By CJ I’m happy to report that the Disability Archives Lab’s first free digitization workshop was super fun and full of amazing disabled folks who brought cool stuff to digitize! It was exciting to meet other people from the disability community and to share digitization techniques and tools for preserving our archival materials and histories, […]
A polyvocal found essay. Composed by Cavar, with found text from Amery, Carmen, Cavar, and Kelsie. Written in the plural “I” and based on our collective experience building the Remote Access Archive. Supported and contextualized by the Critical Design Lab, the locus of our collaborative effort to document radical practices of virtual accessibility in disabled communities […]
By Sam Pappas First recorded on April 3rd, 2023 In early 2021, visual artist Nat Decker (they/them) began collaborating with Gracen Brilmyer, director of the Disability Archives Lab, to create a logo representing the lab: a purple and blue paperclip, stack of folders, and pencil, each 3D and wiggling in parallel with 3D text […]
By Beatrice Adler-Bolton (CUNY) & Sabrina Ward-Kimola (Concordia University) First recorded on March 22nd, 2022 Beatrice Adler-Bolton (she/they) is a disability activist, co-host of the Death Panel podcast, artist and earning her master’s in Disability Studies at The City University of New York. She is also the co-author of Health Communism. Their work draws from […]
By: Tara Brar. I’m a research assistant for the Disability Archives Lab, working on The Labour of Belonging: Disabled Archivists & Archival Work. Before joining the project, my views on disability were essentially the societal “defaults,” where disability is inherently negative, a lack, or something to keep private. I had an underlying feeling that being […]
