Community members scour libraries and newspapers, and dive deep into other, more conventional, archives to show how their identities have been denied. In Argentina, trans women like Sofia Beatriz Hernández fight for the rights of their community and to assure it is recognized. Trans Memory Archive of ArgentinaSonia Beatriz Hernández never imagined she would one day be using a computer to digitize memories that included her. “The archive was born out of the need to find each other and know that we are alive,” says María Belén Correa, founder and director of the Trans Memory Archive, the largest project of its kind in the region. “Creating an archive is a way of situating ourselves, of showing that we are here, and that we have always been here,” says Queer Memory Archive of Peru’s Mere.