J.S.K. Starr
@jskstarr.bsky.social
Disabled, nonbinary, Jewish, queer, immigrant. They/them.
Oral historian, museum practitioner, educator, sensitivity reader, accessibility consultant & poet.
https://linktr.ee/JSKStarr
Oral historian, museum practitioner, educator, sensitivity reader, accessibility consultant & poet.
https://linktr.ee/JSKStarr
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“Organisations need to be seen as organic, with constantly growing collections and interpretations”
@jskstarr.bsky.social
#CILIPNWPride
#LGBTQ+
@jskstarr.bsky.social
#CILIPNWPride
#LGBTQ+
June 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
“Organisations need to be seen as organic, with constantly growing collections and interpretations”
@jskstarr.bsky.social
#CILIPNWPride
#LGBTQ+
@jskstarr.bsky.social
#CILIPNWPride
#LGBTQ+
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Next up at our @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social and @cilipnw.bsky.social joint event is @jskstarr.bsky.social from @phm.org.uk outlining the impact of #Section28 on #museums, catalogues and collections.
“We are still playing catch up” and they’re are knowledge gaps.
#LGBTQ
#CilipNWPride
“We are still playing catch up” and they’re are knowledge gaps.
#LGBTQ
#CilipNWPride
June 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Next up at our @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social and @cilipnw.bsky.social joint event is @jskstarr.bsky.social from @phm.org.uk outlining the impact of #Section28 on #museums, catalogues and collections.
“We are still playing catch up” and they’re are knowledge gaps.
#LGBTQ
#CilipNWPride
“We are still playing catch up” and they’re are knowledge gaps.
#LGBTQ
#CilipNWPride
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Crucially, Jaime points out that interpreting marginalised histories is often taken up by minoritised museum workers, many times working outside the scope of their assigned roles. We need to recognise this extra labour and allocate staff hours to support these workers. @jskstarr.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Crucially, Jaime points out that interpreting marginalised histories is often taken up by minoritised museum workers, many times working outside the scope of their assigned roles. We need to recognise this extra labour and allocate staff hours to support these workers. @jskstarr.bsky.social
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Loved this quote in an article about kids' engagement, participation and inclusion in museums, but first and foremost:
"Children have the right to be fully included in public spaces"
doi.org/10.1177/0907...
"Children have the right to be fully included in public spaces"
doi.org/10.1177/0907...
May 6, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Loved this quote in an article about kids' engagement, participation and inclusion in museums, but first and foremost:
"Children have the right to be fully included in public spaces"
doi.org/10.1177/0907...
"Children have the right to be fully included in public spaces"
doi.org/10.1177/0907...
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It’s weird to me that scholars keep writing that John Singer Sargent was a very private man who left no evidence of his sexuality when his sketches are like the definition of being horny on main, 19th century style.
May 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
It’s weird to me that scholars keep writing that John Singer Sargent was a very private man who left no evidence of his sexuality when his sketches are like the definition of being horny on main, 19th century style.
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"What if my museum doesn't have a queer collection?" Jaime says YES YOU DO! Every museum, every city, every community has queer history. It takes research and dedication to find these stories, says @jskstarr.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"What if my museum doesn't have a queer collection?" Jaime says YES YOU DO! Every museum, every city, every community has queer history. It takes research and dedication to find these stories, says @jskstarr.bsky.social
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Jaime Starr @jskstarr.bsky.social speaking about using queer or LGBTQ in museums: not everyone will agree. You might get pushback about ANY term. The key is to choose your terms thoughtfully, stay consistent, and train staff to explain the museum's choice.
May 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Jaime Starr @jskstarr.bsky.social speaking about using queer or LGBTQ in museums: not everyone will agree. You might get pushback about ANY term. The key is to choose your terms thoughtfully, stay consistent, and train staff to explain the museum's choice.
Last Thursday was the proudest night of my career so far. Hosting the sold out Solidarity Forever: 40 Years of LGSM at People's History Museum (@phm.org.uk) interviewing Mike Jackson and Jonathan Blake, and co-curating the pop-up LGSM exhibition was a dream come true.
March 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Last Thursday was the proudest night of my career so far. Hosting the sold out Solidarity Forever: 40 Years of LGSM at People's History Museum (@phm.org.uk) interviewing Mike Jackson and Jonathan Blake, and co-curating the pop-up LGSM exhibition was a dream come true.
I am thrilled to be presenting at the Museums + Heritage Show this year!
"We Have Always Been Here" - Highlighting Marginalised Voices in Permanent Collections shares my work curating LGBTQIA+ Hidden History tours at People's History Museum.
Free tickets: show.museumsandheritage.com/2025-programme
"We Have Always Been Here" - Highlighting Marginalised Voices in Permanent Collections shares my work curating LGBTQIA+ Hidden History tours at People's History Museum.
Free tickets: show.museumsandheritage.com/2025-programme
March 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I am thrilled to be presenting at the Museums + Heritage Show this year!
"We Have Always Been Here" - Highlighting Marginalised Voices in Permanent Collections shares my work curating LGBTQIA+ Hidden History tours at People's History Museum.
Free tickets: show.museumsandheritage.com/2025-programme
"We Have Always Been Here" - Highlighting Marginalised Voices in Permanent Collections shares my work curating LGBTQIA+ Hidden History tours at People's History Museum.
Free tickets: show.museumsandheritage.com/2025-programme
🎉 Trans+ History Week has been shortlisted for a DIVA Award! We need your votes! Please vote for us to win charity or community project of the year: www.surveymonkey.com/r/3SK3YQX 🗳️
#DIVAawards25 #LVW25
#DIVAawards25 #LVW25
February 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
🎉 Trans+ History Week has been shortlisted for a DIVA Award! We need your votes! Please vote for us to win charity or community project of the year: www.surveymonkey.com/r/3SK3YQX 🗳️
#DIVAawards25 #LVW25
#DIVAawards25 #LVW25
My latest blog for @phm.org.uk for LGBT+ History Month is a brief overview of UK HIV activism from the beginning of the epidemic to the present.
phm.org.uk/blogposts/a-...
phm.org.uk/blogposts/a-...
