PinnedDr. Lyra D. MonteiroPower Structures: White Columns, White Marble, White Supremacy33 min read·Oct 27, 2020--2--2
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…6 min read·Jan 27, 2024----
Dr. Lyra D. MonteiroFinding Ceremony’s Statement About August 31, 2023 Action at Penn Museum & “Meeting” with Director…Issued on September 1, 20234 min read·Sep 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. Monteiro4 min read·Jan 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.6 min read·Mar 8, 2022--18--18
Dr. Lyra D. MonteiroRichard Rabinowitz: Historian, Curator, Sexual PredatorA #MeToo twitter thread originally published on March 30, 2019.11 min read·Apr 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…8 min read·Aug 27, 2017--7--7