Gracen Brilmyer

Gracen Brilmyer (they/them) is a Disabled researcher working at the intersection of feminist disability studies and archival studies. Their work investigates the erasure of disabled people in archives primarily within the history of natural history museums and colonial histories as well as how disabled people experience themselves in archival material. They are an assistant professor at McGill University’s School of Information Studies and the director of the Disability Archives Lab, which hosts multi-disciplinary projects that center the politics of disability, how disabled people are affected by archives, and how to imagine archival futures that are centered around disabled desires. Their writing on disability history, archival methodologies, and the history of science has been featured in publications such as The Journal of Feminist Scholarship, First Monday, and Archival Science. For more: gracenbrilmyer.com