@museumaction

MASS Action is a national collaboratively-organized project working to transform museums towards more equitable and socially just practices. https://xitter.cf/t.co/6s73bpg8rY

Joined August 2020
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This 🧵 highlights some of the many connection points in museum activism. As Dr. Moore says here, keep the work going!
Dr. Porchia Moore@PorchiaMuseM29 Apr 2023
This picture captures what is arguably one of the most important moments in museum history. 2015. AAM. Rogue session that became the Museum Workers Speak movement. Thanks to Alyssa Greenburg and crew.
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📢📢📢 The #MuseumWorkersFund will be distributing $500 gifts to workers in front of house positions! Please let your colleagues in guest services, security, retail, cafe jobs, etc. about @MuseumWorkers fund and encourage them to apply by April 8, 2022: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…

Museum Workers Relief Fund Application

Thank you for participating in the Museum Workers Relief Fund. If you are a museum worker impacted by COVID-19, apply here for a chance to receive $500 in aid through our lottery system. We will...

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It’s Museum Workers Advocacy Day! @nempnetwork has put together incredible resources to advocate for salary transparency, abolishing unpaid internships, and mutual aid. Get involved and show your solidarity at buff.ly/3He3nMt #MWAD22
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Hope y'all enjoyed & learned from #CollectiveLiberation ! Three ways you can support or get involved now: 1) Contribute to @museumworkersspeak mutual aid: opencollective.com/museum-wo… 2) Join @museumaction community of practice: museumaction.org/contact-us 3) Keep RT, sharing & posting!

Museum Workers Speak - Open Collective

We are activist museum workers interrogating the relationship between museums’ stated commitments to social value and their internal labor practices.

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How can we hold ourselves accountable to racially just futures without first reckoning with our institutional pasts? Check out @incluseum or our latest blog post to read about @aletheiajane's "Institutional Genealogy" framework to assess & address this: bit.ly/382aGrg
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#CollectiveLiberation Coffee Chat + Check-in has begun. Come join us to ease in to the exciting days ahead. @incluseum @EmpatheticMuse @museumaction @deathtomuseums #museumsarenotneutral @visitorsofcolor @MuseumWorkers
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#CollectiveLiberation is less than a week away! Have you registered yet? Join us June 2 - 4 for this powerful lineup of conversations. Sign up here: eventbrite.com/e/collective-…

[Collective Liberation]: Disrupt, Dismantle, Manifest

#CollectiveLiberation is an opportunity for EVERYONE to shape and wholly transform the future of museums.

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Registration is now open for [Collective Liberation] Disrupt, Dismantle, Manifest! Join us June 2-4 for this powerful lineup of sessions. bit.ly/disruptdismantlemanif… for registration link and complete schedule
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**PROPOSAL DEADLINE EXTENDED** to 4/20 11:59pm ET. It's been a rough week. We are extending our deadline to accommodate anyone who thought about submitting but felt unable to because of financial barriers. We want to let you know we're working on it! (1/2)
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Thank those who have asked about compensation for speakers. We are currently discussing ways to raise money so that no one experiences a barrier to presenting. Please reach out to us if this is a concern and we’ll figure something out! (2/2)
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Call for proposals!! Join us June 2-4th to disrupt, dismantle, and manifest a different present and future. Submit a proposal here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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Unfinished: Revisiting HORSE, a Pre-Covid Project to Support Social Action in Rural Museums Parts 1 & 2 by @museumorphosis up on the MASS Action blog. Thank you @incluseum for the initial posts! museumaction.org/massaction-…
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MASS Action's "holistic investigation" of museum anti-racism commitments continues. Read about our framework here: museumaction.org/massaction-…
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Participate in our survey as an institution or individual to add more context to our analysis: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…

MASS Action Survey about Museum Statements made Summer 2020

PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO READ THIS INTRODUCTION Over the past few months, MASS Action has aggregated data from the 1,088 AAM-accredited museums in the U.S. by documenting statements made in the wake...

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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
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Full post here: museumaction.org/massaction-…
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