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Thank you all for joining us at this year's Forum on 'Museums as Partners in Racial Equity'. Stay connected with us and stay accountable. #MERForum
Closing statements: Don't do this work alone. This work is relational. Share your contact information with someone at your table to hold each other accountable. #MERForum
"Museums have so much power in the world. Authoritarians fear art, joy, laughter and honest histories. We know we have power because scared people try to take it away from us sometimes." What will you do with that power? How will you #leverageyourprivilege? #MERForum
We're coming back together one more time to take questions from the audience. #MERForum
Lacking understanding about why inequity exists can mean that the 'transformation' is temporary and superficial. #MERForum
Dr. Wells designed CHAT (Children Having Academic Talks about languages, identity, dialect and culture) Academy as an intentional space for African-American students to use, practice and reflect on how they negotiate ideologies around racial equity and identity. #MERForum
“If you’re going to be transformative it has to be internal as well as external” - Karen Bradshaw #MERforum
Small group question: What stories and concepts are your institutions uniquely positioned to leverage? How can you push awareness to understanding and analysis? #MERForum
Karen mentioned museums having a scarcity mentality and Dr Banks builds on it.There isn't a finite amount of privilege. #MERForum
Tabari: We are more than a single story. In school he never learned about Black contributions to society. Only stories of injustice. #MERForum
Dr. Wells talks about the images we use in our marketing. She encourages us to not use images that show the oppression of Black people. Are your images portraying people in a positive light? #MERForum
Dr Banks to the panelists: What do museums need to know about St. Louis to better do their work?#MERForum
Dr. Banks: "We want to build. We don't want to hang out in 'awareness'. We want to cultivate awareness but for the sake of what?" We need to also understand and transform. #MERForum #racialequity
One person in my small group considers the "power of absence." What stories are we leaving out? Why don't we have the artifacts? Why isn't there an exhibit? How can we talk about that with our visitors? #MERForum
"Within programs, there are so many things you can do to share ownership." #MERForum
My (@AbsLovesMuseums) group is talking about the programs our museums offer. We need to be better at building trust and offering more than one-off programs. #MERForum
Dr. Banks reminds us that we don't need to (and can't) wait for everyone to be on board to start working on dismantling systems that oppress. #MERForum
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