago and was creating work about his own personal archives and queer family histories. He asked <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/amanda-cervantes.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amanda Cervantes,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a photographer who was also a student at the time, to play the part of his mother for reenactment scenes. It was the start of an incredible friendship and collaborative relationship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Benavides and Cervantes, who are both queer Latinx artists, have since created works that respond to archival collections both personal and public. The two are now working on a project they are tentatively calling \u201cAmigas Latinas Queer Time\u201d that reflects their explorations of the archive of Amigas Latinas. Between July 1995 and July 2015, Amigas Latinas built community in Chicago for lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning Latinas, beginning as a monthly discussion group and evolving into a primarily volunteer-run nonprofit. Its archive is housed at the Gerber\/Hart Library and Archives.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"templatera_shortcode\">\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_69da7746dd5f8\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row vc_row-o-equal-height vc_row-flex vc_row-o-content-middle small\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\" data-bg-animation-delay=\"\" data-bg-overlay=\"false\"><div class=\"inner-wrap row-bg-layer\" ><div class=\"row-bg viewport-desktop\"  style=\"\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone border_color_909090 border_style_solid \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_69da7746de1c5\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row vc_row-o-equal-height vc_row-flex vc_row-o-content-middle large top_margin_20px bottom_margin_20px\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\" data-bg-animation-delay=\"\" data-bg-overlay=\"true\"><div class=\"inner-wrap row-bg-layer\" ><div class=\"row-bg viewport-desktop\"  style=\"\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row-bg-overlay row-bg-layer\" style=\"background: #FFFFFF; background: linear-gradient(90deg,#FFFFFF 0%,#FFFFFF 100%);  opacity: 1; \"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col padding-3-percent force-phone-text-align-center inherit_tablet inherit_phone border_top_desktop_1px border_bottom_desktop_1px border_color_FFFFFF border_style_solid \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"fws_69da7746de8cc\" data-midnight=\"\" data-column-margin=\"default\" class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row inner_row vc_row-o-equal-height vc_row-flex vc_row-o-content-middle\"  style=\"\"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\"> <div class=\"row-bg\" ><\/div> <\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12_inner col span_12  left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-7 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col child_column no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"   data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t<h4 id=\"news-that-puts-power-under-the-spotlight-and-communities-at-the-center\"><strong>News that puts power under the spotlight and communities at the center.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Sign up for our free newsletter and get updates twice a week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div style=\"margin-top: -20px; \" class=\"vc_col-sm-5 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col child_column neg-marg no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"   data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"wpb_raw_code wpb_raw_html wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"_form_1\"><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/borderlessmag.bluelena.io\/f\/embed.php?id=1\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the fall, Benavides and Cervantes will launch a website that presents artworks, conversations and writings inspired by this trove of archival material. The project is an extension of\u00a0 \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/artatatimelikethis.com\/follow-the-dust\/amanda-cervantes-jose-luis-benavides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inner Lives Out: Archiving Queer Time\/Vidas interiores hacia fuera: Archivando tiempos queer,\u201d <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a bilingual online exhibition they launched in 2021 that explores queer time and queer kinship across generations and identities.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Borderless Magazine interviewed Cervantes and Benavides about their latest exhibition and how the Amigas Latinas collection is a continuation of their work that delves into archival collections and \u201cqueer time.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"divider-wrap\" data-alignment=\"default\"><div style=\"margin-top: 12.5px; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 12.5px;\" data-width=\"100%\" data-animate=\"\" data-animation-delay=\"\" data-color=\"default\" class=\"divider-border\"><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t<p><b>Borderless Magazine:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is queer time?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Jose Luis Benavides<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: In 2005 queer theorist <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jack Halberstam wrote, \u201cQueer Time and Place,\u201d where he argues <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cqueer uses of time and space develop &#8230; in opposition to the institutions of family, heterosexuality, and reproduction.