035 - Leather Archives & Museum

11/19/21 • 60 min

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We’re finally here! The Leather Archives & Museum episode! We talk about... the Leather Archives. Just listen to it.

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ROAM Program benefits

References

Bound together: Leather, sex, archives, and contemporary art

Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display

“Thinking Sex”, Gayle Rubin

leatherdyke gender technology - by Daemonum X - Dead but Delicious

We’re finally here! The Leather Archives & Museum episode! We talk about... the Leather Archives. Just listen to it.

https://twitter.com/leatherarchives

https://www.instagram.com/leatherarchives/

Become a member of the Leather Archives

ROAM Program benefits

References

Bound together: Leather, sex, archives, and contemporary art

Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display

“Thinking Sex”, Gayle Rubin

leatherdyke gender technology - by Daemonum X - Dead but Delicious

Previous Episode

034 - Political Economy and Radical Digital Humanities

This week we’re joined by Miriam Posner and Matthew Hannah to talk about digital humanities stuff! We talk about creating a Marxist political economy for DH, and what it means to do Radical DH. We mention map projections, labor issues, self identification, and why the Silent Hill III remake is bad.

Student collaborator bill of rights

Postdoctoral Laborers Bill of Rights | hc:26741 | Humanities CORE

Levels of Digital Preservation (DLF)

Do Better - Love(,) Us | Do Better Labor

Links to Miriam’s Stuff

Miriam’s website

On DH

The Radical, Unrealized Potential of DH

How Did They Make That?

Bunch of tutorials (a lot of people use these in their teaching)

Why is it so hard to do digital humanities in the library?

On supply chains, etc.

See No Evil

The Software that Shapes Workers’ Lives

Breakpoints and Black Boxes: Information in Global Supply Chains

Links to Matthew’s Stuff

Matthew’s website

A Political Economy of Digital Humanities Vision Statement

A Political Economy of Digital Humanities: New Directions CFP for ACH 2021

On DH

Inclusive Infrastructure: Digital Scholarship Centers and the Academic Library Liaison

Next Episode

036 - HUMAN TRASH DUMP

april vendetta (they/them) explores themes of control, labor, and sexual play through D.I.Y. surveillance to question the human body's physicality and resilience. They are co-founder of HUMAN TRASH DUMP. HUMAN TRASH DUMP is an open digital archive founded in 2015 that invites contributions of audio, text, image, and video files to be hosted and disseminated as material, tools, handbooks, puzzles, and keys. Participant’s stream, download, share, and remix archived fragments to expand collective intimacy. Data is stored in a dump not a cloud.

Contact: [email protected]

Resources

HUMAN TRASH DUMP on archive.org (an imperfect solution due to some censorship issues*)

HUMAN TRASH DUMP is an open digital archive founded in 2015 that invites contributions of audio, text, image, and video files to be hosted and disseminated as material, tools, handbooks, puzzles, and keys. Participants stream, download, share, and remix archived fragments to expand collective intimacy. Data is stored in a dump not a cloud.

Fragmented-Body / Fragmented Archive (this presentation took place during New York Archives Week Symposium hosted by The Archivists Round Table (A.R.T.) of Metropolitan New York on Thursday, October 21st, 2021 at 3:45 PM EST.)

vendetta: the fragmented archive

Archival Liberation Vision Board Showcase (presentation took place as part in the Archival Liberation Vision Board Showcase Hosted by the Queens College Student Chapter of the Society of American Archivists & the Archival Technologies Lab. AERI 2021 virtual conference.

Conditions & Possibilities - Organized by Noah Ortega (Artist talk back after a collective/individual public action(s) outside the New York Stock Exchange, 2021)

Action In The Street: A Guide to Performing & Archiving Public Exchange

21s thesis Griess archive copy

thesis part II

*http://www.albatross.website/albatrossartfair (scroll down for human trash dump/april vendetta. Artwork created about being censored and having my personal account locked on the internet archive)

Transgender YouTubers had their videos grabbed to train facial recognition software

NYU dean sends R.E.M. dance video as part of response to students' call for tuition refund

Additional Links

INSTITUTION IS A VERB : A PANOPLY PERFORMANCE LAB COMPILATION (FREE PDF)

Fugitivision TV - One Man: The Liberation Project

Guerilla Open Access Manifesto by Aaron Swartz

The Black Trans Archive - Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley

The Black Trans Archive Is Revolutionizing How We Tell Queer History

One Black Woman’s Path to Librarianship (and Some Advice) - Interview with Gina Murrell

I’m Leaving the Archival Profession: It’s Better This Way by Jarrett M. Drake

Archiving Series: Archiving Through People

We Still Can't Eat Prestige: Lessons from Arts and Cultural Worker Organizing