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Just as long as you don’t want to do anything about race, gender, equity or diversity. It is heartbreaking that an actual humanities funder would precapitulate to the fascist dictatorship. What are the humanities for if not to teach us how to RESIST!?

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I joined more than 350 LGBTQIA+ historians in signing this letter protesting the government attempt to erase trans people from history by censoring the Stonewall National Monument website. Erasing a word does not erase our existence--now or in the past. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Just four of us in my usually packed pilates class this morning - half term is like the rapture for young mothers

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Forbidden fruit snack

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Important win for LGBTQ+ people & allies. Never stop fighting for equality, dignity & respect at work. The scattergun approach of harassing LGBTQ+ people & allies in work and public life has its roots in fascism and marginalisation of minorities. www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/breakin... [1/2]

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

I don't think I'll ever get used to small talk here that goes right from "is that an American accent?" to "let me tell you an anecdote about 9/11"

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Can't help but to image if we had social media during the American slave trade. Similar coverage I'm imagining.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

All maps are wrong, some are useful. Do your part in defying the top-down orthodoxy of map making and create your own geographies!

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Do people not hear themselves when they parrot the paternalistic rhetoric that global south museums can't care for repatriated objects?

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

"Conversations" at Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool is a MUST SEE and it closes 9 March so don't miss it. The exhibit showcases works by 40 contemporary British Black women and nonbinary artists, curated by Sumuyya Khader.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Yes! We do this in children's museums - we create opportunities for adults to model behavior. It's inspiring to see a grown-up you care about express wonder, awe, and curiosity.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Because I received a grant from the NEH in the past, I have been asked to serve as a panelist in reviewing applications this year. Here is the email I sent in response to the invitation.

submitted 9 days ago • 21 comments

The inclusive language guidance I give museum educators is just that - guidance. I start from the premise that we care about each other and I make recommendations for how to express that care with our words.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Read an actual queer historian (author of "When Brooklyn Was Queer" and "The Women's House of Detention", both excellent!) on Stonewall.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Have you ever heard someone in our woman-dominated museum field joke about how a man candidate would be a "diversity hire"? Or suggest that hiring men would help bring up wages in the sector? You need to check out this article by Lauren Lessing: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/9akde...

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Hope I never see my alma mater uplift him again as an alumnus- he's no one to be proud of.

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The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI. apnews.com/article/blac...

submitted 6 days ago • 66 comments

Not true. I'll give you some examples of when styles crossed over from womenswear to menswear, and how men have worn straight-up womenswear or just feminine styles in cool ways. 🧵

submitted 6 days ago • 293 comments

#TrainsPride

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I genuinely have no words for this

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

We won’t disappear just because you change a website.

submitted 8 days ago • 148 comments

At the stonewall monument rn

submitted 8 days ago • 50 comments

Heritage professionals, please practice saying no. Be prepared. How will you resist when you are asked to participate? How will we support one another?

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I'm feeling a way about people expressing extra amounts of outrage for some of the words on the ban list for federal grants. Like yes, they even included the word "woman." It's not more outrageous than "transgender."

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

The US government is rewriting history to erase trans and queer people. It was never about 'protecting women' - we've been saying that from the start. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Museum/academic friends, does anyone know of a good history of the Museums Association (UK)? #museums

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Musing about this visual display this morning, as a parenting woman and a historian interested in racialized childhood. Immediately, we see that Musk is claiming credit as a father. "Look, I do all of this and still manage this kid too!" Almost always these claims obscure women's quotidien labor.

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

🍉Today the @isanet.bsky.social Governing Council will be voting on a motion against #scholasticide & for #BDS. ISA members: please urge your section & caucus chairs to vote in favour of the motion 🍉 #BDSatISA @BDSatISA

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