The Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
Deborah Thomas (Anthropology and Director of APC & GSWS) is featured in an article in The Inquirer on Bearing Witness: Four Days in West Kingston, an exhibit she co-curated at the Penn Museum through July 15, 2018. In May 2010, the “Tivoli Incursion,” a standoff between Jamaican security forces and a local gang leader wanted for extradition by the United States government, resulted in the death of at least 75 civilians in West Kingston on the island of Jamaica. This exhibition —part art installation, part memorial, and part call to action—sheds light on those events through compelling video and audio footage featuring firsthand accounts of people directly impacted by the violence.
To read the Inquirer article: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/crime/jamaica-tivoli-incursion-kingston-penn-museum-exhibit-deborah-thomas-gilda-knott-20171206.html