04 August 2023

Links of the Week: August 4, 2023: The Belonging Museum

Adding belonging to DEIA is a first step, but transformation runs deeper.

01 August 2023

Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging "after" Affirmative Action

Adding Belonging to DEIA Doesn't Change Museums' Challenge to Transform.

04 July 2023

Better to be a Nosider than an Insider or an Outsider (part 2)

The obsession with inside and outside is only reinforcing the hierarchy.

27 June 2023

Are You a Museum Insider, Outsider, or Some of Both? (Part 1)

Insider and outsider definitions are more complicated than org charts.

09 May 2023

Feelings in the Workplace Are Real

Are orgs ready for what it would mean to treat feelings as tangible objects and processes?

25 April 2023

Everything Counts when Moving Teams Beyond Burnout: a Chat with Jen Holmes

Leading better teams is a constant process—and the most rewarding workplace practice.

21 April 2023

Links of the Week: April 21, 2023: Self Meet Self

Selves at work are complicated—and they should be. Can we deal?

28 March 2023

The Museum Doctors: Interview with Jose Antonio Gordillo Martorell of Cultural Inquiry

What if museums didn't just listen to children and communities, but did what they were told?

24 March 2023

Links of the Week: March 24, 2023: What It All Means

Turns out that searching for the meaning of all things requires a looser org structure than you'd expect.

17 March 2023

Links of the Week: March 17, 2023: The Brittle

This week's links include the polycrisis, transparency, care vs fascism, and what museums should be doing about it all.

13 January 2023

Links of the Week: January 13, 2023: All the Pretty Trojan Horses

We laugh off some spectacles and collapses to our peril

12 August 2022

Links of the Week: August 12, 2022: The Fairness Spin

Are efforts to make museums fairer workplaces—including with DEAI—just going in circles?

05 August 2022

Links of the Week: August 5, 2022: Just Eff It?

The dividing line between "just eff it" and "no effing way" has shifted, and museum workers have taken note.

15 July 2022

Links of the Week: July 15, 2022: (Northern) Summer Grab Bag

Here are some links on mission creep, DEIA, crypto, and burnout.

17 June 2022

Links of the Week: June 17, 2022: Do the Contradiction

Remote/hybrid work contradictions are a sign of how far museum workplaces have to go.