Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40).

Step 2: Register for “Thinking with Disability and Archives” here.

How are disabled people documented in history? And how do disabled people meet these documents in archives today?

This workshop will investigate different types of archives & archival impacts through two readings: one that illustrates a history of archives created through medical incarceration in Hawaiʻi and one that shows how disabled people experience archives today through first-person accounts.

Participants will be provided with an overview of archives and recordkeeping processes and practices and collectively discuss how disabled people can be and have been documented in archives.

Through addressing different ways of meeting representation, misrepresentation, and erasure, participants will also have the space to reflect on colonialism, settler colonialism, and the power of archives in shaping understandings of history, ourselves, and others.

Auto-captions will be provided for this online event.

Gracen Brilmyer (they/them/iel) is a Disabled researcher working at the intersection of disability and archives. They are the director of the Disability Archives Lab, which hosts multi-disciplinary projects that center the politics of disability, how disabled people are affected by archives, and how to imagine archival futures that are centered around disabled desires.