Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession Book Launch!

Hear from some of the contributors of Preserving Disability in the first installment of our group book launch! This event will feature the book’s co-editors, Dr. Lydia Tang & Dr. Gracen Brilmyer, and some of our authors, who will discuss their contributions on the intersection of disabled archivists & archival work:

• Michael Marlatt, author of “But Don’t Those Cause You Seizures!?”: Epilepsy Activism through Film Archiving

• Jennifer McGillan, author of The Intersection of Personal and Professional Bodies: Disability, Mutual Aid, Covid-19, and the Archives

• Hilary Stace, author of The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse and State-based care in Aotearoa New Zealand and the opportunity it provides to hear, research and archive stories of disability history

• Alexandra Pucciarelli, author of Seeing Sickness: Archival and Embodied Encounters with the Medical Panopticon

• Zakiya Collier, author of Rehousing Archivists: Attending to a Livable Future for A Black, Queer Disabled Memory Worker

Recording here. I begin reading at 37:58