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I’m gonna procrastinate this afternoon by collecting some choice responses to the recent @SAPIENS_org article about the lack of diversity in archaeology: https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/archaeology-diversity/Because I want white archa

I know there’s a current issue with archaeology and planning policies in the U.K. right now so I get why the framing is necessary, but also imagine an archaeological practice

We need to also be doing the reading alongside supporting Black protestors financially, materially, and, if possible, physically. Folks have been posting some really important pieces of literature and I’ll

I have absolutely nothing to add to the discussions occurring today, but I really want white archaeologists to sit with the looting discourse. I've RTed a couple of Tweets that

A Pessimistic Thread on Academia While I Procrastinate Because I Feel Like Shit and I'm Almost Out of Anti-Depressants Again: I'm still fuming about that Tweet from earlier, about how

Over the past week, I've been seeing a lot of folks consider or downright decide to leave academia after all of this...and basically across the board, they were all marginalised

As a migrant, you're expecting to bend over backwards and show fealty to countries that will barely give you crumbs - and that's if you're lucky.Even if you become a

I feel like that one of the major reasons why racism in archaeology is never truly or adequately addressed is because there’s already such a lack of BIPOC voices in

Tbh I’m still pretty upset over the discourse regarding an off-hand remark about the whiteness of archaeology and how that intersects with the discipline’s role in colonialism - I saw