Archivist's Alley

I love Christina Ward. And I love the work she does.

I am lucky enough to know some really brilliant and wonderful women. Christina? She is absolutely top shelf.

As an author, she does outrageously cool writing on food and food history. Canning and food preservation? She's got you. The relationship between food, cults and class? Read her work. It will blow your mind.

Christina also has another gig: she is one of the primary folks at a publishing company known as Feral House. Around since 1989, FH has certainly courted controversy, being one of the very first publishers to release texts on such taboo subjects as black metal, punk, death culture, conspiracies and cults. But FH does not center itself on shock; it works on examining outsider perspectives and the work that Christina and the team there do is vital to our thorough understanding of the world.

I invite you to listen to my conversation with Christina Ward in which we discuss all these things and more. The books and writing that they platform place them solidly against misogyny, colonialism, capitalism and classism, making them an incredibly valuable publisher in this day and age.

While this episode was recorded over a year ago, it remains as relevant now as it ever will. I am honored to welcome the brilliant and wonderful Professor Shelley Stamp to Archivist's Alley. A former professor of mine at UC Santa Cruz, she has been a major inspiration and certainly one of my mentors. Please join us as we discuss the intricacies of silent film restoration, the history of women in film, media access and much more!

Please welcome my amazing guest, Korea-based human rights journalist, Raphael Rashid. You want to listen to this episode. It is HOT. Queer issues, feminist issues, refugee discussions, contemporary Korean politics, KPOP cyberbullying...we cover it all. Don't miss it!

Short update about life in the last year or so, my unplanned hiatus and discussion about how the podcast will move forward.

Welcome to Season 5! And...the 4th year Archivist's Alley has been "on the air"! I'm so thrilled to have my friend Walter Chaw- writer, teacher and respected film professional- on the show for this episode. We talk about everything from Hugh Hefner's preservation work & the non-existence of "cancel culture" to considering the rise of both Asian representation in media and anti-Asian hate crimes. Oh, also? We're just not into Jared Leto. Join us!

Please join me in welcoming the AMAZING Candace Ming to Archivist's Alley. Join us for a really valuable and illuminating discussion on issues of access, the "ownership" of images and the critical necessity of having boundaries in your work/life schedule. There's so much more- home movies, weird film collectors and AMIA fun- so listen now!

Please join me as I talk with the incredible Ferrin Evans about queer loss and memory work, trauma and the process of preservation and marginalized identity in what is still an uncomfortably rich straight, white and male field.

Back with another great Archivist's Alley episode and another WONDERFUL archivist!

Please join me in my conversation with the wonderful Shannon Devlin as we talk about physical materials, emotional attachments to projects, meeting lovely people in our careers and more. Bonus: you get to hear me geek out about TV commercials while Shannon laughs at my nerdiness!

This episode features the wonderful Miranda Barnewall. We spoke on many things but I believe that the route that she's taking is one that will revolutionize the way the archives/information studies field interacts with its staff and employers. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I enjoyed recording it. Miranda is a really important woman with many critically important observations and experiences. Thanks again!

Claire & I recorded this podcast in May before she officially graduated and before the COVID landscape went to The Really Extra Bad Place that it seems to be at now. I delayed the ep due to the critical nature of the discussion of the Black Lives Matter issues that needed to be handled but I feel that what Claire and I spoke about is still incredibly relevant and her points on the internships she had and the possibilities of rehabilitation of our field post-COVID are solid and worth considering. Claire is an amazing and valuable member of the archival world & I am so pleased to be able to have had her on the show twice now!