Check out my latest post over on Unwritten Histories. This post, written in collaboration with Andrea Eidinger, looks at Celebrating Women and Non-Binary Historians. We share the submissions from our December 2018 call to celebrate folks and talk about why promoting and acknowledging the accomplishments of women and non-binary folks matters.
I've started and deleted this post multiple times, not because the topic isn't important but because talking about it makes me feel tremendously vulnerable. I've thought a lot about professional expectations and social niceties. I've also thought a lot about fear and the ways in which fear can stifle meaningful discussion. I've also had a … Continue reading Speaking Up: The Clothing Edition
Erin Leach recently shared some powerful words about being a cataloger in instruction spaces and stereotypes that are often used to describe those involved in cataloging. I'm not a library cataloger, far from it, however Erin's words struck a cord with me. Her anecdote of interacting with others and their responses to her cataloguing status … Continue reading Stereotypes and Misconceptions of Librarians and Archivists
A weeks end look back at some of the archives, public history, and library world readings that I've been pondering on this week. Gender in Libraries: "If You Give a Librarian A Cookie" a great post by Dani Brecher Cook on the gendered work, the challenges of letting gender expectations control actions, and the need to … Continue reading Friday Reading: Gender and Outreach
Amongst the museums I visited while in DC, my least favourite was The National Museum of American History (NMAH). Upon reflection, it is not that I disliked the content of the museum, I just had a hard time grappling with the national differences of conceptions of history. I expected a grand narrative style of history … Continue reading National Conceptions of History in Museum Settings
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