Emma Awe

phd candidate public history @CU_History | queer racialized feminist zines, media, & art | they/them

[Emma Awe @emma_awe]

Passed comps! Yay!! I’m now a PhD candidate ✨ and as part of my exam I submitted a zine! I’d been zine-making my way through the whole 9 month process & it made comps personal, fun, and engaging. Check it out here if ya like: https://t.co/OXW0KTc0Pa

[Emma Awe @emma_awe]

@Steven__Maynard Thanks so much @Steven__Maynard !Still contemplating your great question :)

[Emma Awe @emma_awe]

what an absolute pleasure presenting with everyone this morning! :) so happy to share some of the fun & rad queer punk zines I’ve been pouring over !!

[Jennifer Evans @JenniferVEvans]

Some light in the darkness: listening to the next generation of queer/trans history at the hands of these up and coming scholars, part of Queer History Month Canada #2SQHMCan

On queer punk zines, passing during the Holocaust, and colonial fantasy between liberation and fascism

[Queer History Month Canada @2SQHMCan]

@JenniferVEvans will chair a discussion organized by students from @Carleton_U and @queensu

"New Directions in Queer History"

You do not want to miss this!

October 19, 2023, 10.00 AM ET
https://t.co/vPjtZ2Mi4N

#2SQHMCan #queerhistory #queer #2SLGBTQIA

[Emma Awe @emma_awe]

@MerleIngenfeld @2SQHMCan @JenniferVEvans @Carleton_U @queensu Thanks Merle!! :)

[Emma Awe @emma_awe]

yay!!!! 🎉 huge congrats @valeriekaiyang on this incredible story!

[Valerie Kaiyang Wood (she/elle) @valeriekaiyang]

Vee in Between is finally here! I've been working on this book since 2019, but I've been waiting to tell this story my whole life. https://t.co/vzgrKILAZQ

[Emma Awe @emma_awe]

Our panel at #NCPH2023 was the product of so many thoughtful & vulnerable conversations with @valeriekaiyang and @alexalepera!!! It’s been great meeting other public history folks and hearing about their amazing work! 💓

[Emma Awe @emma_awe]

@PaolaMedGonz @JenniferVEvans @Miss_HVA love your zines 😍 and would be so happy to chat more!! thanks @JenniferVEvans for the connection!

[PressProgress @pressprogress]

Carleton University is paying undercover private investigators to conduct covert surveillance on students and instructors on picket lines.

Contract instructors and TAs are on strike against “exploitative” wages at @Carleton_U.

https://t.co/13a9WUL24q #ottnews #canlab

[Rise Up Feminist Digital Archive @RiseUpArchive]

More on feminist publishing! This is an excerpt from a call for contributions by Sister Vision Press. Established in 1985 by Makeda Silvera and her partner, Stephanie Martin, Sister Vision was the first publisher in Canada devoted to publishing Black women + women of colour.

[Tom Hooper @thomashooper]

Back in 2018 I joined gay and lesbian historians Steven Maynard, Gary Kinsman, and Patrizia Gentile in demanding changes to the expungement bill.

Our latest update:

[Dominique Marshall she/her @Dominiq92516944]

Now #underhill2023 travels across #PublicHistory formats & audiences with 3 PhD projects: @librarylandia's comics💥+@rebeccafriend2's anti-childism🚸+ @emma_awe's queering, zines & creation 🧵| @ctrpublichist @ncph @shcyhome @CLGBTH @histchild @CLPN_ac @CHAgradstudents @lugthecam

[Anne Pasek @aepasek]

#DIYMethods, our zine-based-conference-by-mail about experimental research methods, is back! Proposals are due April 15th. Last year we distributed 1 kg of zines to 90 some participants. Maybe this year it will include you? https://t.co/1GI6G6ueSN

[Emma Awe @emma_awe]

Excited to co-edit this @ActiveHist series with @KrenareRecaj ! Feel free to reach out for more info/ if you’d be interested in submitting. Welcoming your creative, personal, and unconventional experiences with comps!

[KrenareRecaj @KrenareRecaj]

Are you a PhD student in history who has recently finished (survived) comps? Do you have feelings about it? Whether good, bad, proud or blah! I am co-editing a series of reflections on the comps process with @emma_awe for @ActiveHist . Small payment for contributing. Contact me!

[Emma Awe @emma_awe]

@scottcoleman79 @electricarchaeo @FotiniKondyli @ProfWalsh2003 @S_Tudor Congrats Scott!!!! 🤩

[Emma Awe @emma_awe]

@KrenareRecaj Congrats!!! ✨

[MacOdrum Library @CarletonLibrary]

On October 14, the Book Arts Lab will host a Public event featuring the artists' work and offering a hands-on printmaking experience.

Join local printmakers, Shealagh Pope, Madeleine Rousseau, and Beth Shepherd as well as master printer, Larry Thompson at the Book Arts Lab!

[Emma Awe @emma_awe]

Visited @IngeniumCa yesterday, toured by @SEJaworski! It was amazing — got to check out some incredible printing artifacts! Fun research things about alternative media are now brewing!!! 👀

[Emma Awe @emma_awe]

@HawcoVictoria @scottcoleman79 suggested Obsidian and I love it!! Highly recommend !

[Jennifer Evans @JenniferVEvans]

Adding to the 'must read' list: the new @tsqjournal special issue on "Trans Exclusionary Feminisms and the Global New Right."

https://t.co/ioBGeju2d8