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As the Midwest regional hub for the ACH (Association for Computers in the Humanities) Conference, we are delighted to host a watch party of the Keynote by K.J. Rawson, Professor of English and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Director of the Humanities Center, Northeastern University, and T-Kay Sangwand, Librarian for Digital Collection Development at the UCLA Digital Library Program. K.J. Rawson works at the intersections of the Digital Humanities and Rhetoric, LGBTQ+, and Feminist Studies. Focusing on archives as key sites of cultural power, he studies the rhetorical work of queer and transgender archival collections in brick-and-mortar and digital spaces. Rawson is founder and director of the Digital Transgender Archive, an award-winning collection of trans-related historical materials, and he chairs the editorial board of the Homosaurus, an LGBTQ+ linked data vocabulary. T-Kay Sangwand is a Certified Archivist, librarian, and DJ who specializes in building preservation partnerships for human rights documentation and cultural heritage materials, particularly in Latin America and the US. In 2017, she was named a Fulbright Specialist in Library and Information Science and in 2018-2019, she was a Fulbright Scholar with Mexico’s Ministry of Culture. She is currently a resident DJ at the LA-based radio station dublab where she hosts her monthly program “The Archive of Feelings.” For more information, please visit the ACH website.