After the Storm:
A Digital Archive of Survival

A multi-institutional, black and brown feminist collaboration that documents and archives the testimonios and oral histories of Black diasporic communities after ecological catastrophe, along the axis of race, gender and sexuality. Our collaborative is inspired by the #ProyectoPalabrasPuertoRico project, led by Dr. Yomaira Figueroa-Vasquez, and by the archival research of Dr. Teona Williams. Our aim is to bridge the U.S. South to the Caribbean, geographies that seems so disparate in our imagination, to show how the concept of catastrophe holds places together. We aim to amplify diasporic bonds and histories of struggle and rebellion without collapsing or flattening what makes each place unique. We think about how Afro diasporic women author their own survival rooted in place, build and rebuild new worlds, and speak back against colonial erasure that thrive in contemporary discourses around the end of the world. Go to the archive >