Interference Archive is a community-supported archive of material from social movements around the world, created with a mission to explore the relationship between cultural production and social movements. This work manifests in an open stacks archival collection, publications, a study center, and public programs including exhibitions, workshops, talks, and screenings, all of which encourage critical and creative engagement with the rich history of social movements.
Brooke Darrah Shuman is a video producer at More Perfect Union covering labor and workers' rights. Her video and writing has appeared in HuffPost, Bon Appétit, The New Yorker and the Southern Foodways Alliance. She is a volunteer at Interference Archive, an open stacks archive of political movement material, where she has worked on exhibitions on antifascism in the United States and disability/crip activism.
Jen Hoyer is a librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology and has volunteered on collections, exhibitions, and education projects at Interference Archive since 2013. Her writing about the intersections of education, archives, and social movement history is available in The Social Movement Archive (Litwin Books, 2021) and What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom (Libraries Unlimited, 2022).
Josh MacPhee has been collaboratively making, researching, and collecting political art for over twenty years. In 2011, he cofounded the Interference Archive, a library, exhibition, event, and research space in Brooklyn dedicated to the exploration of social movement culture. He is also a member of the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, and the author/editor of multiple books including Celebrate People's History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution (Feminist Press, 2010 and 2020), An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels (Common Notions, 2019), and Graphic Liberation: Perspectives on Image Making and Political Movements (Common Notions, 2023). His solo exhibition We Want Everything was hosted by the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2022.
Interviews with Mariame Kaba, Dread Scott, Dennis Flores, Dr. Joshua Myers, Jawanza Williams (VOCAL-NY and Free Black Radicals), Cheryl Rivera (NYC-DSA Racial Justice Working Group and Abolition Action), and Bianca Cunningham (Free Black Radicals).
Planning endorsements from:
Alex Vitale, author of End of Policing
Alec Karakatsanis, author of Usual Cruelty, Executive Director of Civil Rights Corps
Andrea Ritchie, author of No More Police
Sarah Leonar d, founder of Lux magazine
Joy James, author of New Bones Abolition
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation
Derecka Purnell , author of Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
William C. Anderson, author of The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition
Geo Maher, author of A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete
Walidah Imarisha , author of Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption
Planned review attention from publications include: Inquest, Lux, Colorlines, VICE/Broadly, them, The Nation, Hyperallergic, In These Times, Scalawag, Teen Vogue
