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Flat White

What’s woke this week?

18 February 2021

4:49 PM

18 February 2021

4:49 PM

Woke stories have come in from all parts of the globe this week including Pittsburgh, Auckland and England. Read on to find out the latest on racist lions (stuffed ones) and language (English, obviously) and fat studies aka the nascent field of fat pedagogy.  You can thank me later. 

Diorama drama 

This is not a new story but it came to light on Twitter this week. The Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh has hidden a diorama titled Lion Attacking a Dromedary behind a curtainWhy? 

The diorama was created for the Paris Exposition of 1867.

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