One of the ideas in my book “Imperfect Solidarities” is that you can align with people momentarily and provisionally to move things forward—to be in solidarity does not have to mean agreeing with every single thing they’ve said and done ever. Solidarity is not an identification, it’s a strategy.
“The most important thing is he changes the way his teammates think about their own play,” Lebron James on Nikola Jokic. “When you’re able to inspire your teammates to play at a level that sometimes they don’t even feel like they can play at, that’s a true testament of a great one.”
"daddy, what did you do in the war"
son, i archived all 6,793 videos from the Kennedy Center before they disappeared from the internet
we all did our part
queer time, CMYK screenprint on cotton hanky. Made for the Salt and Blood of Hidden Kinship print exchange.
Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.
Remembering that fatigue and hopelessness is their goal and I’m too stubborn to let them win. Individualism isn’t the way, in the sense that you’re the one with the answers. You can only control what is immediately around you. Trying to give students the space to carry on safely is enough.
I think I’m always like, who wore it better? The small ad or the billboard? Like the setting in the Substance, that billboard plays such an omnipresent force. I would look at what their foundation is.
And yes. Teaching is hard and keeps getting harder.
I think I just bully them into explaining it to me and I’m maybe a little conceptually relentless? But I also do think it has a lot to do with conversations of “safe” “comfort” and the means with which students can take “risks,” especially if economics is playing a factor
I think a lot about when I was in school, I had one professor, our first project was 10 two layer prints in some absurd amount of time, maybe 1-1.5 weeks? It was like you had no time to think and the point was: get to work.
I force them to work large. They have no choice. For my first project in print 1, after they knock out 4-5 monotypes on the first week, the start work on a large monotype, full sheet. I make sure they have the means and tell them they can make a small image, but it must use the full sheet.
It’s amazing!! The exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum was so immense and rich with materials (a huge zine and publication exhibition). Tons of amazing documents. Sadly the catalogue is already out of print and I’m lucky that the copy we have is a students.
She’s my hero. Essential for any class working with archive-based practices.
And 5.) “Gesture, Ephemera, and Feeling” by Jose Esteban Munoz from Cruising Utopia
For reading assignments:
1.) Bad Archives by @soulellis.bsky.social and “Archives Behaving Badly” by Leah DeVun & Michael Jay McClure
2.) “Emotional Rescue” by Heather Love (from Feeling Backward)
3.) Intro from “Queer Ecologies” by Timothy Morten
4.) “Publics and Counterpublics by Michael Warner
Top (left to right): Strange Mutualisms by Vernal Pools Press, Exuberant Possibilities by Queer Ecology Hanky Project; Copy Machine Manifesto. Bottom (left to right): Queer X Design by Andy Campbell; Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects; The Unruly Archive by Stephanie Syjuco; Biological Exuberance by Bruce Bagemihl
I’ve been leaving out a mini library from my collection for my Queer Archives/Queer Ephemera class. Here are some fun selections I’ve been adding.
Thinking about this in contrast to, perhaps, some of my pessimism over the fascist policies hitting higher ed. I teach Emergent Strategy in my studio classes (actually, discussing tomorrow) and it’s this exact sentiment of care and solidarity that I am leaning on. People save people.
Applications that ask you to type your CV/resumé are forever the bane of my existence.
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There’s a lot of optimism here that I appreciate, but I think since that time the institution has become exceptionally well-equipped to handle disruption. Columbia University, along with several other public unis, are stealthily retaliating. I support all forms of disruption, but it’s getting harder
Curiously, I know from a colleague in Philly that once a lawsuit is involved, every accommodation will suddenly become available.
This feels like it happens all the time in higher ed. It’s so frustrating. I’ve resorted to finding alternative support for my students. I always remind them that the institution looks out for itself first. Definitely a reflection of the outside world.
In all honesty, I don’t know how we navigate all of this anti-DEI policy in a higher ed setting. I’ve never felt institutions to be the place where one can most effectively challenge structural oppression within the world. It’s scary times, and I hope we can just stick together and help each other.
The Dear Colleague letter that went out on Friday, banning *all* DEI activity at schools (who received this, college presidents and public school superintendents?)
www.ed.gov/media/docume...
erasure is happening all the time. I’m thinking about this project I did in 2018 that recorded all of the emails that went into the deletion of climate change-related terms on the EPA website, also the result of an EO. A 734-page book of all of the emails leading up to the purge
I would love to know any tips and tricks you gain! Recently hit some weird snafus and am wondering if it was the cheap Art Alternatives brand watercolors or something else (basically the pigment flaked off the gummed matte duralar)
Totally stunning. Can’t wait to see what the color component brings!
Protestor holding up a Palestinian flags. Reads “Sudan and Gaza”
The only thing I know about the Super Bowl is this.
New compliance doc for NEA recipients www.arts.gov/grants/legal...
