A bunch of big things happened last week: my first article was published I went on my first group ride ever with the Dark Horse Flyers I had my first driving lesson, and drove to work (!) during rush hour (!) on Dupont and Bloor (!) and our article was picked up by The Atlantic‘s […]
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My first article!
My first peer-reviewed academic article is out, and it’s open-access for everyone to read!!! Little Free Libraries®: Interrogating the impact of the branded book exchange In this article, we critique the phenomenon of Little Free Libraries® (LFL®), the non-profit organization dedicated to sharing books with one’s neighbours. Through our engagement with the discourses, narratives and […]
Deciding when to put yourself out there
Quietly, incrementally, I’ve been sharing things I wrote over the last few years – the experimental outtakes of my first attempt at writing about landscape, an entirely serious paper on records management in sci-fi, the thesis I didn’t want to acknowledge for the better part of two years. I’m happy to be releasing things on […]
Records management in the 24th century
Whoa, it’s been a while since I posted. Hi! This past semester I started my journey to becoming an “actual archivist” (instead of just someone who Has Naive but Big Questions About Archives). I learned (mostly) traditional archival theories in a class I wanted to like more, and dipped my toe into records management in […]
Spring has not really sprung
It is cold in Toronto. I bought the bike of my dreams in March and want to be on it all the time but it’s not ideal, as I’m lacking some critical cold-weather gear. Today was the quietest day of the year in the library, in that lovely intersession period where one could theoretically cartwheel […]