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Basically, there is a timeline that is part of heteronormative culture that moves linearly with particular milestones. For example: You&#8217;re born. You go to school. Get married. Have kids. Have a career. Have grandkids, retire, and die.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But if we&#8217;re thinking about queer life paths, cycles and timelines, you may come out in high school or college, but also you could be someone that comes out at 50 or 60! If that is when you start having the sex and romance you want for the first time in your life, it gets even more complex. Because when queer people are putting themselves in different categories of time by \u201cdelaying\u201d adulthood because of experiencing an &#8220;adolecence&#8221; later in life, it&#8217;s not good or bad. It&#8217;s just a different timeline. And for some people going back in the closet, like my mom did, you may experience time linearly but then you go backwards.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/207070082?h=19a1cfe988\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nJose Luis Benavides, \u201cLulu\u2019s Journal,\u201d 2017, digital video, 04:32 min<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-2 vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_69da7746e0d87\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\" data-bg-animation-delay=\"\" data-bg-overlay=\"false\"><div class=\"inner-wrap row-bg-layer\" ><div class=\"row-bg viewport-desktop\"  style=\"\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-2 vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col padding-3-percent inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t<p><b>Borderless Magazine: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You made a video about your mother called \u201cLulu\u2019s Journal.\u201d What is it about?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Benavides: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I made an experimental documentary film about my mother\u2019s life called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lulu en el Jardin<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Her story is one of these queer timelines, literally. She was institutionalized in Chicago in the \u201970s the first time she came out, emancipated herself at 18 and then lived on the streets. After she had a son (me), she ended up going back into the closet for what at the time was survival. \u201cLulu&#8217;s Journal\u201d is an excerpt from the film. Back then my mom didn&#8217;t have access to something like Amigas Latinas, and if she had, I wonder if she wouldn&#8217;t have gone back in the closet. This Amigas investigation is about getting access to that space and time, and imagining a life where she could have had the support to not go back into the closet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Borderless Magazine:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Your current collaboration is a response to the Amigas Latinas archive. How did you find the archive, and what does your response look like?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Benavides:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I came across the Amigas Latinas archive through a public Zoom talk done by Gerber\/Hart during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our collaboration has been an investigation of Amanda\u2019s and my relationship to this archive and a personal, deep dive into our own archives. We look at the way we relate to queerness, our own family histories, personal histories and then connect that to the Amigas Latinas archive. We were working through queer histories and queer interpretations of elder figures in our lives \u2014 for me, my mother, and Amanda, her great-grandmother and her aunt. I think now we&#8217;re doing the same thing, but this time they can talk to us. The queer elders who were part of Amigas Latinas are alive. They&#8217;re not ghosts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"fws_69da7746e1be9\" data-midnight=\"\" data-column-margin=\"default\" class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row inner_row\"  style=\"\"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\"> <div class=\"row-bg\" ><\/div> <\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12_inner col span_12  left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col child_column no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone border_bottom_desktop_1px border_color_000000 border_style_solid \"   data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"vc_separator wpb_content_element vc_separator_align_center vc_sep_width_100 vc_sep_pos_align_center vc_sep_color_black wpb_content_element vc_separator-has-text\" ><span class=\"vc_sep_holder vc_sep_holder_l\"><span class=\"vc_sep_line\"><\/span><\/span><h4 id=\"read-more-of-our-coverage\">Read More of Our Coverage<\/h4><span class=\"vc_sep_holder vc_sep_holder_r\"><span class=\"vc_sep_line\"><\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"pk-inline-posts\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"pk-inline-posts-container pk-inline-posts-template-list\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-columns=\"1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<article id=\"post-10611\" class=\"post-10611 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail category-arts-culture category-as-told-to tag-amigaslatinas\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"pk-post-outer\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pk-post-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-thumbnail\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pk-overlay pk-overlay-ratio pk-ratio-landscape\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pk-overlay-background\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/es\/2022\/03\/09\/amigas-latinas-interview-queer-chicago-community\/\" class=\"pk-overlay-link\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/AL04_featured.jpg\" class=\"attachment-pk-thumbnail