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gvgktang (51)in #history • 7 years ago
NCPH 2018: A Recap
Read people's livetweets of our working group "Insider/Outsider: Racial Bias & Positionality in Interpretation," as well as my recap/reflection thread. Now on Wakelet…
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gvgktang (51)in #sex • 7 years ago
From Lit to Bit: How'd People F*ck Back Then?
Ah, the joys of studying sexuality! I'm interested in addressing the taboos surrounding the use of explicit primary sources in "respectable" historical scholarship. What…
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gvgktang (51)in #nonprofits • 7 years ago
Let's Dispense with the Formalities...
How and where would you dispense $10,000; $100,000; $1,000,000; and $10,000,000 to have maximum impact for public history? $10,000 $3,000 grants to three people of color…
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gvgktang (51)in #history • 7 years ago
NCPH 2018: Announcing "Insider/Outsider: Racial Bias & Positionality in Interpretation!"
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Vegas, baby! I'm at the NCPH 2018 conference this week and TOMORROW, myself and ten other public historians will be meeting to continue what…
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gvgktang (51)in #preservation • 7 years ago
Materialities & Preservation in the Digital Age?
This week's reading – the 2005 Heritage Health Index Report on the State of America’s Collections – centers on the tenuousness of our physical cultural heritage. From books…
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gvgktang (51)in #history • 7 years ago
Interpretation or Interaction? On Exhibit Labels in a Labelless Age
Our reading for this week – a report by the the Wyncote Foundation titled "Like, Link, Share" – explores how cultural institutions are embracing digital technology. One…
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gvgktang (51)in #philadelphia • 7 years ago
PubComm 2018: A Recap
Miss last week's Public History Community Forum? Want to relive the glory? Review the fantastic insights and wisdom our speakers had to offer! Check out this Wakelet…
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gvgktang (51)in #philadelphia • 7 years ago
Announcing PubComm 2018!
PubComm 2018 is set for TOMORROW – Thursday, April 4th, 10am-3pm at the William Way LGBT Community Center (1315 Spruce St). Register here. This year's theme is Racism &…
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gvgktang (51)in #nonprofits • 7 years ago
What's Kink Got To Do With It? Deaccessioning in Grassroots Archives
My colleague @dduquette provided us with a great summary and synthesis of this week's readings – The Library Company of Philadelphia's 1987 annual report (penned by James…
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gvgktang (51)in #sex • 7 years ago
Dyke Mongers! Satanic Sapphists!
As a highschooler, one of my favorite sites was a Tumblr called F— Yeah, Queer Vintage (now inactive). Posting an array of vaguely labeled, misattributed, and/or uncited…
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gvgktang (51)in #nonprofits • 7 years ago
Ban White Saviors, Dismantle History Institutions (Part 2)
Read Part 1 . White project leaders-cum-saviors have redoubled their efforts to co-opt politically-driven, civically-engaged public history from POC, citing "the importance…
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gvgktang (51)in #nonprofits • 7 years ago
Ban White Saviors, Dismantle History Institutions (Part 1)
My engagement with history has almost always been mediated through a white institution. In an act of virtue signaling or in order to meet the quotas set out in "inclusive"…
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gvgktang (51)in #nonprofits • 7 years ago
20th Century Solutions, 21st Century Problems?
My colleagues have done a great job responding to our readings for this week – Stephen A. Greyser and Stephanie Woerner's 1996 case study on the Historical Society of…
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gvgktang (51)in #nonprofits • 7 years ago
Arts, Culture & Politics in Philadelphia: Some Background
In my last post, I proposed funding three local, mid-size organizations of color for a collaborative public history project. Here's some background on them (from GuideStar…
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gvgktang (51)in #nonprofits • 7 years ago
The Personal is Political is Historical: An LOI
This post is based on the Barra Foundation's LOI guidelines, which can be found here. Problem Traditional historical institutions rigidly adhere to canonical narratives…
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gvgktang (51)in #history • 7 years ago
History is a Hot Mess! GIFs, Memes, & 'Drunk History'
What happens when you search "1918" on GIPHY ? You get a scattered mess of ambiguous clips – a jumble of seemingly anonymous moments from one hundred years…
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gvgktang (51)in #nonprofits • 7 years ago
Does Size Really Matter? Institutionalizing the Past
When it comes to interpreting, preserving and presenting the past, what are the pros and cons of big, midsized and small institutions? First, we must consider how we are…
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gvgktang (51)in #history • 7 years ago
Drugs, Sex, & Games: Party Like It's 1918!
The popular historical imagination has led most of us to believe that, one hundred years ago, people were stuffy, repressed, and much too concerned with propriety to be any fun.…
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gvgktang (51)in #nonprofits • 7 years ago
Strategic Planning or Strategic Posturing: Whose Expectations Must Cultural Organizations Meet?
TCC’s Ten Keys to Strategic Planning , provides a solid overview of nonprofit strategic planning – its goals and processes, plus examples of positive outcomes. It offers…
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gvgktang (51)in #history • 7 years ago
"The Revolution Will Not Be Funded"
This post draws its title from the great activist anthology 'The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex.' Nonprofits disrupt radical social…
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