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archivistic · 2 months ago

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(please excuse this petty complaining) I tried to read Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives but I got so annoyed by the author's "dusty archives" bullshit and half-assed ~research~ that I couldn't make it past the 2nd chapter even though I love lesbians, memoirs, and archives!!! I was so annoyed that I learned how to use the annotate feature in my kindle specifically to complain about the line "I don’t have a history degree, but I do have lived experience, and that should make me just as qualified as the scholars who have come before me" like... BUDDY. Historians have a job??? That they get trained to do??? It is not just ... reading people's letters???????

#also apparently she's a book publicist #but didn't understand how public domain works *extreme sideye*#I wanted to show her how to use interlibrary loan #she genuinely reminded me of all the undergrad history non-majors I met with at my old job #who were bemused that not everything was on the internet #and just wanted to tumblr post instead of writing papers #sure not all librarians and archivists are great but like #try to find a queer one to talk to maybe?

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