Okay this 9 hour trip home can be over now. I just decided.
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Okay this 9 hour trip home can be over now. I just decided.
Total just served me up a playlist called NYC Labor Day parade, which is really a tribute to what we used to call the West Indian Day Parade. It's making me pine for my old neighborhood: tidal.com/playlist/eb4...
I don't know why, but every now and then the phrase "As one incapable of her own distress" rambles around in my brain. It is one of my favorite Shakespeare bits.
Currently reading Susan Stryker and damn, the Bay Area stuff Is so evocative for me. Feel like I have been hungry for this writing.
In my dream In my dream there are three steps but the third never arrives. The apartment is full of sex.
In my dream In my dream the kaleidoscoping letters are part of the casting call. I slide out of the apartment and watch him pack a few moving boxes out in the tall yellow grass.
Explore Tacoma's hidden Free Little Art Galleries | Tacoma News Tribune
Art Institute exhibit on Elizabeth Catlett dives into Black revolutionary artist's work - Chicago Sun-Times
Fucking love this .
I may be standing here in some Chuck Taylors and a thirteen dollar Walmart dress, but I can still make some folks' knees buckle.
Glow Little Glowworm!!
That is true.
San Francisco ZineFest is TOMORROW! 🌈🌟 Sunday, 8/31, 11am-5pm City View at the Metreon. ✨ Comics! ✨ Zines! ✨ Art! ✨ Panels ✨ Screenprinting ✨ Kids Zone ✨ Find me at table 25B from 11-4, then signing at the @fieldmouse.press table 4-5pm #sfzf2025 #SFZineFest #sfzf #zines #comics #minicomics
I have to go through this world with the knowledge that I will never ever be as cute as Joan Blandell.
27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline. It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.
Beavers pause while chewing trees to listen for movements so that the tree doesn't fall on them.
In my dream In my dream the night is beautiful but they can't hear me when I try to tell them that the building they are on the roof of is actually on fire, green flames curling around the concrete.
Me when they play my jam
It me for real.
And there's no really polite way to say "thank you but I don't need an honorific "
Yet SVA "has quietly reduced staff (~30), citing '💰 challenges' that have also allegedly resulted in cancelled courses + budget shortfalls... The [✂️] come barely 2mo after nearly 1,200 faculty members — most of whom are contracted adjuncts lacking job security + benefits — officially unionized"
I have no illusions about it. It comes with the territory of how I present and I'm not complaining, just noting.
One of those days when every"sir" I get makes me want to dress more femme goth.
The local public library has been doing media literacy for several years. They went from a single class to 3-part series. Session 1: How do you sort fact from opinion? What’s bias? Session 2: What makes a source reputable? Where can you find accurate info? Session 3: How do you know it’s not AI?
In my dream In my dream the thing in my hands is moving and part of the background.
I got to see Jennie Jones's installation last weekend and it's well worth the visit.
Tonight I am a lug lugging my luggage.
AWAW and NYFA Award $521,125 in Environmental Art Grants
"I think we can both agree that the spirited exchange that we are about to have is meaningless."
🎉Rejoice! Marshall Allen, the Sun Ra Arkestra's bandleader, entered his 2nd century (he turned 101 on May 25, 2025) & he's STILL making some of the most thrilling, innovative music on the planet, perhaps in the whole solar system The new live album💥 1/2 arsnovaworkshop.bandcamp.com/album/live-i...
In my dream In my dream: some hope of repair.
@arunadsouza.bsky.social I apologize in advance for the collages in the show.
New York Folks: here's what I have coming up in a couple of weeks:
heres my review of Room Party. it ended up being pretty long. doorgallery.neocities.org/articles/23-...
Today's art joy:
In my dream In my dream the painted tin is essential to understanding him. We pass it back and forth.
Posting GARY PANTER'S SKETCHBOOK TIPS to save a life -- the site that used to host these took em down years ago, and they are as useful a list about this kind of thing as you will ever find. They are like a favorite dogeared paperback to me.
New York Educators Can Now Show Broadway Archives From the New York City Public Library In Their Classrooms
In my dream In my dream I'm reaching through the weeds while I talk to him.
This is what Google Reader used to be: an aggregator of RSS feeds.
Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art
> [Blacksky] guarantees our community a seat at the table, and ensures that we can leave and easily make our own table if we need to. That’s the true promise of decentralized social media. Me for @newpublic.org
In my dream In my dream I'm repatriating batches of creatures around my new LA studio. The black crates that they are confined in slide down the hilly streets, splintering in the sunlight. Many of these animals are dangerous or at least chaotic. This isn't a crisis yet.
