HENRY LOUIS GATES NEEDS TO BE STOPPED ...

these stairs aren’t the only thing that needs a good railing

ICE are alllll over Harlem right now, 116 & Frederick Douglass, checking IDs and targeting the area’s African community. Multiple people have been detained. Community members are advising folks to carry citizenship documents - or stay away if they are at risk

what if i protected you. what if i helped you find the shield within you that’s made of soft impenetrable translucent reflective cartilage which protected not only you but me and behind it we could flee from danger before it even sees us. what if that was the way i protect you, would you allow it?

can’t hang out sorry. i can’t. my wrists are tied by a rope so i literally can’t leave. my knees are skinned because i’m stuck on a rock and the water is up to my navel and the sea keeps rising and i’m gagged so i can’t call for help or leave. and you can’t come over because you’d try to untie me

there is nothing wonderful

I'M MAKING UP THE MOST LIST WORDS IN THIS FICTION GIRL ... ITS NASTYYYYY

GOOD MORNING TO SIDES AND ONLY SIDES

Dial a Poem by John Giorno, now online. Click on the phone to listen. Click it again to hang up. Click it once again to hear another one. You might get Amiri Baraka, Maria Bethânia, Tarek Lakhrissi, Laurie Anderson, Elsa Cross, or Juliana Huxtable—there are hundreds more. dial-a-poem.org

Eileen Townsend's review of Room Party is out now in Artillery Magazine! Eileen isn't a furry, but she is my bff, and she really, really GETS IT. Featuring @attyboy.bsky.social @flausch.bsky.social @scribblechicken.bsky.social @zubrovich.bsky.social @julianahuxtable.bsky.social @elfboys.com & more!

Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed. There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea. Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.

A piece in Frieze where I argue that the future of art is the black night of the dance floor rather than the white box of the gallery. @julianahuxtable.bsky.social makes an appearance: www.frieze.com/article/mcke...

HONCHO WAS INSANE

“Official history is believing murderers at their word.” - Simone Weil

IS THERE ANY ORGANIZED BOYCOTT OF SPEAKING AT COLUMBIA? IS IT DEPT SPECIFIC? HOW ARE PEOPLE NAVIGATING ENGAGEMENTS WITH UNIVERSITIES RUN BY PSYCHOPATHS? I'M A BIT STUCK ON HOW TO DEAL WITH THIS SPEAKING OFFER FROM A CUTE DEPT?

I snorted

No shade (me when the Sun enters her supernova phase and consumes the Earth replacing all shadows with a blinding white light)

I HAVE NO MORE OUTRAGE LEFT FOR THE NYT ... IF UR STILL EARNESTLY ENGAGING IT UR THE PROBLEM ...

well, the bacteria sure find it all pretty amusing

Reminder that actual piracy is still always more ethical than datamining software as a service that masquerades as the ethical alternative to piracy. The second we chose streaming clouds over file storage it was all downhill.

Lmaoo

ME AFTER SHOCK VALUE NO SHADE

SO MANY PPL R LEAVING BERLIN ... I GOT OUT AT THE RIGHT TIME. LET THE GERMANS HAVE THEIR HELL

IT BRINGS ME SOLACE KNOWING THAT IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS, THIS PATHETIC ERA OF EURO-AMERICAN EMPIRE WILL BE BUT A HOMICIDAL AND GENOCIDAL BLIP IN THE LARGER RUN OF HUMAN HISTORY...

THAT EARTHQUAKE WAS A COMPLETE CARRY

ALSO ... THE PARTY PPL R IT RN ... THIS IS AN ERA OF WHOSE LIFE FORCE I AM SO HONORED AND ECSTATIC TO BE A PART OF!!!! LIKE WOW, THERE IS A LIVING ART AFTERALL!!!

PLAYED LESBIANS ON ECSTASY AT THE SAPPHIC DOLL FORWARD PARTY IN LONDON AND I FEEL COMPLETE, UGH!!!!

U GET IT SIS

If you're unfamiliar with gendertrash, you're in for a treat. The first four issues of this influential trans zine were published by Mirha-Soleil Ross and Xanthra Phillippa MacKay in Toronto from 1993-1995. Learn more through this digital exhibition and download past issues (free):

best meme i ever made

"The autotextual is a writing tactic that’s actually been around for a long time, under various names, but if you only get your information about book culture from publicity handouts, it seems that autofiction is a recent trend." - McKenzie Wark 🖤 www.e-flux.com/journal/140/...

Life’s rich tapestry

The solution to the transgender sports debate is to finally move forward as a society and get rid of all sports

Susan Sontag actually talks about this in Illness as Metaphor: the only way the US knows how to mobilize against social problems is “war.” War on cancer, war on poverty, war on drugs, now war on immigrants. The US lost the first three of those but here we are.

I dearly wish American adults had reference points and figurative language for politics that weren’t based on fictional media franchises. It’s just so cringe to live in a society where “They’re violating your human rights” produces a shrug and “They’re just like Palpatine” makes people outraged.

GIRL...

💖💖💖

The ruling class of each era is psychotic in its own way.

The first issue of PICNIC MAG has been sent to printers. On sale soon! xo

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