We've thought a lot about how to protect our information through this process when privacy and safety is a concern for many of us.
We're using end-to-end encrypted platforms for storing contact information, planning, scheduling, and file storage.
You have final say over what gets included in the collection. After your interview, you have until May 1st to make changes, additions, and/or redactions.
You'll retain the only files and all other files will be deleted by 12/31/26. Once your interview is transcribed, your audio file will be moved to a flash drive, which will be returned to you with the printed collection at a story shareback event this summer, or by mail. All other files will be destroyed.
No! Because we're using a Creative Commons License, which gives storytellers rights to their oral history as intellectual property, we cannot sell the collection. If you would like a copy, you can contribute as a participant with an oral history interview or art submission. You can also join the organizing effort. If neither of those options are available to you and you would like a copy (and are a still masking, COVID-conscious, or COVID-impacted person in the Greater Teejop area), please contact the project organizers and we can get you a copy!
We're ecstatic that we're able to compensate all our participants, organizers, and community partners! This is possible because of grant from the Morgridge Center for Public Service at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Taylor, a PhD student and instructor, received a course development grant for the class she teachers English 201 (Intermediate Composition). Undergraduates in her class have been learning about Long COVID and disability justice and the oral history process. They're helping us out with interviews and transcription!
While the Creative Commons License will allow the collection to be used by researchers in the future, no one on the organizing team is using the oral histories for research. Taylor's research has to do with community engagement, and so she's writing about her experience participating in coordination of the project as part of her dissertation. Discussion of the project will be based on the process itself and will not reference or identify anyone involved.