Queer cannabis histories go into a zine while algorithms forget

At Los Angeles’s Circa queer-history festival, the Potent Histories workshop compared disappearing digital content with paper’s stubborn durability. After a communal meal, participants made archival material about cannabis, identity and personal experience; some of the work will become a limited-edition zine with data visualisation. An algorithm loves the present until its next update, while a stapler apparently thinks in centuries.