Sasha Archibald is a writer and editor whose work explores art, history, books, and cultural iconoclasts.
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In the 19th century, naturalists and hobbyists gathered, pressed, and cataloged seaweed in elaborate albums that combined scientific research, botanical art, and personal fascination with the natural world.
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Sasha Archibald writes about art, books, history, and cultural iconoclasts. Her work has appeared in publications including the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Point, Places Journal, and Los Angeles Review of Books. She is an associate editor at Places Journal, a contributing editor to the Public Domain Review, and a former longtime editor at Cabinet. Her forthcoming biography of gay liberation activist Carl Wittman, supported by a Silvers Grant for Work in Progress, will be published by Yale University Press in 2027. Find her online at sashaarchibald.com.
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The Photo Book That Let Lesbians See Themselves
The New Yorker | April | 2021
With “Eye to Eye,” from 1979, the photographer JEB created not a paean to lesbian life but something more essential: plain evidence of lesbians’ basic humanity.
Places Journal | February | 2021
Five decades ago the heartland of lesbian separatism could be found in the canyons and meadows of Southern Oregon. What does it mean to commit to a radical plan for living?
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Documents in Contemporary Art
MIT Press
Feline Darlings and the Anti-Cute, in Documents in Contemporary Art: The Cute, edited by Sianne Ngai (MIT Press & Whitechapel Gallery, 2022)
With contributions by Roland Barthes, Leigh Claire La Berge, Lauren Berlant, Ian Bogost, Jennifer Doyle, Lee Edelman, Adrienne Edwards, Lewis Gordon, Rosemarie Garland-Thompson, Stephen Jay Gould, Lori Merish, John Morreall, Juliane Rebentisch, Frances Richard, Carrie Rickey, Friedrich Schiller, Peter Schjeldahl, Kanako Shiokawa, Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy, and Kevin Young.
An homage to Carolee Schneemann, and a plea for cat dignity. Sasha Archibald’s essay was commissioned by the Walker Art Center for Cat is Art Spelled Wrong (Walker Art Center & Coffee House Press, 2017), and translated into Turkish for the inaugural issue of the Istanbul-based Calling Mag.
