Annual Report (July 2021 – July 2022)
The Black Trowel Collective (BTC) Microgrants was formed in early June 2020 and launched on the 22nd of June 2020. The BTC Microgrants are a collective of archaeologists (PhD students, faculty members, and CRM archaeologists) committed to the active support of archaeology students from working-class and historically looted communities who are both regularly excluded by…
Everyday Anarchy for Archaeologists
This week, many of us met in person to run a session at a big archaeology conference. To accompany this session, we tweeted tips on Everyday Anarchism for Archaeologists (E.A.A.). Here you can find a comprehensive, but definitely not exhaustive, list of things you can do every day as an anarchist archaeologist. If you have…
Anthro{dendum}: Archaeologists for Trans Liberation
Our friends at Anthro{dendum} kindly hosted our follow-up post for our Trans Liberation statement. Please see the opening below, and read the rest at the link: To be an archaeologist is to revel in the diversity of human expression through time. Trans perspectives and voices add necessary further dimensions to our understandings of the past.…
Archaeologists for Trans Liberation
We, the Black Trowel Collective, stand with our trans members, friends, colleagues, neighbors, and community members. We do this out of care and in solidarity, but also backed by a scientific understanding of the past as a space where trans people and all manner of gender and sexual fluidity and variation exist comfortably. Our trans…
The Black Trowel Collective Consensus Process
The Black Trowel Collective came together to agree a proposal and consensus building process to continue to shape and grow our community along anarchist principles. The Seeds of Change describe the importance of consensus thus: Consensus is a decision-making process that works creatively to include all persons making the decision. Instead of simply voting for…
The Black Trowel Collective stands in solidarity with our Indigenous colleagues
The Black Trowel Collective stands in solidarity with our Indigenous colleagues to condemn the platforming of openly anti-Indigenous scholarship at this year’s Society for American Archaeology meeting. This season once again saw the SAAs forcing marginalized archaeologists to shoulder the burden of explaining the violence of racism to non-marginalized archaeologists. This burden was compounded by…
February 2021 Quarterly Report
The Black Trowel Collective (BTC) Microgrants was formed in early June 2020 and launched 22 June, 2020. The BTC Microgrants are a collective of archaeologists (PhD students, faculty members, and CRM archaeologists) committed to the active support of archaeology students from working-class and historically looted communities who are both regularly excluded by traditional scholarship and academic programs,…
Running Safer Sessions en Español
Con ánimos de generar resultados positivos a partir de circunstancias negativas, el Colectivo Cucharín Negro ha elaborado colaborativamente un conjunto de guías para llevar a cabo sesiones más seguras, sean en línea o presenciales. El texto es el siguiente, así como sus versiones en PDF y JPG para una más amplia distribución. PARA HACER SESIONES…
Running Safer Sessions
In the spirit of creating positive outcomes from negative circumstances, the Black Trowel Collective has collaboratively produced a set of guidance for running safer sessions, whether they are online or in person. The text is as below, and we have also created pdfs and jpgs for broader distribution. We think of these materials as suggestions.…
1 October 2020 Quarterly Report
The Black Trowel Collective (BTC) Microgrants was formed in early June 2020 and launched 22 June, 2020. The BTC Microgrants are a collective of archaeologists (from PhD students to faculty members) committed to the active support of archaeology students from working-class and historically looted communities who are both regularly excluded by traditional scholarship and academic…
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