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Lyra Monteiro

@intersectionist.bsky.social

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www.FindingCeremony.com My gender is "nope": medium.com/p/c6a1c0f8176d PhD Brown University, Joukowsky Institute for Archeology; MA Public Humanities, American Studies MA University of Michigan IPCAA

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Lyra Monteiro @intersectionist.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Relatedly: exactly a week before Rosa’s story is published, the museum hosts a “skull drawing workshop” with remains not currently on display:

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Lyra Monteiro @intersectionist.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Meanwhile, from the museum’s own social media (their thread includes images of human remains):

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Lyra Monteiro @intersectionist.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

lol fb failed this assignment by just leaving the question blank 😩—can Bluesky do any better? I know that such books exist--I've seen one! Just dunno where to find them...

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Lyra Monteiro @intersectionist.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I'd like to offer some Luigi content in the midst of a bleak week. This comes with questions: 1. Is this Luigi? (the pic was taken at Penn in Dec 2018, while he was a student there) If it is him...let's talk about question 2 (in reply)

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Lyra Monteiro @intersectionist.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Rachel Watkins...very disappointed. She's either a liar or doesn't bother to be informed about her work, because she just said this to an NPR podcast www.nhpr.org/environment/... (To clarify: the museum has called the cops on Finding Ceremony. That's been their engagement with us.)

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Lyra Monteiro @intersectionist.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Philadelphia City Councilmember Jamie Gauthier at this morning's press conference re: latest announcement by @upenn.bsky.social that Penn Museum has the remains of a second child murdered in the 1985 MOVE bombing--"they need to realize that this is not an academic project":

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Lyra Monteiro @intersectionist.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

All of which naturally leads me to posting Kyle Goen's lovely graphic for Decolonize This Place (whose name is, ironically, often dropped by such people) of Fred Moten's quote re: "help" (which I've usually posted at least once a year on twitter...the problem does not go away):

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Lyra Monteiro @intersectionist.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Here is the handout from yesterday’s #FindingCeremony Roundtable at #AAA2024Tampa “Ceding Disciplinary Control: Anthropological Praxis and Descendant Community Organizing for the Return of Ancestral Remains at the Penn Museum“:

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Lyra Monteiro @intersectionist.bsky.social · 23/04/2024

2. Slides from my Keynote at Johns Hopkins University and @redemmas.org, with color-coded numbers to show what's visible on recently found 2014 Flickr pics: Janet Monge displays bones of Katricia (comp image from 2019 Coursera video), Delisha, & other MOVE remains to the public at Penn Museum: 4/

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Lyra Monteiro @intersectionist.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

I'm giving a Keynote Lecture 4:30pm Friday, about faculty accountability re: human remains in universities, using the actions & inactions of Penn faculty regarding the Morton Cranial Collection & the MOVE remains as a case study. @redemmas.org Baltimore & on Zoom (www.skeletonsintheacademy.com )

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Lyra Monteiro @intersectionist.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

Short summary: It contextualizes Janet Monge's use of the MOVE remains as props in her public teaching video for Princeton within the centuries-long history of striping the Black and brown dead of their humanity by turning them into data. Here's the abstract (full text in this thread):

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