Resources

Lab Interviews & Outreach

• Librarypunk Podcast: Episode 094 – Disability Archives Lab Feat. Gracen Brilmyer (June 22, 2023)
•  Lost in the Stacks: The Research Library Rock’n’Roll Radio Show: Episode 560 – What is the Disability Archives Lab? (May 19, 2023)

Lab Publications

• Special Issue: This Feature Has Been Disabled: Critical intersections of disability and information studies, Edited by Gracen Brilmyer and Crystal Lee. First Monday, January 2023.
• Brilmyer, Gracen. “‘They Weren’t Necessarily Designed with Lived Experiences of Disability in Mind’: The Affect of Archival In/Accessibility and ‘Emotionally Expensive’ Spatial Un/Belonging” Archivaria, December 5, 2022, 120–53.
• Brilmyer, Gracen Mikus. “‘I’m Also Prepared to Not Find Me. It’s Great When I Do, but It Doesn’t Hurt If I Don’t’: Crip Time and Anticipatory Erasure for Disabled Archival Users.” Archival Science, October 18, 2021.
• Brilmyer, Gracen M. “‘It Could Have Been Us in a Different Moment. It Still Is Us in Many Ways’: Community Identification and the Violence of Archival Representation of Disability.” In Sustainable Digital Communities, edited by Anneli Sundqvist, Gerd Berget, Jan Nolin, and Kjell Ivar Skjerdingstad, 480–86. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020.

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Lab Presentations (2021-present)

• Brilmyer, Gracen. The Archival Education and Research Initiative (AERI), Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Archiving Crip Futures // Cripping Future Archives: Conversations about new disability archives, June 19-23, 2023
• Brilmyer, Gracen and Sam Pappas, l’Association des bibliothécaires du Québec – Quebec Library Association (ABQLA), Montréal, Québec, “Letting us ourselves imagine a little bit more”: Dreaming Disability Archives Differently, May 26, 2023
• Brilmyer, Gracen. Strategies of Critique 2023, York University, Toronto, Canada, “Fixing” Archives: Incomplete provenance & the desire for archival cures, May 17-19, 2023
• Brilmyer, Gracen. The Archives Association of Ontario Annual Conference, Virtual Conference,  Disabled Labour & Professional Standards: How the archival profession impacts disabled workers, May 10-12, 2023
• Brilmyer, Gracen. UnConference of the Disability Studies and Action Collaborative, Bellingham, WA, Disability & Archival Labour: Disabled Archivist’s Perspective, October 22-23, 2022
• Brilmyer, Gracen, Joyce Gabiola, Nancy Godoy, and Jimmy Zavala. Virtual Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists, Panel: We Don’t Have a Checklist: Archival Labor(s) and Leadership of Minoritized Archivists, August 20-27, 2022
• Brilmyer, Gracen. Documenting Disability: Preserving and Accessing Disabled Heritage, University of Dundee, Documenting Disability: Preserving and Accessing Disabled Heritage, Dundee, UK, Archival Affect: Feeling disability history, July 27, 2022
• Brilmyer, Gracen, Veronica Denison, Michelle Ganz, and Lydia Tang. The Archival Education and Research Initiative (AERI), Panel: How We Got Here: Creating Space for Disabled Archival Workers, July 9 2022
• Brar, Tara, Gracen Brilmyer, and Veronica Denison. Association for Canadian Archivists Annual Meeting, 2022, The Labour of Belonging: Disabled Archivists & Archival Work, June 17, 2022
• Barclay, Jenifer, Gracen Brilmyer, Michelle Ganz, Aimi Hamraie, and Corbett O’Toole. Society of Disability Studies Annual Conference, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, Finding Disabled People in Archives, April 9-12, 2022
• Brilmyer, Gracen. Provenance in Place: A Symposium, The Archival Technologies Lab at the City University of New York and the School of Information Management at Dalhousie University, Crip Provenance: Place, Space, & Disability, March 7, 2022
• Brilmyer, Gracen. Archive / CounterArchive Special Lecture, Toronto, ON, “It felt like everything”: Archival Decision-Making & Impacts on Disabled Communities, February 25, 2021.
• Brilmyer, Gracen, Alice Wong, and Liú Méi-Zhì Bransfield Chen. Relating Oral History 2022 Workshop Series, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, Telling and Preserving Disabled Stories,  February 24, 2022
• Brilmyer, Gracen. Virtual Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists, Archival Access: Disabled archival users and the affect of in/accessibility, August 2-6, 2021
• Brilmyer, Gracen. Disability Studies Conference 2021, Auckland, New Zealand, Accessing History: Disabled archival users and the affect of in/accessibility, July 10-12, 2021

Other Resources on Disability & Archives 

• Guidelines for Accessible Archives for People with Disabilities
• Brilmyer, Gracen. “Archival Assemblages: Applying Disability Studies’ Political/Relational Model to Archival Description.” Archival Science 18, no. 2 (June 1, 2018): 95–118. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-018-9287-6.
• Brilmyer, Gracen. “Towards Sickness: Developing a Critical Disability Archival Methodology.” Journal of Feminist Scholarship 17, no. 17 (January 1, 2021): 26–45. https://doi.org/10.23860/jfs.2020.17.03.
• Cartwright, Ryan Lee. “Out of Sorts: A Queer Crip in the Archive.” Feminist Review 125, no. 1 (July 1, 2020): 62–69. https://doi.org/10.1177/0141778920911936.
• Imada, Adria L. “Promiscuous Signification: Leprosy Suspects in a Photographic Archive of Skin.” Representations 138, no. 1 (May 1, 2017): 1–36. https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2017.138.1.1.
• Morris, Alexandra. 2021. “A Brief Guide to Disability Terminology and Theory in Ancient World Studies.” August 30, 2021. https://classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/alexandra-morris/blog-brief-guide-disability-terminology-and-theory-ancient-world-studies.
• Rinn, Meghan. “Nineteenth-Century Depictions of Disabilities and Modern Metadata: A Consideration of Material in the P. T.  Barnum Digital Collection.” Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies 5, no. 1 (March 20, 2018). https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol5/iss1/1.
• Trent, James W. “Defectives at the World’s Fair: Constructing Disability in 1904.” Remedial and Special Education 19, no. 4 (July 1, 1998): 201–11. https://doi.org/10.1177/074193259801900403.
• Tumlin, Zachary, Bridget Malley, Lydia Tang, Chris Tanguay, and Lauren White. “Supporting the Retention and Advancement of Archivists with Disabilities.” Archival Outlook, August 2021. https://mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=715946&p=8&view=issueViewer&pp=1.

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