Museum of the Bodies

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Exhibit 1: "Situated Knowledge"

"In Indigenous ways of knowing, we understand a thing only when we understand it with all four aspects of our being: mind, body, emotion, and spirit."- Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

Exhibit 2.1: "The Timeline"

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Exhibit 2.2: "The Question That Changes Everything"

gender came first

Sex came first

Exhibit 2.3: "Ghosts of the Models Today"

Exhibit 3.1: "The Analogical Method in 1800S"

Exhibit 3.2: "The Sculpture of Sarah Baartman"

• Born Khoikhoi woman in southern Africa• Transported to Europe and exhibited as the “Hottentot Venus” • Displayed as scientific evidence of racial and sexual difference • Her body used to justify: – racial hierarchy – sexual hierarchy – colonial domination • After death (1815): – body dissected – displayed in museums as “science” • From 1815–2002: – denied burial – transformed from person into permanent specimen

Exhibit 4.1: "When Gender Became a Tool"

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"Exhibit 4.2: "The Cost of Humanity"

Exhibit 5.1: "The Forced Performance"

Exhibit 5.2: "The thinking bench"

Exhibit 5.4: "Beyond the Binary"

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