Recently I wrote a blog article about the engagement of the Australian GLAM sector with the #BlackLivesMatter movement and Indigenous activism. The blog article called for Australian memory institutions to shift from retroactive to proactive […]
Connecting people working with Indigenous knowledge sources in Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums
Category: Blog Posts
#BlackLivesMatter and archives in australia
The escalating unrest in the US sparked by the death of George Floyd at the hands of police has drawn the whole world into a conversation about racism, human rights, police violence and the #BlackLivesMatter […]
Looking up to research ethics
Please Note: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that the website to which the following story refers may contain images, voices or names of deceased persons in photographs and printed material. I […]
Working with Records of Trauma: A Reflection
Kirsten and Cassie recently published an article in the Los Angeles Archivists Collective magazine about our experiences while working with the New South Wales Aboriginal Trust Fund Repayment Scheme from 2005–2011. The article Aboriginal Histories in […]
Reflecting on Designing the Archive ASA-ICA 2019 conference
After lunch on day two of this conference, I was going to the session delivered by the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre (KALACC). I noticed on my way past another room, that the screen […]
Right of Reply Symposium Issues Paper
The Indigenous Archives Collective has prepared a brief Issues Paper in the lead up to the Right of Reply Symposium. The Issues Paper aims to provide prompts for the afternoon’s roundtable discussions. See the paper […]
Right of Reply – Indigenous Rights in Data and Collections Symposium
Bookings now available This one-day symposium will focus on the importance of Indigenous rights in data and collections & the importance of the Right of Reply in relation to Indigenous self-determination and national truth-telling efforts. The right of reply is becoming increasingly important for […]
My Cultural Competency Journey / An Italian perspective of working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collections and services in GLAM
My cultural competency journey started in 2010, when I moved from Italy to Australia to study and work in the field of First Nations physical and digital archives[1]. At that time, I had just completed […]
‘Archival Consent’, Affirmative Consent and Free, Prior and Informed Consent
In the Los Angeles Archivists Collective article ‘Archival Consent‘, Julie Botnick raises issues of ownership, consent, and agency in relation to institutionally held collections and collection-based decisions. She suggests revising traditional power structures that favour […]
Curatorial Activism by Maura Reilly
US author, curator and arts writer Maura Reilly’s ‘Curatorial activism: towards an ethics of curating’ explores the deeply entrenched white privilege and whitewashed forces at play in the art world. Its main arguments, however, can […]
