On the road again...sort of. Photo by the incomparable Donald Andrew Agarrat, 2005.
Wow. Okay, so it’s been a moment since I’ve actually blogged, mainly because I’ve been busier than the White House fucking up the world.
Tomorrow I will be in Minneapolis for ALMS GLBT, an international conference for professionals from GLBT archives, libraries, museums and special collections. Presented by the University of Minnesota Libraries, the Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies, and Quatrefoil Library GLBT ALMS 2006 is the first formal world conference for professionals and anyone involved with GLBT archives, libraries, museums and special collections, and collectors of GLBT materials. Led by experts from the field (like me) the conference will explore a range of current professional topics, including: cataloging GLBT collections; fundraising for GLBT collections; censorship and sexually-explicit material; integrating GLBT collections into the classroom; preservation issues; and working with the media. I’m sitting on a panel called “Diversity Issues in LGBT Archives and Special Collections,” and I’ll be talking about the Black Gay and Lesbian Archive, among other issues facing LGBT archival institutions in general. The panel was created by Yolanda Retter Vargus PhD, UCLA Chicano Studies Library and Special Collections LGBTI Archives/Special Collections Diversity Project (California), and features Daniel Tsang Asian American studies et al. bibliographer, University of California, Irvine (California) and Kim Clarke Assistant Librarian, Wilson Information Reference and Instructional Services, University of Minnesota Libraries (Minnesota). I’m pumped. Gotta lotta stuff to share and things to learn. Geeky times for me.
I also get a chance to catch up with the lovely Roderick Ferguson, author of Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique, who teaches at the University of Minnesota. He’s a kick in the pants.
Back in town Saturday to prepare for art in harlem: star struck. Also very exited about that. So many stars! Food, fun and frolic! For more information about the show, email David Eric Foany at info@artinharlem.org. Hope to see you there.
Memorial Day Weekend the better half and me head to Washington DC for DC Black Pride to sell books for Vintage Entity Press, to attend a board meeting for Fire and Ink: A Writer’s Festival for LGBT People of African Descent; to read from Funny and possibly new stuff; and to eat, laugh,and hang out with folks who I normally see once a year. Should be a blast.
I’s gotta good life.
Wednesday, May 17, 2006 @ 09:45 AM