Corollary records (Caswell 2009) are historical precedents that offer inspiration and strategies for advocacy today. Drawing from her work with the South Asian American Digital Archive, Michelle Caswell suggests that corollary records can serve as liberatory memory work that challenge normative temporal orientations of linear progress by centering on cyclical conceptions of time: “the past is neither something that can nor should be left behind, but rather, becomes an inextricable informant to and, in some cases, coinciding temporality with, the future” (Caswell 2021, 29).
Caswell, Michelle. 2021. Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work. London: Routledge.
Ziegler, Sophie and Michelle Caswell. 2024, July 25. Season 2, episode 1: “You might as well have fun while you’re at it, because you’re already in trouble.” Solidarity History Initiative. https://solidarityhistory.org/what-is-solidarity-history/season-2-episode-1.
