archives glow news
ASU student-produced podcast focuses on community history, memory, healing
Looking for a new podcast to listen to this summer? The Community-Driven Archives Initiative at the ASU Library recently launched a new podcast series titled "Archives Glow" about community history, memory and healing. Episodes highlight the importance of BIPOC experiences and storytelling, center t...
Supporting the next generation of BIPOC community archivists
The ASU Library is embarking on a three-year project to nurture the next generation of community archivists currently attending community and Tribal colleges. With support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program, a $534,975 grant will establish the...
Photo album sparks discovery of ASU's first female African American graduate
Michele Neptune McHenry and her husband, Joseph McHenry, were slowly making their way through the photo album when they came upon the photos and name card. The card, gray in tone, was about 1-by-2 inches. On it was a name: Miss Stella McHenry....
Tutnese: The lost language of the enslaved- Elise Daniells
Welcome to the Community-Driven Archives (CDA) Initiative blog! We continue this semester’s CDA blog with a submission from Elise Daniells, one of our amazing student archivists on the CDA team who is a graduate student studying to get her masters in Opera Performance. Elise’s post is a wonderful in...
Happy Holidays from the Community-Driven Archives Initiative - Denise Mosso Ruiz
*Note - The Community-Driven Archives (CDA) Initiative blog will be on hiatus until February 2021* CDA will like to wish everyone Happy Holidays, and that everyone enjoys a safe social distance holiday. Even though we cannot see many of our loved ones during this holiday season remember we are maki...
Reflection of event "CDA Virtual Kids Camp" - Denise Mosso Ruiz
In the second week of August 2020, I hosted a three-day event, hosting a workshop per day which was called “ CDA Virtual Kids Camp”. Day 1 consisted of story time where the children’s picture book “Julian is a Mermaid” by Jessica Love was read, day 2 consisted of an arts and craft session where crow...
Reflection of event “Family Legacies, Imagined and Remembered” with Desert Diwata - Myra Khan
Last week, I co-facilitated a family photo and memory workshop entitled “Family Legacies, Imagined and Remembered” with the wonderful steering committee of Desert Diwata. The first half of the event consisted of a photo analysis workshop while the second half encouraged participants to engage their ...
Archives of American Slavery - Elise Daniells
For the longest time, the documentation of African slavery in the United States has been reliant on the experiences and resources of White plantation owners and modern U.S. history textbooks written by White scholars. Due to the seemingly limited access to literacy for slaves, it was widely believed...
Queer Trace - Kate Saunders
We can look for evidence or proof of queerness in places like the dancefloor, a “space where relations between memory and content, self and other, become inextricably intertwined” -Muñoz, Cruising Utopia I long for the dance floor, for a queer bar, a space to watch how everyone express themselves, ...