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INITIALIZING THE ARCHIVE_
Global South Solidarities

GLOBAL SOUTH SOLIDARITIES ANARCHIVE.

"If the founding violence of the archive is obliteration, the founding truth of speculative and close narrative forms is that there is more, we might call it life, interiority, vision, imagination, desire that exceeds archival documentation and that this more is a legitimate subject of history and scholarly writing." – Sarah Haley

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DECOLONIZE ARCHIVE RESIST LIBERATE REMEMBER RECLAIM SOLIDARITY JUSTICE FEMINIST INDIGENOUS NARRATIVE MEMORY
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✦ Anti-Oppressive Public-Digital Humanities

HACKING
THE ARCHIVE

Global South Solidarities is an open-access a(na)rchival project in anti-oppressive public-digital humanities — bridging scholarship, grassroots knowledge, and cutting-edge technologies to amplify voices, knowledges, experiences, memories, and narratives the colonial, heteropatriarchal, capitalist frameworks have silenced and absented for centuries.
Rooted in decolonial feminist praxis, GSS aims to create a dignified space for collective memory from differently situated Global Souths. We do so with full humility before voices, knowledges, experiences, memories, and narratives we will fail to bring here because of our own inefficiencies. Through digital storytelling, AI-powered research tools, 3D artifact reconstruction, and augmented reality reenactments, we are trying to play our tiny role in joining the forces that are transforming how the world encounters marginalized histories. We are stubborn about it.

This project isn't about preservation — it's about resurrection. Every narrative reclaimed is an act of resistance. Every story shared is a bridge across borders. Every solidarity act is a step toward collective liberation.
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What We Build

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PILLARS

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Open Digital Archive
A multilingual, open-access repository of 40-60 curated narratives featuring texts, images, videos, oral histories, and interactive timelines from South Asia and MENA.
In Development
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GSS AI Engine
Custom-built artificial intelligence trained on decolonial scholarship to assist researchers, generate connections across archives, and provide contextual analysis of historical materials.
In Development
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3D Artifacts & AR
Photogrammetric 3D models of historical artifacts, augmented reality reenactments of key historical moments, and immersive virtual walkthroughs of archives and heritage sites.
In Development
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Pedagogical Resources
Syllabi, lesson plans, case studies, and assignment frameworks designed to integrate Global South perspectives into classrooms worldwide. Open-access and community-driven.
Available Now
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PLANETARY
JUSTICE MAP

