Activist professor, DEI officer build ‘sexist objects’ campus collection inspired by racism museum

A feminist historian and a DEI vice president at a public university in Big Rapids, Michigan, have assembled a “museum of sexist objects” inspired by a preexisting museum focused on racism.

The Museum of Sexist Objects at Ferris State University “began when David Pilgrim, the Ferris Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion [and] founder of the Jim Crow Museum, started collecting sexist objects in the 1990s, which made sense due to the interconnected nature of sexism and racism,” museum lead faculty and Ferris State history professor Tracy Busch told The College Fix in an email last Tuesday.

The Jim Crow Museum of Ferris State University, whose collection inspired the feminism museum, “is the nation’s largest publicly accessible collection of artifacts of intolerance,” according to its website.

The museum “has accomplished its vision by increasing awareness of the damage that sexism causes to not only women and girls, but also to men and the LGBTQ+ community” she wrote.