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Our thesis ambitions are centered around the investigation of memory and architecture as it relates to the narratives of erasure in urban space. Over the course of the academic year, we are seeking to use architecture as a lens to critique our current socio-political climate regarding gender inequity and political regression. Our site of speculation and research will be the city of Chicago, as it has a rich history of feminism and civil rights with many historic spaces of protest that accommodated intersectional identities and historic protests. In today's political climate, where Roe v. Wade is facing reversal in the Supreme Court and LGBT protection laws are being contested, school districts are the most segregated they have been since before Brown v. Board, and there is a tendency to forget the progress that has been made, we must recall specifi c instances of memory of Second Wave Feminism and Civil rights when women made strides for LGBT legal protection, female bodily autonomy, opposition to sexual violence, and sexual liberation, and black Americans made strides against systemic oppression and segregation. Using this research, we aim to propose a spatial critique of our socio-political climate by employing Rossi's interpretation of the "The Architecture of the City", Edward Hollis's "Memory Palace", and Colson Whitehead's "Underground Railroad", re-imagining historical spatial narratives within the current urban fabric of Chicago, actively reinforcing the memories of trauma and activism onto an alternative network of counter-memorial-inspired spaces. Using the idea of the "Memory Palace", in which the metaphorical recesses of the mind (the 'loci') were spatialized in an internal layout of a room to create a manifestation of personal memory, and the idea of the 'Memory Theater', we want to outwardly impose the collective memory of erased narratives onto the city's existing infrastructure and create a network of 'memory containers'-- interconnected spaces for consuming and imposing forgotten memories. Doing so will provide a lens into the past and demand that un-represented histories are not forgotten or reversed. We are identifying Chicago as a city with historic memory that is more related to a generic national identity that the actual intersectional local narratives that existed and continue to exist within it—or, at the most, a city committed to self-lobotomization, the erasure of its own memory. We understand Chicago as lacking a specifi c or intersectional, the local form of memory that represents the diverse narratives of social progress that it has actively housed for decades. We seek to identify and consolidate these memories. We want to pose the celebration of the collective memory of narratives that are otherwise underrepresented or erased within the urban fabric. The historic events which we hope to contain and memorialize are as follows: the history of the Jane Collective and their work that opposed the illegality of abortion and women's bodily autonomy before the passing of Roe v. Wade in 1973, the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests which resulted in the 'Chicago 8' arrests and subsequent protests that were inspired by public opposition to the Vietnam War, and the 1953 school segregation protests that were endorsed by Martin Luther King Jr. that resulted in over 200,000 students and adults standing in solidarity to oppose unfair overcrowding and segregation of black public schools. We want to deploy memory containers and manipulated contextual architectural objects and spaces, rather than sculptures or monuments, as containers of collective, civic memory. Working in aggregate, the containers transform these 3 events into an urban fabric of memory. These interventions will behave as a narrative-network, where collective, civic memories become programmatic elements, forming a superimposed narrative on the historic city. The Containers are not individually-conceived objects or spaces, but in composite, they communicate encyclopedic imagery of Chicago as well as the erased narratives of the 3 events that we are seeking to remember. The assemblage of the Containers on a given site generates a new civic condition: using the Containers as acupunctural elements, the superimposed memory infrastructure weaves into Chicago's existing urban conditions. The Containers layer, collage, and reinforce architectural, historical, and typological references onto the site. The Memory Containers exist as an alternate infrastructural network for consuming and re-imposing the erased memory of the city and the U.S. as a whole.