Treated myself to an "art date" as well today: three hours at the Metropolitan. I didn't know how much I needed the break til I took it.
That special joy when the stationary store you have a gift certificate to has your favorite hard to get notebook in stock and you have enough money to get three of them so you know you're set for at least the near future.
This movie cracks me up for some reason ..
At the Met: when some bird who says he's God keeps trying to slip you the tongue.
Hello you beauties!
The fact that right wingers mock certain terms should alert us to the fact that those terms are accurate and need to be used. The right wing traffics in lies and wants everyone else to as well.
Brooks museum curator wants to highlight Black art:
Jimmy Carter Says Yes!
In my dream In my dream I clamber over to the rope bridge so that we can make our way to the ground.
In my dream In my dream a railing disappears into the water.
Me when they play my jam
Major all day event for Nancy Buchanan retrospective in Los Angeles, Saturday!!!!
San Francisco’s de Young Museum opens revamped Native American art galleries
Spike blood sugar.
In my dream In my dream I am choosing between four plates of different stews. Each is partially eaten. This has happened every day.
Me when they play my jam
In my dream In my dream I'm combing the crowded shelves and bins of the Chinese grocery for dinner ingredients: bundles of greens, two jars of sauces, a cellophane bag of dried mushrooms and lilies. I know to avoid the noodles.
One of my all time fave pieces of video game music. That new chick swing:
"uuhh....chirp?"
In my dream I'm combing the crowded shelves and bins of the Chinese grocery for dinner ingredients: bundles of greens, two jars of sauces, a cellophane bag of dried mushrooms and lilies. I know to avoid the noodles.
He lived through the invention of "Ms" and survived. I don't buy his stupid dog whistling.
Getty Grants $2.6 M. to Black Visual Arts Archives Across the U.S.
You've just shown me my final resting place.😛
Baby, I know you have a Sharpie around the house somewhere: Get To Work!
Now is your chance - break Continuity - be your own plot hole.
A beautiful piece, especially the excerpt from Michael Lesy
The Power of Making Art From a Prison Cell
In my dream In my dream the dull light picks out the struts of the metal table. No one else is there.
@bklynlibrary.bsky.social is fighting book bans and promoting freedom at Flamecon! Stop by their booth to sign up for a library card and learn about the books unbanned system!
The documentary "Feels Good Man" is a great snapshot of this in all of its creepiness.
Albany Zine Club, Capital Region artists fuel next era of zines
MacDowell's Chiwoniso Kaitano Wants to Center Artist Residencies share.google/EPH4NPbpIj1i...
In my dream In my dream there is a low pitched assault of voices.
Me when they play my jam
A Japanes woman at Casio hand coded the Sleng Teng riddim that formed the basis for dance hall! It's an amazing story www.nippon.com/en/japan-top...
OK I genuinely love this.
My old employer (I was once their porn reviewer) recommends that you read my book. Still up for preorders!
Now playing, because even 65 year old asses need to shake.
Oh My! Thanks for letting me know!
In my dream In my dream two younger people dismiss me for not being more vocal when people misgender me.
Houston business rescues discarded art supplies - CultureMap Houston share.google/3bCfxDwlJhMT...
What if our government wasn't based on the idea that someone has to be punished? That is was possible for politicians to do something other than punish?
Me when they play my jam
This is really important because some landlords ignore the regulations, and some break the rules about what starting rent they can charge new renters.
Will this be the backhanded way of introducing him to the work of Tammy Wynette?
Are these not the most spectacularly rendered nipples in the history of painting? I'm willing to entertain counter arguments, but only with visuals.
Like box cake moist.
This is more beautiful than any single thing Trump has made in his entire life.
Now playing in the studio: tidal.com/browse/track... This is what a lot of the 80s sounded like. For me at least.
I know babe isn't that a wild thought?
It's almost ten years since I got to curate FEAST into a show on queer play at the ICA Philadelphia. One of my happiest experiences.
In my dream In my dream there are glints of green across the walls.
In my dream In my dream the row of outdoor handball courts stirs in me the possibility that I could play again.
😍
Oh HELLS YEAH!
In my dream In my dream we are in a rowboat in the ocean and she laughs as she tossed pieces of food further and further away so that her dog has to swim harder and harder to retrieve them. I am shaking and crying and begging her to stop.
Really excited to be co-organizing a craft fair for Gaza alongside @prisonculture.bsky.social and a bunch of awesome collaborators. Want to apply for a table or donate crafts? Check the links below! Table Application: tinyurl.com/tablecraftsf... Craft Donations: tinyurl.com/donatecrafts...
