Here then is a beginning, an opening, in contextualising and situating why in 2022, here in Bristol, we are pursuing through an ongoing working group, discussions, arguments, dreaming, and planning for our very own UnMuseum. What you might ask is an UnMuseum? This is a good question, and the purpose of this introductory essay is to begin to address, though (intentionally) not definitively answer this question.
The Screening of The Meaning of Zong is certainly a night to remember for many who have attended. Lessons were learned, perhaps not just intellectual lessons, but lessons of the heart. We have learned of the value of empathy for people in the face of a system that does not recognise them for who they are.
The importance of learning from the ways we have resisted oppressive systems to guide us towards emancipatory futures cannot be understated. BSWN’s Decolonial Working Group has taken on the task of locating a new centre to amplify that which has been silenced, and to reassert the political and cultural agency of colonised people.
