Ammel Sharon is a historian-in-training, concerned with higher education, literature and modernity’s relationship to its many pasts. She is an amateur bee-keeper and is interested in a cross-pollination of practices, ideas and communities. Some of her collaborative work can be found at www.understory.in.

On this occasion, she says, “Queer speech comes after a good deal of waiting and at great cost, so I feel moved and privileged to work with the QAMRA Archival Project’s lovingly held memories and collections, and with its remarkable team. The pleasures of the archive also lie in its traces of potential, unrealized pasts – an opportunity to queer the world in new ways. Perhaps, the invitation and challenge for us now, when QAMRA has found a home at the National Law School, is to ask how we might enliven and occupy the law from our multiple queer locations.”

In the coming months, we will deepen our presence on the NLSIU campus through a new elective course called Preserving Memories: Law, Social Transformation and the Queer Archive. Our priorities include community and public outreach, creative collaboration and ensuring QAMRA’s stability for the future.