Bernadette V. Silva

She/Her/Hers
@V_and_A/@RCA History of Design - Performance | Current Research: Lucha Libre & Agency
Previous: @NMSU BIS English, History, Animation, Filmmaking

[Mind The Gap Conference 2023 @MTGConference]

We are very excited to announce our community panelist for our panel 'Community through Creation' on Sunday 31st of July at 2:30pm! Paul Bradley from @outonthepage will be speaking alongside Bernadette Silva (@dsgnhistorian) and Clare Patterson on Performance, Art and Culture! 🌈

[Vagina Museum @vagina_museum]

We are thrilled to announce that WE ARE REOPENING. Our new home in Bethnal Green opens 19th March... we'll see you there soon! https://t.co/InPT5eqZOK

[Bernadette V. Silva @dsgnhistorian]

@Joana_A_Delgado Congratulations Joana! 🎉

[Tape Letters @TapeLetters]

Through cassette tapes families were able to hear the voices and messages of loved ones with repeated listens, and respond to messages without the pressures of time and cost. They played a significant role then within the Pothwari-speaking British-Pakistani community. #cassette

[Vagina Museum @vagina_museum]

VAGINA MUSEUM FESTIVE APPEAL! Clit-mas is coming, and we'd love for you to support our very vaginal plans for 2022 including a new home and a period-positive school outreach campaign! https://t.co/9jznsIVRgU

[Tape Letters @TapeLetters]

“Anyone who moves from one country to another feels alone, especially if they don’t know the language. We sisters wanted to communicate but we had problems writing letters...(so) I started messaging on cassettes to my sister, I used to tell her about myself.” - Zareena Darr

[Frederick van Amstel @fredvanamstel]

I’m probing the possibility of a weekly study group in English for the Design & Oppression network next year. please RT if you would like to join

[The National Archives @UkNatArchives]

To help open up our collections and encourage research into the history of disability, we have a research guide to point out some of the sources that might be a useful starting place.

https://t.co/i33sN1XF82

[Design in Quarantine @Design_inQ]

🩺 Dr. Wise Will See You Now 🩺

Pandemics have long-held status as fictional devices but silent film 'Dr. Wise on Influenza' (1919) is one of the few surviving UK-based films with information on the 1918 influenza pandemic. 1/2
@SonyaBattla2 @dsgnhistorian @cyriennebft #tbt

[Vagina Museum @vagina_museum]

BECOME A MEMBER OF THE CLITERATI. our membership scheme comes with a whole host of fanny-tastic benefits to help you take your relationship with us to the next level. all yours for just £6 a month https://t.co/0eYvaOpvqJ

[Design in Quarantine @Design_inQ]

Marie Bee Bloom invented these brilliant rice paper masks that are biodegradable. They are embedded with flower seeds and will bloom once thrown into the soil. @dezeen @mariebeebloom

[British Library @britishlibrary]

Prepare the way for the Day of the Dead 2021 at this one-day festival. In partnership with @Embamexru, @ukmexicanarts and @UNAM_UK.
👉https://t.co/oTsInGrQgs

[Design in Quarantine @Design_inQ]

Disease and death have always been part of living in London.

While modern medical science and public health systems have enabled us to defend against plagues and pandemics, the people who walked London’s streets before us had to rely on other resources. #TBT #DesignInQuarantine

[Design in Quarantine @Design_inQ]

How does your mask look? 👀

Aboriginal Masks hand made by an aboriginal women’s group in northern NSW. Tweeted by Dion Devow, Canberra-based designer and founder of @DarkiesDesign ❤️

[Design in Quarantine @Design_inQ]

During the pandemic Jack Kirk facilitated working from home as he compacted the desk to make the workspace wire-free, creating an organised desk to help one adapt to working from home. #wfh #designinquarantine @cyriennebft @dsgnhistorian @SonyaBattla2

[Design in Quarantine @Design_inQ]

Plague doctors wore a mask with a bird-like beak as protection from diseases like the Black Death, believed to be airborne n spread by miasma, a noxious form of ‘bad air.’ To counter this the long beak of the mask was packed with dried flowers, herbs n spices. #Mask #TBT

[Design in Quarantine @Design_inQ]

As part of our archival work, we are adding a series of #throwbackthursday posts about past pandemics that are relevant to #DesignInQuarantine.
@dsgnhistorian @cyriennebft @SonyaBattla2 @Fleur_Elkerton

[Library Futures @library_futures]

Announcing 🎉 Statement on Using Controlled Digital Lending as a Mechanism for Interlibrary Loan from the CDL Coop group of library professionals! 🎉
What does that mean? Read on! 🧵 (and find out how you can sign the statement!) https://t.co/8vXTzU4KOH