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Our blog features interviews with notable feminists, scholars, and memory projects alongside personal archiving resources and deep dives into our partnerships.

Marie Williams Chant, Allison Elliott

Memories of our Pop-Up Memory Lab

Read more about our first-ever TFI Teaches: Pop-Up Memory Lab and download our zines!

Sep 6, 2023

VCR, remote, and C-VHS tape

Marie Williams Chant

TFI Teaches — Digitizing Videotapes

For many years, audiovisual archivists have been ringing the alarm about the magnetic media crisis and the potential loss of valuable historical documentation held on obsolete media formats. This includes personal home movies filmed on the first widely available camcorders from the 1980s and 1990s, meaning even tapes stored in the most environmentally ideal conditions will become unwatchable in the coming years.

May 26, 2023

Marie Williams Chant

TFI Teaches — Digitizing Documents and Photographs

In anticipation of our upcoming Pop-up Memory Lab at Pen and Brush we are providing digitization tutorials from our staff.

May 9, 2023

Allison Elliott

What is a Feminist Archive?

Learn more about what makes an archive feminist.

Dec 14, 2022

Personal Digital Archiving: Storage

Maintaining and migrating your digital collections

Sep 8, 2020

The Feminist Institute

Personal Digital Archiving: Metadata

Data about data makes the world go ‘round

Aug 31, 2020

The Feminist Institute

Personal Digital Archiving: Organizing

Making your digital assets easy to find

Aug 24, 2020

The Feminist Institute

Personal Digital Archiving: Digitization

Scanning for long-term posterity

Jul 27, 2020

The Feminist Institute

Personal Digital Archiving: Identify

Assessing what files to maintain over time

Jul 13, 2020

The Feminist Institute

Introduction to Personal Digital Archiving

Organizing your digital life one file at a time.

Jun 29, 2020