Fwd: Museums Journal is produced and edited by students at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). Its home is UIC's Museum and Exhibition Studies Program and it is published by Chicago-based StepSister Press, an imprint of Bridge Books.
"We all deserve the right to protect and keep ourselves safe. Implementing a mask ban is not only an infringement on our human rights but also extremely ableist and inconsiderate of those disabled or immunocompromised.
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About 1 in 5 adult New Yorkers have a disability. If a mask ban were to be implemented, spaces such as stores and restaurants might ban masking or set up mask-removal policy. That’s 1 in 5 adults no longer able to shop in public along with others, or participate in gatherings.
Forcing immunocompromised people to remove their face masks would likely violate the federal Americans with Disabilities Act and the New York State Human Rights Law. As a member of ACT UP NY, it’s always my goal to fight for human rights such as healthcare.
Those that are HIV+ are 8% more likely to be hospitalized due to COVlD than those that aren’t and are also at an increased risk of developing Long COVlD.
Masking SAVES LIVES. Masking is community care.”
Behind the Powecom KN95 is Serita @_seritasargent_ and her friend Bri’anna @lanoirede.jpg holding the #StopMaskBans sign.
MaskTogetherAmerica encourages everyone to speak up and write to elected officials to demand they oppose the anti-mask bills S9867/A10057 and S9194! We need to defend our right to masks.
One of the oldest personal bathtubs — the so-called “queen’s bathtub” — was found in Crete, at the Minoan palace in Knossos. It’s about 1500 years old:
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The manuscript is Walters Art Museum Ms. W.26! This initial is on f. 64r. The facing page (f. 63v) includes an illustration of Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus enthroned. So Claricia chose not only to illustrate herself, but to place herself in close contact with Mary & Jesus.
I think that’s pretty neat.
Although the manuscript has been digitized, unfortunately the digitized images aren’t currently available online (I know they’re being re-cataloged, so I assume they’ll be back up once that work is done). But the interface is there, which includes labels for the facing pages.
To be clear since a few people aren't getting it, this is an edit referencing an idiom. The idiom says that if you slowly increase the temperature you can boil (and kill) a frog without it noticing.The idea being it acclimates over time. An article about how your body can build up tolerance to heat listed under CLIMATE SOLUTIONS is ridiculous. This is part of an ongoing gaslighting campaign by media overall to make people think climate change (specifically global warming) is not a big deal. No amount of "getting used to it over time" will help disabled people on medications that lower heat tolerance. And if this continues people will die.
Today’s Exhibit of the Day? 🐛🐞🐜 The Museum’s Life on the Forest Floor Diorama. To create this up-close look—full of decomposing debris and hungry critters—Museum artists studied specimens under a microscope. Then, these bugs, weevils, and beetles were enlarged to about 24 times their actual size! Models were made out of clay, wax, and other materials. This archival image, snapped in 1958, depicts a Museum preparator installing models into this scene.
Netsuke of Frog on a Straw Hat. 18th century.
Credit line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/59709
On July 13, 1852, Henry Wells and William Fargo opened Wells, Fargo & Company banks in Sacramento and San Francisco. It was at 424 Montgomery Street, the company’s San Francisco location, that the company’s first bank transaction took place in California. The location of their Sacramento branch was at the corner of Second and J Streets in the B.F. Hastings building.
Because of the Gold Rush, it was not long before Wells Fargo offices opened in other towns throughout the gold region, such as Auburn and Columbia, where the company not only exchanged gold dust for bank notes, but they soon expanded with a delivery service transporting letters, packages, and gold on stagecoaches.
For today, Howard letterpress printed a large photo engraving depicting the historic Wells Fargo Assay office in Folsom, California. This photo engraving is based on an illustration made by Jane Wandmaker Whitnack in 1942. This was printed with black rubber base ink using our Washington hand press, which was made in 1852.
We're so excited to announce that this years publication is available for order on Bridge Books!
FWD: MUSEUMS: “Power/Potential”
Power: Having control or authority to dictate or influence people and organizations’ behavior and actions.
Potential: Having the capacity to build or develop a positive outcome in the future.
Power and the potential for power shape the relationships we have between ourselves, our institutions, and our governments. We relate these two words in this issue of Fwd: Museums to highlight how those being unjustly or unfairly treated have the potential to create their own power.
The Graveyard of Children and the Big Oven in Scorching Summer: Devastated Gaza
A plea from a Gazan family struggling to survive to another family in a better place on the same planet: we need your support in dodging bombs raining down on Gaza around the clock! We long for peace and safety! We long for a NORMAL life!
Life becomes incredibly unbearable in these scorching hot summer days turning tents into ovens that boil the blood in my family's veins. Even worse, the angel of death is taking the lives of so many helpless women, children, and elderly as you are reading this post.
As much as it weighs heavily on my burdened dear-stricken heart to say this, Gaza has gained more infamous nicknames during the ongoing genocide besides 'the biggest open-air prison in the world". Now, it is also an 'uninhabitable ghost city', 'the graveyard of children', and a 'blood bath'.
Only yesterday, Netanyahu, who is still thirsty for the blood of our children, made a press stating that the ravaging war on Gaza will continue. This means that my family, along with thousands of other families, will continue to run in a vicious circle of displacement, running from death, mass murder, hunger, thirst, and fear for life.
Please decide to take tangible action today to help my family evacuate as soon as possible to Egypt. I cannot lose them!
Please donate, reblog, and share everywhere you can.
Note: [Vetted by el-shab-hussein and nabulsi. # 151 on the spreadsheet of Vetted Gaza Fundraisers List] and vetted by @fallahifag here # 4 on the list.
People say: "Family always comes First," and to that, I say: "Amen!".… Mahmoud Khalaf needs your support for Death chases my family in Gaza;
[ID: Two black and white photos of Kwame Ture/Stokely Carmichael, a young Black man, saying into a microphone with a sardonic expression, "In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none, has none." End ID.]
Let’s get to the point… it’s Fossil Friday! Styracosaurus was a large ceratopsian dinosaur that lived some 75 million years ago. It was related to Triceratops, but unlike its three-horned cousin, Styracosaurus had a singular nasal horn. It also possessed huge spikes on its frill—the bony collar that projects rearward from the skull. Scientists think that Styracosaurus may have used its headgear to defend against predators, to attract mates, to intimidate rivals, or to combat with others of its kind. You can spot this formidable dino in the Museum’s Hall of Ornithischian Dinosaurs!
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