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Kasia Tee
@KasiaTee
Historian. Museums, design, war, space, time, etc. Co-host
@cursedobjectsuk
bleak suburbia Joined April 2012
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@KasiaTee
I'm really proud of this! A v personal look at losing my identity and finding it again in a cup of herbal tea ☕️🌿
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@demarionunn
thrilled to announce that i’ve guest edited a week’s worth of essays for @ExploreWellcome on the topic of food and health. today is the first: @KasiaTee on rediscovering the variety of herbal tea you can find at polski skleps wellcomecollection.org/articles/Y1Fgh
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Not sure anyone will see this but just to say I’m thrilled to start my Lectureship with
@MuseumsBirkbeck
(and have an office that overlooks Bloomsbury’s decaying grandeur). I’ll be teaching a module I’ve designed - Museums, Memory and National identity - and I’m very excited!
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Just submitted my PhD thesis (!!) I was meant to celebrate by running as far away as possible, but due to Covid, instead I’m going to drink champs and catch up on four and a half years worth of reading for pleasure 🌟
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Firstly, the interpretation in the Tropenmuseum was so good it made me want to cry. We NEED and DESERVE this level of frankness in our ethnographic museums.
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This morning I passed my my PhD viva (!) so I can finally drink this bottle of Prosecco with my face on but more importantly - start my life again!
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Arriving in Euston 15 mins early for a train only to remember that rules don’t exist here. A Godless place. Satan himself would be pleased
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Over the summer I did a TED-style talk for the BBC, which will air this Wednesday at 20:45. Its only 14 mins, so give it a listen xx
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Finally FINALLY celebrated getting my PhD this weekend. So much vodka lord give me strength on this two day hangover but also 🥰🥰🥰
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Sorry this is all I post about - but being a Historian is basically just a title, there are literally no jobs. Working on
@CursedObjectsUK
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@danhancox
has been a light during a v dark time. And look! People like it! It’s in the Guardian Guide this weekend!! 😭
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They also had spaces where people could just sit down (I was tired) - this is so important for museums as public spaces where people should be able to just sit, and think without having to *buy* anything
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Please note that panels explaining the violent exploitation of colonised people appear consistently. It’s not just a one off. Almost every panel is reflexive and considered.
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Very sad that The Professor, the best and weirdest lil man I ever knew, has moved on to emulate ruined artworks in the spiritual feline realm. Sleep well my amazing-eared guy 🧡
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After 3 years (!!) today is my last shift at the best coffee shop in the world. This place got me through my PhD, and taught me a lot about community and friendship. So if you’re ever in gospel oak go say hello
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Why does every cell in my body *urge me* to be productive in Autumn? Anyway I resisted by going to Seville and I had a lovely time
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all my plant-enthusiast anti-colonialist friends should check this out ✨
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@aotulondon
🚨🌱Brixton Botanical Map 🌱🚨 we are thrilled to launch a map of green spaces in #Brixton which addresses the legacies of the British empire and celebrates local #botanicaleducation & #communitygardening initiatives. Download your free copy:bit.ly/BrixtonBotanic
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FAV DISPLAY: this might not look like much, but here we go. 1. There is a touch object for access needs 2. An interactive for engagement 3. Old-style mannequin for contrast and 4. LOOK AT THE WOKENESS OF THIS PANEL...
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If you would like to show what you think of this, i'll be outside between 9:45 - 10:30 making my autonomous-body-having-rights known ☺️
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They had temp exhibitions on afrofuturism, the afterlives of slavery, and African fashion. It felt so cohesive and not just an afterthought. I learnt so much.
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I wish I was feeling myself as much as the guy on
@BBCr4today
who called the description of new fighter planes read out to him ‘a very good’ one, only to be informed that was in fact his own description
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@KasiaTee
Shout out to all of my #twitterstorians this xmas. A couple years ago I got wild drunk and had a huge argument about the legacies of Churchill and now my family troll me whenever I need a fiver. Seasons greetings!
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FAV OBJECT: as a PhD nerd I think this bookcase is one of the best things I have seen in a while. All the books are made of a wood-type. But they also are representative of deeper power relations beyond their form. It makes me want to cryy
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Wholesome monday content 🌟 I moved back in w/ my elderly parents pre-lockdown, so asked my cousin to look after my plants. Shes turned our living room into a school, and my plants are now in ‘Forest Corner’. The little ones water the forest weekly and even have a chart
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I went for a walk to clear my head only to find this where my laptop should be. Mirabelles and 95% spirit to make my own flavoured vodka. I think this is how Polish parents show you they.. love you?
