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I am so excited to share that we have two book available for review! As an academic journal that looks at not just museums but cultural institutions as a whole we're always on the look out for new books that aim to grow ones understanding of the injustices around us and how to change museum and archival practices for the better. That's where you, as a potential reviewer, come in! Reviews provide a critical analysis to new books coming out to help solidify their place in certain areas of study, connect them to other relevant literature, and help folks understand methodolgy used. If you're interested in reviewing the two books I have listed below please shoot us an email ([email protected]) with some info about yourself and why you think you'd be good for this review!

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe. Longtime organizers and movement educators Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes examine some of the political lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the convergence of mass protest and mass formations of mutual aid, and consider what this confluence of power can teach us about a future that will require mass acts of care, rescue and defense, in the face of both state violence and environmental disaster. The book is intended to aid and empower activists and organizers as they attempt to map their own journeys through the work of justice-making. It includes insights from a spectrum of experienced organizers, including Sharon Lungo, Carlos Saavedra, Ejeris Dixon, Barbara Ransby, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore about some of the difficult and joyous lessons they have learned in their work.

The past several decades have seen a massive shift in debates over who owns and has the right to tell Native American history and stories. For centuries, non-Native actors have collected, stolen, sequestered, and gained value from Native stories and documents, human remains, and sacred objects. However, thanks to the work of Native activists, Native history is now increasingly repatriated back to the control of tribes and communities. Indigenous Archival Activism takes readers into the heart of these debates by tracing one tribe’s fifty-year fight to recover and rewrite its history. Rose Miron tells the story of the Stockbridge–Munsee Mohican Nation and its Historical Committee, a group composed mostly of Mohican women who have been collecting and reorganizing historical materials since 1968. She shows how their work is exemplary of how tribal archives can strategically shift how Native history is accessed, represented, written, and, most important, controlled. Based on a more than decade-long reciprocal relationship with the Stockbridge–Munsee Mohican Nation, Miron’s research and writing are shaped primarily by materials found in the tribal archive and ongoing conversations and input from the Stockbridge–Munsee Historical Committee. Miron is not Mohican and is careful to consider her own positionality and reflects on what it means for non-Native researchers and institutions to build reciprocal relationships with Indigenous nations in the context of academia and public history, offering a model both for tribes undertaking their own reclamation projects and for scholars looking to work with tribes in ethical ways.

Fwd: Museums call for submissions 2025 is open!

Are you surviving the colonial institutions in place? Are you seeking liberation? Are you boycotting companies that support union busting and genocide? Are you uncomfortable in museums? What is your guide to navigating museums and museum-adjacent spaces? The 2025 Fwd: Museums publication is calling for submissions and is welcoming artwork, resources, interviews, reviews, poetry, and other works on topics related to surviving and navigating cultural institutions.

We encourage any and everyone to submit! Submission Deadline is January 2025. For more information checkout our website.

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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.