THANK YOU Arizona State University Library for the Archival Supplies!!!

Right before the holidays, The Radical Archive Project received a shipment of archival supplies from Arizona State University Library through its Community-Driven Archives Initiative. The materials were sent by Assistant Archivist Jessica Salow, and they arrived not just as tools, but as a gesture of care.

Inside the box were folders, sleeves, gloves, and preservation materials that will be used to steward performance ephemera, photographs, and memory objects that circulate through TRAP. These are materials that carry movement, touch, and lived experience. They deserve care.

Community-based archives often operate without consistent institutional resources. We make do. We improvise. We hold histories together with what we have. When material support arrives with intention, it matters. It signals trust in the work and respect for the knowledge communities already hold.

What I appreciate most about the Community-Driven Archives Initiative is its understanding that care is not abstract. Care is tangible. It looks like supplies that allow memories to rest, to last, and to be handled with dignity.

This post is a public thank you.

Thank you to Jessica Salow.

Thank you to the Community-Driven Archives Initiative.

Thank you for supporting archival work that is relational, embodied, and community-rooted.

To learn more about the initiative, visit:

https://lib.asu.edu/communityarchives

Sometimes solidarity arrives quietly.

Sometimes it arrives in a box.