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Queering the Map is a community generated counter-mapping platform for digitally archiving LGBTQ2IA+ experience in relation to physical space.

The platform provides an interface to collaboratively record the cartography of queer life—from park benches to the middle of the ocean—in order to preserve our histories and unfolding realities, which continue to be invalidated, contested, and erased. From collective action to stories of coming out, encounters with violence to moments of rapturous love, Queering the Map functions as a living archive of queer life. If it counts to you, then it counts for Queering the Map.

Through mapping LGBTQ2IA+ experience in its intersectional permutations, the project works to generate affinities across difference and beyond borders—revealing the ways in which we are intimately connected.

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The Equal Justice Initiative is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.

https://eji.org/about/

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The map is a map of an Africa that was or could have been if history would have played out a bit differently. It took almost a year of artistic research and crafting to make this map and even if I am not a professional historian  I would dare to claim that is a fairly accurate representation of the most prominent states and cultural groups in pre-colonial Africa though at times quite an anachronistic model

I have first and foremost looked at historical states ie territories with a centralised government during the point they controlled the largest areas during the time frame of 1300 - 1844 AD with most of the states in the more recent part of that time frame. In areas where no centralised government existed that I could find information about  I have looked at names of cultures that have inhabited an area for a longer time and where there is at least some information. As a last resort, I have used the names of the language groups that existed in the area.

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The Slave Wrecks Project (SWP) searches for slave ships one voyage at a time, and looks at sites, histories, and legacies connected by those voyages. This mission to humanize the history of the global slave trade increases all people’s capacity to understand a trade that shaped the world in which we live. By recovering the experiences and highlighting the humanity of those who were enslaved aboard the ships that plied the most horrific and extensive trade in people in world history, SWP seeks to bring the immensity of that history to a human scale, voyage by voyage. Through SWP’s efforts, previously submerged archeological remains and long-neglected histories are recovered, restored, remembered, protected, and shared.

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SunCalc lets users analyse the position of shadows and the sun at any given time and date, at any given location. By choosing a date and zooming in on a location such as, say, Puerta del Sol in Madrid, users can click the drag-the-sun icon at the top of the page to see the position of the sun at a certain time.

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