Preserving disability : disability and the archival profession / edited by Gracen Brilmyer and Lydia Tang.

Disability and the archival profession

Sacramento, CA : Litwin Books, 2024.

xix, 706 pages : charts ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Foreword / Alice Wong -- Introduction / Gracen Brilmyer and Lydia Tang -- The royal commission of inquiry into abuse in state and faith-based care in Aotearoa New Zealand and the opportunity it provides to hear, research and archive stories of disability history / Hilary Stace, Susan Martin, and Martin Sullivan -- Including Japanese American disability history in the archives / Selena Moon -- Seeing sickness: archival and embodied encounters with the medical panopticon / Alexandra Pucciarelli -- Uncovering the past, hiding myself: exploring the archive through autoethnography / Emma Yeo -- Making sex in the archive more accessible: a call for preserving accounts of the sexual experience of people with disabilities by people with disabilities / Cassandra J. Perry -- It's so liberating to do the work: education in archives creates space for people with disabilites / Julia Pelaez and Jen Hoyer -- Navigating employment -- Exploratory archives as community care: a self-reflection / Iris Afantchao -- Are you the gatekeeper?: job advertisements as barriers to employment for disabled archivists / Chris Tanguay and Ann Abney -- "Once I show up.. they're not going to hire me": job searches, interviewing, and disclosure for disabled archivists / Veronica L. Denison, Gracen Brilmyer and Tara Brar -- The intersection of personal and professional bodies: disability, mutual aid, Covid-19, and the archives / Jennifer McGillan -- "Ability to lift" your "little black clouds": how to not exclude disabled archivists in employment / Zachary Tumlin and David Spriegel -- Doing the work -- From collecting to curating: the history and mission of the deaf Catholic archives / Rev. Joseph Bruce, S.J., Abby Stambach, Corinne Tabolt, and Lisa Villa -- Accessing Athens: archiving adaptive sports / Amanda McGrory and Joel Blanco -- Teeming with troublesome terms: remediating problematic language describing disability in special collections / Melissa Weiss, Jacquelyn Slater Reese, and Jay A. Edwards -- Disability in archival equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives / Talea Anderson, Greg Matthew, and Gayle O'Haraa -- From collection to collaboration: disability studies/archives collaboration and the Hahn Disability Collection / Thomas Philo and Nancy Armstrong-Sanchez -- "But don't those cause you seizures!?": epilepsy activism through film archiving / Michael Marlatt -- Existing in plain sight: on being a black archivist with non-visible disabilities / Jessica C. Neal -- Does "nothing about us without us" include me?: how preserving disability history helped me recognize my own identity as a disabled archivist / Lauren White -- Process and lessons learned from an accessibility audit at the Central Washington University archives and special collections / Julia Stringfellow and Lauren Wittek -- The evolution and importance of sustainable accessible online cultural heritage materials / Erin Baucom -- Rehousing archivists: attending to a livable future for a black, queer disabled memory worker / Zakiya Collier -- Author bios -- Index