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@KasiaTee
Last week I began my journey as a new educator for
@HolocaustUK
. It just so happened to coincide with the 200th session to help to educate young people about the Holocaust by taking students to Auschwitz #LFA200
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@KasiaTee
After MONTHS of planning and editing, we are finally here!! The fist episode of Season 1 drops this Wednesday but until then pls go follow
@CursedObjectsUK
💖💖💖
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@CursedObjectsUK
Hello and welcome to Cursed Objects! A brand new podcast from @KasiaTee and @danhancox. Here's a trailer. First episode is Wednesday - on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Google, Stitcher. Please go and subscribe now!
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‘No one in our phone obsessed age will, aged 45, leave their wife for an 18 year old, and when the wife protests try to have her institutionalised - also, for some reason the wife’s sister will stay to raise the children’
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Mic Wright
@brokenbottleboy
There’s no escaping the shadow of Charles Dickens new No one in our phone-obsessed age will ever write as well as the novelists of Victorian England Susie Goldsbrough Wednesday August 23 2023, 9.00pm, The Times
Another day, another fantastically stupid premise for a Times column.
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....Like imagine if in our museums we simply reflected on the structures of power/oppression that made the work of Charles Darwin for example possible. IMAGINE UTOPIA
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@ShirinHirsch
I’m so sorry to hear this, academic work is encouraged to have more impact but it’s hard when you have very little control over other aspects i.e promotion
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@KasiaTee
It’s my birthday tomorrow, and what better way to kick start celebrations than visiting the house of the creepy psychologist from Luther !
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The public often imagine that museum collections are digitised and accessible, whereas often no one knows exactly what’s in the collections
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Dan Hicks
@profdanhicks
our legacy colonial model of what a national museum should be is broken at present only 62% of the @britishmuseum’s estimated 8m objects are on the public database time for transparency, and a root and branch ‘excavation’ of the collections to produce a comprehensive database
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Due to the ~*Absolute State*~ of our country this will now be available on IPlayer from Saturday instead
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@KasiaTee
Over the summer I did a TED-style talk for the BBC, which will air this Wednesday at 20:45. Its only 14 mins, so give it a listen xx
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Anyway, I’m sorry for the rubbish pics. All I know is that for its honesty, and consistency this is probably the best museum I have ever been to. If it were a poltician I would vote, and campaign for it
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@JosephineCumbo
GOD can you imagine the pretend hand-wringing over this decision ‘I’m afraid tough decisions need to be made in unprecedented times 😔🥺’ with the massive elephant in the room being VC bonuses - so embarrassing!!
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@KasiaTee
Cursed Objects is back baby!!! And now released every Monday to beat post weekend sadness. In this ep we discuss probably our most cursed object to date - enjoy ✨
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Cursed Objects
@CursedObjectsUK
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In this first of 10 new episodes - launching every Monday - @KasiaTee and @danhancox discuss leadership cults, Cold Wars and the ironic veneration of dictators. Get involved! 🎣 open.spotify.com/episode/2nigaL
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When I tell people who don’t have twitter about twitter (they usually ask about how awful it can be) I tell them about #museumhour as an example of how you can feel part of, learn so much about and stay up to date with debates within a community
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MuseumHour
@museumhour
Dive in - no experience required for #museumhour discussions - we share ideas, tips and ask those questions! Don't forget the all important hashtag so everyone can follow the discussion #museumhour
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@KasiaTee
Excited to be taking a break from dissertation writing to talk all things museums + pleasure cultures of war. If your in Liverpool - drop byyyy
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LJMU History
@LJMUhistory
We are really looking forward to welcoming @KasiaTee to the department this week. She will be delivering a paper titled 'A Pleasure Culture of War' on Wednesday at 4pm. All welcome!
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@KasiaTee
twitter friends, i'm going to be taking a break from socials to finish my PhD. pls tag me in lit tweets so that i can enjoy them when i return xx
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@KasiaTee
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@MigrationUK
More food stories: not only are you reminded about Spanish colonisation of the Philippines but also you can see the cooking instructions of how to make Puto. Also if anyone knows where to find Puto in London u need to help this guy out #foodhist
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Catch me in a distopia, utopia, allegory for purgatory, and literally anywhere this collection of books will take me that isnt the room I have lived in for the last 9 mnths with my thesis
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Also every other object was connected to a person, see the library slip inside the Pickwick Papers or the story inside the entry ticket
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A weird little Easter Egg in this picture I only just noticed is that (because I had no appropriate headshots) I had to use the colourised version of this picture I took after my last academic rejection for my staff card picture hahaha
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@KasiaTee
Just got rejected from an academic job I really wanted but at least I have great hair
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Watching my dear dad eat neat English mustard with a spoon and wondering if this is something you become (a father) or something you are born (eastern european)
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spending this rainy afternoon on my sofa with my cat and hes making lil squeaking noises because he’s so happy im not working and surely thats enough to dismantle capitalism
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