KC’s new archive pays reparations to three Black queer legends

Starla Carr, inaugural archive “shareholder” with {B/qKC}, views an installation of the “Starla Carr Collection” at {B/qKC}: The Archive Launch Party (+ Volume_2 Exhibit Preview) on March 1st, 2024. The archive and party is founded and curated by Nasir Anthony Montalvo. (Gabriella Salinas) Starla Carr, inaugural archive “shareholder” with {B/qKC}, views an installation of the “Starla Carr Collection” at {B/qKC}: The Archive Launch Party (+ Volume_2 Exhibit Preview) on March 1st, 2024. The archive and party is founded and curated by Nasir Anthony Montalvo. (Gabriella Salinas) Starla Carr, inaugural archive “shareholder” with {B/qKC}, views an installation of the “Starla Carr Collection” at {B/qKC}: The Archive Launch Party (+ Volume_2 Exhibit Preview) on March 1st, 2024. The archive and party is founded and curated by Nasir Anthony Montalvo. (Gabriella Salinas) On March 1st, 2024, artist-activist Nasir Anthony Montalvo launched one of the world’s first and only Black queer archives—right in the heart of Kansas City. Titled {B/qKC}, Montalvo is disrupting modern-day museum and archival practices through a Black queer digital archival that is placing people and their stories over institutional ownership and profit–namely by paying reparations to Kansas City’s Black queer eldership. A Journalism Project Turned Transdisciplinary Tool Attendees view the...