Even though this week the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art canceled a play about Gaza at the last minute, today it promised to include Palestinian voices in its programming in about six or seven decades, give or take.
“When thousands of Palestinian civilians are currently being bombed and starved every day, it just isn’t the right time to be humanizing and amplifying their pleas to not be deliberately murdered,” said BIMA spokesperson Lisa Akers. “The right time is after even more have died—like way, way afterward when hopefully me and everyone involved in this decision have long since also died and a new generation of staff can openly say how ashamed they are of all of us. We hope you understand.”
As part of its commitment to diversity and equity, the museum said it’s already so excited about how it will begin including Palestinian narratives just a few short decades after the opportunity to save hundreds of thousands of lives has passed.
“You have our word that we’ll be the first to build a Palestinian Exclusion Memorial or something in about 67 years,” Akers said. “Until then, our priority right now is remaining a safe space for our richest donors to stay racist AF.”
At press time, the museum couldn’t believe so many were calling the institution itself racist when it features so much art from Native Americans.
