Social Justice
The War of All Against All: Review of The Persuaders, part 2
The callout culture around callout culture only feeds into the War of All Against All.
Are We Listening? Review of The Persuaders, Part 1
A new book calls out callout culture, but does it practice the deep listening it advocates?
Links of the Week: January 27, 2023: Rights and Royalties
You can tell a lot about a society by what it values.
Links of the Week: January 13, 2023: All the Pretty Trojan Horses
We laugh off some spectacles and collapses to our peril
Changing Museum Overwork Culture and More
Can lessons used in changing overwork behaviors be applied to larger societal issues?
Co-Creation Requires a Museum Field Re-Creation
More museums are co-creating, but a deep and widespread practice will require a new org culture.
Links of the Week: May 13, 2021: Ace off Base
What does the internal turmoil at a small software company have to do with museum org culture? Read on.
Antiracism and Museum Organizational Culture
Antiracism isn't simply an action plan. For museums, that means rebuilding their own structure and culture into something new.
The Capitalism Conundrum for Museum Workers
Is there another way for the museum sector besides all-encompassing capitalism? Thoughts on week two of MCN 2020.
Museums in an Age of Redux
A look back at a post from four years ago—are museums any more ready to resist authoritarianism, even in their own org culture?
The Museum at the End of the World: "I Didn't Mean It Literally" Edition
What should museums do in the apocalypse? Stop talking about leadership, realism, and the new normal, to start.
The Schrödinger's Career of Working in Museums
Museum workers are calling out the contradictions of their institutions and the field. Are museums—and workers—ready for the changes required?
A Year of Shattered Expectations
I started writing a year-end blog post several times, but it felt weird and delusional, like I was ignoring the approaching giant planet ready to destroy the Earth.