size-pk-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pk-post-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<header>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"pk-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/es\/2022\/03\/09\/amigas-latinas-interview-queer-chicago-community\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">How Chicago\u2019s Amigas Latinas Made It OK to Be Out in the \u201990s<\/a><\/h3>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pk-post-meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"pk-meta-author meta-author\"><span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/es\/author\/ariel-mejia\/\" title=\"View all posts by Ariel Mejia\">Ariel Mejia<\/a><\/span><\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"sep\">\u00b7<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"pk-meta-date meta-date\"><a href=\"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/es\/2022\/03\/09\/amigas-latinas-interview-queer-chicago-community\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">marzo 9, 2022<\/a><\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/header><!-- .entry-header -->\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .post-inner -->\n\n\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .post-outer -->\n\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t<p><b>Amanda Cervantes: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is us making artistic responses to the archive. There&#8217;s a few things that we are working on. The first thing is recreating the flyers and photographing them being handled. These folks were sending hundreds of these flyers in the mail every week. We\u2019re thinking about the ways that we want to honor the work and labor that went into producing these and sending them out, and thinking about how this was a physical social network that existed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Benavides:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> We want to recreate the world of the flier \u2014 the whole atmosphere of how they were made, to how they ended up on someone&#8217;s fridge or in someone&#8217;s back pocket. That&#8217;s also part of one of the reenactment videos I want to make: a scene that is featuring the flyers in its original environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The video is a continuation of my mother&#8217;s story. I have recordings of my mother talking about her experiences in the \u201980s and the \u201990s. The idea for me is that I&#8217;ll be able to turn those recordings into a story that runs parallel with the Amigas Latinas records.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I found in the Amigas Latinas fliers that so many of their platicas (chats) were addressing topics that directly apply to someone like my mom at the time: being closeted, having families, coming out, being working class. In this video I&#8217;m working on, I&#8217;m imagining her in that space with Amigas. Imagining how she could have navigated coming out and having the support that Amigas Latinas existed to provide, wondering what it would&#8217;ve been like if Amigas had been part of her life.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-2 vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_69da7746e61b3\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\" data-bg-animation-delay=\"\" data-bg-overlay=\"false\"><div class=\"inner-wrap row-bg-layer\" ><div class=\"row-bg viewport-desktop\"  style=\"\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-2 vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col padding-3-percent inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t<div style=\"width: 1510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/5e6bbce338a83574de65f41c\/1619405440224-DRNLADVYN994EV1Y8H49\/Platicas.gif?format=1500w\" alt=\"various flyers prompting people to join Amigas Latinas platicas\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2000\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Luis Benavides, \u201cAmigas Latina\u2019s flyers,\u201d 2021, GIF. Images courtesy Amigas Latinas papers at Gerber\/Hart Library and Archives<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>Borderless Magazine<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What are the critical questions you asked yourselves during this process? Did you encounter any challenges?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Benavides: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some critical questions we\u2019ve asked ourselves through this process have been around nostalgia, how we relate to these pasts \u2014 both our own personal histories, family histories \u2014 and how we relate personally to these archives, while being careful about ethical approaches in sharing these lesbian Latina women\u2019s images and work from the 1990s. We are not trying to glorify them. They admit they had issues around trans inclusion and racism. People had to struggle to have more representation within the group. That&#8217;s a growth process.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In terms of the care we took and the ethics, we had to redact personal info from the fliers, which are also personal invitations. There were names, numbers, and addresses of people who were not out and we want to be respectful and not put people in danger or compromised situations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Borderless Magazine:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Are there other particular objects or documents in the archive that you are interested in beside the fliers?