Abigail Diaz (she/her)

Working every day to make museums accessible and inclusive. And I own a vintage shop.

[Abigail Diaz (she/her) @AbsLovesMuseums]

“The future of museums is accessible. It is decolonized, queer and anti-racist. The future of museums is radically inclusive. If the future of museums is not those things, there is no future for museums.” #saa2019

[Sophie Vershbow @svershbow]

America was such bitch on Friday and now expects us to attend her birthday party on Tuesday? I don't think so, sweetie.

[Abigail Diaz (she/her) @AbsLovesMuseums]

lol do you know any women

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

are there instances of women becoming obsessed with historic events? definitely a male preoccupation with certain phases of history (Civil War, Nazis, Hitler) & reenactments of battles. women may obsess over reading, music & dance, kitties, doggies, clothes, gardening, men.

[Abigail Diaz (she/her) @AbsLovesMuseums]

@MichelleNMoon My fella! https://t.co/psV4GKBL7l

[Abigail Diaz (she/her) @AbsLovesMuseums]

A romance author's 'family' posted that she had died by her own hand due to online bullying. The romance community rallied, raised $, supported her work. Two yrs later, she's back from the dead. And this will be the premise of her new book.

THIS IS WILD.

https://t.co/IR9mkehJlP

[HUHHHH @cuntymeme]

now if Greta had taken the high road this man wouldn’t have gotten arrested. TALK YO SHIT 2023 & 4EVA

[john @johnsemley3000]

the richest man in the world should not be so online. it’s unbecoming. JP Morgan once took a boat to Egypt because he wanted to sleep in a tomb to imagine what it’s like to be a dead Pharaoh. that’s what rich people should be doing. not tweeting about NYT movie lists. yuck.

[Abigail Diaz (she/her) @AbsLovesMuseums]

@artlust - see their thread for all the tea

[Abigail Diaz (she/her) @AbsLovesMuseums]

The venn diagram of ‘people responding w outrage’ & ‘people who have actually visited that exhibit’: O O

This thread & the @ExploreWellcome aren’t perfect but I’ll take this over all those dusty 2022 DEAI Initiatives any day.

And the exhibit was fucking gross. So there’s that.

[Wellcome Collection @ExploreWellcome]

What’s the point of museums?

Truthfully, we’re asking ourselves the same question.

🧵

[Abigail Diaz (she/her) @AbsLovesMuseums]

@jessicarayner @ExploreWellcome So true! Take care of yourselves!

[Abigail Diaz (she/her) @AbsLovesMuseums]

Let’s all send good vibes & drinks of their choice to the @ExploreWellcome’s social media team as they trudge through the absolute trash in their replies.

It’s thankless and emotionally exhausting work to run social for a nonprofit.

[Abigail Diaz (she/her) @AbsLovesMuseums]

@Wait_whatisthis @AAMers The gall to highlight this position as “diversity focused” when lack of salary transparency reinforces inequity and most harms the same people the position apparently hopes to entice into applying.

cc: @AAMers

[Abigail Diaz (she/her) @AbsLovesMuseums]

How much does it pay, @AAMers?

Weren’t you *just* bragging about doing the right thing/bare minimum by finally requiring salaries on job postings? Didn’t you *just* get good press and pat yourselves for this very easy and equitable decision?

[Meredith S. @Wait_whatisthis]

This job was posted 3 days ago. AAM salary requirement went into effect November 15.

https://t.co/37A1U99BMS

[Dan Savage @fakedansavage]

It's not just that gay bars are supposed to be a safe space.

[Abigail Diaz (she/her) @AbsLovesMuseums]

@MichelleNMoon Any server can be a museum server if we try hard enough.

[Jamie L. Jones @JamieLJones8]

I see that the protracted goodbye is uncomfortable for some of you. But as a midwesterner, I am prepared to stand in the doorway and raise new topics of conversation until they turn the lights off. 👋👋

[Abigail Diaz (she/her) @AbsLovesMuseums]

@NickTagliaferro

[Sperry Bonds @407Dude]

GAVE PROOF THROUGH THE NIGHT, THAT OUR TL WAS STILL THERE

[Tamsin Russell @TamsinRussell]

Leave Twitter just because it’s fallen into disrepair under terrible leadership? But peeps I work in museums. 🤓

[Cindric Livingstone @heyshaelyn]

Here is the thing: yes, I do a lot of ~museum talking~ here on twitter; no, I will absolutely not join a dedicated museum worker social media network. Museum people always trying to make everything into homework.