Make Your Own History [Texte imprimé] : Documenting Feminist & Queer Activism in the 21st Century / Liz, Bly / Kelly, Wooten ; Alison, Piepmeier ; Sarah, Dyer ; Jenna, Freedman ; Kate, Eichhorn ; Jenna, Brager ; Jami, Sailor ; Alexis Pauline, Gumbs ; Angela L., DiVeglia ; Alana, Kumbier ; Erin, O'Meara ; Amy, Benson ; Kathryn Allamong, Jacob ; Elizabeth A., Myers ; Barbara, Sjoholm

Language: anglais.Country: États-Unis.Publication: Los Angeles, PO Box 25322 Los Angeles, CA 90025 : Litwin Books, 2012Description: 180 p.ISBN: 9781936117130.Series: Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies / Emily, Drabinski, 2Abstract: Make Your Own History addresses the practical and theoretical challenges and advantages of researching, documenting, and archiving recent and contemporary activists in the feminist and queer movements. The challenge of the archivist and the scholar, whose work is traditionally paper-based, is to keep up with the changing modes of communication of these individuals and organisations and to make sure these activists' work is not left out of the historical record. Activists, archivists, librarians, and scholars address the following issues and topics: the practical material challenges of documenting and archiving contemporary activism; theoretical perspectives and conversations; online communities and communications; "third wave" feminism/youth and queer cultures/subcultures; the move from paper to digital archives and documents; zines; and the work of activists who employ creative/artistic/cultural approaches to work for social justice..Subject: fanzines | militantisme | bibliothèques | féminisme | digitalisation | archives | LGBT | Riot Grrrl
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Make Your Own History addresses the practical and theoretical challenges and advantages of researching, documenting, and archiving recent and contemporary activists in the feminist and queer movements. The challenge of the archivist and the scholar, whose work is traditionally paper-based, is to keep up with the changing modes of communication of these individuals and organisations and to make sure these activists' work is not left out of the historical record.
Activists, archivists, librarians, and scholars address the following issues and topics: the practical material challenges of documenting and archiving contemporary activism; theoretical perspectives and conversations; online communities and communications; "third wave" feminism/youth and queer cultures/subcultures; the move from paper to digital archives and documents; zines; and the work of activists who employ creative/artistic/cultural approaches to work for social justice.

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