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Archivo de la Memoria Trans

Archivo de la Memoria Trans
LocationBuenos Aires, Argentina
Type
ScopeTrans community in Argentina
Established2012 (2012)
Collection
Items collectedPhotographs, films, sound recordings, newspaper and magazine articles, documents, letters, postcards, notes and police files, among others.
SizeOver 25,000 items[2]
Criteria for collectionContributions that document the lives of trans people in Argentina.
Other information
Founder and director
María Belén Correa
Team[1]
Correa, Cecilia Estalles, Carola Figueredo, Teté Vega, Luis Juárez, Sonia Beatriz Torrese, Carolina Nastri, Marina Cisneros, Katiana Villagra, Iris Kaufman, Luciana Leiras, Marcela Navarro, Mychel Aguilera, Lina Etchesuri, Sofía Naara, Alejandro Correa, Muriel Bruschi and Monica de Valle Arancibia
Websitearchivotrans.ar

The Archivo de la Memoria Trans (AMT; English: "Trans Memory Archive") is an Argentine trans community archive dedicated to compiling and recovering the history and cultural heritage of transgender, transsexual and travesti people in the country.[3][4] The Archive aims to act as a collective memory for Argentine trans identities, ensuring that their stories, especially of those who endured and resisted systemic discrimination and violence—frequently silenced or erased by official narratives—are preserved and made widely accessible to the community.[5] The project was conceived by trans activists María Belén Correa and Claudia Pía Baudracco and founded by the former in 2012, shortly after the latter's death.[6][5][7] It began as a closed Facebook group created by Correa, focused on sharing personal photographs and anecdotes from Argentine trans women, and over time—with the help of photographer Cecilia Estalles—evolved into a small collective dedicated to the collection, preservation and digitization of materials, adhering to archival standards.[6][5] The Archive contains more than 25,000 items[2] that document the life of trans people in Argentina—dating from the beginning of the 20th century to the late 1990s—including photographs, films, sound recordings, newspaper and magazine articles, identity documents, letters, postcards, notes and police files.[8][9] The project's archivists are older transgender women who have, for the first time, gained entry into a professional and labor environment of this nature.[2] A pioneering project in Latin America, the Archive has inspired several initiatives in other countries of the region, including Mexico,[10] Honduras,[11] Cuba, Colombia, Chile and Uruguay, among others.[12] Alongside its preservation mission, the AMT has undertaken several political demonstrations and legal actions seeking historical reparations for the trans community.[13] In 2023, the Archive received the highest Honoris Causa distinction given by the National University of La Plata.[14]

In addition to its preservation and activist efforts, the AMT has set the goal of disseminating its material, which has been showcased both physically and on digital platforms in museums and institutions within the country and abroad, such as the Reina Sofía Museum, Tate Modern and the São Paulo Biennial, giving international recognition to the project.[15][16] The Archive was also the subject of a documentary series that premiered on the Encuentro channel,[17] produced a podcast and a radionovela,[18][19] and took part in the documentary film Family Album (2024).[20] After the previous experience of co-editing a photobook in 2020 with Buenos Aires-based publisher Editorial Chaco, in 2022 the AMT founded its own independent publisher, dedicated to promoting transgender authors and topics.[21] The AMT publisher's first book was Si te viera tu madre, released the same year, which focused on Baudracco's life and activism through texts and photos.[22] It was followed by Nuestro códigos in 2023, a book object that includes photos and quotes by trans women that dialogue with documents from other archives, coming from the institutions that were in charge of persecuting the community.[9] In 2024, the AMT published the book Kumas and an updated reprint of the first 2020 photobook, as well as two zines: La abuela y la Travesti and El amor volverá.[2] The work of the AMT also played a fundamental role in a landmark judicial ruling of 27 March 2024, which, for the first time, recognized trans women as victims of the last civic-military dictatorship.[23]

