New music! SECRET RIVERS is me and @seemore.bsky.social, and 100% of the proceeds from this project go to the Neighbors Helping Neighbors Twin Cities ICE Relief Fund. It's also Bandcamp Friday, so the platform doesn't even take a cut if you get it today: secretrivers.bandcamp.com

Releasing some NEW music friday, then a virtual performance saturday with me, @seemore.bsky.social and @katparent.bsky.social. All proceeds from both going to the Neighbors Helping Neighbors Twin Cities ICE Relief Fund. More info: guante.info/salt

After months of relentless rapid response in Minneapolis, members of Defend the 612 had a moment to breathe and reflect on the lessons they’ve learned, the grief they carry, and the citywide fellowship they hope will endure. The crisis is not over, and I’m grateful they made time to speak with me.

new patch for my grumpy abolitionist friends ♻️🧌💚 Had fun crumpling these up and splatter-dyeing them with different colors of "trash juice" (leftover fabric paint) #oscarthegrouch #scram #abolishprisons #abolishice #screenprint

New! I got to "talk shop" with three of my favorite MN poets: @ollieschminkey.bsky.social, @seemore.bsky.social, and Isha Camara. We share poems, but *also* tools + tactics related to how language can be put to work as part of the struggle to abolish ICE and build a better world: guante.info/ICEOUT

bella meow pt 2 #abolishICE #fuckICE #bellameow #bellaciao #zine

I talked with my friend @shaneburley.bsky.social about Nick Fuentes' recent rant about putting women in gulags. How seriously should we take Fuentes, culturally and politically? And what does rhetoric like this reveal about the broader trajectory of the movement he’s trying to shape? We get into it.

ICE OUT won't be over until we abolish ICE #bellameow #bellaciao #zine #abolishICE

Wrote a cat version of Bella Ciao and illustrated a zine with the lyrics that anyone can print and meow at home 🐈‍⬛💖🐈‍⬛💖🐈‍⬛💖 all models are angry local cats #bellameow #bellaciao #standwithMinnesota #fuckICE #abolishIcE #zine

With so much info flying around, just want to uplift this link to specific calls-to-action from a coalition of *Minnesota* immigrant rights orgs: iceoutnowmn.com (resharing without the image; that's a longer conversation but the link is still worth amplifying)

Hosted a watercolor free-paint art space while Good Trouble held a community sing and vigil in Minneapolis this weekend.

hat magic 🪄 made a silly witch hat by slowly squishing a damp thrifted felt hat over a makeshift pointy hat block (funnel + water jug) #diy #costume #upcycled #witchhat #hatmaking #mending #witchy

trying a lockstitch sewing awl on the busted seam of my favorite work boots, from a box of vintage leatherworking tools my aunts gave me. It's easier than I expected, and if this repair holds up I'll definitely be using it on more household mending! #awl #repair #leatherwork #mending #shoerepair

@seemore.bsky.social edited me into this picture of one of my green dye bath experiments like a Victorian ghost photo and I feel so seen 👻💚🧟‍♀️ #dyeing #prociondye #swampling #swampthing #green #spookyart #horrorart #textileart #goblincore #moss

making a moss hat #embroidery #upcycling #moss #goblincore #mending #slowfashion

My giant summer project is up at Our Saviour's on Chicago! a canvas map mural surrounded by local children's dreams for the world. It's designed to be taken down regularly and knelt around/on for peace and solidarity prayers. More permanent hanging system to come 🌍 #kidsart #mural #communityart

Made #liveart this weekend to my friend Kenny's piano improvisations, and tested my supplies in extra heat and humidity 😅 Inspirations: maple buds amid hazy spring storms, grief and the Malvina Reynolds tune "The World's Gone Beautiful [because it's asking not to die]" #acrylicpainting #mixedmedia

for twin cities friends: we're playing a free, outdoors, all-ages show on wednesday, july 23 at silverwood park. 6:30-8pm. secret rivers is me on vocals and @seemore.bsky.social on the MPC and loop station 505 - guante.info/SecretRivers

Linocut proof of joyous lil guy, Gimbal Jen. What a man! #linocut #wip #blockprint #cat #catart #meow

