Students had a lot to say about meeting people from the MotM community in their university classrooms this year, like Margaret, a student at UMass-Boston:

Currently in Rome enjoying a divine meal while reading about sacred food. My dream evening 😍

Meet Barry. 📸 Barry (Nigeria) in front of the “Angels Unawares” sculpture on St. Peter’s Square, Vatican City. 19 September 2024. ©Pamela Kerpius/Migrants of the Mediterranean

One last hurrah for #spookyseason. In this latest issue of notyrgirls, I discuss the beautiful witch, power, and the body. Read it here: notyrgirls.beehiiv.com/p/ding-dong-...

My 2025-26 Holiday Catalogue is live! Inspired by the iconic dELiA*s catalogues of the 90s. Some new products will be added over the weekend ✨ Shop small and early 💖 Check it out:

A new kind of Sunday Story! Once every 1-2 months, my Sunday Story will be replaced with a “Where to eat in Molise” post. I’m continuing to develop the Crivello world and am eager to make this a space that celebrates food and italianità in a variety of ways:

Eating as many garlic knots as possible is always one of my priorities when I’m in New York. Here are yesterday’s knots from Rocky’s Pizzeria & Restaurant 😍

The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives (@arquives.ca) is launching its largest-ever digitization initiative focusing on hidden Canadian 2SLGBTQIA+ histories. Learn more: arquives.ca/the-arquives...

Mushroom 17th century, unknown artist From an album bequeathed by Hans Sloane (British Museum)

Once again, people prove their inability to see beyond their circumstances. Apparently luxury stores, Amazon fulfillment centres, cars, and a basketball team should be our priorities over affordable housing and the environment (& public transit is part of that)

A product I started working on last December is finally ready, in a first limited print: Tarocchi italo-canadesi, oracle cards and guidebook!

Something about watching hockey feels so nostalgic to me lately. I’ve always followed the Habs casually, but I find myself looking forward to upcoming games and making sure I’m home to catch them.

My monthly last-Friday-of-the-month newsletter + tarot pull are out on Crivello now. On the magic of weaving, in many different forms: open.substack.com/pub/artistor...

🎃 happy Halloween! Here are the first pages of my childhood spooky (food?) writing: an unfinished, handwritten manuscript for THE SAND-WITCH. As a kid, I loved scary stories about ghosts, haunted houses, and magic. I would read them and watch them even though they kept me up at night.

Every week, we share a Story from the Archive with our newsletter subscribers. 📸 Buba (Gambia) in Naples, Italy. 19 January 2024. ©Pamela Kerpius/Migrants of the Mediterranean

We're excited to announce the launch of Community Ties: Our Future Together, a digital exhibition created with support from Women and Gender Equality Canada. https://digitalexhibitions.arquives.ca/exhibits/show/community-ties/introduction

A few months ago, I interviewed Maria, Patrizia, Stefania, and Anthony about their high school style and its relationship (or not) to their Italian-Canadian identity. We had some interesting conversations! Check them out in this week’s Sunday Story on fashion, Jersery Shore, italianità, and more.

MotM Founder, Pamela Kerpius, alongside MotM community members, will be speaking at The Goethe Institut–New York on September 22, 1:00pm ET, discussing the way solidarity is expressed in our Humanitarian Storytelling practices and impacts. Register now free! www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/ve...

& big news: I’ll be starting my PhD at Concordia University in the fall! Read a bit about my proposed PhD project + accompanying growing bibliography in this week’s Sunday Story. artistorian.substack.com/p/sunday-sto...

Lately at Crivello: my monthly post with tarot pull. What are the intersections between Molisan Carnevale and Québecois cabane à sucre? Perhaps more than you think. artistorian.substack.com/p/carnevalec...

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

I need to know what finance departments in academic institutions do ON THE DAILY that make it so impossible to pay honorariums within an acceptable timeframe? Why are people out here waiting 5 months for $300? It’s so embarrassing and wrong.

I miss the scented gifts that teachers gave us in the 90s. Scratch & sniff stickers, fruity erasers, these pencils, etc etc

A couple of days late, but this week’s Sunday Story is out now! As my temporary Montreal-Ottawa adventure is soon coming to an end, I’ve been thinking a lot about the effects this “double life” has had on me, from the good, bad, and everything else. open.substack.com/pub/artistor...

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.

Tomorrow is the fake holiday known as "Flag Day" It was started in 1996 by the Liberals to try and boost nationalism in the wake of the Quebec referendum. I use this story about Flag Day to introduce my next book, Corporate Control, which is probably the most that any Canadian knows about Flag Day

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

This bread omg

It’s here!!!!

When the check in is sooo necessary

Happy to announce that the 4th episode of "Porter Talk" is out! Focused on the long fight for rights, this episode pairs perfectly with the last one on porters' working conditions. Have a listen because this is good stuff!! library-archives.canada.ca/eng/collecti...

Fascists HATE history, and they hate historians. But they know and love the power of fake historical narratives: witness the misuses of historical narratives in India over the past several years.

a few situations over the past year(s) have made me feel like i have been living up to my name, ya

Mood

#IndigenousStorytellingMonth "What does it mean to be hungry? Is it only a physical condition? I have long hungered for what has been lost to my family because of colonialism. I have hungered to make sense of the past, to be well & strong." - Tabitha Robin niche-canada.org/2021/08/31/h...

the american obsession with eggs needs to be studied

there’s no way to say this without sounding like a bowl of extra useless crunchy granola i realize that but my god is it ever important to turn that panic energy into caring-for-your-communities energy

Between work, newsletters, job/fellowship/conference applications, all (ok not all, but mostly all) I do is read, research, and write. It feels good ✨

After MONTHS of researching (and also procrastinating), I’ve finally finished the final draft for the next issue of notyrgirls, which is a newsletter I co-author with @desiredpaths.bsky.social - notyrgirls.beehiiv.com. It’s called “Dear Diary: Writing ourselves through fact & fiction.” Coming soon!

protestant work ethic + rise of individualism + nationalism