La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)
Cultural worker/curator/art historian
latanyasautry.net
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral alturl.com/ajzd5
Social Justice & Museums bit.ly/2UG1aUD
- “As long as we formed little committees and went to the bus company and asked to be treated like human beings and continued to travel on the bus nothing happened.” —Rosa Parks, quoted in The Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks, by Jeanne Theoharis Rosa told us. #SweetRosa
- recalling Carrie Mae Weems opened her "Contested Sites of Memory" performance w/ discussing 🧊. this thoughtful and moving address introduced her thoughts on histories of disenfranchisement and violence, struggles for parity and the ability to live, and hopes for reconnection and social betterment.
- "....enslavement must be casual wrath and random manglings, the gashing of heads and brains blown out over the river as the body seeks to escape. It must be rape so regular as to be industrial." Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me "𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭"
- I recall this a lot -- Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me "In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage. Enslavement was not merely the antiseptic borrowing of labor—it is not so easy to get a human being to commit their body against its own elemental interest.
- And so enslavement must be casual wrath and random manglings, the gashing of heads and brains blown out over the river as the body seeks to escape. It must be rape so regular as to be industrial." —Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
