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    A Changing Nova Scotia: Margaret Perry’s Film Bureau Archive (1945-1969), A Guide for Social Studies 8
    (2022) Brushwood Rose, Chloë; Demus, Axelle; Supnet, Leslie; Ramsay, Brett
    ABOUT OUR EDUCATIONAL GUIDES SERIES One of the central goals of Archive/Counter-Archive is to increase public engagement with our partner organizations and their collections through an “activation” of archival materials that foregrounds the pressing need to rethink what archives can/might do in the 21st century. In order to achieve this goal, we have developed a series of Educational Guides designed to accompany film and video from A/CA’s Case Studies and facilitate their integration into K-12 and postsecondary classrooms. The guides are easily adaptable to different grades and subjects, and educators are encouraged to use these guides as a starting point to create their own lesson plans. Each guide contains important additional context for the materials featured, including information on key participants, essays and reflections, and synopses of selected works for classroom discussion. The guides also include critical discussion questions oriented toward a range of topics to encourage students and teachers to engage critically with A/CA’s archival materials by making connections between their context of creation and contemporary issues and experiences. Margaret Perry is one of Canada’s most important, most prolific, yet least-known woman filmmakers and early film bureaucrats. Perry’s films are complex artefacts that merit careful and critical reflection. During her 24 years at the helm of the Nova Scotia Film Bureau, Perry oversaw the production and direction of over 50 films. Yet, because not much is known about her work as a filmmaker, Perry’s films have been dismissed, often without being seen, on charges of their “anti-modern” depictions of Nova Scotia. And yet, Perry’s films are significant for their creative depictions of a place and time about which limited film records remain and as a cinematic testament to the career of a trail-blazing and visionary filmmaker. The five downloadable guides listed below reintroduce and critically reframe Margaret Perry and the contribution of her films. They include important contextual information about Perry and her films, a lists of films suggested for classroom viewing, film synopses, and discussion questions oriented toward a range of thematic areas. They also suggest supplementary films and resources to complement the gaps present in Perry’s work. Guide for Social Studies 8 This guide has been specifically designed for use in the Grade 8 Social Studies classroom. However, Margaret Perry’s collection of films would be a rich resource for teaching across the curriculum, in all Intermediate and Secondary grades, in subjects such as Social Studies, History, Geography, Technology Studies, Economics, Civics, and Media Studies.
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    Toronto Living with AIDS Cable Access Video Series (1990-1991), A Guide for Postsecondary Education
    (2022) Brushwood Rose, Chloë; Demus, Axelle; Supnet, Leslie; Ramsay, Brett
    "ABOUT OUR EDUCATIONAL GUIDES SERIES One of the central goals of Archive/Counter-Archive is to increase public engagement with our partner organizations and their collections through an “activation” of archival materials that foregrounds the pressing need to rethink what archives can/might do in the 21st century. In order to achieve this goal, we have developed a series of Educational Guides designed to accompany film and video from A/CA’s Case Studies and facilitate their integration into K-12 and postsecondary classrooms. The guides are easily adaptable to different grades and subjects, and educators are encouraged to use these guides as a starting point to create their own lesson plans. Each guide contains important additional context for the materials featured, including information on key participants, essays and reflections, and synopses of selected works for classroom discussion. The guides also include critical discussion questions oriented toward a range of topics to encourage students and teachers to engage critically with A/CA’s archival materials by making connections between their context of creation and contemporary issues and experiences. Toronto Living With AIDS (TLWA) was a 1990-91 public access cable TV program that provided information about HIV/AIDS directly to affected communities. A series of 30-minute videos were created by artists, activists, and community organizations responding to the AIDS crisis. They drew on ideas and strategies from video and performance art, but also employed innovative methods of communication to meet their community-oriented goals. TLWA was coordinated by Michael Balser and John Greyson in collaboration with numerous artists and community organizations, and was screened on cable access television. This educational guide includes important contextual information for the series as a whole, including information on key participants, a critical reflection on the social, political and media contexts, a glossary and suggested further reading. It also suggests a list of five films from the series for classroom viewing, offering film synopses and discussion questions focused on this list."
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    Beyond the Narrative: Asynchronicity and Fragmentation in Canadian Queer Experimental Film (1990-2000) - A Guide for Postsecondary Education
    (2023) Brushwood Rose, Chloë; Demus, Axelle; Brossat, Gregory
    "ABOUT OUR EDUCATIONAL GUIDES SERIES One of the central goals of Archive/Counter-Archive is to increase public engagement with our partner organizations and their collections through an “activation” of archival materials that foregrounds the pressing need to rethink what archives can/might do in the 21st century. In order to achieve this goal, we have developed a series of Educational Guides designed to accompany film and video from A/CA’s Case Studies and facilitate their integration into K-12 and postsecondary classrooms. About the Guide This guide introduces a selection of queer experimental films and videos curated by Chris Chong Chan Fui. It includes a curatorial essay written by Chong, a list of 4 works suggested for classroom viewing, synopses, and discussion questions oriented toward a range of thematic areas."
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    Cable access queer: revisiting Toronto Living with AIDS (1990-1991)
    (2021) Conrad, Ryan
    Analyzing the Canadian AIDS activist community television series Toronto Living With AIDS provides insight into how this extraordinary program came to be, how it was received by various imagined publics, how it ended, and why revisiting this series is useful for today’s video activists.
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    Anticolonial Platform Studies
    (Duke University Press, 2025-06-01) Lim, Elisha
    Platforms like Amazon, Google, Uber, Apple iOS, and Pinduoduo currently coordinate planetary activity on a massive scale. Critical theorists concerned with labor, education, incarceration, sex, migration, or life on earth must reckon with the global dominance of platforms. Expert insight comes from the twenty‐year‐old field of platform studies, which documents, explains, and tackles the rise of corporate platforms. However, platform studies fails to incorporate the insights of colonial theory. This article opens up an urgent conversation between platform scholars and colonial theorists by offering a primer to the field and then arguing that the East India Company (EIC) fits the definition of a platform. While platforms are theorized as new, neoliberal inventions, this article argues that platforms are a continuation of long‐standing colonial business as usual. The EIC features every characteristic of a platform: a corporation that fostered and facilitated trade within its ecosystem, administering law, collecting taxes, sentencing life and death, and cultivating obedience in order to streamline and stabilize the profits—as well as cultures of radical subversion and resistance. Using the example of the EIC in British Malaya, this article models an anticolonial platform studies that zooms out four hundred years to understand the history behind how modern platform granular classification systems invigorate ethnic conflict, how platform automated ranking systems galvanize identity politics, and how platform grammars always segment populations into exploitable and condemnable differences. The objective of this article is to engage colonial and platform scholars, together, to tackle the crises posed by modern corporate platforms.