"The issue isn't whether we should or shouldn't exhibit human remains, but rather can we do so in a way that does justice to these individuals."- Sara Ray, director IE

No, you can't do so! Because in the end, you're still displaying their stolen bones! So whose version of justice is this?

Well said.

For classicists, historians, and others concerned with the politics of the past, here are links for my work on American whyte supremacy and ancient Greece and Rome that are frequently taught:

1. This January 2021 @hyperallergic.com op ed:

hyperallergic.com/614175/how-a...

2. This 2020 Medium post adapted from a chapter of my 2012 PhD dissertation, titled: "Power Structures: White Columns, White Marble, White Supremacy"

intersectionist.medium.com/american-pow...

For classicists, historians, and others concerned with the politics of the past, here are links for my work on American whyte supremacy and ancient Greece and Rome that are frequently taught:

1. This January 2021 @hyperallergic.com op ed:

hyperallergic.com/614175/how-a...

My Co-Convener, aAliy Muhammad, and I are available for keynotes/talks for an appropriate fee.

If you're interested in inviting us to speak about #FindingCeremony at your institution, organization, or conference, you can reach us at: lyra.d.monteiro at gmail.

It's not the same thing for an academic to speak to students about her work with minimal compensation, as it is to ask a community member to revisit trauma under those circumstances.

With that in mind:

Both pieces work well in undergrad and grad courses.
I'm available to guest lecture in any class where #FindingCeremony's work is on the syllabus taught, for your institution's standard honorarium--DM me or email lyra.d.monteiro at gmail to schedule this.

2. "Open access violence: Legacies of white supremacist data making at the Penn Museum, from the Morton Cranial Collection to the MOVE remains," a longer journal article that I published in the International Journal of Cultural Property: doi.org/10.1017/S094...

Relatedly: exactly a week before
Rosa’s story is published, the museum hosts a “skull drawing workshop” with remains not currently on display:

Meanwhile, from the museum’s own social media (their thread includes images of human remains):

No paywall: web.archive.org/web/20250729...

That’s a relief, ty for telling me! It’s unfortunate the caption doesn’t make that clear.

Thanks for capturing so clearly the situation at the museum—most of the media coverage this past year has compounded the violence of the museum’s staff & fans by leaning into sensationalism.