Karen Burns
@kazbar.bsky.social
architectural historian + theorist of gender equity, global histories + 19thc imperial histories. also a bookworm.
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Depressing, familiar and the upbeat "Despite good intentions" contradicts the substance of the article which reports off-the-scale bullying, huge percentages of racism, gendered expectations of women as administrators, no maternity provision, etc.
Depressing, familiar and the upbeat "Despite good intentions" contradicts the substance of the article which reports off-the-scale bullying, huge percentages of racism, gendered expectations of women as administrators, no maternity provision, etc.
Why architecture can’t afford another decade of gender inequality
Despite good intentions and pockets of progress, gender inequality remains deeply embedded in the architecture sector’s culture and structures, a RIBA-commissioned study by the Fawcett Society has fou...
www.ribaj.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
www.ribaj.com/intelligence...
Depressing, familiar and the upbeat "Despite good intentions" contradicts the substance of the article which reports off-the-scale bullying, huge percentages of racism, gendered expectations of women as administrators, no maternity provision, etc.
Depressing, familiar and the upbeat "Despite good intentions" contradicts the substance of the article which reports off-the-scale bullying, huge percentages of racism, gendered expectations of women as administrators, no maternity provision, etc.
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@kazbar.bsky.social and I are are hosting a round table at the EAHN in Aarhus in June 2026. Please consider submitting to be a part of the discussion!
Women’s Collective Organizing in Architecture: From the Grassroots to the Global, 1960-2020
eahn.org/2025/05/eahn...
Women’s Collective Organizing in Architecture: From the Grassroots to the Global, 1960-2020
eahn.org/2025/05/eahn...
EAHN 2026 AARHUS, 9TH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE | eahn
eahn.org
September 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
@kazbar.bsky.social and I are are hosting a round table at the EAHN in Aarhus in June 2026. Please consider submitting to be a part of the discussion!
Women’s Collective Organizing in Architecture: From the Grassroots to the Global, 1960-2020
eahn.org/2025/05/eahn...
Women’s Collective Organizing in Architecture: From the Grassroots to the Global, 1960-2020
eahn.org/2025/05/eahn...
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www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
She Shapes History, a perambulated way of writing women back into the city. Congratulations on a great initiative.
She Shapes History, a perambulated way of writing women back into the city. Congratulations on a great initiative.
Trailblazing women put in spotlight on Sydney walking history tour
She Shapes History has launched a Sydney walking tour route to help raise awareness for the women who helped mould the city, but so often get cast aside.
www.abc.net.au
August 9, 2025 at 12:17 AM
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
She Shapes History, a perambulated way of writing women back into the city. Congratulations on a great initiative.
She Shapes History, a perambulated way of writing women back into the city. Congratulations on a great initiative.
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At launch of NSW Pattern Book for Low Rise Housing.
Led by NSW Government Architect Abbie Galvin, Premier & Planning Minister speaking.
Housing designs available to purchase at discount, with fast track approval process.
Great work by 8 invited architects.
Let’s hope this improves housing design & $
Led by NSW Government Architect Abbie Galvin, Premier & Planning Minister speaking.
Housing designs available to purchase at discount, with fast track approval process.
Great work by 8 invited architects.
Let’s hope this improves housing design & $
July 16, 2025 at 1:27 AM
At launch of NSW Pattern Book for Low Rise Housing.
Led by NSW Government Architect Abbie Galvin, Premier & Planning Minister speaking.
Housing designs available to purchase at discount, with fast track approval process.
Great work by 8 invited architects.
Let’s hope this improves housing design & $
Led by NSW Government Architect Abbie Galvin, Premier & Planning Minister speaking.
Housing designs available to purchase at discount, with fast track approval process.
Great work by 8 invited architects.
Let’s hope this improves housing design & $
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This one is important. Share it widely. "Contrary to conventional wisdom, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed those in 2017, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful." wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer...
