Third annual Mira bellwether buy a trans woman a pizza day (or other food of her choice) Monday march 31st. Honor Mira bellwether’s birthday. treat a trans woman. Ask what she’d like. Order or send cash. Celebrate! Plz share and tell yr friends

It’s that time again; 3rd annual Mira Bellwether Buy A Trans Woman A Pizza Day is Monday, March 31st.

A close-up of a charred bundle of blackened fibers wound tightly around a wooden stick. The fibers appear to be burnt and brittle. The object is placed on a reflective surface, creating a shadowy reflection. The background is stark white, contrasting sharply with the dark, textured object.

#Neolithic textile production: an amazing find! A charred spindle with a charred ball of flax thread.
Found in the pile dwelling settlement of Sipplingen-Osthafen, Lake Constance, dating 3316-3306 BC. The damp environment has preserved it in good condition

🏺 #archaeology

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OMG I’m half way through and I’m exhausted. Yet so gripped. GRIPPED! Your description was exactly right.

This past week I examined cobweb fibers used as a paintings substrate. High magnification, and hyperspectral imaging techniques with variable lighting direction were super helpful to show certain features and properties of the web of fibers. #TextileConservation #ArtConservation

Hi I’m catatonically anxious but at least I’m still decent at fiddling with little threads. Slowly replacing the missing decorative binding threads by surrealist artist Mary Reynolds. Almost done! #TextileConservation #ArtConservation

It’s Time for Museums to Step Up for Queer and Trans People Amid ceaseless attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, art institutions have a responsibility to center and support their queer and trans staff and visitors.

I was interviewed for this piece! It is a very important topic so do give it a read. hyperallergic.com/992452/its-t...

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes.

You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.

My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.

www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

Me and Katrina stretching a 10’ x 10’ ModCon assemblage of painted canvas, knit wool, and wooden bars. #ArtConservation #TextileConservation #ModernAndContemporaryArt

It’s me and all the loves of my life. Happy Valentine’s Day!

Look at this adorable winter gnome! It’s Erin!

Rally tomorrow co-sponsored by Chicago DSA to defend trans rights and gender affirming care, UI Health, downtown Chicago

We are calling for a nationwide and international boycott of all Elon Musk-related products and services. Sell your Tesla shares, avoid buying Tesla vehicles, cancel Starlink, and delete your X accounts.

I cannot wait to watch this. I love a scam, a con, a grift, a cult like following of a charismatic liar!

Corewell, Largest Michigan Provider, Resumes Trans Youth Care Despite Illegal Trump EO On Wednesday, the hospital system announced that it was resuming gender affirming care after a brief pause due to Trump's executive order attempting to ban it for those under 19.

1. Major trans news: Corewell Health, Michigan's largest healthcare provider, becomes the first hospital to resume care for trans people under 19 years of age after pausing it.

"Care decisions are best made between physicians and their patients and families."

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Looking at cobweb samples under the microscope. It was used as a substrate for a painting in the Northwestern University library special collections. The fibers are SO narrow. #ArtConservation

I’m a floor person through and through. It’s my signature party move, third in line after not going at all, and leaving without saying goodbye. Bonus Edie on the floor with me.

If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?

Sometimes my job is especially joyful and silly: many examples of fake lion’s mane mushrooms, made by three conservation colleagues and myself. For a multimedia object installation in the museum that originally used live rotting mushrooms on furniture, can you spot the real one! #ArtConservation

Disassociating from the world while stitching this brittle little charmer. #TextileConservation

Weird how not a single one of the newspapers and magazines that have been breathlessly churning out "cancel culture" thinkpieces for the past four years have managed to use the word "censorship" at all to describe the most rapid and comprehensive campaign of mass-censorship in recent US history.

I’m back to thinking about the etchings printed on highly reflective synthetic fibers by Barbara Rossi. Many of them she also stitched, pieced, quilted, embroidered or beaded. Forever fascinated by her style and methods. #TextileConservation #ArtConservation

😮 doesn’t even cover it.

So What by Judy Ledgerwood, part of my exploration into Chicago artists now that I live here. A pastel grid to interrupt the drumbeat of terror in the world.

A person lays on the floor, looking up and holding a measuring tool underneath a large black column also laying on its side.

Thomas, looking like a cross between a horizontal Bernini and a relic of Pompei, while measuring the underside of a mount. #TextileConservation

A close up image of a gilded and painted figure of a man with a beard, turban, and jewelry, with the legs and tail of a cheetah

I love this tiny painted and gilded tiger-legged man, from Tamil Nadu, 19thC.

Look at this is amazing fake binding with deteriorated decorative threads that my coworker made as a mock up to perfect a treatment! Today I helped them spin and ply some custom dyed yarn to match the original, and we tested adhesives. #TextileConservation

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

www.404media.co/declassified...

When thinking about the culture we live in, actively crushing people’s mind and body through power and force, don’t forget that the cruelty is the point of it all.

A close up picture of a 19th century silk stitched sampler is examined with a very small beam of light using a piece of scientific equipment.

Seeing what kind of haywire data I get trying to get a microfade graph from a chenille silk thread. #TextileConservation

Pardon the wacky angle but this was fun to look at under UV. A multiple plate matrix print on silk satin textile with metal thread and colored floss silk from 1746. #TextileConservation