AVIVA SILVERMAN



NYC

WORKSHOP WITH ARCHIVISTS ROUNDTABLE
FACILITATOR, JUNE 2024

Developed in collaboration with ART, METRO, and The Feminist Institute, this workshop explores the ethics of digitizing personal materials and conducting oral histories. The workshop is grounded in feminist ethics of care and examines collaborative, community-centered approaches like reciprocal ethnography and participatory cataloging.

As Facilitator, I co-led the workshop alongside Allison Elliott, drawing on my work with the NYC Trans Oral History Project to guide participants through hands-on exercises on consent, access, and healing-justice-centered interviewing, building an ethical framework for grassroots, trauma-informed archival work.

Learn more about the workshop here.