Queering the Map is a community-generated mapping project that geo-locates queer moments, memories and histories in relation to physical space. As queer life becomes increasingly less centered around specific neighborhoods and the buildings within them, notions of ‘queer spaces’ become more abstract and less tied to concrete geographical locations.
As the project collectively documents the spaces that hold queer memory, from park benches to parking garages, to mark moments of queerness wherever they occur, Queering the Map is emblematic of #TransformDH, a movement within the digital humanities that not only seeks questions of race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability within the work of Feminist, queer, antiracist activists, artists, and media-makers outside of academia that contribute to digital studies in all its forms, but also to invite others to join and claim the hashtag for themselves, and to actively seek a more transformative DH.
In exploring this unique digital space, Y Vy Truong’s session will examine how we can shift our framework of digital humanities from technical processes to political ones, and seek to understand the social, intellectual, economic, political, and personal impact of digital practices as we develop them in our own work.
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