Ending the semester with another episode of #StufftheBritishstole with @MarcFennell, a series that has been an important soundtrack (heartbeat?) to our efforts to think about museums, the meanings and emotions behind objects, and always, peoples' voices
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/stuff-the-british-stole/

It's been so powerful to get away from computer screens and have so many peoples' voices in our ears and heads, to feel all these damn feelings, to hear the sounds of cultural landscapes, and laugh out loud even in the midst of what has been a very hard time for so many.

If only museum scholarship, frankly any academic writing could do this kind of work--accessible, sensory, free, curious, funny, and "own voices" centered work.

And if @MarcFennell was being real about wanting ideas for new episodes: the Kohinoor diamond needs talking about, not least because my otherwise restrained Indian mother nearly came to fisticuffs with a furry-helmeted guard about whether it was a gift to the British or not.

Spoiler alert: she did not think it was a gift. Pretty sure she's not the only Indian aunty who feels that way.