February 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
My latest blog for @phm.org.uk for LGBT+ History Month is a brief overview of UK HIV activism from the beginning of the epidemic to the present.
phm.org.uk/blogposts/a-...
phm.org.uk/blogposts/a-...
It was an absolute pleasure to give an LGBT+ History Month lecture on Section 28 (the UK's version of a 'Don't Say Gay' law) at the Belfast office of Herbert Smith Freehills this week, discussing the societal environment in which the law was introduced, its impacts and legacy.
February 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
It was an absolute pleasure to give an LGBT+ History Month lecture on Section 28 (the UK's version of a 'Don't Say Gay' law) at the Belfast office of Herbert Smith Freehills this week, discussing the societal environment in which the law was introduced, its impacts and legacy.
She bop.
Absolutely AMAZING gig tonight from Cyndi Lauper on her farewell tour.
Absolutely AMAZING gig tonight from Cyndi Lauper on her farewell tour.
February 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
She bop.
Absolutely AMAZING gig tonight from Cyndi Lauper on her farewell tour.
Absolutely AMAZING gig tonight from Cyndi Lauper on her farewell tour.
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Welcome over here to People's History Museum @phm.org.uk
- please give them a follow!
- please give them a follow!
December 13, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Welcome over here to People's History Museum @phm.org.uk
- please give them a follow!
- please give them a follow!
The US govt website purge has highlighted something that we in the heritage industry have been talking about for years - the fragility of digital only records. 🧵with practical suggestions.
February 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The US govt website purge has highlighted something that we in the heritage industry have been talking about for years - the fragility of digital only records. 🧵with practical suggestions.
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Please sign this petition to ban ‘gay conversion*’ throughout the EU. The UN considers such brainwashing as a form of mental torture.
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
eci.ec.europa.eu
February 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Please sign this petition to ban ‘gay conversion*’ throughout the EU. The UN considers such brainwashing as a form of mental torture.
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
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We just need 2,200 Irish people to sign it for the Irish quota to be met in the petition. Please share widely.
In a world where social media supports fascism, it’s important to stand up for human rights.
In a world where social media supports fascism, it’s important to stand up for human rights.
February 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
We just need 2,200 Irish people to sign it for the Irish quota to be met in the petition. Please share widely.
In a world where social media supports fascism, it’s important to stand up for human rights.
In a world where social media supports fascism, it’s important to stand up for human rights.
I had so much fun leading a tour and facilitating at our LGBT+ History Month archive open day at People's History Museum yesterday morning. As I told the attendees, my favourite kind of mornings are on event prep days where I delve into the collection & archive to find exciting queer items to share!
Enjoyed a queer tour of the People's History Museum today with the brilliant @jskstarr.bsky.social 🌈⚒️
February 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I had so much fun leading a tour and facilitating at our LGBT+ History Month archive open day at People's History Museum yesterday morning. As I told the attendees, my favourite kind of mornings are on event prep days where I delve into the collection & archive to find exciting queer items to share!
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In case anyone thought "no fats no femmes" was new
February 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
In case anyone thought "no fats no femmes" was new
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Some useful info from the archive. #LGBTQHistoryMonth
February 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Some useful info from the archive. #LGBTQHistoryMonth
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Then our tour got to look at collections they'd pulled from the archive- what a treasure trove. #LGBTQHistoryMonth
February 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Then our tour got to look at collections they'd pulled from the archive- what a treasure trove. #LGBTQHistoryMonth
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Enjoyed a queer tour of the People's History Museum today with the brilliant @jskstarr.bsky.social 🌈⚒️
February 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Enjoyed a queer tour of the People's History Museum today with the brilliant @jskstarr.bsky.social 🌈⚒️
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'Applicants should have no more than seven years of active full time postdoctoral experience at the time of application (discounting career breaks, but including teaching experience and/or time spent in industry).'
Deadline is 18 March, so get your skates on.
Deadline is 18 March, so get your skates on.
If you're an early career researcher - perhaps based in a fledgling authoritarian state - and want an out, @britishacademy.bsky.social offer 2-year fellowships to come to a UK university (including relocation costs and research funds).
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...
International Fellowships 2025
The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
February 9, 2025 at 8:46 AM
'Applicants should have no more than seven years of active full time postdoctoral experience at the time of application (discounting career breaks, but including teaching experience and/or time spent in industry).'
Deadline is 18 March, so get your skates on.
Deadline is 18 March, so get your skates on.
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“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”
Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher
Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.
www.thepinknews.com
December 18, 2024 at 8:04 PM
“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”
It was an early start today for an interview on Gaydio Manchester about LGBT+ History Month & People's History Museum's exciting events - tours, an archive open day and our LGSM night on Feb 27th!
Tickets: phm.org.uk/whats-on
Listen here: gaydio.co.uk/manchester/player/on-demand/andrew-edwards
Tickets: phm.org.uk/whats-on
Listen here: gaydio.co.uk/manchester/player/on-demand/andrew-edwards
February 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
It was an early start today for an interview on Gaydio Manchester about LGBT+ History Month & People's History Museum's exciting events - tours, an archive open day and our LGSM night on Feb 27th!
Tickets: phm.org.uk/whats-on
Listen here: gaydio.co.uk/manchester/player/on-demand/andrew-edwards
Tickets: phm.org.uk/whats-on
Listen here: gaydio.co.uk/manchester/player/on-demand/andrew-edwards