Orfalea Center Graduate Students
Yuri Fraccaroli
Departments
Feminist Studies
Research Clusters
Affiliation Period
8/2023 - 6/2024
Research Project
Archivo vivo!
An Ethnography of the Archive: Latin American Sex and Gender Community Archives
Research Description
I am deeply committed to exploring the memories of LGBT+ communities in Brazil and South America – with emphasis on dictatorial/post-dictatorial contexts. Over the course of my academic journey, I have actively contributed to this field both in academic and activist/community work. In that regard, I am proud to be an active member of Acervo Bajubá since 2019, an LGBT+ community archive that partners with many institutions (Museu da Diversidade Sexual/SP, Memorial da Resistência/SP, Grupo de Incentivo à Vida, Casa do Povo, etc) and many social movements. Through these intersectional dialogues, Bajubá tensions the separability of modern concepts such as race, gender and sexuality, the compartimentalization of knowledge and its foreclosure of embodied/lived realities. This project departs from a conception of community archives as social technologies, concerned with issues of access and circulation of historical information and social data, focusing on data sovereignity, community empowerment and democracy, and the acknowledgment of the role these communities occupy as knowledge producers as well.
Research Interests
Orfalea Center Productions
Student Bio
Yuri Fraccaroli (they/them) is a Graduate Student at the Feminist Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, currently working as a Teaching Assistant within the department. Recently, they also were Research Assistant at the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies (Summer, 2023). Yuri's academic pursuits revolve around the exploration of Latin American Sex/Gender Community-Based Archives for their PhD. They hold a BA in Public Policies Management from the University of São Paulo, a BA in Public Administration from the University of Vigo, and an RMSc in Social Psychology from the University of São Paulo. Their research interests are situated in the following areas: Gender and Sexuality studies, Queer/Trans of Color Critique, Latin American Studies, Critical Race Theory and Black Studies. In addition to their academic roles, Yuri is an active member of Acervo Bajubá, an LGBT+ community archive in São Paulo. Within this vibrant community, they function as an educator, artist, and researcher, harnessing various modes of expression and inquiry to advance the archive's mission. Yuri's artistic endeavors include charcoal drawing, and they actively explore alternative research methodologies involving the arts and creative writing.