I'm co-organising this event and facilitating the zine workshop bit at Manchester Metropolitan Uni with the Digital Society Research Group. 20th May, 11-4, free, open to students and anyone interested!

More info here: digitalpoliticsmanmet.bloggi.co/digital-harms-…
Booking here:
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Popping back from the non-Twitter world to ask - where's the zine fest related ephemera hiding in archives? Looking for stuff relating to UK zine fests only, any recs?

Applications now open for a fully funded PhD on 'Exploring the Importance of Provenance in Oral History Collections'. An AHRC CDP with us and UCL (Andrew F and Hannah O'Smyth). Please RT and share with anyone who might be interested in applying!

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✨Masked event with air filters in Manchester, UK.

There’s also a masked zine workshop on the 3rd Monday of every month, run by everything for everyone. Same place.

plus size babes of Manchester and its environs! come join me and Kirsty Fife for a fully masked all genders fat positive extravaganza of free fashion 😷👚👗🧣🧥👜

On Saturday, I'm organising another plus size clothes swap in Manchester, with everything for everyone! Find out more info via Insta (fatswapstop), or Facebook here facebook.com/events/1512714…. And retweets always help get the word out, ta.

I'll be speaking at the University of Sheffield Information School's research seminar on the 14th March at 12pm. Find out more info here:

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Join us for the online book launch of Punk, Ageing and Time on 17.04.2024 3.30pm New edited collection with Matt Grimes and featuring chapters by Ellen M. Bernhard Dr Ashley Morgan Kirsty Fife and others. Please contact me for the Teams meeting link.

Archives workers, please make a list of your work achievements and look back over it every so often! We work in a field full of never-ending backlog which can lead to a sense of futility, but we do great work and we should remind ourselves of that! This is mine from 2021 🌼 🌸

Back on my organising on Sunday! Come out to Mirage Queer Bar between 3-7 for a fat positive clothes swap. 16/L+, all genders, bring clothes you don't want and swap 'em for some you do!

For more info follow @fatswapstop on Insta or RSVP on Facebook here: facebook.com/events/8329226…

Really welcome this useful guidance which demystifies and reconfirms how libraries are curated to share ideas and provide access to knowledge whilst mitigating hate speech or censorship - a good library is a growing organism constantly curated, selected and added to!

*insert joke about over evaluation in the heritage sector here* #ara2023

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Lots of inclusion-focused chats today at #ara2023 and neatly, some training videos I developed for ARA on equality, equity, diversity and inclusion in archives launched recently archives.org.uk/embedding-eedi

(Free and good for an introduction if working in the sector!)

Me listening about UCL’s widening participation access course (and frantically texting Hannah Louise Henthorn 🐈 about how that weird survey we did continues to have impact): 😭😭😭😭 #ara2023

I'll be at ARA's conference for the first time in FIVE YEARS this week! Come say hi and laugh while I try and recognise archivists I haven't met in person in a long time.

Finally redrew the self portrait I've been recycling in every workshop slide deck forever (I do not like attempting to draw my tattoos)

The new workforce mapping survey report from CILIP and ARA - little progress in terms of some of the issues before, but also really interested in how much money and socioeconomic background surfaces in barriers cdn.ymaws.com/www.cilip.org.…