@communitiesofmemory , an imprint of MEM-RES, is proud to share that after several years of dreaming this book into fruition, A Chronicle of Our Land will soon be available for purchase ($27). So much gratitude to the anonymous author who was courageous to share their writing with us during such a time. Thank you to the Friends of Wadi Foquin and allies and the UC Climate Action Arts Network (UC CAAN) for support. Thank you to the circle of beloveds who also made this possible- the editorial vision of Latipa, English copyediting by @bloodlines_book and @crystalbaik , Arabic copyediting by Suleiman Hodali, book design by @smingsmingbooks , and the beautiful translation work of @sherinemhafez . We are organizing a first book launch in Oakland on 4/24 so save the date!
We’re so happy to be here, as allies and comrades, on the beautiful lands and territories of the Tohono O’odham and the Pascua Yaqui peoples for the Indigenous Data Sovereignty & Governance Summit. What an extraordinary first day - learning, dreaming, building together 💕💕💕💕 @crystalbaik
See you in Tucson for the US Indigenous Data Sovereignty & Governance Summit this week! Latipa Dizon, the founder and executive director of the Memory & Resistance Laboratory (MEM-RES), will be sharing our work on Wednesday, Apr 15, 2026 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM MST! @usidsn
MEM-RES will be sharing our work, in solidarity with Indigenous peoples, at the Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network Gathering next month on Tohono O’odham land - we hope to see you there!
Thank you for joining MEMRES on Feb. 25th at the Archival Resonance Un/Learning Gathering in Riverside. It was such a joy to listen to and learn from Profs. Emily Hue and Davorn Sisavath as they shared co-written work, feminist pedagogies, and stories about refugees movements, memories, and family archives - especially through photograph, music, sewing, and cloth 💕💕 @deliciousdav@nervynerd@crystalbaik
Archival Resonance #2 Event, 2/25, Riverside with Emily Hue and Davorn Sisavath @nervynerd@deliciousdav 💕💕💕 Provocative Remnants: On Practice and Method for Writing and Teaching in Ethnic Studies and Southeast Asian Studies
This hybrid curatorial and editorial workshop attends to the tactility of family textiles as well as the lasting
legacies of colonialism and militarism in Laos and Myanmar (formerly known as Burma). Although the
nature and extent of the Global North’s intervention differed in Laos and Myanmar, both countries and the diaspora continue to grapple with empire and its afterlives in memory, archive, and creative expressions. Working in the spirit of kinship that has sustained them for more than 15 years in academia, scholars Emily Hue and Davorn Sisavath argue these afterlives as provocative remnants bring Laos and Myanmar together in conversation and are tied to ongoing legacies of militarization and humanitarian interventions. The event is organized in three parts: (1) A Q&A session with MEMRES on the role of feminist pedagogy, the relationship between critical refugee studies and area studies, and the familial archive in how memory workers theorize, (2) A brief reading from a collaborative work-in-progress from the authors, and (3) A break out session where Professors Hue and Sisavath lead a careful “unpacking” with luggage materials that inspire their collaboration.
MEM-RES is at the International Congress of Archivists in Barcelona. It’s been amazing to hear and learn from comrades and colleagues doing the very hard work of archiving and caring for histories, memories, lives destroyed and impacted by settler regimes - in P@lestine and Lebanon as well as in Australia and Canada (including Jamila Ghaddar, Rula Shahwan, Ghada Dimashk, Ana Roeschley, Kirsten Thorpe, Raymond Frogner). Especially moved by the incredibly imaginative, capacious, expansive, and necessary emergency archival training, memory stewardship, and cultural organizing led by the Archives and Digital Media Lab through projects like the Fighting Erasure project. Thank you for being here and for your ongoing courage, brilliance, and labor. @crystalbaik@archivesdigitalmedialab
Continuing to lift up the incredible memory work that comrades are currently doing + the resources folx are creating so that we can continue to love + protect each other right now in solidarity. Check out @interferencearchive 's "How To Document ICE and Protect Each Other" Zine - printable form is available! Thank you to Interference Archive for the courageous work you continue to do.
Memory Workers - an amazing virtual conference that will be held in late November- please consider applying (more info. in bio/linktree). MEM-RES is hoping to participate with wonderful comrades (more on this soon!). Thank you to @archivesdigitalmedialab for organizing this important work 💕🇵🇸
As the first Archival Undercommons gathering organized with MEM-RES, a wonderful group of colleagues, comrades, students at UC Riverside had a chance to visit and engage with the “Off Reservation: Sofia Valiente and the Photo Students of Sherman Indian High School” exhibit at the Culver Center of the Arts. If you are in the Inland Empire, please see this exhibit before it closes on Nov. 2nd. It’s a profoundly powerful, beautiful, and sobering experience. A constant reminder of the Cahuilla, Tongva, Serrano, Luiseno lands that Riverside is built on and the everyday acts of refusal, resistance, and life giving enacted by Native peoples. Thank you to Lindsey Hammel and Katy Poindexter-Akers for the thoughtful walkthrough and discussion.
If you are in the SoCal/Riverside area, please join us for this important talk and performance on 11/07 - the official launch of Professor Emily Hue’s brilliant book and a discussion with Professor Tamara Ho. The talk will be preceded by a performance by the artist Chaw Ei Thein @nervynerd
Tomorrow in Los Angeles || September 27
6:30-10:30pm
VIGIL FOR PALESTINE
Thrive Health and Wellness Collective
Los Angeles || 2907 Stanford Ave, Marina Del Rey, 90292
Organized by Adela Bustamante:
“We gather in vigil as an act of collective witnessing, remembrance, and resistance, featuring an outdoor screening of the documentary Where Olive Trees Weep, followed by the powerful sacred medicine and words of Dr. Jaiya John and meital yaniv.”
