Escaping the memory market: The challenges of the Bajubá Collection, a Brazilian LGBTQIAPN+ archive

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Published: Jan 30, 2025
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dissident memory, community archive, LGBTIAPN memory

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Yuri Fraccaroli
University of California, Collection Bajubá
Angel Natan
São Paulo Resistance Memorial, Bajubá Collection

Abstract

Acervo Bajubá is a community project to record the memories of Brazilian lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transvestite, transgender, queer, asexual and pansexual (LGBTQIAP+) communities. Bajubá currently operates in a room at the headquarters of Grupo de Incentivo a la Vida (GIV), a non-governmental organization that defends the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS, located in Vila Mariana, São Paulo. Acervo Bajubá brings together a collection of more than 10,000 items in various materials, in the process of being catalogued, that document sexual diversity and the plurality of gender identities in Brazilian history, especially since the second half of the 20th century. In addition, Bajubá develops cultural actions and projects for the production, mediation and circulation of historical narratives about LGBTQIAP+ people, collectives, organizations and spaces. The artists, educators and researchers involved in the project are responsible for internal research, cleaning, organization and preservation of the items, as well as for providing external services to the public.

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Fraccaroli, Y., & Natan, A. (2025). Escaping the memory market:. Memorias Disidentes. Revista De Estudios críticos Del Patrimonio, Archivos Y Memorias, 2(3), 251-260. Retrieved from https://ojs.unsj.edu.ar/index.php/Mdis/article/view/AcervoBajub%C3%A1.MD%2Cenero2025
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http://id.caicyt.gov.ar/ark:/s30087716/lk476pc4b
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Vol 2 No 3 (2025): Elusive Archives, Dissident Bodies, Elusive Patrimonies and Devastated Territories
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Author Biographies

Yuri Fraccaroli, University of California, Collection Bajubá

Yuri is a PhD student in Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is also an educator, artist, and researcher at the LGBTQIA+ archive Acervo Bajubá, in São Paulo, Brazil. Committed to exploring memory, history, and LGBT+ archives from an intersectional perspective, Yuri has published multiple book chapters and articles on these topics in journals such as Gender and Development, Revista Uruguaya de Ciencia Política, and Revista História Oral. In 2023, she was selected as an artist in residence at the No Lugar gallery (Quito, Ecuador). Currently, she is a beneficiary of the Dissertation Innovation Fellowship program of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Mellon Foundation (2024/2025). In recent years, her research has also had the valuable support of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, the Blum Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy, C Alianza México, and the Institute of Humanities at the University of California.

Angel Natan, São Paulo Resistance Memorial, Bajubá Collection

She is an artist and transvestite. She studied a degree in Visual Arts at the Paulista Faculty of Arts (FPA). She currently works as a Researcher at the Memorial da Resistencia in São Paulo. She has worked as an educator in the main cultural spaces in São Paulo and won the Arte na Rua competition at the Nômade music festival in 2022. She was also co-curator of the Arquivo Queer Br exhibition (São Paulo, 2024). Since 2020, she is an artist, educator and researcher at the Bajubá Collection. She is also a volunteer at the Grupo de Incentivo a la Vida (GIV).

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