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In The Direction of Freedom

I think I finally found what I was looking for. The answers are in Mariame Kaba’s new book We Do This ’Til We Free Us.

7 min readMar 9, 2021

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In The Direction of Freedom

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Jarrett M. Drake

A Vision of (In)Justice: Harvard Archives Bear a Strange Fruit

Below is an op-ed I submitted to the Harvard Crimson, which intended to publish it but later walked back that decision. For transparency’s…

5 min readMay 24, 2019

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A Vision of (In)Justice: Harvard Archives Bear a Strange Fruit

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Sustainable Futures

‘Graveyards of Exclusion:’ Archives, Prisons, and the Bounds of Belonging

On February 9, 2019, I gave the keynote address at the annual Scholar and Feminist Conference organized by the esteemed Barnard Center for…

23 min readMar 24, 2019

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‘Graveyards of Exclusion:’ Archives, Prisons, and the Bounds of Belonging

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Sustainable Futures

Seismic Shifts: On Archival Fact and Fictions

Next month I will travel to New Orleans, LA, for the symposium Architecting Sustainable Futures: Exploring Funding Models in…

8 min readAug 20, 2018

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Seismic Shifts: On Archival Fact and Fictions

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On Archivy

Qualified Citizens: The Most from the Least

Below is the text of a talk I delivered on October 18, 2017, in Philadelphia, PA, at the event Monument Lab Live #2: Hidden Histories and…

8 min readOct 24, 2017

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Qualified Citizens: The Most from the Least

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On Archivy

In Defense of Offense

Below is the text of a talk I delivered on a panel that formed part of the 75th Anniversary Symposium for Harvard University’s Houghton…

6 min readOct 6, 2017

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In Defense of Offense

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On Archivy

I’m Leaving the Archival Profession: It’s Better This Way

My last day as a professional archivist will come just three days before the 4-year anniversary when I interviewed for my job as…

6 min readJun 26, 2017

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Jarrett M. Drake

An Open Letter to StoryCorps Leadership: Love Your Labor

June 21, 2017

5 min readJun 21, 2017

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Jarrett M. Drake

Ten Crack Commandments for Inviting Speakers to Things

I am writing this post against my better judgment but I am writing it anyway because it needs writing. It also needs reading, and I hope…

5 min readApr 28, 2017

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Ten Crack Commandments for Inviting Speakers to Things

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On Archivy

How Libraries Can Trump the Trend to Make America Hate Again

I delivered this talk on a panel at the 2017 meeting of the British Columbia Library Association, which took place on April 20, 2017, in…

11 min readApr 24, 2017

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How Libraries Can Trump the Trend to Make America Hate Again

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Jarrett M. Drake

Jarrett M. Drake

organizing for and through abolition | fighting for the caring community | son of the sands | est. :: occupied Potawatomi lands

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