Rachel Mattson works at the intersections where archival practice meets queer political & aesthetic desire. She currently works as the Manager of Special Projects in the Archives of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, and is a core member of both the XFR Collective and Librarians and Archivists with Palestine. In 2006, she was a founding member of the Aftselokhes Spectacle Committee, a theater collective that uses folk carnival traditions, archival documents, puppetry, and the spirit of the punk marching band to build radically diasporic queer community. She holds a PhD in U.S. History from NYU (2004) and an MLIS from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2014). Her writing has appeared in the Radical History Review, the Scholar and the Feminist, Movement Research Performance Journal, and in books published by Routledge, Washington Square, and Thread Makes Blanket Press, among other publications.

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