Amplifying 300+ years of resistance in the archives, preserving records of today's acts of resistance
Reflections
On my visit to Temple’s Special Collections Research Center, I was hoping to find evidence of Indonesian immigration to Philadelphia in the Nationalities Services Center (NSC) archives, but instead I found the immigration stories of our colonizers.
This whole …
Of “Spectral Infrastructure”
I’ve been pondering a couple of ideas about the limitations of archives that were sparked by two recent webinars. The first of these provocations occurred back in April 2021 when I tuned in to a symposium organized …
Janus is the Roman God / Deity of New Beginning and Transitions, thus on the Gregorian calendar, the year begins in January. For enslaved Black Americans, January 1st, New Year’s Day, was known as “Heartbreak Day” or “Hiring Day.” On …
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Looking into the archives, I continually had to steel myself about what I may find or may not find.
I went to the Temple Special Collections Research Center in the new Charles Library on Temple University’s campus to look …
A spider sure knows how to ensnare the unexpected in its web.
A friend received from her sister a discarded library book titled Illustrated Tap Rhythms And Routines by Edith Ballwebber, an Assistant Professor of Physical Education teaching at the …
been thinking about my love/hate relationship with libraries: a lifelong thing.
my youngblood love of libraries is well-documented in this poem “vines” that i wrote for the opening of the new logan branch of the free library of philadelphia in …