Barriers to Entry: An Infrastructure of Exclusion in the Museum

I’ve been wanting to write this article for a while now, but I have been struggling with the content of this particular topic. In part, because it requires me to confront racism in the museum, and my own complicity in shaping policies and hiring practices that have unintentionally created barriers to entry for those of color and non-traditional backgrounds. While non-intentional, this banal negligence, nevertheless, spills out into every aspect of the museum and reinforces antiquated frameworks of restriction and exclusion that have systematically denied women and people of color equal access to the most fundamental of human dignities within the workplace. The <a href="https://sr.ithaka.org/publications/organizing-the-work-of-the-art-museum/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">ever-complicated stratification system</a> of museum staff, boards of directors, governors, members, donors, and museum-goers complicates the policy-making process and traffics a reticent enemy: racism; sexism; — exclusion. <a href="https://medium.com/@elisecouture/barriers-to-entry-an-infrastructure-of-exclusion-in-the-museum-15623f83f28e">Click Here</a>