PinnedDr. Lyra D. MonteiroPower Structures: White Columns, White Marble, White SupremacyAs I write these words on the fire escape of my Manhattan apartment, in early September, 2020, the flashing lights of a cop car blink in…Oct 27, 20202Oct 27, 20202
Dr. Lyra D. MonteiroHow Penn Museum’s February 3 Burial Plan Ignores Decades of Museum and Archaeological Best PracticeBreaking down the Penn Museum’s ignorant misuse of decades of lessons with respectful return of the dead, in their plan to bury the…Jan 27Jan 27
Dr. Lyra D. MonteiroFinding Ceremony’s Statement About August 31, 2023 Action at Penn Museum & “Meeting” with Director…Issued on September 1, 2023Sep 29, 2023Sep 29, 2023
Dr. Lyra D. MonteiroFinding Ceremony for Our Ancestors Held in Penn Museum’s “Morton Cranial Collection”Written by Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad & Dr. Lyra D. MonteiroJan 28, 2023Jan 28, 2023
Dr. Lyra D. MonteiroMy gender is “nope.”When I figured out my own gender, at 36 years old, my gender stopped making sense to pretty much everybody else.Mar 8, 202218Mar 8, 202218
Dr. Lyra D. MonteiroRichard Rabinowitz: Historian, Curator, Sexual PredatorA #MeToo twitter thread originally published on March 30, 2019.Apr 4, 2019Apr 4, 2019
Dr. Lyra D. MonteiroHow to Love Problematic Pop CultureAs a scholar of the politics of the past, I dig anniversaries. Which is why I’m writing about Hamilton this month, two years after it…Aug 27, 20177Aug 27, 20177