Abstract
Inspired by the comments that California State University, Sacramento president Dr. Luke Wood made about the PRIDE Center, this project describes how I developed my own formal archive that focused on the previous physical locations and actions of the PRIDE Center. For this work to come into fruition, I use a conceptualized framework of geographic terms such as a space and place with notions of hope. In this work, I utilize the discourse of queer, trans, and feminist scholars to affirm my claims that I label in regard to Sacramento State and the PRIDE Center’s actions.Throughout these archives, I recovered a historiographic counternarrative that illustrates the tactics and strategies of hope during all of the PRIDE Center’s previous locations. All these strategies and tactics were categorized into a model showcasing these actions. This piece concludes with six steps that I provide for others to create this model. I raise a call to action to scholars, activists, allies, and other diversity centers to follow these steps, so that they begin a reevaluation on whether these tactics and strategies of hope are guiding us towards these much-needed futures