Re-imagining a Community: Our Third Place is an in-person zine workshop that aims to highlight 2SLGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and disabled artists and scholars.
The purpose of this event is to hold a zine workshop and develop a collection that centers the experiences of our students at the Faculty of Information (iSchool). Zines provide spaces for equity-seeking community stories that were originally excluded from traditional publishing and academia. We intend to challenge ourselves to think about ownership and the ways we can progress away from traditional archive, library, and collection practices. With this we hope to achieve and provide the following:
- Collect diverse student voices surrounding their identities and experiences with information and museum studies
- Prepare students to learn and imagine new ways of creating information, community collections, and disseminating important stories while reflecting on their futures as professionals
- Create a safe space for marginalized voices to be heard through collaboration
This event will be moderated by Lenora Huỳnh (MI Candidate, Faculty of Information: Archives and Records Management, University of Toronto). This event is part of the EDIU Fellowship Program and presented by the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Unit at University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information.
About the facilitator:
Keith Cheng (he/him) is our in-person zine facilitator for the Re-Imagining a Community: Our Third Place workshop, which seeks to highlight 2SLGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and disabled artists and scholars at the iSchool. Keith is currently an MA student in Adult Education & Community Development at the University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE).
Involved in many positions of advocacy, Keith works as a Communications Coordinator at Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, a Communications Assistant at International Partnership for Queer Youth Resilience (INQYR), is a Graduate Research Assistant at Mishritata Lab, and is a Project Manager at the Black Digital Humanities Lab
Event Details:
Target Audience: Open to all students
Date: December 14, 2023
Time: 3pm to 5pm
Location: Claude T. Bissell Building Learning Hub (4th Floor, Room BL404) on 140 St George Street
All supplies, light refreshments, and snacks will be provided.
There will be a raffle for registered participants to win exciting prizes!
Please register here.
