Leading global experts just confirmed what we’ve long known: Gaza is in famine. At least half a million Palestinians are facing starvation, acute malnutrition and death. And it’s likely to spread.
The U.S. government is not a bystander to this genocide. We can end it today.
“Do not obey in advance.”
“Prioritize joy.”
“Take up space.”
“Be in solidarity.”
“Organize.”
Fantastic piece on what FreeDC is teaching us with its immediate and potent resistance to the Trump attempt to take over that city.
Exactly this. Thank you, @chrislhayes.bsky.social.
Please contact your elected representatives and demand they do what they can to stop the mass starvation:
202-224-3121
I’ve had nothing to do with that pedophile since he stole all of my teenage masseuses.
"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
This is NOT just cutting access to abortion. It’s limiting access to CANCER screening, birth control, screening for sexually transmitted infections.
In a dissenting opinion, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote, “Today’s decision is likely to result in tangible harm to real people.”
The permanence of the works in “RESISTERHOOD” at the Leslie-Lohman Museum contrasts with the realities of the transitioning body that Young Joon Kwak has cast, which, as the exhibition text notes, exists in “states of emergence and indeterminacy.”
For those not following the drama earlier, it's for sharing this piece advocating for nonviolence (but not being judgy about how targeted people respond either). And saying some things about governmental/ institutional violence.
Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.
This is happening right now.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Be very aware that America is now a fascist state where political opposition and citizens are kidnapped and disappeared for exercising their human and constitutional rights.
It is no longer business as usual no matter how much the media and people want to pretend otherwise.
I wrote about the Trump administration’s embrace of the pro-natalist movement, and the need to combat pro-natalist misogyny in cultural terms. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I forgot to share the link to the gallery! www.ruthanngallery.com Hope to see y’all upstate folks there. It’s up through the end of June, open only on Saturdays.
Part 2 of this show will be at Marinaro Gallery in NYC, opening in July.
It’s a witchy and magical vibe. We have been meeting at each other’s studios for the past several years, and we’ve seen so many connections in our creative work, that we decided to show together & see what happens when we put it all together.
Green grasses sway along a river. The text says: The River That Flows Both Ways, Ever Baldwin, Erika DeVries, Clarity Haynes, Portia Munson
The River That Flows Both Ways. Opening this Friday May 2, 6-8 at RUTHANN in Catskill NY! Ever Baldwin, Erika DeVries, Clarity Haynes, Portia Munson.
Philosopher @katemanne.bsky.social makes the case for a feminist anti-natalism. open.substack.com/pub/katemann...
Sending hugs!
International Crab Day is April 26, so there’s no better time to put some respect on the Crab Museum in Margate for its unwavering public support for trans rights after the UK Supreme Court ruled that a woman is defined by “biological sex” rather than gender identity.
Who’s going to tell Trump that the Garden of Heroes already exists? It’s called a Wax Museum.
I’m getting towards the end of the book and I don’t want it to be over! 😢
For anyone interested here is a link to the book. All artists should read this! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Hey @svlocke.bsky.social just read your essay in @sharonlouden.bsky.social’s book Last Artist Standing. I so appreciated your clear honesty in telling your story. Thank you.
NYC! It’s on today. 12 o’ clock. Bryant Park.
The only way to interpret this is that the Trump administration is trying to close public schools.
Which has been an open goal of conservatives for decades. They want to privatize education to resegregate on race and gender. And to ensure some people can’t access education at all.
the answer is 100% yes.
When I lived there I felt like I never got fully warm.
