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2026-04-28 19:38 UTC
@snippet@fe.disroot.org @Talia@mstdn.social Happy to chat about this. One of the points of the book is that academic institutions (including mine) are highly complicit in structures of oppression (capitalism, colonialism, etc) and that we need to be organizing labor power from below to democratize and decolonize (or even abolish) such institutions
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@Talia@mstdn.social 2026-04-29 08:16
@snippet@fe.disroot.org I agree with that basic thesis. But what i see in my area is people adopting the word ‘activist’ as a means to advancing their own position within the institution, or worse institutions adopting it as a ‘brand strategy’. I’m curious about how people see themselves as ‘activists’ and what they think this work entails on a practical level. One museum lease I met said that ‘activism’ was _commissioning_ work from non-euro American artists (instead of just plundering it)