Art has a diversity problem. According to our study on diversity in US Major Art Museums, 75% of artists in major U.S. museums were white men and 1% were women of color. Now Black artists who volunteered to create art for a fundraiser are being exploited: https://www.fastcompany.com/90543912/the-whitney-said-it-supported-black-artists-then-it-did-something-super-shady
We at QSIDE are inspired by work of @masonporter and collaborators… work that explains what YOU can do to help stop the spread of COVID to people with disabilities. Click through to learn about this important project on #publichealth and #socialjustice.
Today’s mini-thread on #socialjustice and #publichealth: “Preventing #COVID19 Among #Disabled People and Their Caregivers.” A brief, accessible, nontechnical paper (but built on cool #math) that explains what YOU can do to help. ftp://ftp.math.ucla.edu/pub/camreport/cam20-33.pdf
There’s a large network of organizations devoted to addressing racial inequality. See and contribute to our living collection of organizations that produce or otherwise contribute to #data driven efforts to address racial injustice https://medium.com/data-stewards-network/ongoing-data-driven-efforts-to-address-racial-inequality-49e40ee05fee
