Books
Brilmyer, Gracen, and Lydia Tang, eds. Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession. Sacramento: Library Juice Press, 2024.
Refereed Publications
Brilmyer, Gracen Mikus, Veronica L. Denison, Jill K. Sadler, and Tara Brar. “‘There’s Just No Real Way to Win’: Disabled Archivists and Professionalism’s Paradox.” Archivaria, no. 98 (November 1, 2024): 102–35.
Caswell, Michelle, Sumayya Ahmed, Gracen Brilmyer, Marika Cifor, Jennifer Douglas, Jamie Ann Lee, James Lowry, et al. “Envisioning a Paid Community Archives Internship Program: Challenges and Opportunities.” Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, July 11, 2024, e20230032. https://doi.org/10.3138/jelis-2023-0032.
Brilmyer, Gracen, and Crystal Lee. 2023. “‘Terms of Use: Crip Legibility in Information Systems.” First Monday, January. https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v28i1.12935.
Brilmyer, Gracen. 2022. “‘They Weren’t Necessarily Designed with Lived Experiences of Disability in Mind’: The Affect of Archival In/Accessibility and ‘Emotionally Expensive’ Spatial Un/Belonging” Archivaria, December 5, 2022, 120–53. https://archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/13869.
Brilmyer, Gracen. 2022. “Toward a Crip Provenance: Centering Disability in Archives through Its Absence.” Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies 9, no. 1. https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol9/iss1/3.
Brilmyer, Gracen Mikus. 2021. “'I’m also prepared to not find me. It's great when I do, but it doesn't hurt if I don't': crip time and anticipatory erasure for disabled archival users.” Archival Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-021-09372-1.
Brilmyer, Gracen, Michelle Caswell, and Marika Cifor. “Radical Empathy in Archival Practice Poster and Postcards.” Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies 3, no. 2. Accessed May 26, 2021. https://journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jclis/article/view/169.
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Brilmyer, Gracen. 2020. “Towards Sickness: Developing a Critical Disability Archival Methodology.” Journal of Feminist Scholarship 17 (17): 26–45. https://doi.org/10.23860/jfs.2020.17.03.
Brilmyer, Gracen. 2020. “On Language, Scientific Metaphor, and Endocrine Disruption: An Interview with Feminist Scientist Ana Soto.” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 6 (1). https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v6i1.33445.
Brilmyer, Gracen M. “‘It Could Have Been Us in a Different Moment. It Still Is Us in Many Ways’: Community Identification and the Violence of Archival Representation of Disability.” In Sustainable Digital Communities, edited by Anneli Sundqvist, Gerd Berget, Jan Nolin, and Kjell Ivar Skjerdingstad, 480–86. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43687-2_38.
Brilmyer, Gracen, Joyce Gabiola, Jimmy Zavala, Michelle Caswell. “Reciprocal Archival Imaginaries: The shifting boundaries of “community” in community archives.” Archivaria 88 (November 14, 2019): 6–48.
Caswell, Michelle, Joyce Gabiola, Gracen Brilmyer, and Jimmy Zavala. “‘Carry It Forward’: Community-Based Conceptualizations of Accountability.” In Defining a Discipline: Archival Research and Practice in the Twenty-First Century, Essays in Honor of Richard J. Cox, edited by Jeannette A. Bastian and Elizabeth Yakel, 64–77. Chicago, Ill.: Society of American Archivists, 2019..
Tai, Jessica, Michelle Caswell, Joyce Gabiola, Jimmy Zavala, and Gracen Brilmyer. “Summoning the Ghosts: Records as Agents in Community Archives.” Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies 6, no. 1 (June 20, 2019). https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol6/iss1/18.olar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol6/iss1/18.
Brilmyer, Gracen, María Montenegro, and Anne J. Gilliland. “Introduction: [Mis]Representation, [Dis]Memory, & [Re]Figuring the Archival Lens.” InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies 15, no. 2 (2019). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9j13h4zb.
Brilmyer, Gracen. “Archival Assemblages: Applying Disability Studies’ Political/Relational Model to Archival Description.” Archival Science, April 2, 2018, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-018-9287-6.
Caswell, Michelle, Joyce Gabiola, Jimmy Zavala, Gracen Brilmyer, and Marika Cifor. “Imagining Transformative Spaces: The Personal–political Sites of Community Archives.” Archival Science, January 30, 2018, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-018-9286-7.
Michelle Caswell with graphic design by: Brilmyer, Gracen.“Teaching to Dismantle White Supremacy in Archives.” The Library Quarterly 87, no. 3 (June 8, 2017): 222–35. https://doi.org/10.1086/692299.
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Brilmyer, Gracen. “CalBug and Its Search Interface Redesign.” In The Discipline of Organizing, by Robert J. Glushko, 589–93, 3rd ed. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2015.
Bergsten, Johannes, Gracen Brilmyer, Alex Crampton-Platt, and Anders Nilsson. “Sympatry and Colour Variation Disguised Well-Differentiated Sister Species: Suphrodytes Revised with Integrative Taxonomy Including 5 Kbp of Housekeeping Genes (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) (PDF Download Available).” DNA Barcodes 1 (November 2012): 1–18. doi:10.2478/dna-2012-0001.
Gonzáles, Jorge, James H. Boone, Gracen Brilmyer, and Daniel Lee. “Computerization of the Field Museum of Natural History Giant Butterfly Moth Collection (Castniidae).” News of the Lepidopterists’ Society 38, no. 2 (2010): 72–73.
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Boone, James H., Gracen Brilmyer, and Michael Kippenhan. “Computerization of the Field Museum of Natural History Tiger Beetle Collection.” Cicindela 40, no. 4 (2008): 69–70.
Non-Refereed Publications & Book Reviews
Brilmyer, Gracen. “Review of Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability by Aimi Hamraie.” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 5, no. 2 (2019).
Brilmyer, Gracen. “Accessible Spaces: A Fragrance-Free Toolkit.” UCLA Center for the Study of Women, January 2019.
Brilmyer, Gracen. “Why Disability Studies for Archives?” UCLA Center for the Study of Women, July 2018.
Brilmyer, Gracen and Alexandra M. Apolloni. “Creating Accessible Campuses Through Fragrance-Free Policies.” 2017, no. 24 (May 1, 2017). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/32z6p6cj.