Mapping radical solidarities across borders — revolutionary figures and transnational movements that connect struggles from Global Souths to Global Souths.
Figures Movements Solidarity Networks
Figures of Resistance 23 MAPPED
Meena Keshwar Kamal
Afghanistan
1956 – 1987
Lorena Borjas
Queens, New York, USA
1960 – 2020
Berta Cáceres
Honduras
1973 – 2016
Kimpa Vita (Dona Beatriz)
Kingdom of Kongo
1684 – 1706
Claudia Jones
Trinidad and Tobago
1915 – 1964
Mekatilili wa Menza
Kenya
1860s – 1924
Huda Shaarawi
Egypt
1879 – 1947
Rosa Luxemburg
Poland / Germany
1871 – 1919
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
Nigeria
1900 – 1978
Eslanda Robeson
United States
1895 – 1965
Ahed Tamimi
Nabi Salih, Palestine
2001 –
Andrée Blouin
Central African Republic / Congo
1921 – 1986
Wangari Maathai
Kenya
1940 – 2011
Gita Bandyopadhyay
India / France / Germany
c. 1920s –
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
South Africa
1936 – 2018
Leila Khaled
Palestine
1944 –
Shigenobu Fusako
Japan / Palestine
1945 –
Sakine Cansız
Turkey / Kurdistan
1958 – 2013
Nemonte Nenquimo
Ecuadorian Amazon
1985 –
Helena Gualinga
Ecuadorian Amazon
2002 –
Txai Suruí
Brazilian Amazon
1997 –
Wanjiru Wanjira
Kenya
1995 –
Mithai Devi Viswokarma
Nepal (Dalit community)
c. 1939 –
Radical Revolutionary Solidarities 16 MAPPED
Zapatista-Palestine Solidarity Murals
Chiapas, Mexico to Palestine
Murals in Oventic, Chiapas and on the Israeli Separation Wall in Bethlehem depicting Zapatista rebel with kuffiyeh-painted ski mask. Text in four languages: "To exist is to Resist" and "From Chiapas to Palestine, the struggle for liberation unites us."
2004
Taqi Spateen — George Floyd Mural on Separation Wall
Bethlehem to Minneapolis, USA
Palestinian artist painted George Floyd's portrait on Israeli Separation Wall beside murals of Palestinian icons Ahed Tamimi and Razan al-Najjar. "We in Palestine are standing with them, because we know what it's like to be strangled every day."
2020
Zapatista "Meeting of Resistances and Rebellions"
Chiapas, Mexico to Palestine
EZLN gathering where members held Palestinian flags in solidarity during resistance gathering in Altamirano, Chiapas — connecting indigenous Mexican liberation with Palestinian struggle.
2025
Global Tapestry of Alternatives (GTA)
Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Asia
Network of networks connecting grassroots groups working on radical alternatives to dominant systems. Seeded through experiences in India, Mexico, and Colombia. Endorsed by 70+ organizations.
2019
Black Panther Party International Solidarity
Oakland to North Korea, China, Japan, Europe, Africa, Palestine, Australia, India
BPP established foreign contacts globally. North Korea designated August 18, 1970 as "International Day of Solidarity with the Black People of the United States." Support committees formed across Europe and Asia. BPP catalyzed indigenous insurgent organizations worldwide.
1968–1970s
Third World Liberation Front (TWLF)
San Francisco & Berkeley, USA
Coalition of Black, Latino, Asian American, Native American, Filipino students initiating the longest student strike in US history demanding Third World College and Ethnic Studies. Revived in 1999 with hunger strike.
1968–1969
CONCP — Lusophone Liberation Conference
Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau to Global North
Conference of Portuguese colony nationalist organizations (MPLA, FRELIMO, PAIGC) led by Amílcar Cabral and Eduardo Mondlane. Built global solidarity networks supporting armed liberation; mobilized US activists who redefined North-South relations.
1960s–1970s
PAIGC — Amílcar Cabral's Transnational Network
Guinea-Bissau / Cabo Verde to Global South & North
Built practical socialism and multilevel revolution framework. Cabral's ideas influenced Black Liberation movements in US and anti-colonial movements across Africa. His "return to the source" theory became foundational for revolutionary nationalism.
1960s–1973
Malcolm X — Organization of Afro-American Unity
USA to Africa, Asia, Latin America
Modeled on Organization of African Unity. Sought "to unite everyone on the continent of Africa" and "in the Western Hemisphere of African descent into one united force." Articulated internal colony thesis linking Black America to colonized world.
1964–1965
Afro-Asian Solidarity Networks
South & Southeast Asia
Leftist intellectuals, women, and resistance movements drawing on Afro-Asian solidarity during decolonization. Activists recovering history of the Left's dynamic role in anti-colonial internationalism.
Cold War Era
Taproot Earth — Global Climate Reparations Assembly
Nairobi, Kenya — 22 countries
200+ Black and Indigenous frontline leaders crafting shared working statement on global climate reparations. Connected Gulf South, Appalachia, and Global Black diaspora through People's Movement Assembly rooted in radical Black freedom traditions.
2024
South-South Social Movements Convergence
South Africa — Africa, Asia, Latin America
Connecting Gen Z tax protests in Kenya, #EndSARS in Nigeria, Chilean student uprisings. Explores digital tools for cross-border solidarity among radical movements.
2025
Ushahidi
Kenya — used globally
Crowd-mapping platform developed to map post-election violence in Kenya. Now used globally for disaster response, human rights monitoring, and amplifying voices of vulnerable populations. Technology of radical transparency from the Global South.
2008
RAWA — Transnational Feminist Networks
Afghanistan to global feminist movements
Founded by Meena Keshwar Kamal. Clandestine pamphlets and underground schools as rhetorical acts of feminist world-making under occupation — positioned against Laura Bush's 2001 address speaking about Afghan women to justify bombing.
1977
Gulf South to Appalachia (GS2A)
Gulf South to Appalachia, USA
Taproot Earth initiative connecting regions with intertwined histories of colonialism and extractivism. Shares traditions of resistance and frontline-led solutions across these internal colonies.
Active
International Committee to Release Eldridge Cleaver
San Francisco — Paris, Rome, London, Amsterdam, New York, Detroit, Atlanta
Solidarity network supporting Black Panther leader across multiple continents. Exemplified transnational organizing for political prisoners and cross-border radical solidarity.
1970s
Planetary justice mapping — 23 figures of resistance + 16 radical revolutionary solidarity movements across 6 continents
Under The Hood

