Rhind’s Sister | Recognising and honouring women in archaeology
Appendix > If I like you, I like you. For me that’s a pretty simple philosophy. Similarly, when it comes to academic pursuits – if I like and respect your work it’s because I do actually like and respect your work. What I’m getting at here is that I don’t have any particular agendas when it comes to the age, sex, gender, ethnicity, or whatever else you care to mention. Basically, if you’re doing interesting work (or, at least work that I find interesting – which is inevitably bound up in its own collection of biases) I don’t particularly care if you’re male or female, what colour skin you’ve got, or who you choose to sleep with. That all sounds laudably liberal, but it does put me in the odd position that certain things are largely invisible to me as they’re totally off my radar. They don’t bother me because I not always aware that I need to be bothered. Sometimes it takes someone stating the blindingly obvious (to everyone else) for me to recognise that a problem even exis...