I wonder if it is striking to you, as it is to me, that the subject of ending a volunteer docent program has received ample and immediate coverage by the New York Times and Wall Street Journal while the dismissal of those paid, women of color, contract educators who depended on those jobs and were severely affected by that decision during the worst health crisis of our lifetime was ignored by these and most mainstream publications. Might that fact say something perhaps about white privilege?

Pablo Helguera

Read ‘Volunteerism and Expertise’ by Pablo Helguera (from his blog ‘Beautiful Eccentrics’): https://pablohelguera.substack.com/p/volunteerism-and-expertise

The Empathetic Museum. [@empatheticmuseum] (October 29, 2021). “I wonder if it is striking to you, as it is to me, that the subject of ending a volunteer docent program has received ample and immediate coverage …” [Photography: Louvre Museum, Paris, 1954; copyright Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos]. Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/empatheticmuseum/p/CVnfppGpgnB/