About Me...

I am a queer/crip/aging cat-lady lesbrarian living in Western Massachusetts with my partner Shepherd Tsosie and our five beloved cats. I work as University Archivist at UMASS Amherst in the W.E.B. Du Bois Library (and home to his papers). I am nervously excited about the forthcoming publication of a book about Tattoos as Personal Archives, which I helped to create with my dear mentor, Terry Baxter, and many brilliant archivists and librarians. I was trained as an archivist and librarian at the University of British Columbia, and have spent nearly two decades of doing "professional" history and memory work in government archives, academic libraries, and museums, though I have always searched for wisdom in old papers. I am a cancer survivor and live with a permanent ostomy, and find home among queer crip visionaries and writers. I dream of archives and libraries of the future as liberatory spaces, and am excited to work in community with folks with the same vision.