Like we needed more bad news. Benjamin Zephaniah has passed away. Thank you for everything, thank you for your heart, for your kindness, for your solidarity, for showing us the way and teaching us to Never be neutral in the face of injustice and whitewash no MBE/OBE. I’m in shock

Great news for the Portico Library. I know the team have put in a lot of work to getting the project this far.

Personally it's also great news because I won't have to keep listening to my Grandad complain about the lack of lift 😅

Yesterday marked a pivotal moment as we unveiled a hidden gem from our collection: ‘Am Not I A Man and A Brother’ (circa 1800, artist unknown).

After careful restoration by our conservation team, it's now on display at ISM for the first ever time. #MuseumMoment
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Congrats to all my friends and former colleagues at Glasgow Museums who worked on this. A positive step forward!

I am really disappointed that Museums Association have not condemned Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians and called for an immediate ceasefire in this statement. This is in direct contrast to their clear condemnation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: museumsassociation.org/our-statement-…

welcome to the quintessential colonial method of saying 'we stand in solidarity' without actually doing anything.

I expected more and better from Museums Association - you haven't even acknowledged this apocalyptic genocide unfolding before our eyes.

this sector man 😭

This reads like a bunch of disparate sentences put together incoherently to try to cover all bases and not piss anyone off. Do better.

CEASEFIRE NOW. WE DEMAND AN END TO OUR GOVERNMENTS COMPLICITY IN GENOCIDE. WE ARE WITH YOU PALESTINE 🇵🇸

People in Gaza are dying in the darkness.

This unthinkable horror cannot be undone — and history will not forgive those who refused to treat Israeli and Palestinian lives with equal worth.

Please, we need a ceasefire, now.

Colleagues and I are calling on Museums Association to speak out against the collective punishment and crimes against humanity we are currently witnessing in Gaza.

Read, sign, and share our open letter here: docs.google.com/document/d/1vf…

I know in the last week a lot of cultural events celebrating Palestinian music and literature have been cancelled. If you need a cultural space where Palestine is celebrated, the exhibition Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery is running in Cambridge until 29/10.

Happy to see 'Islands' continue its journey, and reminding me once again that I should write more!

Thanks to SALT · Independent trade publisher, est. 1999 and Nicholas Royle for republishing my short story 😊

🗣️🗣️ OUR BIGGEST LAB OF THE YEAR IS HERE🗣️🗣️

Join us for a day of curatorial discourse and experimentation from Black Curators for Black Curators!

Stay tuned to hear more about each session, talk, workshop session and play station 🌚👉🏽👈🏽

eventbrite.com/e/the-big-boi-…

Fascinating piece outlining some important new archival finds. I was really pleased to contribute on behalf of International Slavery Museum.