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Heba stands in a museum next to an ancient Egyptian sculptural artefact.

On today’s new #PeoplingPodcast, we are joined by the wonderful Dr. Heba Abd el Gawad to discuss the legacies of colonialism in the field of Egyptology, and the importance of community-based research in anti-colonial action. Listen in here: peoplingthepast.com/2025/05/13/p...

View the Parthenon as it stood in 432 BCE A historian recreated the awe-inspiring structure for VR.

View the Parthenon as it stood in 432 BCE. A historian recreated the awe-inspiring structure for VR.

#ClassicsBluesky 🏺

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🇵🇸 Gaza Needs Your Support: Help Build a Lifeline for Students and Remote Workers! In Gaza, war has destroyed homes, blocked roads, and left countless people without work. Yet, amidst the rubble, hope remains. Students and remote workers face daily struggles—power outages, broken…

$17 to sponsor a student in Gz for a day—internet, electricity, & more. Seems pretty simple.

💡 40+ students use this workspace EVERY day. They are persisting with life and we owe them everything—WHILE ALIVE.

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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Isra. Isra is a journalist in Gaza who has worked for 14 years with a lot of international experience (she is fluent in Spanish). She was also working on a PhD. She lost her father, home, work and university. She’s trying to help her family ❤️

You can see more of my work in my Portfolio, buy prints and merch on my redbubble, and even support me further on my Patreon 🧡 (3/3)

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Nine nations to discuss 'collective action' against Israel at The Hague NINE nations are set to meet in The Hague on Friday to announce “co-ordinated legal, economic, and diplomatic measures” to hold Israel…

NEW: Nine nations are set to meet in the Hague today to announce “co-ordinated legal, economic, and diplomatic measures” to hold Israel accountable for its violations of international law in Gaza👇

I am begging folks to share links instead of just screenshotting or quoting content without referring people to the source. Readers deserve the opportunity to examine the info in context, and authors deserve to have their work viewed directly if people are interested. Don't be extractive.

Sadly, the so-called international system is not built for this. Sanctions are crude instruments. States tend to fall into “with us” or “against us” categories, with few options in between. 32/

Lots of excellent points to discuss in this article, but can we also talk about the use of "Stone Age cultures" to describe indigenous peoples?

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two clay pieces at leather hardness; one is of a medieval stylized human figure, the other is a fish with a spiky back

the carving continues🧍‍♂️🐠🏺🎨

(my bench is *very* dusty and scattered with clay bits 😅)

Had to read his skeet three times to make sure I understood correctly....and like, how can you understand "billionaires are buying newspapers" and still put the responsibility on the class that doesn't have the $ to sustain subscriptions? 💀

Donate to Legal fund for Alex Norris "oh no" comics, organized by Alex Norris I am Alex Norris, creator of the webcomic Webcomic Name. I am here to ask for he… Alex Norris needs your support for Legal fund for Alex Norris "oh no" comics

Have you ever seen or shared an 'oh no' cartoon?
Did you know the creator is a queer Welsh artist?
Did you know they're being agressively pursued & harassed w/lawsuits from a US organisation trying to steal their intellectual property?
Did you know you can donate to cover the horrific legal costs?

ahhh such a traumatizing book/movie 😭

"Come no further!"

early stage of clay bunny with a test piece and a piece of paper with the design drawn on it

unpainted clay bunny, not yet mounted on a clay base

the clay bunny in the middle of painting, sitting on a clear palette with different paint tubes and other tools around

+ process

clay bunny with a golden creature inside it; the bunny is brown, has a cream/white tail with white dots, dark brown ears and hind legs, a pink nose, red-brown insides with bright red splotches; it sits on a green clay base with different shades of green semi-circles to suggest grass

Made another clay critter~ 🐰🏺🎨

I couldn't track down where I'd drawn the inspiration from so if anyone recognizes this medieval bunny let me know!

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Public perception of transgender #Archaeology! 🏳️‍⚧️ ⛏️💀🏺 Take the survey 👇 You'll help a PhD candidate and at the same time you contribute to bring this important research into the world!

#science #BioArch #TransInSTEM

#Archeology meets #herpetology 🧪🐸 🏺My friend Eva and I were looking for a new project to work on together, something other than brewing beer. Her passion for ancient #Mesopotamian #amulets and my love of #amphibians led to this cool publication. #ethnoherpetology www.jstor.org/stable/jj.15...

‘Genocide-free’ cola makes a splash in the United Kingdom Gaza Cola offers its drinkers an ‘apartheid-free’ alternative as they boycott big-name brands.

Cola Gaza offers its drinkers an ‘apartheid-free’ alternative as they boycott big-name brands, by @amyfallon.bsky.social @aljazeera.com

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Screenshot of the Quilt Index website, featuring a quilt overlain with a text block featuring the site's title

"The Quilt Index is an open access, digital repository of thousands of images, stories and information about quilts and their makers drawn from hundreds of public and private collections around the world." (via The Syllabus Project) quiltindex.org

Finding Ceremony A descendant-led process for restoring lineages of care to ancestors held in colonial collections.

Delisha Africa is a Black child who was murdered by the state in the 1985 MOVE Bombing in Philadelphia. The museum has no right to hold ANYONE’S family. Stay tuned to Finding Ceremony for info and action items! findingceremony.com