The power of the archive: lesbians, s(t)ex(t)uality and orality

Abstract

The following paper reflects on the archive as it is used on a doctoral research in progress about lesbian activism in Argentina. Based on the contributions of Cvetkovich (2003) about the affective dimension of the historical records of lesbian existences, the paper presents two fundamental archives of lesbian activism in Argentina: 1. The blog Potencia Tortillera; 2. In-depth interviews and biographical records. The aim of the paper is to queer ―in the sense of making strange― the archive conceived in classical terms, as well as to discuss, from a concrete case of study, the theory from the global north that assumes the marginal production of documentation on sexual diversity.

Keywords

• archivo
• testimonio
• lesbiana
• activismo