In response to an absolute lack of primary source narratives that centre both queerness and disability, the project seeks to meaningfully explore and archive the stories of day-to-day activism as it is lived and remembered in Toronto. As an exploratory project that is part of a SSHRC Insight Grant, the initial scope of this work is focused on self-identified arts-activists.

Drawing from 5 1-hour long filmed oral-history interviews with self identified arts-activists working at the intersections of disability and queerness., the project will result in 3-5 documentary shorts (10-15 min. each). In addition, the filmed interviews will be transcribed and captioned for archiving in The ArQuives.

Key desired outcomes of the work include: 1) Representations that queer and disabled people have always existed. 2) A model for future archival work in this area and an archive of activist strategies that have worked in the past. 3) The preservation of activists’ stories that may not otherwise be remembered/valued by normative ideas of what an activist/archive “should” be.