Kasia Tee
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Historian. Museums, design, war, space, time, etc. Co-host @cursedobjectsuk Co-director @MuseumsBirkbeck
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My brother got me a Walter Benjamin chopping board and I just..burst into tears? Simply the best present ever 😭❤️
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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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can we have more displays on food histories and migration like this pls
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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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Merry Polish Xmas! I’m mentally preparing myself for some rogue foods (karp) by drinking (vodka)
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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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Just got rejected from an academic job I really wanted but at least I have great hair
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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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Happy Feb 24th! My mum gave me this poem during my PhD but I still think about it all the time
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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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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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"We've lost the mother yeast to our daily bread" …is a sentence I have just heard on the BBC
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Brb just been ruining all of your dads dreams about the Second World War x
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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
w
@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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The new
@I_W_M
galleries open today, and you’ll probably find more ‘people’ stories than before - something I wrote about last year (my first ever published thing!!)
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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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THIS! The anti-intellectual strand in the UK by mainstream political commentators is at best them being negligent and awful at their jobs, at worst cynical deception
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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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THERE GOES THE NEIGHBOURHOOD (to property developers). When did we start wearing I love Kentish Town/Hackney/Peckham T-shirts? This week on
@CursedObjectsUK
we examine hyper local branding with icon
@AcademicDiary
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Back on my bullshit (teaching MA students about DIY podcasting methods and having nice hair)
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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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every polski sklep will have some herbal teas, but ‘U Cioci’ in Edgware truly is what dreams are made of
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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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Heartbreaking to see the continued dismantling of the Humanities
@uniofbrighton
– please sign against staff losing jobs:
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WOW. Just discovered that the chapel near my house is hosting an anti-abortion 'coffee morning' this Saturday?? Speechless. WHAT is happening.
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Telling my Marxist mates I went on a date with a guy who works in finance:
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Me describing my PhD thesis to my family
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all my plant-enthusiast anti-colonialist friends should check this out ✨
🚨🌱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:
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Actually wait, one for the spatial geographers LOOK at this building 😍
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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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Proud to stand alongside my family in solidarity with Ukraine against Putin’s imperialist war
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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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This time last week was the debut of our
@CursedObjectsUK
inspired workshops - with 33 masters students from UAL who were so creative and inspiring I almost cried. Thanks
@glwulff
for collaborating w us 🥰
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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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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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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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Big up my aunty, who’s trolling knows no bounds, for sending me this truly curséd mug in the post
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So, I got told I need to stop speaking at conferences and write my PhD. Tomorrow is my last conference - and I’m presenting to 140 people. Guess I gotta go out with a bang!
@CDPConference18
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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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FINALLY found a picture that shows how I feel about the UK dating scene
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Merry Christmas from my mum who remains simply the cutest person in the world
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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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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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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
💖💖💖
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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Cursed Objects listeners will know Dan and I are obsessed with supermarkets - so this piece by
@rubytandoh
for
@vittlesmagazine
speaks to my soul. Essential reading for anyone interested in postwar design and social history
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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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Today will go down as the best Monday since records began. My supervisors said very nice things about my 30,000 words, my friend surprised me with this tshirt, and Love island begins at 9
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral
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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’
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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A weird way to end the year! With covid, a bit sad, but huge amounts of vodka. HAPPY POLISH XMAS XX
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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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@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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The public often imagine that museum collections are digitised and accessible, whereas often no one knows exactly what’s in the collections
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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All those ingredients had stories on. To hold food that connects with people so strongly was so so moving
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Got drunk on the holloway rd and had an emotional moment with the Andover estate
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Due to the ~*Absolute State*~ of our country this will now be available on IPlayer from Saturday instead
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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@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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I know that many of us are furious today - for so many reasons - so a reminder to go say hello to some trees
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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
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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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 ✨
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! 🎣
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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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It was inspired by this episode of cursed objects we did for Walter Benjamin’s 130th birthday (which was this year!!!)
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I went an growed my first plant! Everyone, meet Avi the Avocado 🌱🥑💚
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Does this mean they are going to focus on how badly she treated her workers?
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Excited to be taking a break from dissertation writing to talk all things museums + pleasure cultures of war. If your in Liverpool - drop byyyy
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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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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The absolute state of academia.
Why I’m not [allowed to be] striking...
My message to fellow
@UoNUCU
@ucu
members.
#UCUStrikesBack
#UCUstrike
#anticas
#phdchat
#phdlife
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I wrote my first solo bit of journalistic writing for
@NewHumanist
and apparently it's good!
broadcasting legend
@KasiaTee
knocked it out of the park in this quarter's New Humanist on the Imperial War Museum's new Second World War Galleries.
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Also I can finally put up my v v earnest thesis acknowledgments! Not mentioned are my examiners
@DrClaireWintle
@CPenistonBird
- thank you for reading my work and your thoughtful critiques during my viva 💖💖💖
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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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One day I’m going to write a cultural history of foods in jelly and it’s going to be horrible
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Tbh I was really moved by
@MigrationUK
‘Room to Breathe’ exhibition, and I am so gutted that I only discovered it on its last day. I would have shouted about it from the rooftops !
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Im a Historian and I work in an amazing coffee shop where I’m valued and loved, and I critique neoliberalism while making lattes, bitches
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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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Love that my horoscope app is rly relating to my conference experience
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Had my hopes raised and then cruelly dashed seeing the film The Lighthouse on iplayer isn’t about the iconic
@ukgranddesigns
ep. Raises the question, if it was, who would play Kevin?
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No sunday dinner is complete in a Polish household without a robust discussion of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact
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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
Just got rejected from an academic job I really wanted but at least I have great hair
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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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@MigrationUK
They provided amazing spaces for visitors to share experiences. Like this ‘classroom’ where you have to sit on tiny chairs. The notebooks were full of stories of dealing w/ racism, class and friendship and the weirdness of new places
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Approx one week to go until my students give me their freshers illnesses, so what better way to spend Sunday than listening to this podcast on the Spanish flu with my babes
@HannahMawdsley
If you’d like to hear more about one of the deadliest pandemics in human history (and who wouldn’t?!) our podcast ‘Going Viral: The Mother of all Pandemics’ is now LIVE! New episode each Friday:
Thanks to
@wellcometrust
for support!
#GoingViral
#1918flu
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Incredibly excited to share mine and
@danhancox
article on dystopian toys for
@CodaStory
- something that came out of our podcast
@CursedObjectsUK
!!
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