Join MIT's Department of Distinctive Collections along with Women@MIT Fellows Jamie McGhee and Luce Capco Lincoln to learn about their exciting work using archives and technology to create projects that contribute to greater understanding of the history of women at MIT and in the history of STEM.

Jamie McGhee, Athena's Archive
Athena's Archive is an interactive hypertext novel that asks, "What was it like to be a woman at MIT in the 1980s?" and lets readers decide the answer. McGhee is a novelist and historian. Her books include You Mean It or You Don’t: James Baldwin’s Radical Challenge (with Dr. Hollowell of Duke University) and What I Must Tell the World: The Story of Lorraine Hansberry (with director Lena Waithe). McGhee’s work has been supported by Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Zürich University of the Arts. She lives in Berlin, where she instructs graduate students at Humboldt Universität.

Luce Capco Lincoln, Counteracting the Limitations
Counteracting the Limitations is a short film that explores the brave spaces and solutions used by women and marginalized groups to combat institutional barriers in academia and STEM. Lincoln is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker, artist and cultural worker born in Gainesville, FL. Lincoln’s artwork and films transverse time, connecting historical stories to the present day to imagine the future. These works take form as personal documentaries, collaborative experimental films and multi-media installations. Currently, Lincoln is directing/producing a feature documentary, Autobiography of a Scientist (working title), about their mother who attended MIT in the 1960s. Lincoln is co-founder of an intergenerational worker-owned media cooperative, Shadow Work Media, and an art curatorial project, Tala Arts. Lincoln studied film and video at Antioch College and holds an MFA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University.

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