If you think #HenriettaLacks was the only person JHU didn't get consent from, think again.
I wrote a thing: Johns Hopkins’ Brain Collector
#UPEN #MortonCranialCollection #MuseumsAreNotNeutral #FindingCeremony #BodySnatchers bmoreprojects.blog/2023/09/08/joh…

Contributions to support #FindingCeremony are all the more important now--I was able to fund our costs myself in the past, but no longer can, & may have even fewer resources in the future. Check out the spreadsheet linked in QT; items are removed once they've been paid for. ty!

Important thread 🧵 #FindingCeremony

I've just updated our list of expenses to include some of the costs for the Roundtable discussion panel that we are proposing on #FindingCeremony for the upcoming Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

#FindingCeremony // 𝘢𝘈𝘭𝘪𝘺. AH-LEe Dr. Lyra D. Monteiro (she/zie) is not leaving. // please retweet and share. PoliceFreePenn: An Abolitionist Assembly Save the UC Townhomes AAUP–Penn GETUP-UAW is voting YES on May 1 & 2! Penn Museum Workers United Fossil Free Penn

Anthropology's colonial violence & disturbing histories of 'collecting' people's bones needs reckoning. Please learn about what's happening at Penn Museum and the important efforts by Dr. Lyra D. Monteiro (she/zie) is not leaving. and 𝘢𝘈𝘭𝘪𝘺. AH-LEe to care for the dead #FindingCeremony sapiens.org/biology/findin…

I'm stepping away from social media til July.
Sending love + hugs to all, in the midst of so much collective and individual grief. Please don't hesitate to contact me by text/phone or email (will peek at DMs). As ever, will be back as needed for #FindingCeremony updates.
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I’ve been involved with #FindingCeremony in various capacities for some time most recently assisting with the Genealogy group. I came into this through connecting over Twitter and have been repeatedly moved by the compassionate approaches to reckoning with this legacy.

hi everyone! i know a lot of folks have been following the multiple and parallel travesties at the Penn Museum. here is your chance to ask one of the conveners and lead researcher of #FindingCeremony specific questions that we may (or may not) be able to answer publicly. pls RT⤵️

U Penn Museum still holds cranial remains of 20 Black Philadelphians. 'We seek a consent-based process controlled by descendants and descendant community members.' By 𝘢𝘈𝘭𝘪𝘺. AH-LEe and Dr. Lyra D. Monteiro (she/zie) is not leaving. SAPIENS sapiens.org/biology/findin… #anthropology #FindingCeremony

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Thoroughly exhausted and drained now after 3 packed days Johns Hopkins University, engaging around the projects most central to my current work: #LiberationArchaeology & #FindingCeremony .
Esp grateful for the engagement with today's workshop on ethics.
tysm Jessica Leigh Hester for inviting me!

MargoH aka Elysabeth Grace, Updates mostly even if I'm forced to leave academia to pay rent & have health insurance, I'll keep writing this book for descendants of those held in the Morton Cranial Collection; & doing the work of #FindingCeremony . Care for ancestors is not 'for' my academic career, it's a life commitment.

Thanks to this reporter for the quick write up on activists' march to Penn Museum, and thanks to Abdul-Aliy and #FindingCeremony for this important work.
billypenn.com/2023/08/31/new…

Without applying an abolitionist mindset to decolonial heritage efforts we continue to empower these institutions to continue to control and police cultural heritage, using and abusing those they can manipulate to uphold their efforts. #findingceremony

Evidence of shallow museum practice, and removal of community agency and autonomy over their history. #findingceremony provides an innovative alternative model towards anthro study, but large white supremacist institutions will do everything they can to delegitimize these efforts

bint al-shamsa Xodaniwrites.bsky.social thank you for posting this. the Black & Indigenous Philadelphian's name is John Voorhees. There's quite a bit of info about the Black Philadelphians at Penn Museum, including #DelisaAfrica , a victim of the MOVE bombing at h/t #FindingCeremony .💖

“They spent no time at a ceremony for them, actually talking about them,” they said. “Besides saying that nothing can be known about them, they spent more time elevating the history of the White supremacist doctor who captured them.’
#FindingCeremony

cnn.com/2024/02/09/us/…

also, there are remains of black philadelphians, including the child delisha who was killed in the MOVE bombing in 1985, in the penn museum. check out the h/t #FindingCeremony .

I hope research on the Black Philadelphians Penn buried continues. If others, like John Voorhees, whose cover-up #FindingCeremony averted, are found Indigenous, will that mean Penn violated NAGPRA? Or does that reveal a double standard?