Axelle Demus
@axelledemus.bsky.social
Postdoctoral fellow in Community Archives and Accessibility at McGill U & Research Associate at Archive/Counter-Archive, York U.
Ph.D. Communication and Culture, York University.
🔎cable access histories; a/v and community archives; pedagogy.
Ph.D. Communication and Culture, York University.
🔎cable access histories; a/v and community archives; pedagogy.
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I curate the history series at public media's journal Current. We're looking for pieces on the history of NPR & PBS, educational, community, and affiliate stations. We accept academic articles repurposed for wide readership. Plus, we pay. Please circulate! current.org/series/rewind/
August 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I curate the history series at public media's journal Current. We're looking for pieces on the history of NPR & PBS, educational, community, and affiliate stations. We accept academic articles repurposed for wide readership. Plus, we pay. Please circulate! current.org/series/rewind/
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From @internetarchive.eu: "Internet Archive Europe proudly announces the launch of Our Future Memory, a global campaign dedicated to safeguarding the digital rights of libraries, archives, and museums worldwide." www.internetarchive.eu/protecting-t...
www.internetarchive.eu
July 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
From @internetarchive.eu: "Internet Archive Europe proudly announces the launch of Our Future Memory, a global campaign dedicated to safeguarding the digital rights of libraries, archives, and museums worldwide." www.internetarchive.eu/protecting-t...
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ACT UP Goes Shopping!
Judith Binder follows ACT UP activists to the Sherman Oaks Galleria, where they pass out pamphlets about safe sex and HIV/AIDS, and condoms, until security kicks them out.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UteQ...
Judith Binder follows ACT UP activists to the Sherman Oaks Galleria, where they pass out pamphlets about safe sex and HIV/AIDS, and condoms, until security kicks them out.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UteQ...
Act Up Goes Shopping
YouTube video by Media Burn Archive
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July 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
ACT UP Goes Shopping!
Judith Binder follows ACT UP activists to the Sherman Oaks Galleria, where they pass out pamphlets about safe sex and HIV/AIDS, and condoms, until security kicks them out.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UteQ...
Judith Binder follows ACT UP activists to the Sherman Oaks Galleria, where they pass out pamphlets about safe sex and HIV/AIDS, and condoms, until security kicks them out.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UteQ...
I worked on this educational guide for the last little while, and I highly recommend it! Excellent programming and curatorial work.
We are proud to announce the new Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV) educational guide by Archive/Counter-Archive. Now available on VUCAVU.com, vucavu.com/en/a-ca/educ...!
Find out more here: counterarchive.ca/new-groupe-i...
@givideo.bsky.social, @vucavu.bsky.social
Find out more here: counterarchive.ca/new-groupe-i...
@givideo.bsky.social, @vucavu.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I worked on this educational guide for the last little while, and I highly recommend it! Excellent programming and curatorial work.
Really looking forward to this!
See you Thursday! If you can’t come in person, we’re streaming the talk here: vimeo.com/event/489713...
April 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Really looking forward to this!
Cool job alert(s)!
Disability Culture Lab is hiring! We're looking to fill two roles: Communications Associate and Program Manager. Join our fight to shift the narrative on disability from fear and pity to solidarity and liberation. We encourage you to apply by April 14. (Image Credit: Disabled and Here)
April 7, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Cool job alert(s)!
Forgot to post about this new publication! If you don’t have institutional access and want to read it, feel free to message me for a copy.
read a great article this morning by @axelledemus.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
HARNESSING CABLE ACCESS TELEVISION AS a TECHNOLOGY OF CARE AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION: THUNDER GAY MAGAZINE’S HIV/AIDS PROGRAMMING (1987–1991)
This article explores the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s through the lens of an LGBTQ2+ community television program aired in Northwestern Ontario, Canada: Thunder Gay Magazine (1987–1991)....
www.tandfonline.com
April 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Forgot to post about this new publication! If you don’t have institutional access and want to read it, feel free to message me for a copy.
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“…no amount of posting or passive info consumption is going to substitute the hard, unsexy work of organizing”
I would argue that sick & disabled folks have used social media to organize and mobilize. Some of us can’t protest in the streets or meet in person but we made a difference
I would argue that sick & disabled folks have used social media to organize and mobilize. Some of us can’t protest in the streets or meet in person but we made a difference
i wrote something about This Place for @404media.co. please read it, and then log off. 💗
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
www.404media.co
February 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“…no amount of posting or passive info consumption is going to substitute the hard, unsexy work of organizing”
I would argue that sick & disabled folks have used social media to organize and mobilize. Some of us can’t protest in the streets or meet in person but we made a difference
I would argue that sick & disabled folks have used social media to organize and mobilize. Some of us can’t protest in the streets or meet in person but we made a difference
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🇨🇦 Call for participants! Do you identify as Canadian, trans*, and part of the Asian diaspora? Share your stories and be featured in an upcoming exhibition at The ArQuives!
arquives.ca/call-for-spr...
arquives.ca/call-for-spr...
Call for Spring Exhibit Participants – The ArQuives
Kinship isn’t just about blood—it’s about the ties that sustain us, especially when the world [...]
arquives.ca
February 6, 2025 at 10:18 AM
🇨🇦 Call for participants! Do you identify as Canadian, trans*, and part of the Asian diaspora? Share your stories and be featured in an upcoming exhibition at The ArQuives!
arquives.ca/call-for-spr...
arquives.ca/call-for-spr...
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Hi, I am @motherjones.com' disability reporter. In the following weeks, I am very interested in hearing how tariff nonsense impacts getting your meds and medical equipment. My email to get in touch is jmetraux@motherjones.com. Reposts appreciated.