Analizar las representaciones sociales de resiliencia presentes en los relatos de la historia de vida de Raíza Geraldine Parra. ; El proyecto de investigación buscó analizar la relación existente entre resiliencia, resistencia ciudadana y la ética del cuidado, teniendo como referencia el relato e historia de vida narrada desde la cotidianidad por la lideresa Raiza Geraldine Parra una mujer transgénero líder de la población LGBT en la ciudad de Villavicencio, quien nos permitió documentar y dar a conocer su realidad, experiencias vividas, sus motivaciones personales que lograron trasformar y construir su vida como líder social a pesar del maltrato social, la indiferencia, el desprecio, la violación y vulneración a sus derechos humanos, al igual que descubrir cómo se fortalece su vocación de servicio desde el reconocimiento de sus propias habilidades y recursos para la movilización de una nueva ciudadanía desde el nacimiento de las sociedades emergentes. Para llevar a cabo la investigación se utilizó la técnica de observación participante y las entrevistas de profundidad para la recopilación de información, encontrando como hallazgos, una evidente construcción que inicia desde la colectividad a través de la recuperación de la memoria de una mujer transgénero quien con bases sólidas de empoderamiento desde el emprendimiento, logró resistir a la violencia social de género, reconocimiento social y político, se encontraron representaciones sociales de resiliencia presentes en sus vivencias, las cuales le permitieron sobrevivir en medio de la adversidad, la violencia y la cultura patriarcal de su región. Al igual se lograron identificar y documentar las fugas que nacen desde la creatividad de la lideresa de la población LGBT, con las cuales intenta transformar las realidades. ; This research project aims to analyze the relationship among resilience, citizen resistance and the ethics of care, taking as a reference the story and life history from the everyday life of a transgender woman leader of the LGBT population, who will allow us to document and give know their reality, lived experiences, their personal motivations that managed to transform and build their life as a social leader despite social abuse, indifference, contempt, violation and violation of their human rights, how their vocation of service is strengthened the recognition of their own skills and resources for the mobilization of a new citizenship since the birth of emerging societies, as we intend to make known and in turn propose a study that analyzes the construction of the community through the recovery of their memory with solid bases of empowerment from the start, the resistance In the context of gender-based social violence, social and political recognition, we seek to present in-depth studies with regard to the analysis of the social representations of resilience present in the experiences of a transgender woman, who survives in the midst of adversity, violence and the patriarchal culture of a certain region, also, we consider important to create a new knowledge that manages to identify and document the creative leaks, with which the leader of the LGBT population, tries to transform the realities of violence and exclusion to which their community is exposed , product of phobias due to their sexual orientation and / or diverse gender identity.

Using methods of critical queer genealogy and discourse analysis, Injury & Resistance historicizes the HIV/AIDS epidemic through four lenses—activism, criminalization, memory, and "post-AIDS" queer health—in national and transnational U.S. locales from 1987 to the present. Unlike in the 1980s, when white middle-class gay men were the most visible demographic of what was known as the "gay plague," today's American AIDS epidemic is becoming more and more racialized. And unlike 30 years ago, HIV today is a chronic condition that is effectively treatable with antiretroviral drug regimens. Concurrent with the medical survivability of HIV/AIDS, queer Americans have won legal rights to marry, serve openly in the military, and adopt and raise children. Meanwhile, however, for many the AIDS crisis has remained just that: a crisis. If current patterns persist, today one in two African American gay men will become HIV-positive within his lifetime—amidst a healthcare landscape in which racial, regional, and socioeconomic disparities abound. To date, little scholarly work has attended to how the epidemic's American histories, having fueled an LGBT politics of individual "equality," have in fact produced these stark simultaneities in which HIV is a chronic reality for some but has remained an emergency for others. Indebted to Michel Foucault, Injury & Resistance historicizes this evolution through a queer "history of the present" that explores the non-linear and asynchronous motions between and among AIDS past and HIV present. In the absence of a multitemporal critique, I argue, we risk ceding the urgency of HIV/AIDS to the past and preclude confronting what is an ongoing public health epidemic. Sources include oral histories from the ACT UP Oral History Project, memoirs of survival, activist photography, medical science statistics and publications, public health campaigns, newspaper records, and documentary film, as well as archival holdings from the Smithsonian National Archive Center, the Archiv der Sozialen Bewegungen (Archive of Social Movements) in Hamburg, Germany, the Special Collections at the James Branch Cabell Library at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), and the New York Public Library, among others. This diverse body of sources re-contextualizes national and transnational U.S. AIDS histories that anticipate an ongoing crisis with peculiar dualities: yesterday yet today, ghostly yet present, and acute yet chronic. Arranged loosely from past to present, the four chapters and epilogue present evidence, readings, theories, and speculations, listening for past and present echoes of HIV/AIDS histories that reverberate in experiential chasms between injury and resistance. Chapters present a critical genealogy of feminist activism in the New York chapter of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) from 1987 to 1993, explore a 1987 West German court case against African American ex-soldier Linwood Boyette for alleged HIV transmission, trace Derridean hauntology and queer temporalities in two AIDS memoirs and the National AIDS Memorial Grove, place narratives of "post-AIDS" queer health in relation to neoliberal LGBT rights politics, and consider Uganda's 2011 "Kill the Gays Bill" as a transcultural circulation of U.S. anti-queer affect and violence. Throughout, this dissertation insists that the ongoing HIV/AIDS crisis, with its rich histories of resistance and dissent, must again become cornerstones of contemporary queer culture and politics.