Finders Keepers: On Sex, Tara the Buddhist Deity at the British Museum and Brownness in the Colonies
by Senel Wanniarachchi
“Your victory
Was so complete
Some among you
Thought to keep
A record of
Our little lives
The clothes we wore
Our spoons, our knives”
—Lenard Cohen, Nevermind
I am at the entrance to the British Museum and the path separates into two. I take the path which appears to be less crowded and a guard interrupts me saying this entrance is for ‘members-only’. I apologize, […]