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Report - Architecting Sustainable Futures at Five Years (ASF@5): A Celebration, Assessment, and Agenda Setting Convening for Community-Based Archives. medium.com/community-arch…

Sharing our latest work on decentralized storage. From Field Building to Technical Infrastructure: Growing Support for Community-Based Archives @Zakiya.collier/1048995e2892" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@Zakiya.collie…

Many thanks to everyone who was able to join us in New Orleans earlier this month for Architecting Sustainable Futures at Five (ASF@5). A gathering designed to celebrate and continue advocating for a strong future for community-based archives. shiftcollective.us/asf5

Over the past 15 years, SAADA has grown from a modest digital repository to a powerhouse of South Asian American narratives. SAADA is an organization on the rise, and we need your support to lift our community to the next level! 🏗️ Join us at saada.org/donate

Some Historypin research currently happening at Shift Collective: Modeling Sustainable Futures: Exploring Decentralized Digital Storage for Community-Based Archives shiftcollective.us/ffdw

Towards Sustenance by @SAADAonline medium.com/community-arch…

Black in Appalachia: A Community Archive Centering the Black Experience in the Mountain South. By Alona Norwood. medium.com/community-arch…

SAADA is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to sharing and preserving the stories of South Asian American communities across the United States. mellon.org/grant-story/sa…

To Lae'l Hughes-Watkins, archivist at the University of Maryland, building archives is as much about building relationships as it is about collecting information. on.mellon.org/3MOoQQN

Looking forward to Mariame Kaba joining us @ at the University of Maryland on Nov. 2 to discuss how archivists, librarians, and memory workers can serve as allies to student activists, create liberating spaces and preserve their stories of justice and liberation.

“You say you’re giving more dollars to BIPOC newsrooms? Well, you’re actually giving to intermediaries who are filtering down those dollars to BIPOC newsrooms. But they’re not filtering down enough.” niemanlab.org/2023/09/these-…

Community-based archiving as a practice of honoring: The Warrior Women Project and the Honoring the Women of Wounded Knee Exhibit medium.com/community-arch…

"The answers to many of our current issues can be found in our histories. That’s why the people who hate and fear us don’t want us to have access to them. Our stories, our lives, our existence is powerful." @iHPSouth medium.com/community-arch…

We are hosting the five year anniversary of Architecting Sustainable Futures in New Orleans, November 7th-9th, 2023, so we're inviting community-based archives to share some of their work. Many thanks to @iHPSouth and Maigen Sullivan. medium.com/community-arch…

“The archive, then, is not simply a catalog; it’s a battleground for the truth.” teenvogue.com/story/republic…

As we prepare to host the five year anniversary of Architecting Sustainable Futures in New Orleans, November 7th-9th, 2023, we're inviting community-based archives to share about some of their work. Many thanks to @SFLegacy for this contribution. medium.com/community-arch…

She's trying to archive Black Twitter. It's a delicate and imperfect task npr.org/2023/05/26/117…

DocNow aims to provide a social media archiving model to serve the needs of archivists, researchers, and memory workers. mellon.org/grant-story/do…

My dear friend @gabe_solis (@txafterviolence) and I reflected on the past decade of postcustodial archival praxis in service of human rights collections for the #ItemNotFound conference. Our convo is now on the Sustainable Futures blog: medium.com/community-arch… ty @BergisJules!