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07/08/2026
Join us on Wednesday August 5 for a special teach-in, Black Archival Imaginaries, with Black Memory Collective (Black Memory Collective)!
Drawing from the lens of Sadiyah Hartman’s Critical Fabulations, Camille Turner’s Afronautic Methodology, and Tina Campt’s Listening to Images, this session re-interprets “the archival imaginary” by positioning Black Imagination and Afrofuturism in the archival realm. Archivist Melissa J. Nelson will walk us through ways to articulate our imagination between the spaces of what has been saved and what else could have been.
🗓️ Wednesday August 5
🕡 6:30 PM ET
📍 Zoom (link in bio to register)
Kinfolk wants to build with YOU 🫵🏾
“The work we do at Kinfolk, so often it’s in response to folks in the community. I feel like that’s something that’s really rare.” - Mashiyat Zaman, Senior Design Technologist at Kinfolk.
We’d be honored and excited to have you join us for our Community Voice* demo session! We’ll share an early look at the platform we’re building—designed to help individuals and communities collect, preserve, and share stories, memories, and cultural history.
Whether you’re an archivist, educator, organizer, artist, technologist, or simply someone who believes our stories deserve to be preserved, your feedback during this session will directly shape how our community voice archive evolves.
🗓️ Thursday July 9
🕡 12 PM ET
📍 Zoom (link in bio to register)
06/19/2026
✨Celebrate Juneteenth with Kinfolk! ✨
Portals to Freedom, our newest in-app quest, celebrates four visionaries who dedicated their lives to Black liberation through collaboration, creativity, and perseverance—Toussaint L’Ouverture, Octavia Butler, Frederick Douglass, and Fannie Lou Hamer. With the Kinfolk you can explore what it means to build collective power through technology, art, and community.
Find this quest and more in the FREE Kinfolk app. 🔗 in bio to download.
“When we are building technology, what we need to remember is that technology is not neutral. We embed our values in the technology we create.” - Angie Fan, Head of Product and Experience.
Kinfolk is excited to invite you to our first public “Community Voice” demo session!
🗓️ Thursday July 9
🕡 12 PM ET
📍 Zoom (link in bio to register)
We believe the tools that shape and hold our histories should be built with the people they’re meant to serve. So we’re asking you to join us in developing a free, community-authored, consent-centered web platform for sharing multimedia stories in a living digital archive.
We’ll share an early look at our “Community Voice” platform designed to help individuals and communities collect, preserve, and share stories, memories, and cultural history.
What To Expect
✅ Our vision and goals for Community Voice
✅ A live demonstration of the platform
✅ An opportunity to test the tool firsthand
✅ Q&A with the Kinfolk team
Whether you’re an archivist, educator, organizer, artist, technologist, or simply someone who believes our stories deserve to be preserved, we would be honored to have you join us. Your feedback will directly shape how our community voice archive evolves.
06/10/2026
Next week’s teach-in, We The People, is inspired by our AR monument “No Arena Movement”. The monument is a tribute to the “Hands off Chinatown” movement in Philadelphia that began in 2022. The movement was a massive grassroots mobilization to stop the NBA franchise the Philadelphia 76ers from building a privately-funded $1.3 billion basketball arena directly on the eastern border of Philadelphia’s historic Chinatown.
The multi-racial, cross-city coalition argued that the mega-project would trigger severe gentrification, displace marginalized residents, and cripple local small businesses. The campaign successfully embroiled the controversial proposal in widespread public disapproval, ultimately leading the 76ers to abandon the development plan. It wasn’t only a victory for Philly’s Chinatown, but a victory for all working-class people resisting gentrification, displacement, and fighting to preserve cultural identity and histories.
Join us for a discussion on how movements archive solidarity in action, how coalitions preserve the memory of standing together across difference, and how communities document their victories to teach future generations that another world is possible when we organize as one. Through conversations with organizers, oral historians, and cultural workers from cross-racial justice movements.
💻 The People’s Archive: We The People
📅 Tuesday, June 16
🕡 6:30 PM EDT on Zoom
🔗 Link in bio to register
ASL interpretation will be available.
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