Summary:

In this episode, I welcome Kadeem Dunn, a video game creator at Diaspora Games. Kadeem joins us to speak about his work recreating memory through historical video games.

Episode Resources:

Diaspora Games. Games for us, by us. https://www.diasporagames.ca/index.html

Channon Oyeniran (February 8, 2019). Sleeping Car Porters in Canada. Canadian Encyclopedia. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sleeping-car-porters-in-canada

Black Memory Collective [@black.memory.co]. Instagram post. What is a memory worker? Retrieved from, https://www.instagram.com/p/C5QiZnJg4qm/?img_index=1

Tonia Sutherland (2023). Resurrecting The Black Body: Race and The Digital Afterlife. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520383876/resurrecting-the-black-body

Replika https://replika.com/

Hirun Cryer (May 17, 2024). Who is Assassin's Creed Shadows' protagonist Yasuke? The history behind the first Black Samurai explained. Games Radar. https://www.gamesradar.com/games/assassin-s-creed/who-is-assassins-creed-shadows-protagonist-yasuke-the-history-behind-the-first-black-samurai-explained/

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Summary:

In this episode, I welcome Michaëlle Sergile, an artist and independent curator completing an artist residency with McCord Stewart Museum. Michaëlle joins us to speak about her artistic practice of capturing and rewriting historical memory through textiles.

Episode Resources:

Artworks. Michaëlle Sergile. Retrieved May 10, 2024, from https://en.michaellesergile.com/oeuvres

Michaëlle Sergile. [@michaellesergile]. Instagram profile. Retrieved from, https://www.instagram.com/michaellesergile/

Archival Alchemy. Joyce LeeAnn Joseph. Retrieved May 10, 2024, from https://archivalalchemy.com/

Cheryl Thompson (2019). Black Canada and Why The Archival Logic of Memory Needs Reform. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/ateliers/2019-v14-n2-ateliers05462/1071133ar.pdf

Saidiya Hartman (2008). Venus in two acts. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/241115

Fantz Fanon (1952). Black Skin, White Masks. https://groveatlantic.com/book/black-skin-white-masks/

McCord Steward Museum (2019). The Notman Photographic Archives on Unesco’s Canada Memory of The World Register. https://www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca/en/blog/notman-archives-unesco/

Black Memory Collective [@black.memory.co]. Instagram post. What is a memory worker? Retrieved from, https://www.instagram.com/p/C5QiZnJg4qm/?img_index=1

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If you enjoyed listening to this podcast you can follow, rate, and share it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon.

To learn more about my work, visit my blog at ⁠https://melissajnelson.com⁠. You can connect with me on ⁠LinkedIn⁠, ⁠Instagram⁠, and ⁠Twitter⁠ or contact me at melissa.j.nelson@outlook.com.

Summary:

In this episode, I welcome Dr. Meredith D. Clark, Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University. Meredith joins us to speak about her project Archiving Black Twitter, which seeks to empower Black Twitter users to create their own “small histories” from their data.

Episode Resources:

Juana Summers, Sarah Handel, Jonaki Mehta (May 26, 2023). She's trying to archive Black Twitter. It's a delicate and imperfect task. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2023/05/26/1178262041/archiving-black-twitter-elon-musk-meredith-clark

Archiving Black Twitter (n.d.). Meredith D. Clarke, PhD. Retrieved January 2, 2024, from https://www.meredithdclark.com/archivingblacktwitter

Archiving the Black Web (2021). https://www.archivingtheblackweb.org

Donovan X. Ramsey (April 10, 2015). The Truth About Black Twitter. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/04/the-truth-about-black-twitter/390120/

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