Axelle Demus

Axelle Demus

@axelledemus.bsky.social

Postdoctoral fellow in Community Archives and Accessibility at McGill U & Research Associate at Archive/Counter-Archive, York U. Ph.D. Communication and Culture, York University. 🔎cable access histories; a/v and community archives; pedagogy.

106 Followers 98 Following 12 Posts Joined Nov 2024
2 months ago
Rewind: The Roots of Public Media This series features scholars of media history looking back at both familiar and lesser-known chapters in public broadcasting’s evolution. “Rewind” is presented in partnership with the Radio Preservat...

I curate the history series at public media's trade journal Current. We're looking for pieces on the history of NPR, PBS and its affiliates, with some space to imagine public media's future. We accept academic articles repurposed for wide readership. Plus, we pay. Please circulate!

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6 months ago

I guess he forgot he guest starred in The L Word, ahem.

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7 months ago
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Experimental Archives Conference - Kingston University, Uk Come explore the innovative and boundary-pushing world of experimental archives at Kingston University on 11th and 12th September 2025!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/experiment...

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8 months ago

From @internetarchive.eu: "Internet Archive Europe proudly announces the launch of Our Future Memory, a global campaign dedicated to safeguarding the digital rights of libraries, archives, and museums worldwide." www.internetarchive.eu/protecting-t...

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8 months ago
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Act Up Goes Shopping YouTube video by Media Burn Archive

ACT UP Goes Shopping!

Judith Binder follows ACT UP activists to the Sherman Oaks Galleria, where they pass out pamphlets about safe sex and HIV/AIDS, and condoms, until security kicks them out.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UteQ...

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9 months ago
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Just arrived at #ACA2025

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10 months ago

I worked on this educational guide for the last little while, and I highly recommend it! Excellent programming and curatorial work.

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10 months ago

Really looking forward to this!

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11 months ago

Cool job alert(s)!

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11 months ago

Forgot to post about this new publication! If you don’t have institutional access and want to read it, feel free to message me for a copy.

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11 months ago

Thank you for sharing! 🤍

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1 year ago

“…no amount of posting or passive info consumption is going to substitute the hard, unsexy work of organizing”

I would argue that sick & disabled folks have used social media to organize and mobilize. Some of us can’t protest in the streets or meet in person but we made a difference

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1 year ago
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Call for Spring Exhibit Participants – The ArQuives Kinship isn’t just about blood—it’s about the ties that sustain us, especially when the world [...]

🇨🇦 Call for participants! Do you identify as Canadian, trans*, and part of the Asian diaspora? Share your stories and be featured in an upcoming exhibition at The ArQuives!

arquives.ca/call-for-spr...

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1 year ago

Hi, I am @motherjones.com' disability reporter. In the following weeks, I am very interested in hearing how tariff nonsense impacts getting your meds and medical equipment. My email to get in touch is jmetraux@motherjones.com. Reposts appreciated.

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1 year ago
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🎥🎥 Prof. Giovanna Fossati presents “New Approaches to Audiovisual Heritage" on April 24 from 3 - 5pm, Innis College Room 222E, University of Toronto. Join us! More details: www.cinema.utoronto.ca/events/giova... 🎥🎥

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1 year ago
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(TL;DR - write a chapter for our edited volume! Abstracts due by 1 Feb 2025. Full draft due 1 Sept 2025.)

We are editing a volume, The Relationships of Description: Experiencing the Power & Politics of Language, under contract with Routledge.
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1 year ago

Excited to be talking about my Postdoc work!

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1 year ago
N95 Masks are Available at all Los Angeles Public Library Locations

All Los Angeles Public Library locations are providing free N95 masks. Libraries are essential!

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1 year ago
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🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁

We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

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1 year ago

Forever wishing I lived in the Star Trek universe where earth is a socialist utopia

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1 year ago
ALT text copied and pasted from the linked website: An infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, colour, and interesting features. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.”

Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...

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1 year ago

Very proud and excited to be part of this wonderful initiative. And, of course, to be working alongside the brilliant @gracenbrilz.bsky.social !

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1 year ago
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International Videoletters: Feminists’ Hope and Our Own Self-Grown Media International Videoletters (1975–1977) was a groundbreaking feminist media network that connected communities across cities through grassroots video exchanges. Looking back on her involvement with the...

Issue 9.4 continues with the latest in our From the Archive series. Ariel Dougherty looks back on her work with International Videoletters (1975–1977), a groundbreaking feminist media network that connected communities across cities through grassroots video exchanges. wp.me/p6zYkX-3Dv

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1 year ago
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Wonderful panel on HIV, video, and the archive yesterday // Bad photograph. Congratulations to John Greyson and Sarah Flicker for putting on another amazing edition of Viral Interventions!

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1 year ago
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National Film Board of Canada Discover our collection of films by Indigenous filmmakers, from Alanis Obomsawin to Gil Cardinal.

Hey! Did you all know that you can watch tons of indigenous cinema here on the National Film Board of Canada's website? Well, you can, and I thought I'd share just a few of my favorites today for... reasons.

www.nfb.ca/indigenous-c...

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1 year ago

I will be talking about disclosure and visibility as political pedagogy in Bruce Glawson’s 16mm educational film: Michael, A Gay Son (1980), which was broadcast on TVOntario!

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1 year ago
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Happy to announce I’ll be going to SCMS this year! Presenting alongside the wonderful Lauren Herold (Kenyon College), Tamara de Szegheo Lang & Dan Vena (Queen’s U) and Jada Gannon-Day (University of Victoria/Trans Media Lab).

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