About NOMN
Who is this for
Any employee of a New Orleans museum or archive interested in learning about or engaging in liberatory praxis. This group is intended to cross institutional and departmental boundaries. As a space predicated on inclusivity we value and affirm all identities and aim to support each other in educating, advocating and organizing.
What we hope to create
Inter-institutional Solidarity:
A space for museum employees to build a sense of collective empowerment through the sharing of experiences, concerns and visions for change. As a unified alliance we will support personal and/or organizational campaigns (petitions, letters, actions etc).
Active Acountability:
Creating opportunities for assessing and reassessing our own engagement with colonial, patriarchal, and white supremacist structures while organizing trainings and webinars within and amongst different museums and departments.
Structural Revisioning:
Identifying what policies, practices and/or people must be revised or removed, demanding that changes occur by partnering together to apply necessary pressure and establishing a community review board that can consult and advise regarding exhibits and programming.
How we envision sustainability
As a network that hopes to build collective power for the long run NOMN recognizes the need to be advantageously aligned with other organizations. We hope to extend our partnerships to other museums in the South, to become an affiliate of the ‘Death to Museums’ network, and to seek affinity recognition and funding from Southeastern Museums Conference and American Alliance of Museums. We believe that by creating alliances external to our institutions we can create organizing structures and compensation models that are unique to our needs while maintaining accountability.