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Power Structures: White Columns, White Marble, White Supremacy

33 min readOct 27, 2020

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Power Structures: White Columns, White Marble, White Supremacy

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How Penn Museum’s February 3 Burial Plan Ignores Decades of Museum and Archaeological Best Practice

Breaking 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 readJan 27, 2024

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How Penn Museum’s February 3 Burial Plan Ignores Decades of Museum and Archaeological Best Practice

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Finding Ceremony’s Statement About August 31, 2023 Action at Penn Museum & “Meeting” with Director…

Issued on September 1, 2023

4 min readSep 29, 2023

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Finding Ceremony’s Statement About August 31, 2023 Action at Penn Museum & “Meeting” with Director…

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Finding Ceremony for Our Ancestors Held in Penn Museum’s “Morton Cranial Collection”

Written by Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad & Dr. Lyra D. Monteiro

4 min readJan 28, 2023

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Finding Ceremony for Our Ancestors Held in Penn Museum’s “Morton Cranial Collection”

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Dr. Lyra D. Monteiro

My 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 readMar 8, 2022

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My gender is “nope.”

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Richard Rabinowitz: Historian, Curator, Sexual Predator

A #MeToo twitter thread originally published on March 30, 2019.

11 min readApr 4, 2019

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Richard Rabinowitz: Historian, Curator, Sexual Predator

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How to Love Problematic Pop Culture

As 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 readAug 27, 2017

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How to Love Problematic Pop Culture

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Dr. Lyra D. Monteiro

Dr. Lyra D. Monteiro

PhD: Archaeology & the Ancient World, Brown University; Prof: American Studies, History & Africana Studies, Rutgers-Newark; Co-Convener: Finding Ceremony

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