Archivist. Writer. Educator.
This post inspired the creation of the workshop: “Description and Access for Anti-Black Archival Materials” which was delivered at the Association of Canadian Archivists Annual Conference virtually on June 8, 2021. This workshop is available to cultural heritage institutions. If you are interested in working with me, please contact me. There are many issues that…
When I first came across the above quote, it made me think back to several successful video games that have been marketed as “historical games,” and really question the accuracy of their historical narratives. As Whitaker explained, many games that are marketed as historical games, even as historical fiction, are disconnected from historical scholarship. As I am…
Last summer, I worked as an Archives Assistant – Digital Content for George Brown College Archives. In this position, I developed a collection on the Internet Archive to allow the archives to provide online access to recently digitized college newsletters, student newspapers, annual reports, yearbooks, and images. At first, I was asked to create a…
This post reflects on a Wikipedia lecture and workshop that took place at McGill University. Before this lecture, It had never occurred to me that Wikipedia was a powerful source of information. My education had conditioned me to dismiss Wikipedia as unreliable, and assume that it had no real effect on public knowledge. However, globally…
As I have previously mentioned, I am currently researching, analyzing, and annotating documents for ALPHA Education’s Digital Archive Project as a volunteer. For this project, I was asked to discuss the content and broader historical context of each document. Annotations are also expected to connect documents to APLHA Education’s mission, which is to foster awareness of Asia’s…
Colonialism & Erasure Walking around the streets of Toronto, it is difficult to see traces of its long Indigenous history. As a direct result of colonialism, Indigenous ways of knowing and naming place were replaced with European knowledge systems. While Indigenous place names convey local knowledge about physical landscapes and their histories as a means for navigation, colonial place…
