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Many thanks to everyone who was able to join us in New Orleans earlier this month for Architecting Sustainable Futures at Five (ASF@5). A gathering designed to celebrate and continue advocating for a strong future for community-based archives. shiftcollective.us/asf5
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Over the past 15 years, SAADA has grown from a modest digital repository to a powerhouse of South Asian American narratives. SAADA is an organization on the rise, and we need your support to lift our community to the next level! 🏗️ Join us at saada.org/donate
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Some Historypin research currently happening at Shift Collective: Modeling Sustainable Futures: Exploring Decentralized Digital Storage for Community-Based Archives shiftcollective.us/ffdw
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SAADA is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to sharing and preserving the stories of South Asian American communities across the United States. mellon.org/grant-story/saada…
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To Lae'l Hughes-Watkins, archivist at the University of Maryland, building archives is as much about building relationships as it is about collecting information. on.mellon.org/3MOoQQN
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Looking forward to Mariame Kaba joining us @ at the University of Maryland on Nov. 2 to discuss how archivists, librarians, and memory workers can serve as allies to student activists, create liberating spaces and preserve their stories of justice and liberation.
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"The answers to many of our current issues can be found in our histories. That’s why the people who hate and fear us don’t want us to have access to them. Our stories, our lives, our existence is powerful." @iHPSouth medium.com/community-archive…
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We are hosting the five year anniversary of Architecting Sustainable Futures in New Orleans, November 7th-9th, 2023, so we're inviting community-based archives to share some of their work. Many thanks to @iHPSouth and Maigen Sullivan. medium.com/community-archive…
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As we prepare to host the five year anniversary of Architecting Sustainable Futures in New Orleans, November 7th-9th, 2023, we're inviting community-based archives to share about some of their work. Many thanks to @SFLegacy for this contribution. medium.com/community-archive…
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DocNow aims to provide a social media archiving model to serve the needs of archivists, researchers, and memory workers. mellon.org/grant-story/docum…
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My dear friend @gabe_solis (@txafterviolence) and I reflected on the past decade of postcustodial archival praxis in service of human rights collections for the #ItemNotFound conference. Our convo is now on the Sustainable Futures blog: medium.com/community-archive… ty @BergisJules!
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