A digital image with the photographs of three people, left to right: Ajunie Virk sitting in front of camera equipment, a laptop, and a green screen; Arielle Knight in a red dress in a green field; and Jason Rhee, A Korean American man with a neutral expression wearing dark orange dress shirt and black glasses with a grey background.

Tomorrow: Hope to see you in-person or online to meet Squeaky Wheel's Spring residents Ajunie Virk, Arielle Knight, and Jason Rhee! Free or suggested donation, Ali Baba to eat for irl attendees on as always 🙂. Drop in: squeaky.org/event/meet-t...

For online friends: This weekend, you can watch the films of Alex Rivera and Khaled Jarrar as part of Squeaky Wheel's Infiltrators series along with the artist talk we held with Alex and Khaled. Starting tomorrow (Friday) and available through this Sunday.

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Photographs of Alex Rivera and Khaled Jarrar side by side, with the text “Tuesday, March 24, 7 pm ET Artist talk: Alex Rivera and Khaled Jarrar Online; register at squeaky.org”

Online friends: tomorrow evening (7pm ET), we’ll be hosting Khaled Jarrar and Alex Rivera for a conversation as part of the series INFILTRATORS which focuses on their films. Feel free to jump in. A separate surprise this weekend.

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Desire Paths for Wikipedia An extension that remembers the path of a cursor over the linked pages of Wikipedia, “wearing” them into the page.

I've just published a new userscript that remembers the path of your cursor over the linked pages of Wikipedia, averaging and wearing them into the page, showing your browsing history over time

Install at greasyfork.org/en/scripts/5... or read more about it everest-pipkin.com#projects/des...

A brief batch of images from our current exhibition, Radiation Borders @squeakybuffalo.bsky.social , with work by Dion Smith-Dokkie, Elizabeth Tannie Lewin, Hanae Utamura, and Inas Halabi. On view through December 12. More info: squeaky.org/event/radiat...

It's additionally special for us to be able to work with our former Workspace Residents, Elizabeth Tannie Lewin (resident in 2017) and Hanae Utamura (resident in 2021), and welcome their work back to Buffalo. The show is on view through December 12. Hope you get to drop by.

Opening next Friday, September 26: Happy to be presenting Radiation Borders, with work by Dion Smith-Dokkie, Elizabeth Tannie Lewin, Hanae Utamura, and Inas Halabi. The four artists in the exhibition trace the borders, and lives inside and outside of nuclear toxicity.

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One of the books I'm most looking forward to this year.

We mourn the passing of Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim (1937–2025), whose fearless, unflinching works shaped generations of Arab literature. His voice endures.

We strongly recommend this piece via ArabLit, translated by Emily Drumsta.

​A digital background with the Squeaky Wheel logo and the text: Call for applications. Workspace Residency, Spring 2026. Applications open September 1, 2025 Deadline Friday, October 3, 2025

​A digital background with the Squeaky Wheel logo and the text: Open to filmmakers, artists, curators, scholars, among others working in media arts, Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency provides time, support, and equipment access for new or in-progress projects. We aim to support our residents’ careers and continue our relationships after the residency has concluded. Former residents have been invited to present exhibitions, performances, screenings, among other activities.

​A digital background with the Squeaky Wheel logo and the text: The two-week Spring 2026 session offers residents with equipment access, up to $1300 in stipends and artist fees, accommodations, $400 in travel support, and optional financial assistance for child-care and/or disability support.

​A digital background with the Squeaky Wheel logo and the text: Info-sessions: Online: Tuesday, September 2, 12 pm ET. The session will be recorded and uploaded online. In-person at Squeaky Wheel: Saturday, September 6, 2 pm. On our website, you can also book a 20 minute virtual feedback meeting with Curator Ekrem Serdar.

We will soon be accepting applications for the Spring 2026 session of our Workspace Residency! Learn more at the link to learn more, and get your applications ready: squeaky.org/workspace-residency

Workspace Residency is supported in part by Teiger Foundation.

Book Event: THE DOCUMENTARY AUDIT How does listening in documentary become a proxy for justice—and what other kinds of listening might be possible?

Join us for the Documentary Audit Book Launch! September 19, 6PM at NYU's Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway. Register here to attend in person or on Zoom: tisch.nyu.edu/cinema-studi... With special guests Lakshmi Padmanabhan, Jordan Lord, and LaCharles Ward.

#SneakPeek 👀 @carolinaebeid.bsky.social's HIDE—a reinvention of visual poetry and personal history charting exile’s impact on memory, identity, and futurity—is out March 3, 2026.⁠

Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/hide...

60-year-old Black history archive faces uncertain future after federal cuts The Amistad Research Center, one of largest repositories of Black history, cut half its staff after the Trump administration ended four federal grants.

The Amistad Research Center, one of the largest repositories of Black history, cut half its staff after the Trump administration ended four federal grants

For international consistency sake, it does make me happy to hear US lefties embrace “liberal” as an insult.

Israel brutally detaining Gaza hospital director as ‘bargaining chip' Held without charge for 7 months, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has been beaten, starved, isolated, and cut off from his family. His freedom is nowhere in sight.

Israel brutally detaining Gaza hospital director as ‘bargaining chip,’ says lawyer

Held without charge for 7 months, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has been beaten, starved, isolated, and cut off from his family. His freedom is nowhere in sight.

Interview by Shatha Yaish

www.972mag.com/hussam-abu-s...

Not saying they aren’t or can’t be related - I have lived in Austin - just saying that a pencil shaped old dude with long hair talking about Biden letting in too many refugees wasn’t immediately expected

I forget current fascist aesthetics sometimes, and am taken aback when someone who looks like they went on tour with the Disco Biscuits starts spouting qanon

A reminder that Dr. @shannonmattern.bsky.social announced her resignation from this awful place just yesterday. I’ll link to what she had to say about it. Imagine what went unsaid.

zohran winning is satisfying but not as satisfying as my archnemesis the nyt once again being WRONG AS FUCK

i am deeply troubled by the media’s reluctance to cover the rise of conversion therapy activism in the U.S. and hope that future coverage of this ruling focuses on how it could further popularize what some U.S. states and other countries consider to be cruel and inhumane treatments

2003 was mostly rage walks but I’m 41 now, so it’s mostly crying

Please do not try, go pee in your diapers somewhere else

Absolutely refusing to learn why they’re calling him taco

I used to be like “imagine if Tom Cruise had charter schools all over the world and Obama supported them”

RIP to the great Flo Jacobs, may her memory be a blessing to us all

This program is now online through June 6. Hope you enjoy!

Extremely Shorts Film Festival 2025 — AURORA PICTURE SHOW Aurora’s annual showcase of contemporary short films (3 minutes or shorter), the 28th annual Extremely Shorts will screen May 30-31, with some participating filmmakers in attendance and receptions…

Houston friends, online friends, this Fri and Sat and next week: I had the great pleasure of curating this edition of Aurora Picture Show's Extremely Shorts Film Festival. I had a lovely time curating the 30 brief films of funny, piercing, moving work.
www.aurorapictureshow.org/programs/ext...

Remembering jes sachse: disability activist, artist and maker of good trouble | CBC Arts Friend and collaborator Gabrielle Moser reflects on the late Toronto artist who approached life and work with 'radical freedom.' They died earlier this month at the age of 40.

“All of my favourite artists are people who think about everything — there's no aspect of expression and the way that it could be received that isn't considered. jes was one of those 'everything' artists.”

🙏 to Chris Hampton for commissioning this text about jes sachse:
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