Stories with contact

An erotohistoriographic approach to the archive

Abstract

This article is based on my experience as a volunteer in the cataloguing of the collections of Gretel Ammann, Catalan lesbofeminist activist, donated to the Documentation Center of Ca la Dona. Framed within the field of queer temporalities and affective historiographies, I analyze the importance of the hand as a lesbian erotohistoriographic tool and as a form of sensitivity and understanding of the materials of this archive that allows us to approach the generations and histories before us. Desire, terror or love are affections that occur in contact with the archival material and show how the present is always hybrid.