archives, Family History, history, memory, Oral History, Uncategorized, Women, women's history
Women love my work. When I talk, their eyes light up and they lean in. My real passion, my mission in life and on this planet, is women’s history: gathering, growing, saving, and sharing it. But as women, we mostly have been raised in cultures that valued...
archives, Family History, Uncategorized, Women, women's history
[ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY THE BLESSINGS BUTTERFLY] I love goddess imagery. I’m getting to be a big girl and I have started to really tap into the power of that imagery and correlate it to my new size. I say I’m big and strong and I won’t blow away in the wind! I’m...
Family History, history, memory, photography, women's history
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY BORN TO RISE. When I was working as an academic archivist, a state Endangered Species Committee contacted me to review some family camping photos that we held. Somehow they’d gotten wind of a photographed, dated sighting “in the wild” of some...
archives, Family History, history, memory, Oral History, Uncategorized
Veteran’s Day is the perfect day to talk about war and family history. My grandfather helped win the war, became a US citizen, and had a large healthy family. But the granular details around these successes rather undo them. “I’ll kill you, you...
archives, black history, Family History, history, lgbtq history, Racism, women's history
Understanding Structural Racism in Making History. You can intervene. American history forgets — it has a solid way of weeding out victories and progress achieved by non-dominant groups. A chain of historical events built structures that disallow diversity in...
I spent 18 years as “archivist and senior research scholar” at an academic science library, actively trying to add women to the historical record and looking for the women who were already included almost accidentally. I have degrees in women’s history and cultural theory — the latter means that I see the cultural value of everyday practices such as food, clothing, hobbies, and domestic arrangements. Non-famous people matter.