Margaret Middleton
@magmidd.bsky.social
They/them. Manchester, England. Freelance designer of playful learning experiences. Museums - Exhibit Design - Social Justice - Queer Possibility - Power of Play - Children's Museums margaretmiddleton.com
Librarians. Government documents librarians. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
National park signs on women and LGBTQ+ history are disappearing. Librarians are preserving the record.
The revisions have scrubbed or softened accounts of violence, slavery, activism and lived experiences, raising questions about whose stories the government considers worth telling.
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It's less about banning the kids and more about destroying online privacy for everyone. Here in australia huge chunks of the internet are now inaccessible unless you send you drivers licence and picture of your taint to a Palintir subsidiary, and it is getting worse by the month.
Check out latest on MuseumsActTogether Guest post from Margaret Middleton gretchenjennings.substack.com/p/responding...
Responding to Backlash
“Despair is easy. Cynicism is easy. Hope, on the other hand, takes work.” Felix Mufti
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As far as we know, the primary cause of death in ICE custody is a refusal to provide medical care. It’s a form of structural violence and extremely common component of eugenics and ethnic cleansings.
Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 8mo agoAnd here's a text-heavy order from Judge Sorokin on Friday saying ICE failed to heed his orders to ensure a detained woman was receiving epilepsy medication. He threatened contempt if the meds were not provided. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72181...
shout about all our victories, because our oppressors want us hopeless. we are going to win over and over again
Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
This isn't just near Independence Hall. It's where Washington stayed while president, kept slaves, posted bounty ads for runaways, and rotated them back and forth to VA to evade PA's manumission law. This is what it's known for, this specific location's primary historical significance is slavery.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 9mo agoThe exhibits about slavery at the President’s House in Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park have been removed amid pressure from the Trump admin www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...
Just walked past a house getting roof work with the radio blasting. As soon as Natasha Bedingfield hit the chorus, four loud Yorkshire voices suddenly joined in from under the tarp. Bravo, lads.
This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...
Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT
The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars
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Note that the fascist is not using the pepper spray for crowd control. He is entering a vehicle unimpeded to depart. He is simply using the pepper spray to physically punish an unarmed citizen he doesn't like.
amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 9mo agoBig clash this afternoon between DHS agents and protesters in a residential street in Minneapolis, following a DHS agent hitting another vehicle. Tear gas was deployed in people’s yards and agents pepper prayed people.
if you want to know what it is like in minneapolis, I don’t even have to scroll on facebook to find a horror story. it’s basically my whole feed. everyone i know in minneapolis is seeing ICE take people—at gas stations, taquerias, bus stops, schools. just snatching random people.
This looks like 1,000 videos I've seen from authoritarian states
Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 9mo agoWhat in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
I’m at Times Square, where an emergency “No War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20°F weather. “No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!” “No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”
These guidelines are beyond irresponsible. AHA lost all credibility with this one.
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · last yr.Seriously, fuck off. I say that with all due gravity.
Call for papers closes in 2 weeks time!
Emma Martin@tibetcurator.bsky.social · 11mo ago📣 Call for Papers 📣 Please share widely. I am pleased to announce a #CfPs for the upcoming international conference on Museums and Dissidence at @officialuom.bsky.social Scan the QR code for further details. #Museums #Dissidence #PoliticalDisagreement #Conference #MuseumActivism
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I'm glad to have signed this statement in support of queer and trans staff at the National Library of Scotland, who by the sounds of it are going through an awful time at the moment: docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Reminder that, unless a creative freelancer has a spouse with a day job that offers health insurance, they likely have an ACA plan. And with the hits to creative industries the past few years, I'm guessing many qualify for subsidies. Related reminder that comic creators are freelancers.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@aoc.bsky.social · 11mo agoThe average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
all the staffers at teen vogue who just got laid off I hope yall feel how appreciated your work has been by so many.
I was due to take part in an event at @britishlibrary.bsky.social tonight but now I’m choosing not to go because I won’t cross a picket line. Solidarity to @pcsunion.bsky.social and the British Library workers.
With the Trump administration cutting off SNAP benefits, I think it's really time to pull together. I made a little donation to City Harvest, and if you donate to any food bank and tell me what your small problem is, I'll give you a pep talk in Monday's newsletter! (Send me your receipt too!)
If you ever think you're doing something new with visitor centered practice in museums, a children's museum has probably already done it.
Opinion | Trans pride in the museum 🏳️⚧️ Margaret Middleton on how Manchester Art Gallery has opened its doors to transgender communities.
Trans pride in the museum - Museums Association
Margaret Middleton on how Manchester Art Gallery has opened its doors to transgender communities
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