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.”

I wrote about Skrmetti. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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...

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...

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.

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.

Paintings by artist AMY TALLUTO @talluchan.bsky.social Amy Talluto is a MacDowell Fellow of 2024 & host of the Pep Talks for Artists podcast. amytalluto.com peptalksforartists.com

Woodstock, NY stands up.

Good morning. Listen, you have to just decide. They are not taking the Black Smithsonian. Resolve it in your spirit.

Terrifying. A must read. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...

Here we go. This is not new - just worse and being said out loud.

A fascinating read!

Non-citizens also have the right of free speech (and therefore protest). This is a flagrant and willfully unlawful use of state power. One that too many think is perfectly legitimate Say it again: we must not be divided by citizenship/immigrant status or we all lose www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...

In 1985, James Baldwin wrote that Beauford Delaney was “the first walking, living proof, for me, that a black man could be an artist.” Their relationship would transform them in the face of extreme racism and homophobia.

Join us tomorrow to learn more about Hyperallergic and hear from Lise Ragbir and Ola Mobolade on the tenuous state of DEI in the art world.

This is a stellar episode. Artists who listen to podcasts in the studio like me, you’ll love this podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

In my dream I said to a man, like a chant at a protest, “your heroism is exhausting!”

Gorgeous reflection www.culturedmag.com/article/2025...

@clintsmithiii.bsky.social visited DC’s Black Lives Matter Plaza, the day after construction crews began removing its mural. “Symbols are not just symbols,” he writes. This is “part of a movement that is removing Black people” from power.

The Daily Reid: What's the point of power (this substack is so good- since I no longer watch msnbc and I miss Joy Reid - I highly recommend subscribing! open.substack.com/pub/joyannre...

An upcoming exhibition at The Met identifies how Chinoiserie grew in parallel with European women’s buying power and contributed to the exoticizing objectification of Asian women and cultures.

Daisy Patton’s photo-based works from the past decade, which have dealt with family, identity, and mortality, have all been rooted in her quest to bridge the personal and the universal.

Thinking of lgbtqia+ folks in red states today, especially young people. As I haven’t heard back about the show at the museum that I imagine is probably canceled, I googled the university there & 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ & found that the lgbt center/meeting space on campus was closed in NOVEMBER.

I was asked to be in a museum show in the US south recently which was supposed to be a historical re-writing of portraiture with contemporary artists added in to expand the mix and content

State of the People is still going strong. It’s a 24 hour marathon response to our unfree media. TRUTH in discourse. Tune in here: stateofthepeople.piksel.plus/media/state-...

Haven’t we each felt like cowering in a corner when all eyes are on us and a plague of butterflies invades our stomachs?

Important thread! Take notes if you can.

Will another DC venue step up to put on this show prematurely abandoned by AMoA?

This. hyperallergic.com/992452/its-t...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/br...

Friday. Don't buy stuff. Share, post. Local businesses only, pay cash.