Fighting Invisibility: Exploring Barriers to Representation through Student-Made Zines
Lightning Talk | Friday, May 19th, 2023 | 12:00pm – 1:00pm EST
Purdue University’s Asian American Studies Librarian, in collaboration with campus partners, developed library instructional programming in response to anti-Asian violence stemming from the racialization of the COVID-19 pandemic, which continues a long history of treating those of Asian heritage living in the United States as “perpetual foreigners.” This programming will issue in a digital exhibition, beginning in the Spring 2023 semester, featuring zines created by Purdue student groups. This presentation will explore how the creation of this digital exhibition functions as an argument in support of modes of information exchange that (1) privilege and are built upon the assumption of the intersectionality of student identities, (2) treat narrative forms of representation as authoritative, and (3) challenge essentialist representations of those of Asian heritage living in the United States by situating these representations in relation to the historical specificities of student life on Purdue’s campus.
[This talk will be recorded live.]
Jerilyn Tinio is an Assistant Professor of Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies. She holds an MS in library and information science and an MA in history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She also holds a PhD in philosophy from The Ohio State University and an MA in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research interests include information history and critical information literacy.