A brief batch of images from our current exhibition, Radiation Borders @squeakybuffalo.bsky.social , with work by Dion Smith-Dokkie, Elizabeth Tannie Lewin, Hanae Utamura, and Inas Halabi. On view through December 12. More info: squeaky.org/event/radiat...

Opening next Friday, September 26: Happy to be presenting Radiation Borders, with work by Dion Smith-Dokkie, Elizabeth Tannie Lewin, Hanae Utamura, and Inas Halabi. The four artists in the exhibition trace the borders, and lives inside and outside of nuclear toxicity. squeaky.org/event/radiat...

One of the books I'm most looking forward to this year.

We mourn the passing of Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim (1937–2025), whose fearless, unflinching works shaped generations of Arab literature. His voice endures. We strongly recommend this piece via ArabLit, translated by Emily Drumsta.

We will soon be accepting applications for the Spring 2026 session of our Workspace Residency! Learn more at the link to learn more, and get your applications ready: squeaky.org/workspace-residency Workspace Residency is supported in part by Teiger Foundation.

Join us for the Documentary Audit Book Launch! September 19, 6PM at NYU's Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway. Register here to attend in person or on Zoom: tisch.nyu.edu/cinema-studi... With special guests Lakshmi Padmanabhan, Jordan Lord, and LaCharles Ward.

#SneakPeek 👀 @carolinaebeid.bsky.social's HIDE—a reinvention of visual poetry and personal history charting exile’s impact on memory, identity, and futurity—is out March 3, 2026.⁠ Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/hide...

The Amistad Research Center, one of the largest repositories of Black history, cut half its staff after the Trump administration ended four federal grants

For international consistency sake, it does make me happy to hear US lefties embrace “liberal” as an insult.

Israel brutally detaining Gaza hospital director as ‘bargaining chip,’ says lawyer Held without charge for 7 months, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has been beaten, starved, isolated, and cut off from his family. His freedom is nowhere in sight. Interview by Shatha Yaish www.972mag.com/hussam-abu-s...

I forget current fascist aesthetics sometimes, and am taken aback when someone who looks like they went on tour with the Disco Biscuits starts spouting qanon

A reminder that Dr. @shannonmattern.bsky.social announced her resignation from this awful place just yesterday. I’ll link to what she had to say about it. Imagine what went unsaid.

zohran winning is satisfying but not as satisfying as my archnemesis the nyt once again being WRONG AS FUCK

Bill Clinton’s just chilling in his living room, watching ICE kidnappings on tv, when the sex pest election trouble alarm goes off in his kitchen. “Not cuomo,” he says to himself. “Not another member of the brotherhood”

i am deeply troubled by the media’s reluctance to cover the rise of conversion therapy activism in the U.S. and hope that future coverage of this ruling focuses on how it could further popularize what some U.S. states and other countries consider to be cruel and inhumane treatments

2003 was mostly rage walks but I’m 41 now, so it’s mostly crying

Absolutely refusing to learn why they’re calling him taco

RIP to the great Flo Jacobs, may her memory be a blessing to us all

This program is now online through June 6. Hope you enjoy!

Houston friends, online friends, this Fri and Sat and next week: I had the great pleasure of curating this edition of Aurora Picture Show's Extremely Shorts Film Festival. I had a lovely time curating the 30 brief films of funny, piercing, moving work. www.aurorapictureshow.org/programs/ext...

“All of my favourite artists are people who think about everything — there's no aspect of expression and the way that it could be received that isn't considered. jes was one of those 'everything' artists.” 🙏 to Chris Hampton for commissioning this text about jes sachse: www.cbc.ca/arts/remembe...

Very happy to share that @squeakybuffalo.bsky.social, with artist Anna Scime and scientist Neil Patterson J, has been selected as one of the 15 cohorts for the Open Interval Program, part of the Simons Foundation's Science, Society & Culture division. www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/05/19/n...

One of the books I’m most excited for this year

Regarding the recent NEA cancellations. Our (pre-planned) membership drive is on through June 11th. Join us: squeaky.org/membership

The Journal for Architectural Education’s Palestine issue — for which I was an issue co-editor — was cancelled by the board of Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture citing risks and “new actions by the U.S. presidential administration” 😐 www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...

Opening March 21st. A joy to share work by Azza El-Hassan, Carolina Ebeid, Crystal Z Campbell, and Noor Abuarafeh, and more tba as part of the public programs for this occasion. Hope to see you

In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant. Today:

Just watched: Mohamed Malas’ The Night (1992) is breathtakingly beautiful and ambitious, and needs a proper restoration ASAP. Regardless, watch it when you can. vimeo.com/621524893

This is a lovely article by @kayagenc.bsky.social marking the translation of Oğuz Atay’s work (his short stories specifically) into English.

It’d be nice to live through a chill year, for once

First viewing of Psycho, and in all my time studying film (including 3 psychoanalysis & film classes with plenty of Hitchcock), I somehow almost* completely avoided spoilers

I’m pretty easy to impress when it comes to movies. I walk into a theater ready to clap like a seal at whatever you show me. I really am a simple creature

Wildwildwild

(Crosses NEA deadline off to-do list)

@squeakybuffalo.bsky.social is now over here. Give the account a follow, and take a peek at the announcement of our new residents 🤩

moving all my shit into turkish lira

it’s round two, you hashtag resist people really gotta stop using bizarre nicknames for Trump. “Orange Drumpf” etc didn’t hit in 2016 and it extremely does not hit now

Hacked data broker exposed some spyware ( expected) but with great context here with previous harms. Downloading VPN apps that track your location is sick. Yikes. www.wired.com/story/gravy-...

Welcome new followers. I do not have strong opinions about BlueSky or The Substance.

🔹 "Vincent Grenier, almost everything" screening series ft. films from 1974 - 2022 shows at Cinémathèque Québécoise from Jan 27-30. Read more 🔗 https://buff.ly/4g0qBqI

🚨BREAKING🚨 Leonard Peltier Granted Executive Clemency After 50 years of unjust incarceration and the tireless efforts of intergenerational grassroots organizing and advocacy, our elder and relative Leonard Peltier has been granted executive clemency.

With less than 24 hours with President Biden in office, there is still time for him to grant Leonard Peltier clemency. ictnews.org/opinion/pres...

Anti-abortion advocates are running ads to find & encourage men to betray and sue their partners. This makes me sick. wapo.st/40nfmD2

I got to be friends with David Lynch when we were both at Universal years ago. A very kind man, he was a fan of Bob's Big Boy. So was I. I'm going to miss him. R.I.P. David.

8/ At another point, leadership passed out NSC’s list of banned words to government employees working on reports and presentations: Don't say “Palestinian residents of Jerusalem,” for example, instead use “non-Israeli residents of Jerusalem.”

Filmmaker, archivist, curator + founder of SF's Other Cinema Craig Baldwin (TRIBULATION 99, SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM etc) needs your help! gofund.me/8d358a8c