Andrew J. Knox
Story Preservationist
I rescue the stories of people whose lives shaped a nation, a country, a community, a family, or a craft — and whose names, often times, are at risk of disappearing.
The current focus is queer elders. Generations who lived through Stonewall, the AIDS crisis, the fight for equal rights while surviving the ordinary acts of daily life. Most of these stories have never been told outside the rooms where they were lived.
The longer arc is broader: artists whose creations were never credited, families who know “their person” is the keeper of something the next generation will need, an organization who has lost its narrative, anyone whose story has become a heavy rock which needs to be released.