Posters with Glitter Issues
Exploring Archival (W)holes at the Newberry Library
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5854455 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jessica M Lapp (0000-0002-7433-3401) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 109 |
| Pages | 278-296 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Feminist Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1321-7568 • E-ISSN: 1465-3303 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08164649.2021.1995848 |
| OpenAlex | W3210009837 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 18 |
This article explores the Newberry Library's Chicago Protest Collection and its 'posters with glitter issues', that is, protest ephemera classified by conservation concern due to the amount of glitter and glue used in its construction. The Newberry's collection of protest materials is a unique and at-times contradictory archival body. What allows these materials to hang together is their glitter proximity; how they shed, spread, accumulate, and intermingle in the stacks. Drawing from in-situ research at the Newberry, as well as interviews with Newberry archivists and an artist creating textiles in response to queer archival absence, this article 'follows the glitter' in order to position feminist and queer archival records as transgressive and leaky. Thinking alongside archival theorising on the archival body, and feminist and queer studies of glitter as world-building, I trace and corral glitter across four distinct but interpolated acts of records shaping that constitute the Newberry Library's collection of protest materials: Initial inscription (glitter on the hands), collective constitution (glitter on the street), institutional archivalisation (glitter on the floor), and artistic use (glitter in the air). In undertaking this analysis, I demonstrate how this bright and glittery archival body continually creates, sustains, obscures, and fabulates feminist and queer life worlds
Art · Ephemera · Media studies · Order (exchange · Queer · Sociology · Visual arts · Digital and Traditional Archives Management · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Latin American and Latino Studies · Gender Studies · History
Modern archives
Null
Making a Killing
Stains and Remains
Resistance in a minor key
Platform Uncommons
Tacit narratives
A call to rethink archival creation
Be/longing in the archival body
Reading gesture
It definitely felt very white’
How Glitter Bombing Lost Its Sparkle
Reading Colonial Records Through an Archival Lens
Ephemera as Evidence
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |