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Why I Do Family History: how it supports women’s history

Why I Do Family History: how it supports women’s history

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...
Goddess In The Family: uncovering women from generations past

Goddess In The Family: uncovering women from generations past

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...
There’s history in those family photos!

There’s history in those family photos!

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...
War and family history: the long reach of PTSD

War and family history: the long reach of PTSD

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...
Structural Racism in Archives

Structural Racism in Archives

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...

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About Me

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.
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