M Clark

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I intend to work to reframe the narratives surrounding existing materials and the communities that they involve, especially those regarding women or queer individuals. It is difficult to see the erasure of certain cultures or individual identities when I as the archivist have the access to documents that prove such narratives' existence. Archives should do the work to highlight cultural differences and the beauty in individuality, as opposed to what has been seen so often in the past, the assimilation or total erasure of documents within a collection. I intend to work only in a field where libraries and archives are able to provide access to information and history as it stands, and to help aid the intense miseducation that surrounds identities of controversy through the building of informative and corrective exhibits, diversified and equal-value acquisitions processes, and broader revised collection processes. ​