First episode of new season features Michelle Caswell (co-founder of South Asian American Digital Library, and co-Director of the UCLA Community Archives Lab, and author of “Urgent Archives). We talked about the radical potential of archives and causing trouble at work.
I'm teaching a new #class "Solidarity Memory Work"
We'll learn about #solidarity#movements in allied professions (academic history, journalism, etc.) then discuss (1) how to actively #document and #preserve current movements and organizations, and (2) activate that #records already in #collections to motivate and guide contemporary organizers