BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:59@sds.utoronto.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210413T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210413T180000 DTSTAMP:20210322T212608Z URL:http://sds.utoronto.ca/events/joint-book-launch-documenting-rebellions -and-information-activism/ SUMMARY:Joint Book Launch: Documenting Rebellions and Information Activism DESCRIPTION:The Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies is hosting a vir tual joint book launch for Documenting Rebellions: A Study of Four Lesbia n and Gay Archives in Queer Times by Rebecka Taves Sheffield\, and Infor mation Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies by Cait Mc Kinney.\n\nThis event will be held on Zoom\, and live captioning will be a vailable. Please use the order form for this event or the "Contact the Org anizer" function on Eventbrite if you have any other accessibility require ments.\nPlease register on Eventbrite in order to access the Zoom link for the launch.\n--\n\nDocumenting Rebellions is a study of four archives th at were constituted with a common desire to preserve the memory and eviden ce of lesbian and gay people. They are The Lesbian Herstory Archives (New York)\, The ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives (Los Angeles)\, the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives (West Hollywood)\, and the ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives (Toronto). Using a narrative approach that draws from fi rst-person accounts and archival research\, each chapter tells a story abo ut how these organizations came to exist\, who has supported them over tim e\, and how they have survived for more than forty years. This book is the result of a five-year project that began in 2012 and builds on the author ’s own experience working with lesbian and gay archives. In Documenting Rebellions\, Sheffield places lesbian and gay archives in the context of c hanging political opportunity structures that have afforded a liberal lesb ian and gay rights movement some successes while continuing to marginalize intersectional\, queer and trans people. The goal of this study is not to critique these organizations\, but to show how this cohort of community a rchives has been affected by the very same combination of socio-political and economic factors that shape the cultural histories that they preserve. Documenting Rebellions consider the material needs of archives – space\ , money\, and expertise – that are sometimes rendered invisible by the i diosyncratically subjective cultural theory model of ‘the archive’ tha t has emerged from within interdisciplinary studies. By tracing the emerge nce and development of these organizations\, Sheffield uncovers representa tional politics\, institutional pluralism\, generational divides\, shiftin g national politics\, interpersonal relationships\, and challenges with su stainability\, both financial and otherwise.\n\nClick here to purchase Doc umenting Rebellions.\n\nRebecka Taves Sheffield is an archivist and archi val educator based in Hamilton\, Ontario. Presently\, she is a senior poli cy advisor for the Archives of Ontario and works on digital recordkeeping strategies. Rebecka previously served as the Executive Director for the Ar Quives (formerly the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives)\, where she spent the better part of a decade learning as much as possible about Canada’s LGBTQ2+ histories.\n\n--\n\nFor decades\, lesbian feminists across the Uni ted States and Canada have created information to build movements and surv ive in a world that doesn't want them. In Information Activism Cait McKi nney traces how these women developed communication networks\, databases\, and digital archives that formed the foundation for their work. Often lea rning on the fly and using everything from index cards to computers\, thes e activists brought people and their visions of justice together to organi ze\, store\, and provide access to information. Focusing on the transition from paper to digital-based archival techniques from the 1970s to the pre sent\, McKinney shows how media technologies animate the collective and un spectacular labor that sustains social movements\, including their antirac ist and trans-inclusive endeavors. By bringing sexuality studies to bear o n media history\, McKinney demonstrates how groups with precarious access to control over information create their own innovative and resourceful te chniques for generating and sharing knowledge.\n\nClick here to purchase I nformation Activism.\n\nCait McKinney is Assistant Professor of Communica tion at Simon Fraser University and coeditor of Inside Killjoy's Kastle: D ykey Ghosts\, Feminist Monsters\, and Other Lesbian Hauntings. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://sds.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/Book-L aunch-Banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR