A supermajority of Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago employees have signed union authorization cards. Today we filed them with the National Labor Relations Board, requesting a union election! In addition, we sent a request to MCA leadership to voluntarily recognize our union.

Excellent news that the Getty Museum has released 88K+ images of artworks with CC0 - Creative Commons, making them free to use in any way you like. creativecommons.org/2024/03/13/get…

Staff: I have a PhD in this field and here are 47 papers to back up what I'm saying. Leader: Yes, but I want to run this by Boardmember X who retired from a different field 11 years ago and isn't remotely up-to-date on current research.

This made my eyelid twitch.

Your job will require you to regularly loan the organization money through travel expenses and the purchasing of essential supplies. In return, our accounting office will create a discouragingly complex process for you to get your money back, and then treat you with suspicion.

We already have 1,000 would-be Mozarts who instead of learning music and honing their skills are doing shit jobs for shit wages. They're spending their time just surviving instead of blessing the rest of us with music we'd love. What these would-be Mozarts need is basic income.

what if we gassed students and manhandled professors outside a center for excellence on a campus once built by slaves? they're outside agitators, after all, and much less seemly than our library exhibits of priceless archival materials about 1968, the Freedom Riders, and more

Shocking footage shows several officers at Washington University St. Louis beating a professor, slamming him, and dragging his limp body. SIUE history professor Steve Tamari is reportedly hospitalized with broken ribs and a broken hand. One doctor told him he's lucky to be alive.

SIUE professor Steve Tamari had to be hospitalized after his arrest at Wash U on Saturday. The video is eye-opening riverfronttimes.com/news/siue-prof…

My husband, Prof. Steve Tamari, is out of the hospital. He will need surgery on his hand, and he is in pain from nine broken ribs. We are asking for time to rest and heal. We will not be taking media interviews at this time. Here is Steve's statement and ways you can support.

There’s something happening in Louisiana right now that should be setting off alarm bells for people all over the country - but it hasn’t gotten nearly enough attention. 🧵

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Happy Juneteenth! Here’s “I Shall Not Be Moved” from Other Voices a few years back. In the wake of the last surviving members of the Tulsa Massacre being denied reparations, it’s a stark reminder of how far we have to go.

In the novel Fahrenheit 451, the abolition of reading began with tech companies simplifying books into summaries that you could read in five minutes. Because people no longer engaged with the texts, they forgot how to think. Then came the book-burnings.

White friends, especially white women who did not have an undergraduate sorority experience: In the coming months you’ll likely see a great deal of content about VP Harris’ sorority affiliation and the support from its members. We 🩷 it. Some info & tips for us: 🧵

I had a chat with a Benin Plaque about where it thinks it belongs 😕