Archives In Rainbow

 On Monday, May, 5th, our colleagues of the SAA Privacy and Confidentiality Section (SAA-PCS) hosted a panel discussion titled Protecting the Privacy of Trans People in Archives . For an hour and a half, we enjoyed the explanations and insights of three archivists who are experts on this topic. While archivists have long followed ethical best practices for protecting individual privacy, the profession lacks specific guidelines that address the unique and complex privacy vulnerabilities of trans individuals. The panel discussion was focused on offering and sharing insights and practices to help address this situation. The first one was Lara Wilson . She is Director of Special Collections and University Archivist at the University of Victoria (UVic), British Columbia. UVic has the world's first Chair in Transgender Studies, launched in 2016.   Lara began by reading a letter of solidarity and collaboration from the President of the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA) regard...

 March is Women's History Month. Archives In Rainbow (AIR) closes March celebrating the Mazer Lesbian Archives. In this way AIR concludes a triptych consisting of three posts dedicated to feminist, lesbian and women archives after celebrating the 50 years of the Lesbian Herstory Archives in AIR#06, and the 90th anniversary of Audre Lorde and her archival legacy in AIR#07. The June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives was founded in 1981 in Oakland, California, by Lynn Fonfa, Claire Potter, Cherrie Cox and others as the West Coast Lesbian Collections (WCLC). In 1985 the archives moved to West Hollywood, Southern California, in collaboration with activist and researcher Jean Conger and Connexxus Women's Center / Centro de Mujeres of West Hollyood. The WCLC was settled at the home of June L. Mazer and her partner Nancy "Bunny" MacCulloch, members of the South California Women for Understanding (SCWU), in Altadena, California. After Mazer passed away prematurely in 1987, the WCLC to...