Co-producing Digital Archives with 2LGBTQ+ Atlantic Canadian Youth amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

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dc.contributor.authorBurkholder, Casey
dc.contributor.authorMacEntee, Katie
dc.contributor.authorMandrona, April
dc.contributor.authorThorpe, Amelia
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-02T23:44:31Z
dc.date.available2023-03-02T23:44:31Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractPurpose: We explore the co-production of a digital archive with 50 2SLGBTQ+ youth across Atlantic Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to catalyze broader public participation in understanding 2SLGBTQ+ youth-led activism in this place and time through art production. Design/methodology/approach: Through a mail-based participatory visual research project, and an examination of collage, zines, and DIY facemasks, we highlight how the production, sharing, and archiving of youth-produced art adds to methodological discussions of exhibiting and digital archiving with 2SLGBTQ+ youth as a form of activist intervention. Findings: In reflexively examining the co-curation of our art through social media and project website, we argue that co-producing digital archives is an important part of knowledge mobilization. Also, we consider how the work has been interacted with by a broader public, so far in an exclusively celebratory manner, and note the benefits and challenges of this type of engagement to the youth and to our understandings of 2SLGBTQ+ youth archives. Originality: We suggest that these modes of engaging in participatory visual research at a distance offers original contributions in relation to how participation can be understood in a digital and mail-based project. We see participant-control of how to share our works within our digital archives as a contribution to our understanding of people’s capacity to negotiate and take ownership of these spaces. These strategies are participant-centred and suggest ways that archiving can be made more accessible especially when working with communities who are socially marginalized or otherwise excluded from the archival process.
dc.description.copyrightThe version of record is available at https://doi.org/10.1108/QRJ-01-2021-0003. The full citation is as follows: Burkholder, C., MacEntee, K., Mandrona, A., Thorpe, A. and Pride/Swell, P. (2021), "Coproducing digital archives with 2SLGBTQ+ Atlantic Canadian youth amidst the COVID-19 pandemic", Qualitative Research Journal, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/QRJ-01-2021-0003
dc.identifier.urihttps://unbscholar.lib.unb.ca/handle/1882/22437
dc.identifier.urlhttps://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/QRJ-01-2021-0003/full/html
dc.publisherEmerald Publishing Limited
dc.relation.hasversion10.1108/QRJ-01-2021-0003
dc.rightshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
dc.subject.disciplineEducation
dc.titleCo-producing Digital Archives with 2LGBTQ+ Atlantic Canadian Youth amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
dc.typejournal article
oaire.citation.titleQualitative Research Journal

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