PinnedDr. Lyra D. Monteiro·Oct 27, 2020Power 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…A response icon2A response icon2
Dr. Lyra D. Monteiro·Oct 17, 2024What the photos from 2014 reveal about Penn Museum’s possession of the remains of multiple victims…By Dr. Lyra D. Monteiro, Co-Convener of Finding Ceremony
Dr. Lyra D. Monteiro·Jan 27, 2024How 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…
Dr. Lyra D. Monteiro·Sep 29, 2023Finding Ceremony’s Statement About August 31, 2023 Action at Penn Museum & “Meeting” with Director…Issued on September 1, 2023
Dr. Lyra D. Monteiro·Mar 8, 2022My gender is “nope.”When I figured out my own gender, at 36 years old, my gender stopped making sense to pretty much everybody else.A response icon17A response icon17
Dr. Lyra D. Monteiro·Apr 4, 2019Richard Rabinowitz: Historian, Curator, Sexual PredatorA #MeToo twitter thread originally published on March 30, 2019.
Dr. Lyra D. Monteiro·Aug 27, 2017How 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…A response icon7A response icon7
