scott does scotland: travel adventures

This week I delved into Box 19 of the Vancouver Status of Women collection – this is a hefty box of newspaper clippings from the late 1970s and early 1980s. There were a few things inside that seemed particularly interesting/relevant to me; these newspaper articles relate to Shaunna Moore & Susan Pell’s “Autonomous archives” as well as the introductions by Lisa Darms and Kate Eichhorn on their “Radical Archives” movement. In general, I think Darms sums up the intrigue of archives focusing specifically on women. She says that “the covert function of an…read more

I would use this blog space to write about Derrida, but I’m still not sure I understand what he was talking about. I am the first to admit that philosophical readings scare me (still! Even after Arts One!), so lucky for me the reading this week was much more accessible. I won’t give anything else away for fear of ruining the amazing presentation Nicole and I will give on Tuesday … stay tuned 🙂 Back to last week, when I was in the archives looking through Box 54 of the Toni…read more