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Michelle Dezember retweeted
Join our team! We are hiring 2 positions: Communications Manager and Operations Manager (new!)
$20/hour, Part-time contract; Remote; est. avg. of 30 hr/mo.
Applications Due: Sun, June 25, 2023
Learn more and apply at museumedu.org/jobs
ALT A header in orange script reading “join our team” sits on a teal background. In an orange box, black text reads “Hiring two positions: Communications Manager and Operations Manager (new!) Compensation: $20 per hour Status: Part-time contract; estimated average of 30 hours per month. Location: Remote Applications Due: Sunday, June 25, 2023 Learn more and apply at the website listed”
Michelle Dezember retweeted
Before @michellenmoon & I do our poster talk at 9:25, we are catching up with friends at @AAM_EdCom at the NeighborHub. Times are changing as it sunsets, but one thing is certain: our community is strong! Come add your voice to what you think should happen next #museumed #AAM2023
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Michelle Dezember retweeted
Hello! I’m @mdezember, president of MER! I’m at #AAM2023 this weekend with a poster sharing all the ways you can get involved with the Journal of Museum Education. It’s been 50 years since we first started publishing! come hear @MichelleNMoon and I on Sat morning share more 🥳
Michelle Dezember retweeted
On June 2, a large number of museums posted statements in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. Are those institutions still engaged in the anti-racism work they signaled on social media? How do we move from words to transformative action & accountability? shorturl.at/mJPST
Late to the running online programs train, but I’m super happy this is my first one 🏳️🌈 camstl.org/event/first-frida… 🏳️🌈 happening now!
Astronaut Leland Melvin's words during the SpaceX launch ringing true about the protests too: "American astronauts on American rockets from American soil, showing you what Americans can do when we come together as a team." Can we please do something so amazing here on earth?
Now is the time to plot, plan, strategize, organize, and mobilize (ty @KillerMike) to create a just world. I am humbled & honored to be part of @MusEdRoundtable and thank my colleagues for putting together this statement & call to action. #BlackLivesMatter #MuseumsAreNotNeutral
"We are angered by & mourn the killing of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd & countless others. We stand with those condemning the violence against & ongoing oppression of Black people in the United States."
Our full statement & call to action here: museumedu.org/mer-responds/
Michelle Dezember retweeted
#DearMuseums, Week One: In a roundup of our first few submissions, we're seeing themes of "uncertainty."
See more submissions on our blog, and consider sharing your own responses or ideas with us - more info on our website.
museumedu.org/dearmuseums-we…
ALT Handwritten script reads “You have broken my heart. No longer yours, X” over an image of a museum in a neoclassical architecture style with people standing and walking in the plaza in front of the building.
Michelle Dezember retweeted
What do you want to say to your museum, or the field at large?
MER is launching an initiative called #DearMuseums that seeks to document and share stories about how this global crisis is affecting people and their work as museum educators.
More info: museumedu.org/dearmuseums-a-…
ALT Bolded text written, as if by a typewritter, reads “Dear Museums” and “What do you wish you could say to museums right now? Write a love letter or hate mail. Craft a poem or a work of art. Share words of advice or a warning. Submissions will be anonymously featured on our social media channels. Submit to: [email protected]”
Michelle Dezember retweeted
In response to the current crisis’s impact on employment, #MASSActionMia has created an Action Statement for Equity to urge museum leaders to live by values of equity, more than ever in trying times like these. Find it here: tinyurl.com/y7v95gaf #socialjustice
Amazing quote by @PaulStamets in the documentary @FantasticFungi: “through natural selection, the strongest & fittest survive, moreover communities survive better than individuals...Evolution is based on the concept of mutual benefit and the extension of generosity.” #biomimicry
“Stop gentrifying activism” says the tshirt of Thandiwe Abdullah, co-cofounder of Black Lives Matter LA and speaker on the panel “How Gen Z is Taking Control” #schooled
Esther Perel on love: “It’s a verb...an active engagement with all kinds of feelings—positive ones and primitive ones and loathsome ones...And it’s often surprising how it can kind of ebb and flow. It’s like the moon. We think it’s disappeared, and suddenly it shows up again.”
Such a beautiful tribute by @NPR to @CokieRoberts this morning, sending off with how to remember her: "Do the work, be fair, be kind, and lift each other up." She handed the IMLS National Medal to the Aspen Art Museum and for that, and a life lived with integrity, I am grateful.
“Because the question really is not whether we’ll be tied to the somethings of our past, but whether we are courageous enough to be tied to the whole of them.”
- Ta Nahesi Coates speaking truth to Congress at the hearings about HR 40 on reparations
“The point is that too often man becomes clever instead of becoming wise. He becomes inventive, but not thoughtful.” Rod Serling bringing it home in The Twilight Zone S05 E33 👁
Michelle Dezember retweeted
Are you a designer, planner, artist, or urbanist working in and with Black communities? Learn about the BlackSpace Manifesto here:
blackspacenyc.org/manifesto
#blackspace
