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Preface

This still-to-be-named living archive sprouted over four years, beginning in graduate school when I learned about oral narratives and conducted one-on-ones with neighbors and community members to learn more about their connection to Baltimore. That experience, my affinity for plant life, and my growing desire to address my relationship with my gender led to thesis research surrounding the concept of biodiversity in nature and its connection to healing and gender and identity which involved interviewing individuals of the LGTBQ+ community in the Baltimore City area; bringing me to use printmaking and transcribed first-person recollections to not only hold sacred space for vulnerability and visibility, but to preserve language, culture, and the joy of living authentically despite ‘all that has tried to kill me.’