Special Issue # 5

IN CONVERSATION| Celebrating 5 Years Celebration!

OCTOBER 24, 2026

12:00 – 1:00(ET/NYC Time)

Jessica C. “Jes” Neal (she/they)

Archivist

What We Carry: Black Southern Archival Praxis, Memory, and Grief

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Jessica C. “Jes” Neal 

Jessica C. “Jes” Neal (she/they) is a Southern queer archivist, curator, and writer from Mobile, Alabama whose work is rooted in Black memory, culture, and preservation. Mobile, Alabama. Their practice explores and documents Black cultural production across literature, the visual arts, the U.S. South, and social movements. Grounded in Black Studies, Black feminist and decolonial thought, and Black Southern Archival Praxis, their work centers community, personal, and organizational archives while expanding whose stories enter—and remain within—the historical record.

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