Below is a summary of just some of the collections held in our space with notes on what is available to browse in person or online. If you are interested in supporting processing and digitization efforts or donating your own collection, please reach out!
Photograph collections can be viewed here.
Blacklidge Community Collective Archive
The BCC Archive documents organizing, events, and cultural activity associated with the collective and its wider networks. It includes publications, posters, artwork, ephemera, and other records accumulated through the spaces’ activities and community collaborations. The physical collection is available for browsing with initial digitization underway.
Dry River Collection
Materials from the Dry River Collective, an autonomous project that was based out of Tucson, Arizona. Features zines, correspondence, newspapers, patches, community reports, photography, posters, and ephemera. The physical collection is available for browsing with digitization planned for 2027-2028.
Defend the Atlanta Forest Archive
The Defend the Forest Archive documents the movement to save the Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta, Georgia. The large physical collection can be browsed in our space and is being gradually digitized. Some photos of the forest are featured here.
Inside Books Project Archive
Archive of the books-to-prisons collective, Inside Books Project, based in Austin, Texas, featuring incarcerated people’s art, writing, and prison censorship documents. The physical and digital archives are available for browsing, with additional collections to be digitized 2028-2029.
Perilous Chronicle
Perilous Chronicle is an independent digital research and media project focusing on prisons, protest, unrest, and repression in the US and Canada. This collection includes No Jail Deaths posters, prisoner correspondence, and organizing documentation. The inchoate digital archive will be made available in early 2027.
Migrant Solidarity Collection
This collection documents organizers’ experiences supporting migrants and engaging in border justice work in Minnesota, Tucson, and Lochiel, Arizona. Materials include zines, stickers, posters, journalism, booklets, notes, photographs, three-dimensional objects, and ephemera accumulated through correspondence, travel, border encampments, and time in detention. The physical collection is being processed and initial digitization will occur in late 2026.
Zine Library
Zine archive and browsing library on hundreds of topics from radical history, Black liberation, harm reduction, feminist politics, queer and trans liberation, land defense, and more. The library can be browsed at the Commune with digitization planned for 2028-2029.
Ironwood archive
The Ironwood Archive features materials from queer and trans incarcerated people in Arizona. It includes poetry, memoir, art, crafts, photography, and recordings. A collaboration with the Trans Writers in Prisons Project (TWPP). See our current exhibit up at the University of Arizona Museum of Art.
Jewish Zine Archive
The Jewish Zine Archive (JZA) emerged as a vibrant testament to the intersections of Jewishness and the art of zine-making founded in 2019 by Chava Shapiro, a writer and artist based in Tucson. Inspired by an amalgamation of Jewish and DIY influences, Shapiro embarked on a journey to document and celebrate the diverse expressions of Jewishness in the world of zines.
Desert Drone Collection
Archive documenting the Desert Drone experimental music series based in Tucson, Arizona highlighting the abundance of unique art and music that should be showcased rather than beholden to the woes of capitalism and gentrification. Features posters, stickers, tshirts, and ephemera. This pop-up collection can be found at collaborative DD/Archives Commune events with items to be digitized in 2027-2028.
Anti-Nuclear Collection
Historical and contemporary materials on anti-nuke struggles in the Southwest, including an anti-Uranium gathering in Red Butte, Arizona in 2026 and issues donated by the Nuclear Resister. Physical items can be browsed in our space and digitization is planned for 2027-2028. Issues of the Nuclear Resister newsletter can be viewed here.
Earth First! Collection
Earth First! journal issues going back to 80s, original art, VHS, books and zines, earth + animal liberation magazines, newspapers, resource booklets, gathering materials, tshirts, patches, and photographs. Digitization planned for 2027-2028.
Tucson/Gaza Solidarity Collection
Materials from the Tucson encampments at the University of Arizona in solidarity with Gaza. Digitized items will be shared here.
