BREAKING NEWS: Director Position Endowed

ONE Archives is ecstatic to announce a transformative gift from Paul D. Lerner and Stephen Reis of $2.5 million to ONE Archives at the USC Libraries to name and endow the ONE Archives director position. That post has been held with distinction for many years by Joseph Hawkins, who has held leadership roles at ONE Archives since 2002.

Hawkins, who will retire this year, said, “Paul and Stephen’s gift represents a tremendous vote of confidence in our mission and everything we do. Their gift will help to ensure ONE’s stability into the future, at a time when support for queer archives and historical research is needed more than ever.”

“We hope our gift is the first of many major gifts to ONE Archives,” said Reis. “We feel that ONE has been something of a hidden gem—and it deserves to be much less hidden.”

For the full story, read the article on our website. If you are interested in protecting a position at the archive, do not hesitate to call us directly at (213) 821-2771.

INTRODUCING: ONE Archives Artist-in-Residence Halo Starling

Halo Starling (he/they) is a transdisciplinary artist, worldbuilding regenerative futures in the husk of the capitalist experiment. As a trans and queer immigrant with invisible disabilities, Starling's multi-hyphenate work in moving images, installation, performance, and writing explores what it means to be trapped inside structures that are meant to help you. Starling envisions ways out by building worlds where marginalized people find more resources to fully thrive. Their work asks their viewers to consider: how do we collectively find our way to a regenerative future?

Halo Starling has been an artist-in-residence at ONE Archives since June 2024. Halo Starling’s solo exhibition, Fairy Prince, will open downstairs at the ONE Archives in June 2025. The exhibition will present a variety of new work based on his research on the Radical Faeries, particularly the New York Radical Faeries Collection and the Harry Hay Papers at the ONE Archives at USC.

Click here for the full artist biography and to learn more about Fairy Prince.

UP NEXT: Club Kaya Closing Party 4/26

Please join us at ONE Archives in a night of conversation and disco dancing to celebrate the closing of our exhibitions Portrait of a Publisher as a Political Project and Kaya Micro Operas: Alternatives to Archiving. The evening will kick off with Kaya Press queer author R. Zamora Linmark in conversation with fellow Kaya author Amarnath Ravva (American Canyon, 2013) on Linmark's revolutionary coming-of-age novel Rolling the Rs (1995) and its influence on Ravva's work.

Inspired by the disco-anthems that foreground Rolling the R’s, the conversation will be followed by a quick disco lesson and a Donna Summer-filled disco dance party with time for folks to walk through the exhibitions. Good food, good company, and good music will abound.