Limits and Loss: Reflections on a Decade of Postcustodial Praxis — A Conversation with T-Kay Sangwand and Gabriel Solís

T-KAY SANGWAND: Before I get into the conversation with Gabriel, I want to give a little more context of who I am and why I’m talking today. My name is T-Kay Sangwand, and I’m a librarian at the UCLA Digital Library Program. Over the past 14 years, I’ve worked within U.S. academic libraries to build ethical, transnational, postcustodial partnerships in the U.S., Latin America, Africa, and Asia. It was through my work as archivist for the Human Rights Documentation Initiative (HRDI) at UT Austin that I met Gabriel. In 2009, I had just facilitated a postcustodial partnership between UT Austin and the human rights organization, Texas After Violence Project (TAVP). Back then, Gabe was in his first year of his MA program in Mexican American Studies, but was also a contractor at TAVP. It’s been really amazing to see how he’s come back to lead TAVP and how much it’s grown under his leadership. Gabe, you’ve taken the organization from one that focuses solely on community-based oral histories to an organization that’s become a model in how to engage in doing community-based memory work and how to archive it ethically — in addition to creatively engaging the public on these complex questions of justice, violence, and accountability, and also advocating for abolition and transformative justice. <a href="https://medium.com/community-archives/limits-and-loss-reflections-on-a-decade-of-postcustodial-praxis-a-conversation-with-t-kay-1041faaf10a9">Visit Now</a>