[233/365] people's history and present
Aug. 21st, 2019 07:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cosmolinguistToday we went to the People's History Museum to see their exhibit on Peterloo. Kat is going to go away an expert on something she hadn't heard of a couple days ago. It contains a really moving shirt video that we watched first, and I like that it ties the historical event to modern protests -- we'd noticed with such heartbreak and dismay how the archival materials at the John Rylands Library yesterday could've been written yesterday (was this a dangerous mob? is it their fault the police had to bludgeon and trample them? etc.etc.).
And it invites the public to draw parallels too by sharing details of current campaigns. Which can be Problematic -- I look at the handwritten suggestions and the leaflets behind fridge magnets and try to remember which women's groups are TERFy and I boggle at a card that says something like "whether you voted Leave or Remain, we must be #manchestertogether against fascism and racism," as if Brexit is an opinion like coffee-or-tea and not one side full of fascism and racism and another side that's...well, more subtle in its racism and at least mostly against fascism.
Invited to write about past or present protests, Kat mentions Racefail and I write about the need to resist the last few years' well-funded establishment bigotry against trans people and particularly trans women.
And it invites the public to draw parallels too by sharing details of current campaigns. Which can be Problematic -- I look at the handwritten suggestions and the leaflets behind fridge magnets and try to remember which women's groups are TERFy and I boggle at a card that says something like "whether you voted Leave or Remain, we must be #manchestertogether against fascism and racism," as if Brexit is an opinion like coffee-or-tea and not one side full of fascism and racism and another side that's...well, more subtle in its racism and at least mostly against fascism.
Invited to write about past or present protests, Kat mentions Racefail and I write about the need to resist the last few years' well-funded establishment bigotry against trans people and particularly trans women.
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Date: 2019-08-21 06:56 pm (UTC)That sounds like something that would be very emotionally resonant.
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Date: 2019-08-23 09:42 pm (UTC)