Join the New England Archivists for a free reading group event on Thursday November 7th from 1:00-2:00pm ET. We will be joined by author Sophie Penniman to discuss the article “Variegated Order: Making Space for Neurodiverse Perspectives in Archives” from the Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies. Attendees are invited to join in an open discussion of the article, where they can hear more from Penniman, pose questions to the group, and consider how the issues raised in the article reflect or inform their own work.
Register for the event here. The article can be downloaded for free at this link.
The article discusses how neurodivergent records creators and their recordkeeping behaviors often don’t fit within traditional archival paradigms which center verbal, written, and linear documents in specific organizational systems. The article brings together sources from disability studies, feminist and gender studies, library studies, literary analysis, and archival scholarship to imagine ways in which the principle of provenance could be expanded to fit the archives of neurodiverse creators (and archives that resist wholeness and completeness more broadly).
Publishing in the Archives Profession 