February 2, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Hi, I am @motherjones.com' disability reporter. In the following weeks, I am very interested in hearing how tariff nonsense impacts getting your meds and medical equipment. My email to get in touch is jmetraux@motherjones.com. Reposts appreciated.
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🎥🎥 Prof. Giovanna Fossati presents “New Approaches to Audiovisual Heritage" on April 24 from 3 - 5pm, Innis College Room 222E, University of Toronto. Join us! More details: www.cinema.utoronto.ca/events/giova... 🎥🎥
January 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
🎥🎥 Prof. Giovanna Fossati presents “New Approaches to Audiovisual Heritage" on April 24 from 3 - 5pm, Innis College Room 222E, University of Toronto. Join us! More details: www.cinema.utoronto.ca/events/giova... 🎥🎥
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(TL;DR - write a chapter for our edited volume! Abstracts due by 1 Feb 2025. Full draft due 1 Sept 2025.)
We are editing a volume, The Relationships of Description: Experiencing the Power & Politics of Language, under contract with Routledge.
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We are editing a volume, The Relationships of Description: Experiencing the Power & Politics of Language, under contract with Routledge.
nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
January 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
(TL;DR - write a chapter for our edited volume! Abstracts due by 1 Feb 2025. Full draft due 1 Sept 2025.)
We are editing a volume, The Relationships of Description: Experiencing the Power & Politics of Language, under contract with Routledge.
nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
We are editing a volume, The Relationships of Description: Experiencing the Power & Politics of Language, under contract with Routledge.
nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Excited to be talking about my Postdoc work!
We're kicking off the new semester with another edition of our Working Paper Series on January 23rd, 4:30pm EST on Zoom. We'll be hosting a postdoc roundtable featuring presentations and discussions from four speakers: Erika Biddle, Ylenia Olibet, Mikhel Proulx, and @axelledemus.bsky.social
January 15, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Excited to be talking about my Postdoc work!
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All Los Angeles Public Library locations are providing free N95 masks. Libraries are essential!
January 14, 2025 at 2:57 AM
All Los Angeles Public Library locations are providing free N95 masks. Libraries are essential!
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🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
January 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
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Forever wishing I lived in the Star Trek universe where earth is a socialist utopia
January 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Forever wishing I lived in the Star Trek universe where earth is a socialist utopia
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Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...
April 19, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...
Very proud and excited to be part of this wonderful initiative. And, of course, to be working alongside the brilliant @gracenbrilz.bsky.social !
Gracen Brilmyer, Assistant Professor at McGill's SIS, leads a new internship program to promote minority inclusion in archival studies. Students document diverse histories in Montreal's community archives, enhancing field representation.
Read more: mcgill.ca/x/wH5
Read more: mcgill.ca/x/wH5
Grant will advance minority inclusion in archival studies - McGill Reporter
Gracen Brilmyer will use $520,000 from Mellon Foundation to fund an internship program at community archives, where marginalized communities document their own histories
mcgill.ca
December 19, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Very proud and excited to be part of this wonderful initiative. And, of course, to be working alongside the brilliant @gracenbrilz.bsky.social !
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Issue 9.4 continues with the latest in our From the Archive series. Ariel Dougherty looks back on her work with International Videoletters (1975–1977), a groundbreaking feminist media network that connected communities across cities through grassroots video exchanges. wp.me/p6zYkX-3Dv
International Videoletters: Feminists’ Hope and Our Own Self-Grown Media
International Videoletters (1975–1977) was a groundbreaking feminist media network that connected communities across cities through grassroots video exchanges. Looking back on her involvement with the...
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December 2, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Issue 9.4 continues with the latest in our From the Archive series. Ariel Dougherty looks back on her work with International Videoletters (1975–1977), a groundbreaking feminist media network that connected communities across cities through grassroots video exchanges. wp.me/p6zYkX-3Dv
Wonderful panel on HIV, video, and the archive yesterday // Bad photograph. Congratulations to John Greyson and Sarah Flicker for putting on another amazing edition of Viral Interventions!
November 30, 2024 at 7:42 PM
Wonderful panel on HIV, video, and the archive yesterday // Bad photograph. Congratulations to John Greyson and Sarah Flicker for putting on another amazing edition of Viral Interventions!
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Hey! Did you all know that you can watch tons of indigenous cinema here on the National Film Board of Canada's website? Well, you can, and I thought I'd share just a few of my favorites today for... reasons.
www.nfb.ca/indigenous-c...
www.nfb.ca/indigenous-c...
National Film Board of Canada
Discover our collection of films by Indigenous filmmakers, from Alanis Obomsawin to Gil Cardinal.
www.nfb.ca
November 28, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Hey! Did you all know that you can watch tons of indigenous cinema here on the National Film Board of Canada's website? Well, you can, and I thought I'd share just a few of my favorites today for... reasons.
www.nfb.ca/indigenous-c...
www.nfb.ca/indigenous-c...
Happy to announce I’ll be going to SCMS this year! Presenting alongside the wonderful Lauren Herold (Kenyon College), Tamara de Szegheo Lang & Dan Vena (Queen’s U) and Jada Gannon-Day (University of Victoria/Trans Media Lab).
November 27, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Happy to announce I’ll be going to SCMS this year! Presenting alongside the wonderful Lauren Herold (Kenyon College), Tamara de Szegheo Lang & Dan Vena (Queen’s U) and Jada Gannon-Day (University of Victoria/Trans Media Lab).