suse anderson
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An Australian-American museum geek in Baltimore. Program Head, Museum Studies @ GWU. Sincereposting about museums, ethics, tech and culture. She/her.
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“Nothing changes the fact that ordinary Americans from across the country helped to make this exhibit happen by standing up for racial justice and declaring that the Confederate cause no longer represents our collective values and understanding of history.”
“This administration can erase African American history from websites; order exhibits removed from Smithsonian museums and National Park Service sites; and even order a Confederate monument returned to Arlington National Cemetery…”
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Feeling very proud of my Wikipedian-in-Residence colleagues who tackled an armed suicidal man. Andrew Lih, Wikimedia Laureate 2022, prised a loaded gun from his hand. Richard and Andrew are bookish computer guys who work in libraries. That takes some guts.
Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

By Andy Newman

At Civic Hall in Union Square, a man with a gun walked onto the stage at a Wikipedia conference.

Richard Knipel, CUNY's Wikimedian-in-Residence, jumped the gunman and, with others' help, saved the day. Gift link
Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference
www.nytimes.com
Woah. How amazing and brave of Andrew! I am so relieved it turned out the way it did.
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Chris Van Hollen for Senate Minority Leader.

We need someone at the helm who understands the fight we're in and is willing to fight it. As far as I've seen, no one in the Senate Dem caucus is speaking with more clarity or conviction.
These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III. 

Looking forward to No Kings Day.
Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering
Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.
www.politico.com
This sounds like an amazing book, but “Due to new U.S. customs regulations, we are unable to accept orders from the United States."

We are kept further from new knowledge again.
How to challenge colonial legacies: Namibian and South African artists use archives to develop alternative memory practices.

https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7760-7/

@snf-fns.ch 
#MemoryCulture #Colonialism #Namibia #SouthAfrica
“But the data out of Montgomery County, Maryland makes one thing unmistakably clear: this crusade is not a mass movement. It’s the obsession of a vanishingly small minority…”
"99.97 percent of families, even when given the option, chose to let their children learn about LGBTQ+ people."
Nice result, and it reinforces everything Montgomery County said to SCOTUS before its theocrats made their dehumanizing ruling. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...
Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To
After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.
open.substack.com
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We built NPR. We built PBS.

It seems to me we should also build National Public Index.

A public search engine for a public web.
These are really great. Could people order custom versions of their own row house? Because that could be amazing.
This sounds so good.
People of Connecticut and regions nearby. Come on out on September 16! Free and open to the public.
This sounds so good.
People of Connecticut and regions nearby. Come on out on September 16! Free and open to the public.
Good.
NEWS: A federal court in Rhode Island has ruled that the Institute of Museum and Library Services must remain open pending resolution of the government's appeal in the case Rhode Island v. Trump. ALA is grateful that the courts agree: IMLS must remain open. #ForOurLibraries
Looking forward to following along 😊
Woke up to discover that the roads were blocked on all sides by the Maryland Cycling Classic, then proceeded to have an absorbing, if unexpected, day watching some great cycling—dashing from the TV to the street when the riders passed by. It was a much needed distraction and a lovely day.
Yep, I spent a decade in higher education admin before becoming an academic and I’m so grateful that I have a more complete sense of how each contributes to the work.
All right, putting it out into the world… if anyone back in Australia has hot tips on a job for a museum studies professor who loves teaching and public programs and has leadership and strategic thinking skills, I’d love to hear them. Holding on here, but longing to be back in Oz.
I feel you. When I used to come to conferences in the US, the 30 or so hours travelling home held a kind of blissful aloneness.
I’ve just shared with our jobs list.
Part Simpsons, part Bluey… combine them and you’re pretty much there.