  1. ^ "Acerca" (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Archivo de la Memoria Trans. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d Correa, María Belén (25 January 2025). "La conquista del Archivo de la Memoria Trans: la historia bajo nuestra propia mirada" (in Spanish). elDiarioAR. Retrieved 24 March 2025.
  3. ^ Herrera, Isabelia (23 August 2019). "Preserving Latinx History Through Vintage Photos". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 28 August 2019. Retrieved 24 March 2025.
  4. ^ Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.; Kuefler, Mathew, eds. (2024). The Cambridge World History of Sexualities: Volume 1, General Overviews. Cambridge University Press. p. 491. ISBN 978-110-890-128-4. Retrieved 24 March 2025 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ a b c Correa, María Belén; Estalles, Cecilia; Pericles, Carla; Bordei, Ivana; Muñíz, Magalí; Figueredo, Carolina (2019). Garriga-López, Claudia Sofía; Lopes, Denilson; Rizki, Cole; Rodríguez, Juana María (eds.). "Trans Memory Archive" (PDF). Trans Studies en las Américas. Transgender Rights Quarterly. 6 (2). Duke University Press: 156–163. Retrieved 24 March 2025.
  6. ^ a b De Mello, Luciana (24 November 2019). "El Archivo de la Memoria Trans llegó al Reina Sofía". Soy. Pagina/12 (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 March 2025.
  7. ^ Comedi, Agustina (22 June 2016). "Ésta se fue, ésta murió, ésta ya no está". Anfibia (in Spanish). Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Retrieved 24 March 2025.
  8. ^ "Archivo de la Memoria Trans". #MemoriasSituadas (in Spanish). Centro Internacional para la Promoción de los Derechos Humanos (CIPDH). UNESCO. Archived from the original on 19 December 2023. Retrieved 24 March 2025.
  9. ^ a b "Nuestros códigos: un nuevo libro del Archivo de la Memoria Trans" (in Spanish). Agencia Presentes. 31 October 2023. Retrieved 24 March 2025.
  10. ^ "Archivo de la Memoria Trans en México: la vida, la represión y la supervivencia" (in Spanish). Agencia Presentes. 27 July 2022. Retrieved 24 March 2025.
  11. ^ Villatoro, Daniel (31 July 2022). "Un nuevo proyecto recupera las vidas LGBT+ perseguidas e invisibilizadas en Honduras" (in Spanish). Infobae. Retrieved 24 March 2025.
  12. ^ Valdez, Cecilia (21 August 2022). "Archivo de la Memoria Trans: la historia contada por nosotras mismas". El Salto (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 March 2025.
  13. ^ Cite error: The named reference milveces was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  14. ^ Cite error: The named reference honoris was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  15. ^ Máximo, Matías (20 April 2021). "Archivo de la Memoria Trans: el proyecto colaborativo que reunió 10.000 fotos y encandiló a Nan Goldin". Rolling Stone Argentina (in Spanish). La Nación. Retrieved 24 March 2025.
  16. ^ "Archivo de la Memoria Trans (AMT)" (in Portuguese). 35ª Bienal de São Paulo – coreografias do impossível. 2023. Retrieved 17 April 2025.
  17. ^ "Canal Encuentro estrena un nuevo capítulo del Archivo de la Memoria Trans" (in Spanish). Ministerio de Cultura. 11 May 2021. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
  18. ^ "Podcast del Archivo de la Memoria Trans" (in Spanish). Archivo de la Memoria Trans. 19 November 2021. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
  19. ^ "Radionovela 'Cuentos y Leyendas'". Vist Projects. 2023. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
  20. ^ Franco, Emmanuel (26 March 2025). "Álbum de familia: fragmentos de resistencia, alegría e intimidad" (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: LatFem. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
  21. ^ "Contar historias con voz propia: el Archivo de la Memoria Trans lanza su editorial" (in Spanish). Télam. 25 June 2022. Archived from the original on 25 June 2022. Retrieved 24 March 2025.
  22. ^ Pagano, Fernando (21 June 2022). "Fue a Europa y aprendió a defender a sus compañeras trans de la policía: quién fue la "prócer travesti" Claudia Baudracco" (in Spanish). Infobae. Retrieved 24 March 2025.
  23. ^ "Juicio Brigadas: un fallo histórico que reconoce la persecución a mujeres trans en la dictadura". Tiempo Argentino (in Spanish). 27 March 2024. Retrieved 24 March 2025.

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