TECHNOLOGY
& INNOVATION

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GSS AI Research Assistant
Custom language model trained on decolonial scholarship, archival metadata, and grassroots histories. Ask questions, discover connections, explore narratives through conversation.
IN DEVELOPMENT
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Augmented Reality Reenactments
Experience historical moments through AR-powered spatial storytelling. Walk through the Jallianwala Bagh, witness Dalit movements, explore partitioned landscapes in immersive 3D.
IN DEVELOPMENT
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3D Artifact Models
Photogrammetric scanning and digital reconstruction of historical artifacts, sacred texts, architectural elements, and cultural objects — all freely accessible and explorable online.
IN DEVELOPMENT
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Data Visualizations
Interactive maps, network graphs, and temporal visualizations that reveal hidden connections across colonial histories, resistance movements, and cultural exchanges.
COMING SOON
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Multimedia Storytelling
Documentary-style video narratives, podcast series, interactive photo essays, and immersive audio experiences that bring archival materials to life.
IN DEVELOPMENT
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Open-Access Platform
Multilingual, fully accessible digital infrastructure built with CDSC and AOI at WSU. Designed for scholars, educators, activists, policymakers, and the global public.
IN DEVELOPMENT
✦ Pedagogy

INTERACTIVE
PEDAGOGY

Three of the graduate and undergraduate courses that are designed through the framework of Global South Solidarities.
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Graduate Seminar
ENG-548: ARCHIVES, RHETORICITY OF TECHNOLOGIES, & ANTI-OPPRESSIVE INTERVENTIONS
WSU · Fall 2024 · Bibhushana Poudyal
A graduate seminar in Critical & Cultural Theory exploring archives, rhetoricity of technologies, and anti-oppressive interventions. Students engage with decolonial epistemics, feminist/queer possibilities, and zine-making as acts of resistance.
DECOLONIAL FEMINIST QUEER ZINE-MAKING ALGORITHMIC JUSTICE MEMORY WORK
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Graduate Seminar
ENG-548: AI, NECROPOLITICS, AND ENGINEERED OPPRESSION
WSU · Ongoing · Bibhushana Poudyal
An interrogation of artificial intelligence as a site of biopolitical control, surveillance capitalism, and racialized governance — and the possibilities of counter-archival resistance.
AI & POWER NECROPOLITICS SURVEILLANCE RACIAL CAPITALISM COUNTER-ARCHIVE RESISTANCE
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Undergraduate Course
Rhetorics of Racism
WSU · Spring 2025 · Bibhushana Poudyal
An undergraduate course examining how racism is constructed, perpetuated, and challenged through rhetoric and discourse. Students analyze historical and contemporary texts to understand the language of racial oppression and the counter-rhetorics of resistance movements across the Global South and beyond.
CRITICAL RACE THEORY RHETORIC DISCOURSE ANALYSIS ANTI-RACISM COUNTER-NARRATIVE RESISTANCE
Collective Knowledge

STUDENT
CONTRIBUTIONS

Eleven graduate researchers explored memory justice across the Global South, each contributing unique multimodal projects to the GSS archive.
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Filipino Immigrants & Kuwentuhan
ORAL HISTORY / NARRATIVE
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Queer & Indigenous Palouse
COMMUNITY / ARCHIVE
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Sri Lanka, Indentured Labor, & Global Capitalism
HISTORY / ANALYSIS
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Pakistan: The Land of Resistance
RESEARCH / NARRATIVE
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Mixteco (Ñuu Savi) & Language Revitalization
LINGUISTICS / ZINE
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"Yellow Peril Supports Black Power"
SOLIDARITY / HISTORY
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Solidarity with Palestine
ACTIVISM / ARCHIVE
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Medical Experiments on Global South Bodies
BIOETHICS / RESEARCH
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Decolonial Reproductive Justice & Turtle Island
FEMINIST / INDIGENOUS
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Osage Food Sovereignty & Ozark Archives
FOOD / MEMORY
✦ Project Status

WHAT'S LIVE
& COMING UP

LIVE NOW
  • Student Research Contributions● LIVE
  • Interactive Pedagogy — 2 Course Syllabi● LIVE
COMING UP
  • GSS AI (AI Research Assistant)◌ BUILDING
  • Open Digital Archive Platform◌ IN DEV
  • 3D Artifact Models & Scanning◌ IN DEV
  • Augmented Reality Reenactments◌ IN DEV
  • Multimedia Storytelling Engine◌ IN DEV
  • Open-Access Multilingual Platform◌ IN DEV
  • Interactive Data Visualizations◎ SOON
  • Field Research Expansion◎ SOON
  • Physical Zine Publication◎ PLANNED

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ARCHIVE

Whether you're a scholar, educator, student, activist, or community member — the archive belongs to everyone. Help us reclaim, resist, and reimagine.
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