That’s My Auntie: Making Accessible Residential School History

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This week my colleague Jenna Lemay and I presented "That's My Auntie: Making Accessible Residential School History” as part of the Maskwacis Cultural College Microlearning Series. Our webinar focused on specific community digitization and access projects including the Remember the Children project and our recent work with the Shingwauk burial register. You can view our slides … Continue reading That’s My Auntie: Making Accessible Residential School History

Safe Spaces for LGBTQ2S+ Archivists

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The Archives Association of Ontario (AAO) is hosting a number of virtual safe spaces over the next year, including spaces for LGBTQ2S+ archivists. These spaces are for LGBTQ2S+ archivists to connect and meet with one another in an informal, participant-driven environment. Folks must identify as LGBTQS+ to participate. I'm going to be acting as the … Continue reading Safe Spaces for LGBTQ2S+ Archivists

Planning Digitization Projects for Community Archives

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This week I presented a webinar on "Planning Digitization Projects for Community Archives" as part of the Maskwacis Cultural College Microlearning Series. The webinar focused on the basics of setting up, planning, and implementing digitization projects at community archives. It will include how-tos, potential workflows, and best practices for digitization initiatives. I spoke a lot … Continue reading Planning Digitization Projects for Community Archives

Community Archival Description and Community Access

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This week my colleague Jenna Lemay and I presented on "Community Archival Description and Community Access" as part of the Maskwacis Cultural College Microlearning Series. Our webinar focused on how the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre does archival description and archival access. We provided an overview of the Centre's approach to both and also discussed specific … Continue reading Community Archival Description and Community Access

Reclaiming Shingwauk Hall Behind the Scenes

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Reclaiming Shingwauk Hall poster

Earlier this week, as part of the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre's ongoing webinar series I presented a Behind the Scenes look at the Reclaiming Shingwauk Hall exhibition space. My talk focused on the Survivor community based approach of the exhibition, challenges of installing an exhibit in a University hallway, and decisions around which photos to … Continue reading Reclaiming Shingwauk Hall Behind the Scenes

Stronger Together: The Potential Collaborative Agency of Historians and Archivists

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My latest post written with Andrea Eidinger, "Stronger Together: The Potential Collaborative Agency of Historians and Archivists" can be read over on Activehistory.ca. The piece looks at the recent dust up around the BC archives closure and the subsequent open letter written by history departments. It argues for historians and archivists working together and listening … Continue reading Stronger Together: The Potential Collaborative Agency of Historians and Archivists

Archives Month Series

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For the second year in a row I will be working with Nicole Belolan and Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan to edit an archives month series for the History@Work blog. It was wonderful working with Nicole and Kristin on the 2019 archives series and I'm looking forward to seeing how the series develops this year. This year's series will … Continue reading Archives Month Series

Best Article In Indigenous History Prize

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I'm honoured and deeply humbled to have won, alongside Madeline Whetung, the Canadian Historical Association Best Article In Indigenous History Prize. Madeline Whetung's article “(En)Gendering Shoreline Law: Nishnaabeg Relational Politics Along the Trent Severn Waterway" is a must read. Whetung examines the concept of shoreline law as a means of discussing place-based kinship ties that the … Continue reading Best Article In Indigenous History Prize

Breaking Barriers Through Decolonial Community Based Archival Practice

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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

Webinar: Trans and Gender Non-conforming Inclusion in Libraries

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UPDATE: Registration for this webinar is now full (wow! thanks folks!). If you are interested in receiving a copy of the recording you can email Laura Gariepy at lwgariepy[at]vcu[dot]edu and she will make sure you get access to the recording. On Thursday February 27, 2020 I'm presenting a free webinar on "Trans and Gender Non-conforming … Continue reading Webinar: Trans and Gender Non-conforming Inclusion in Libraries