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Benavides: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019re very interested in other ephemera in the archive, including educational pamphlets and business meeting notes, among other photographs and newsletters, and Amigas Latinas\u2019 softball uniforms. Funnily enough the uniforms are another overlap with my mother\u2019s story. She tried to join the softball team at Truman College but didn\u2019t succeed or didn\u2019t stick with it. I forget, but I feel that mirrors the way [Amigas Latinas cofounders] Evette and Mona described their own team as a bit of a failure, too, because they told us how the team was terrible but it never mattered. They didn\u2019t play to win, they played because it was something to do together.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-2 vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_69da7746e73df\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row article-image\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\" data-bg-animation-delay=\"\" data-bg-overlay=\"false\"><div class=\"inner-wrap row-bg-layer\" ><div class=\"row-bg viewport-desktop\"  style=\"\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-with-aniamtion-wrap center\" data-max-width=\"100%\" data-max-width-mobile=\"default\" data-shadow=\"none\" data-animation=\"fade-in\" >\r\n      <div class=\"inner\">\r\n        <div class=\"hover-wrap\"> \r\n          <div class=\"hover-wrap-inner\">\r\n            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-with-animation skip-lazy \" data-delay=\"0\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" data-animation=\"fade-in\" src=\"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/BenavidesBibliographicOmission_website.jpg\" alt=\"book shelf with books\"  \/>\r\n         <\/div>\r\n      <\/div><span class=\"vc_figure-caption ccfic-text media-caption\">Jose Luis Benavides, \u201cBibliographic Omission \/ Omisi\u00f3n bibliogr\u00e1fica,\u201d 2016, digital photograph<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"fws_69da7746e8514\"  data-column-margin=\"default\" data-midnight=\"dark\"  class=\"wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_row\"  style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; \"><div class=\"row-bg-wrap\" data-bg-animation=\"none\" data-bg-animation-delay=\"\" data-bg-overlay=\"false\"><div class=\"inner-wrap row-bg-layer\" ><div class=\"row-bg viewport-desktop\"  style=\"\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row_col_wrap_12 col span_12 dark left\">\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-2 vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col no-extra-padding inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n\n\t<div  class=\"vc_col-sm-8 wpb_column column_container vc_column_container col padding-3-percent inherit_tablet inherit_phone \"  data-padding-pos=\"all\" data-has-bg-color=\"false\" data-bg-color=\"\" data-bg-opacity=\"1\" data-animation=\"\" data-delay=\"0\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"vc_column-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-with-aniamtion-wrap \" data-max-width=\"100%\" data-max-width-mobile=\"default\" data-shadow=\"none\" data-animation=\"fade-in\" >\r\n      <div class=\"inner\">\r\n        <div class=\"hover-wrap\"> \r\n          <div class=\"hover-wrap-inner\">\r\n            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-with-animation skip-lazy \" data-delay=\"0\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" data-animation=\"fade-in\" src=\"\" alt=\"\"  \/>\r\n         <\/div>\r\n      <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t<p><b>Borderless Magazine: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What are you hoping people experience when checking out your online exhibition?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Benavides:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Gaps in history are just kind of inevitable. Archives can be places that produce those gaps, or archives can be a place that closes those gaps. We want to expose and talk about things we hadn&#8217;t talked about or seen before, and finding the Amigas Latinas archive, we now have an abundance of imagery and things to work with. We&#8217;re just super geeked out and excited.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Cervantes: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learning about this archive and doing this work is a way of showing my past self, my current self, and also other queer youth, that we&#8217;ve always been doing this work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just 20 years ago, it was a different world for people like us. It was before social media, before everybody had access to the internet. It was this time where they came together and put in the work to talk about these topics that these women really wanted to hear, heavy-hitting topics at that. Whereas now, you can look up anything and everything in the palm of your hand. I think it&#8217;s a reminder of how far we&#8217;ve come and how we can honor our past as we move forward in the future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This interview has been edited for length and clarity.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This story is in collaboration with a podcast series by the Gerber\/Hart Library and Archives titled <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gerberhart.org\/unboxing-queer-history\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unboxing Queer History. <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check out episode 3, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/exhibits.gerberhart.org\/exhibits\/show\/unboxingqueerhistory\/ep3--amigas-latinas\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amigas Latinas &#8211; Latina, queer, and together:\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t<p><iframe style=\"width: 100%;\" 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