Thread by @lshipley805

#tag108 is go! @preshitorian opening the session with a presentation of the BWA’s amazing and consistent work surveying the profession and documenting the shameful state of gender discrimination

@preshitorian #tag108 making a key point- this cannot and must not be about white middle class women. Supporting BME professionals crucial

@preshitorian #tag108 our second speaker is @LeMoustier introducing the amazing @trowelblazers project

@preshitorian @LeMoustier @trowelblazers Lovely point- this is about joy! Discovering the happiness archaeology brought to women in the past in spite of the obstacles they faced #tag108

@preshitorian @LeMoustier @trowelblazers #tag108

How do we keep hold of this joy? Are the equity measures described in the first paper the only way to spread and project the joyfulness of archaeology, the reason we love it and want to fight for it? Back to @preshitorian : women don’t give this up lightly

@preshitorian @LeMoustier @trowelblazers Project?! Protect! Protecting joy. Dammit autocorrect

@preshitorian @LeMoustier @trowelblazers @ArchaeoCobb now speaking on where personal and professional life collides- and the first Joan Gero shout out flies #tag108

@preshitorian @LeMoustier @trowelblazers @ArchaeoCobb Referencing @Sarah_May1 excellent analogy- a change on the scale of health and safety guidelines and their adoption.

What is this about other than health and safety? Harassment and discrimination make archaeologists profoundly unsafe #tag108

@preshitorian @LeMoustier @trowelblazers @ArchaeoCobb @Sarah_May1 And now for some theory! After all, this is @DevaTag2018

Theory as therapy, anyone?

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@preshitorian @LeMoustier @trowelblazers @ArchaeoCobb @Sarah_May1 @DevaTag2018 First f bomb dropped. Quickly followed by another. #tag108

@preshitorian @LeMoustier @trowelblazers @ArchaeoCobb @Sarah_May1 @DevaTag2018 Speaking now: Enrique Moral de Eusebio focusing on intersectionality as a tool to examine the lives of women from the Mariana Islands. Forced relocation, and the archaeology of colonial oppression.

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@preshitorian @LeMoustier @trowelblazers @ArchaeoCobb @Sarah_May1 @DevaTag2018 Sexual violence, forced labour, colonial schools as places of abuse. Mayors and governors abusing indigenous women in 18th century Guam

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@preshitorian @LeMoustier @trowelblazers @ArchaeoCobb @Sarah_May1 @DevaTag2018 Painstaking historical research by Enrique. Letters and documents, tracing evidence for horrific treatment and desperate responses and resistance by indigenous women

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@preshitorian @LeMoustier @trowelblazers @ArchaeoCobb @Sarah_May1 @DevaTag2018 Black feminist thought and thinkers crucial to analysing the experience of indigenous Mariana Islands women.

Crenshaw and Collins, Lugones and Segato