Recorded Session: “Silent Spaces & Reimagined Places:” Using Collective Imagination to Address the Challenges in Preserving and Interpreting Histories of Race, Gender, and Sexuality

Session Description

“Silent Spaces & Reimagined Places:” Using Collective Imagination to Address the Challenges in Preserving and Interpreting Histories of Race, Gender, and Sexuality is a Recorded Live Session of the 2021 AASLH Online Conference.

This session seeks to challenge the ways in which women and LGBTQ+ individuals’ histories have been neglected in grand narratives of interpretation and particularly how sites and other cultural resources associated with these communities have lacked preservation and protection.

Speakers

Chair: Carlie N. Todd PhD Candidate at University of South Carolina
Carlie N. Todd is a fourth-year doctoral candidate in US history at the University of South Carolina (USC) focusing on the fields of US Intelligence History, Women and Gender Studies, and Public History. She recently graduated the Public History program at USC with a concentration in historic preservation and their MA thesis examined the cultural perceptions and depictions of women’s bodies and sexuality through film, particularly African American women in 1970s Blaxploitation films like Foxy Brown and Cleopatra Jones, which is currently being published in the Journal of Popular Culture. Over the past few years, she has written several state and federal reports as well as National Register of Historic Places nominations. Carlie recently presented her work on virtual reality and historic preservation at the 2020 National Council on Public History Conference – being one of five recipients nationally of their Student Travel Award. In June of this year, she presented their MA thesis work at the Popular Culture Association (PCA) / American Culture Association (ACA) Conference and won the William E. Brigman Award for Outstanding graduate paper presented at their conference.
Twitter: @CarlieTodd2

Sara Makeba Daise Cultural History Interpreter
As a Cultural History Interpreter, and Beaufort, SC native, Sara’s (she/her/hers) writing and presentations connect past, present, and future in accessible, healing, and liberating ways. Her research and praxis include Gullah Geechee women, Womanism, Black Feminism, Afrofuturism, sexual freedom, queerness, South Carolina, the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, the Black Belt South, Slavery, Reconstruction, Black affirmations, and the power to imagine and manifest better worlds. Sara’s professional history includes The Charles Joyner Institute for Gullah Geechee & African Diaspora Studies at Coastal Carolina University, McLeod Plantation Historic Site in Charleston, SC, the Slave Dwelling Project, and Digital Archivist for Real Black Grandmothers--an online archive centering the stories of Black Grandmothers throughout the diaspora. Sara is one of the 2018 recipients of the Brian Webb Award for Outstanding MA Thesis in History & Culture from Union Institute & University.
Website: saramakeba.com
Patreon: Patreon.com/saramakeba
Instagram: @saramakeba

RECORDED DATE: October 13, 2021

COST: $5 AASLH Members / $10 Nonmembers / Free for Full Access Annual Meeting attendees w/ Promo Code (email info@aaslh.org)

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Recording Transcript

A transcript is provided with the recording.

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