What Happens to Those Handmade Posters From the Women’s Marches
A trio of professors in Boston stumbled across a trove of signs, threw them into a rented van, and created an “accidental archive.”
Nathan Felde and a couple of his colleagues at Northeastern University had just finished a late lunch at a Malaysian joint in Boston’s Chinatown and were making their way through the city when they spotted something unusual in the distance.
It was late afternoon on Saturday and participants were slowly peeling away from Boston Common, the park where thousands had gathered to protest Donald Trump’s inauguration. But they were pausing—at the southeast corner of the park—to deposit homemade posters and
