#CilipNWPride

Photo of a painted pedestrian crossing depicting the colourful Progress Pride Flag.

Thank you Liverpool- it’s been a blast!
#CilipNWPride
#LGBTQ
#Library

Photo of the Lesbian and Gays support the miners banner

Photo of @jskstarr from the People’s History Museum standing behind a laptop and desk delivering a talk. JSK is wearing a colourful shirt and dark trousers.

Photo of a whiteboard slide showing a photo of a white tshirt from the anti section 28 march with the words ‘Never going underground’ on it.

“Organisations need to be seen as organic, with constantly growing collections and interpretations”
@jskstarr.bsky.social
#CILIPNWPride
#LGBTQ+

Photo of a whiteboard display with the words “we have always been here” with 3 photos One is of a pride march, one is of a banner with the words “act up Manchester” and one is of an exhibition.

Next up at our @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social and @cilipnw.bsky.social joint event is @jskstarr.bsky.social from @phm.org.uk outlining the impact of #Section28 on #museums, catalogues and collections.

“We are still playing catch up” and they’re are knowledge gaps.
#LGBTQ
#CilipNWPride

Photo of people at pride in colourful clothing with the pride and trans flag draped on shoulders. Placards read “send nudes” “bieautiful” “labels are for objects” “trans power”

Photo of people holding the first trans flag flown from Liverpool Townhall in 2013. The flag now is part of Liverpool Museums collection.

Absolute joy:
Photos from the collection at #Liverpool #Museum including the first trans flag flown from Liverpool Townhall 🏳️‍⚧️
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
#CilipNWPride
#LGBTQ+ 🏳️‍🌈

As well openly out exhibitions at Liverpool #Museums, Matt spoke about examining existing collections to identify #LBGTQ+ identities & enrich catalogue records to help narrate LGBTQ+ social history
#CilipNWPride
#metadata
#Cataloguing

Whiteboard screen showing national museum Liverpool logo and the text “from there to here: Transforming LGBTQ+ Inclusive practice”

Screen showing photos and names of the 7 museums of National Museum Liverpool: Museum of Liverpool World museum Walker art gallery Merseyside maritime museum International slavery museum Lady lever art gallery Sudley house

Photo of Matt Exley presenting his talk with a screen in the background showing black and white photos from the exhibition ‘Hello Sailor’ at Merseyside maritime museum, the first exhibition in Liverpool explicitly dealing with LGBTQ identities in a post section 28 world.

Photo of a whiteboard screen displaying a photographic portrait of April Ashley, a pioneering trans woman, model and activist born in 1935. This is from the first museum display about the life of a trans person.

Fantastic talk from Matt Exley from National Museums Liverpool for the @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social and @cilipnw.bsky.social joint event at @liverpooluni.bsky.social
#CilipNWPride

Photo of a whiteboard with the question “what does good allyship look like?”

Excellent discussion about allyship:
Thoughts around it being an active not passive approach, it being an all year round thing with policies in place to protect staff, as well as ‘own voice’ narratives being allowed to prevail with ally’s sharing the work load.
#CilipNWPride

Photo of three post it notes with colourful felt tip squiggles on them.

Please enjoy our ‘tortoise’ 🐢icebreaker art 😂
#CilipNWPride

Photo of flask of hot water and wooden box of tea bags

Photo of a white board with the text “knowledge cafe- cilip north west pride”

And we’re off…
looking forward to an excellent collaboration day between @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social and @cilipnw.bsky.social at #CilipNWPride