American Spring? How nonviolent protest in the US is accelerating
Contrary to conventional wisdom, anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed 2017 in size, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful.
wagingnonviolence.org
June 13, 2025 at 9:16 AM
This one is important. Share it widely. "Contrary to conventional wisdom, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed those in 2017, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful." wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer...
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Utterly grim.
FA will ban transgender women from women's football from next season
FA will ban transgender women from women's football from next season
The Football Association will ban transgender women from women's football from next season, Sky News understands.
news.sky.com
May 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Utterly grim.
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In this article the korean professor says this. So well said.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
April 13, 2025 at 10:51 AM
In this article the korean professor says this. So well said.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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At this point, academic conferences scheduled in person in the U.S. are putting their international attendees at risk if they're not either offering a virtual option or multi-site option in other countries. (looking at you, LSA Chicago—I'm due to present there & can't in good faith unless you do)
April 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
At this point, academic conferences scheduled in person in the U.S. are putting their international attendees at risk if they're not either offering a virtual option or multi-site option in other countries. (looking at you, LSA Chicago—I'm due to present there & can't in good faith unless you do)
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For Americans who didn’t get the joy of living through the Truss/Kwarteng budget, this is the point where the government starts to call the stock market left-wing and/or woke.
April 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
For Americans who didn’t get the joy of living through the Truss/Kwarteng budget, this is the point where the government starts to call the stock market left-wing and/or woke.
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Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy.
"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
March 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy.
"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
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My statement on being denied tenure at the Medill School of Journalism drive.google.com/file/d/1BBBI...
March 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
My statement on being denied tenure at the Medill School of Journalism drive.google.com/file/d/1BBBI...
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Spivak awarded the Holberg Prize for outstanding contributions to scholarship.
Literary theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak named 2025 Holberg Prize Laureate
Today, the Holberg Prize—one of the largest international prizes awarded annually to an outstanding researcher in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology—named Indian scholar Gaya...
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March 13, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Spivak awarded the Holberg Prize for outstanding contributions to scholarship.
Look how useful those pesky Australian universities can be! Finally some research on recent, longer-term immigration trends. Net immigration is down and international students drive the Australian economy: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia’s net migration still 82,000 people short of pre-pandemic levels, study finds
Country has shortfall over more than five years of pandemic disruption, according to ANU report, contrary to claims of record-high migration
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Look how useful those pesky Australian universities can be! Finally some research on recent, longer-term immigration trends. Net immigration is down and international students drive the Australian economy: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
It would be good to have a a profession-wide boycott on the public housing tower demolition. Thinking this in response to reading this.
architectureau.com/articles/fir...
See also: 2024.designweek.melbourne/events/publi...
architectureau.com/articles/fir...
See also: 2024.designweek.melbourne/events/publi...
First look at Melbourne’s new public housing towers
The new apartment buildings will replace Carlton’s existing 1960s public housing towers, in what will be the first of 44 to be redeveloped under Victoria’s biggest urban renewal project.
architectureau.com
December 4, 2024 at 2:10 AM
It would be good to have a a profession-wide boycott on the public housing tower demolition. Thinking this in response to reading this.
architectureau.com/articles/fir...
See also: 2024.designweek.melbourne/events/publi...
architectureau.com/articles/fir...
See also: 2024.designweek.melbourne/events/publi...
So now I'm told there's 4,500 starter packs on Bluesky... Might go back to this brilliant new book for a while: Clare Wright's Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions. (Text, 2024). It is extraordinary.
November 11, 2024 at 9:44 AM
So now I'm told there's 4,500 starter packs on Bluesky... Might go back to this brilliant new book for a while: Clare Wright's Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions. (Text, 2024). It is extraordinary.
So I thought after giving up twitter I might have more free time but now I want to join every history starter pack I see: material culture, textile history, early modern women, the americas....lots of new worlds to dive into.
November 11, 2024 at 2:49 AM
So I thought after giving up twitter I might have more free time but now I want to join every history starter pack I see: material culture, textile history, early modern women, the americas....lots of new worlds to dive into.