Twitter Users Celebrate Good Statues

By Kristy Puchko | Social Media | November 12, 2020 |

It’s been a wild year in statues news. Thanks to the renewed attention to Black Lives Matter, statues of slave traders and colonizers from the Confederates to Christopher Columbus have been taken down. Over the summer, that spurred Twitter users pondering what statues improved their environments. Now, in the wake of the debate over a London statue of 18th-century English writer Mary Wollstonecraft, Twitter users followed a prompt to champion their favorite statues.

It began with this question: What are some actually good statues?

what are some actually good statues?
— britain's largest hen (@SzMarsupial) November 11, 2020

The answers offered a wonderful array.

This statue of Texas civil rights leader and congresswoman Barbara Jordan which both acknowledges her disability and shows her as the powerful, thoughtful figure she was. https://t.co/AO2PLjUnBh pic.twitter.com/IITwEGJiPG
— Lilah Sturges (@LilahSturges) November 11, 2020

https://t.co/PTb7t0rKPX pic.twitter.com/vb8ByBqkaA
— Beatrice Loayza (@bealoayza) November 11, 2020

personally i like this one of squirrels worshipping an acorn in my neighborhood pic.twitter.com/fLdglV5xAy
— Owen Williams ⚡🇨🇦 (@ow) November 11, 2020

fuck that owns
— britain's largest hen (@SzMarsupial) November 11, 2020

Sendai Daikannon in Sendai Japan is pretty sick pic.twitter.com/lmiXtEUsWL
— OiHoi (@ThugEnergy) November 11, 2020

A great memorial at Gare Centrale that marks the sacrifice of Belgian railway workers not as victims but as heroes of resistance pic.twitter.com/WJOSC9f6vJ
— Bruno Waterfield (@BrunoBrussels) October 31, 2018

pic.twitter.com/NmDdwxPdA0
— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) November 11, 2020

People like us, Cardiff Bay pic.twitter.com/7YwYI4KpxX
— siwan (@SCClarkCymru) November 11, 2020

Freedom statue in Zambia pic.twitter.com/Iv3eQgSu4T
— David Grossman (@davidgross_man) November 11, 2020

This beautiful Karin boye statue in gothenburg, ppl passing by make sure she always has fresh flowers pic.twitter.com/2IFrJ6x84D
— dark teen (@syndtpopp) November 11, 2020

Usain Bolt, Kingston, Jamaica pic.twitter.com/VkquY7MYYT
— Michael P. Regan (@Reganonymous) November 11, 2020

also always thought this one of john betjeman in st pancras is quite lovely, pausing to look up and admire the architecture (he saved the station from demolition) pic.twitter.com/TzByIKBgua
— Jon Stone (@joncstone) November 11, 2020

phillis wheatley's statue in boston!!

she was the first black author to be published in the united stateshttps://t.co/EcAwPFVfHU

her statue is part of the boston women's memorial https://t.co/hxjAxtjB1v https://t.co/1VVr4k9yiK pic.twitter.com/nw3ZUGy1wQ
— ann_ellipsis (@ann_ellipsis) November 11, 2020

the one of jason voorhees thats chained to the bottom of a lake where i live https://t.co/Mj5NHh4wKK pic.twitter.com/EVrn5HSEqQ
— elle (@pvItergeist) November 11, 2020

This extremely metal statue of King Arthur in Cornwall, UK https://t.co/sjiygkD5vP pic.twitter.com/zTn2gid0y9
— mcbride (@Jmcbride94) November 11, 2020

What’s a statue you love?

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