Documenting Activism, Creating Change: Archaeology and the Legacy of #MeToo

A powerful wave of feminist, intersectional, anti-harassment, anti-discrimination activism has swept archaeology and heritage since at least 2010, and unlike any other time in archaeology’s short history, much of this has taken place online.In some places this has created a space to have open conversations that previously only existed in whisper networks, meaning that sexism, misogyny and harassment can no longer be ignored or dismissed.This has forced our sector to listen, and organisations have had to confront hard truths and, in some instances, begin to make changes to their practice.As this volume shows, the picture is not necessarily consistent or global, but none the less the ubiquity of social media has brought activism around gendered inequalities and violence against women and minorities to the fore in archaeological practice around the world. Yet the activism that has unfolded over the last fifteen years has almost always occurred in temporary, transient spaces, through socia