So here is a disheartened and disheartening thread about the state of the museum sector's response to Coronavirus - note here I'm speaking about museums overseas, rather than those in Australia, where I live and work - I'll explain why that is downthread. Sorry that I'm not sharing more ~posi vibez~, maybe I'll follow up with silly cat pics to cheer you up, but tbh I think it's important to have these discussions - we can't identify solutions to structural and systemic issues if we're not aware of the issues.

THREAD (a reading list for white museum folk, by non-white museum folk)

Some of my fellow white museum workers have shared that they discovered this @PorchiaMuseM's "Cartography: a Black woman’s response to museums in the time of racial uprising" via @MuseumNext's newsletter... - which, don't get me wrong, great that MN is getting Dr. Moore's writing in front of more eyes - this piece should be mandatory reading for the entire museum sector. But I encourage you to read it where it was originally published, on @incluseum incluseum.com/2020/06/10/car…