Rebecka Sheffield is an archivist,scholar,and policy advisor. She is a Senior Policy Advisor of the Archives of Ontario and teaches information science in American and Canadian universities.
Sheffield is a scholar in archival science. She is the author of Documenting Rebellions:A Study of Four Lesbian and Gay Archives in Queer Times,which discusses the relationship between archives and social movements within the LGBTQ2+ community.[6] She has also worked as a public advocate about the preservation of queer cultural history in Toronto.[7][8]
Intellectual contribution
Rebecka Sheffield's archival contributions focuses on community archives,and historical and cultural heritage movements in LGBTQ2+ communities.[7]
Sheffield is the lead of an archival and artistic project The Bedside Table Archives,which documents objects found on the bedside tables of lesbian and queer women.[9] The project focuses on the home as a space for identity construction while questioning the heteronormativity of such spaces.
She has also published Documenting rebellions:A Study of Four Lesbian and Gay Archives in Queer Times,which focuses on four institutions that preserve the records of queer folk.
Publications
Documenting rebellions :A study of four lesbian and gay archives in queer times. Litwin Books,2020.[10]
"Archival Optimism,or,How to Sustain a Community Archives." Community Archives,Community Spaces:Heritage,Memory and Identity. Facet Publishing,2020.[11]
"Community Archives." Currents of Archival Thinking,2nd Edition. 2017.:351–376.[12]
"Take Me Away to Another World ." Any Other Way:How Toronto Got Queer. Toronto:CoachHouse Press,2017.[13]
"Privacy,Context &Pride:The Management of Digital Photographs in a Queer Archives." Queers Online:LGBT Digital Practices in Libraries,Archives,and Museums. Litwin Books,2015.[14]
"The Bedside Table Archives:Archive Intervention and Lesbian Intimate Domestic Culture." Radical History Review,n°120 (2014):108–120.[15]
1 2 Micaleff, Shawn (3 July 2015). "Taking pride in preserving Toronto's queer culture: Collection began 40 years ago with the files of the activist Body Politic newspaper". The Toronto Star. p.L2. ProQuest1692907136.
↑ Leong, Melissa (19 Feb 2011). "Queer & far; As many in the community move elsewhere, the Gay Village works to develop a new identity". The National Post. p.TO 01. ProQuest853016993.
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