Proud to be part of this fantastic special issue of Visual Studies: Colourised Histories, edited by @liziwat.bsky.social and Dominic Williams, bridging film and still photography to address questions of historical method, racialization, ethics, AI, and more. Thread 🧵 to introduce each article 🗃️📜📷📸🎥

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

Dr. @brianjgriffith.bsky.social -- one of NFS' two co-curators -- has just published an OpEd on @commondreams.org that explores the legal and political parallels between Benito #Mussolini's declaration of #dictatorship in January 1925 and Donald J. #Trump's re-election as POTUS. See the link below.

By omitting the tragic story behind Felix González-Torres "Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.), the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery is setting a perilous precedent, warns art scholar Ignacio Darnaude. www.out.com/gay-news/fel...

Do not despair! That is what they want. Focus. Pick your battles--as many as you can, but also no more than that. We must be in the eye of the shit storm and know it's not stopping anytime soon. We can do this because we must.

“Make good trouble.” ~ John Lewis

Just imagine if she'd actually criticized the pathetic fragile manbaby

Zadie Smith is just the smartest. This review of a new edition of The Third Reich of Dreams is as much about our own times as the Nazi period. Her essay is deeply chilling and brilliant. Also everyone must read The Fraud. Just saying. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...