I had a great time leading a virtual archival accessibility workshop with staff at The London Archives this morning. It's always interesting hosting workshops internationally because it gives you a sense of the similarities and differences versus here in Canada.

@synoptiquejournal.bsky.social just published its special issue on "Teaching Media Archives." Included is my article "Supporting the 36%: A Teaching Guide on Student Mental Health in Media Archival Education." Mental health awareness is crucial for those in archival managerial and educator roles.

Currently accepting virtual bookings for my archive and museum accessibility workshops from November-March. Inperson will begin again in the spring. Spots are filling up quickly.

Sitting in Heathrow waiting for my morning flight home. I had a great time here in the UK presenting at ARA @araukie.bsky.social and hosting workshops with the Imperial War Museum and the Wellcome Collection @wellcomecollection.bsky.social. I hope to make it back again at some point in 2026!

I had a great archival accessibility talk today. Unfortunately, the organizers received an email complaint about the use of “disabled” vs “person with a disability” in my bio. I feel bad that they were put in an uncomfortable position but were wonderful about it.

In 1905, Boston area doctor Dr. Walter G Chase filmed multiple people experiencing tonic-clonic seizures in a pretty inhumane way. These were individuals who were living at the Craig Colony for Epileptics in upstate New York at the time.

ACA is coming up fast. I am pulling triple duty this year.

The Sound and Moving Images Special Interest Section (S.M.I.S.I.S.) will be hosting a casual drop-in session on June 9th.

I had a great time yesterday with Association of Canadian Archivists hosting my Accessibility Strategies for a more Inclusive Canadian Archive workshop. It sold out in two days so I am setting time aside to host a couple more of my general archival accessibility workshops.

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I have unfortunately cancelled my upcoming SCMS 2025 conference presentation that was set for this April in Chicago. As I am Canadian I will likely not be travelling to the US for the foreseeable future.

People were asking about the release date of Preserving Disability during the AMIA Publishing panel. Turns out that it's today. Included is my chapter ""But Don't Those Cause You Seizures!?" Epilepsy Activism through Film Archiving."

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Excited that I will present at SCMS on the need for a global audiovisual archival disability network! #SCMS2025

Looking to host more archival accessibility workshops this winter if anyone is interested. I've hosted them previously with broadcast archives, government archives, universities, and professional organizations. Based on my own lived experience in the field with epilepsy and my dissertation work.

Since this is a new network I also wanted to share that we are still looking for submissions for a special upcoming issue of The Moving Image that is dedicated to Accessibility in Moving Image Archives. The submission deadline is November 30th.

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Excited to announce my first published book chapter titled "Splicing Back against the Censors: How Archive/ Counter-Archive Saved the Ontario Board of Censors’ Film Censorship Records from Destruction" comes out in just over a week!

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