<div dir="ltr"><p class="gmail-p1" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 15px;line-height:30px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:chaparral-pro,Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:20px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">"Tracy Drake</span></span><span class="gmail-s2" style="box-sizing:border-box">, Reed’s director of special collections and archives, and </span><span class="gmail-s1" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Monique Queen ’22</span></span><span class="gmail-s2" style="box-sizing:border-box">, Reed student and psychology major,</span> <span class="gmail-s2" style="box-sizing:border-box">were searching through archive after archive with no luck. Posters, official administrative papers, </span><span class="gmail-s1" style="box-sizing:border-box"><i style="box-sizing:border-box">Quest</i></span><span class="gmail-s2" style="box-sizing:border-box"> articles, pamphlets. In a building storied for its repositories of knowledge relevant and esoteric, they were inundated with important dates, names, and figures from Reed’s past. But the Eric V. Hauser Memorial Library wouldn’t deliver what Drake and Queen were seeking: pictures of students of color.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing:border-box"> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 15px;line-height:30px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:chaparral-pro,Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:20px">The elusive photographs raised an important question: How do institutions like Reed record and construct their histories? What material makes the cut? Will our experiences as individuals passing through these institutions be included?<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing:border-box"> "</span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 15px;line-height:30px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:chaparral-pro,Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:20px"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing:border-box"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 15px;line-height:30px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:chaparral-pro,Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:20px"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing:border-box">You can read the rest <a href="https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/articles/2022/democratized-archives-tracy-drake.html">here</a>.</span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 15px;line-height:30px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:chaparral-pro,Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:20px"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing:border-box"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 15px;line-height:30px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:chaparral-pro,Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:20px"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing:border-box">Max</span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#ffffff">-</font></div><span style="color:rgb(120,63,4)">Max Macias </span><a href="https://www.name-coach.com/max-macias" style="font-family:"open sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:1.538em;background-color:transparent;border-radius:0px;color:rgb(136,91,192);outline:0px!important" target="_blank"><img alt="A button with "Hear my name" text for name playback in email signature" src="https://www.name-coach.com/images/emailsig/email-sig.jpeg" style="border-radius:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:middle;margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:15px"></a></div><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-size:12.8px">Pronouns: | He, Him, His/They |</b></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)"><b>Strengths:</b> Input, Ideation, Context, Connectedness, Intellection</span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div><font face="arial black, sans-serif">Social media is mind control.  </font></div><div><br></div>The ideas expressed in these emails in no way represent any organization's viewpoints, or opinions.  The opinions, ideas and reflections are my own personal intellectual property.<br><div><br><br>Publishing<br></div><div><a href="http://lowriderlibrarian.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Lowrider Librarian</a></div><div><a href="https://www.librarianswithspines.com/" target="_blank">Librarians With Spines </a><br></div></div></div></div>