When people ask me for advice about queer archiving, I usually say that the most important thing is to recognize your importance. You need to see yourself as a as a repository of history — as a repository of memories, both internal and external, and in the things you care about. Our archives are reflections of our interests, our obsessions, our private concerns. No two people collect alike, and the shape of your brain is memorialized in many ways by the things that you collect. {read}