Laura Raicovich at Hyperallergic:
I don’t tell this story often, and have never told it in such detail publicly before. However, given our current moment of crisis in the United States, only a few months into the second Trump administration, it seems an important story to tell. It is a set of experiences that were horrible to live through, and yet, I would not be the person I am today had they not happened. Ultimately, the story is about power, leverage, and fear, and also about the potential for solidarity and love.
When Donald Trump was elected President of the United States in November 2016, I had been the director of New York’s Queens Museum for less than a year. Even in those early months, it was clear that the rhetoric and policies he, his campaign, and administration were promoting presented material threats not only to the populations who interacted with the museum most regularly, but also to many members of the team at the museum. As we gathered the morning after the election at our regular 9am staff meeting, many of us with tears in our eyes, we recognized the realities that we would confront in short order, and that would presage our current crisis in 2025.
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