A truly wondrous week making stuffies with grades K-4 as a teaching artist at S Mpls Day Camp! Such a treat to watch students develop their projects over 5 sessions ✨💖✨ #kidsart #stuffie #plushie #textileart #artteacher #artproject

It's hammock weather + I'm surrounded by tree tassels and trilliums with my old friends the Bolt Weevils sweet tunes in my head. They're having a rare reunion show and I'll be playing a set of original tunes (Fri bonus set: @too.oldcat!) 💖🌿🌸 come enjoy fab songwriting, queer joy and spring magic

Happy May Day parade! upcycled a tablecloth into this Snufkin hat in honor of spring #moomin #snufkin #mumrik #maydayparade

A little art quilt about grief and precarity...I had this idea for a tiny soft quilted moving box full of deep purple scrap quilt sky and stars. #artquilt #softsculpture #griefquilt #scrapquilt #textileart #movingbox

2012 painting of a nesting swan I met in Norway #painting #acrylicpainting #coloredpencil #mixedmedia #swan #nesting

#painting #acrylicpainting #mixedmedia #surrealistart #dreamscape #mystical

Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:

Another big quilt project complete this month: this starry night quilt for my partner's mom, made entirely of the brightest and darkest pieces from my scrap box. #scrapquilt #quilt #stardustshinequilt #modernquilt #textileart #griefquilt

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

"Premonition", painting of a scene/vibe from my favorite Nosferatu remake (Herzog, 1979). Acrylic and colored pencil on wood. #painting #horrorart #plagueart #nosferatu #existentialdread #insomnia

Memory quilt for my sister, full of childhood scraps. Includes scraps of school uniforms, dresses our mom sewed us, and lace from the princess dress-up we wore to play board games / throw dice at eachother. Pattern is Felix, a variation of Cats Cradle #memoryquilt #scrapquilt #upcycled #modernquilt

"God bless the grass that grows through the crack..." 2021 painting inspired by a Malvina Reynolds resistance song, for a downtown church. It's never felt quite done...

Memory quilt for my mom made of scraps saved from special old garments and clothes she sewed for us. #quilting #scrapquilting #memoryquilt #textileart #griefart #entropyquilt

Spending time learning about the decomposers that creep me out (worms, fungi, scavengers, microbes) and how lifegiving they are in our ecosystems. Endings and change can bring abundant new life. 2022, pen and watercolor drawing #ecohorror #inkdrawing #horrorart #spookyart #swampling

older painting inspired by one of my childhood favorite picture books, Caretakers of Wonder, which illustrates imaginary magical teams of stagehands and custodians of the earth and sky going about their daily care tasks. #surreal #painting #dreamscape #wonder #carework #laborart

live painting from 8 years ago: "Roots Call to the Lonely Moon" #surreal #acrylicpainting #paintmarker #livepainting #moonart #dreamart #ecohorror

acrylic and colored pencil on wood, 2022 #painting #dreamart #mixedmedia #illustration #surreal

Magic cat illustration for my aunt who writes stories 💚😺 #cat #illustration #moss #fantasyart

accurate sketchbook representation of my current dreams #haunted #nightmares #ghosts #spookyart

watching unsuspecting friends happily apply for PhD programs feels a little like watching someone make a bargain with the fey after I just escaped 7 years under the hill talking them out of the allure feels futile but also DON'T GIVE THEM YOUR NAME DON'T EAT THE BERRIES

How might we promote our projects, events, campaigns, art, values, etc *beyond* social media? There's no one magic key, but some friends and I did some brainstorming and skill-sharing. Hope it can useful to artists, musicians, organizers, small business owners, and beyond:

Legwarmers! can be so helpful as an extra layer in subzero cold--my knees are constantly getting cold while driving to work, so I made giant ones this week. Cut off the arms of a big thrifted sweater and sew/hem the cut edge so it doesn't unravel. Add elastic if you want. Done!

my cat put their paw on my hand yesterday like, there there #badtimes

a good thing happened today

There's so much angst and despair radiating all around us. This is wholly understandable, but if something's giving you warmth or strength (even just a bit), be sure to uplift that as well. Help others remember that kindness, solidarity, and care are still at work in the world.

Yule house show! 7:30 pm in Minneapolis for some magical/sad/silly tunes. Festive attire encouraged! #folkmusic #originalmusic #muppets

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