Community Practice & Community Archives at the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre

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On November 9th at 2pm ET I'll presenting "Community Practice & Community Archives at the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre" in partnership with the Muslims in Canada Archives (MiCA). I'm really grateful for this opportunity to collaborate with MiCA and looking forward to the conversation with Moska Rokay as part of the event. This talk is … Continue reading Community Practice & Community Archives at the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre

“That’s my Auntie”: Community-Guided Residential School History

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My latest piece ""That's my Auntie": Community-Guided Residential School History" co-authored with the fantastic Skylee-Storm Hogan can be seen in the KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation studies journal. Here's the abstract of our piece: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada called for increased access to archival material documenting the history of Residential Schools. … Continue reading “That’s my Auntie”: Community-Guided Residential School History

Breaking Barriers Through Decolonial Community Based Archival Practice

My latest collaboration with Skylee-Storm Hogan is out in the world. We wrote a book chapter, "Breaking Barriers Through Decolonial Community Based Archival Practice" for Archives and Special Collections as Sites of Contestation edited by Mary Kandiuk. The chapter discusses the work of the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre (SRSC) as a way of opposing colonial … Continue reading Breaking Barriers Through Decolonial Community Based Archival Practice

Reclaiming Place Talks

This week I had the privilege of travelling to Thunder Bay to provide a public talk at the Thunder Bay Museum and speak with a Lakehead University archives class. Both talks focused on my work at the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre and the decades of work by the Shingwauk Survivor community. Interested in learning more? … Continue reading Reclaiming Place Talks

Archives As Activism: Community Narrative Building at the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre

As part of the "(re)Active Public History" Twitter mini-con hosted by the National Council on Public History I presented a presentation on the role of the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre as a place of community building and activism.  The complete Twitter presentation is below. Archives As Activism: Community Narrative Building

AAO Tour: Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives

One of the highlights for me at this year's Archives Association of Ontario conference was the tour of the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA) located in Toronto. The CLGA was amazingly well represented at AAO with two of their staff members presenting, a site tour on the conference program, and numerous CLGA volunteers involved … Continue reading AAO Tour: Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives

Archives As Activism

My latest post on "Archives As Activism" can be seen over on Active History. The post explores the connection of archives, activism, and community. It discusses the idea that archives can disrupt social norms by collecting and archiving the work of those outside of mainstream society.  The piece also dives into examples of Canadian archives … Continue reading Archives As Activism

Reading: Make Roanoke Queer Again

The latest issue of The Public Historian featured a number of great articles including "Make Roanoke Queer Again: Community History and Urban Change in a Southern City" by Gregory Rosethal. This article explores the specifics of interpreting queer history in Roanoke, Virgina but also focuses more broadly on queer community history projects, resistance through grassroots history, and … Continue reading Reading: Make Roanoke Queer Again

Off The Record Issue on Archives and Indigenous Issues

The Archives Association of Ontario's Off The Record open access issue on archives and Indigenous issues was recently released.  The issue includes a lot of great and insightful content including: three holdings profiles focusing on access to Indigenous-related materials and three feature pieces on various facets of the intersection of Indigenous communities and archives. Overall, it … Continue reading Off The Record Issue on Archives and Indigenous Issues