ABSTRACT
The introduction lays out the central argument of Urgent Archives, namely that if community archives are to fulfill their liberatory potential, they must be activated for resistance rather than assimilation or integration into the mainstream. As such, community-based memory workers must go beyond the recuperation of minoritized histories, however important, to catalyze those histories for liberation. Liberatory memory work demands activating records for temporal autonomy, self-recognition, and the redistribution of resources.
