Anyway textile arts and feminine-coded arts have a VERY long history of both resistance and also people being really shitty about it and idk I invite you to think about why that may be.

People keep complaining about the red hats because they’re not “real” protest but that lady has raised and donated over $600,000 to her neighbors in MN *and* is the the daughter of a refugee from Egypt. Y’all gotta sit with those impulses and then calm tf down and think about WHY you feel dismissive

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

Thank you, Ebo Taylor. Rest well.

PERFECTION!!!! 💙💚

Yall—

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

The entrance walk, from the plantation to the working class to the stage, but the stage is also The People.

AND DID!!!

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

You’ve seen the halftime show … now read my friend Petra’s new book from @dukepress.bsky.social about how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance! 👏🏽👏🏽 www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r

Bad Bunny and Lady Gaga

If you were hoping for some sort of overt political statement: see the literal plantation Benito created to perform in.

I been purposely skipping the commercials as I knew they’d be especially icky this year, but since the whole timeline kept mentioning Dunkin being uniquely bad, I went to go see. I would like a refund. They owe me that minute I lost. Zombie ass commercial.

The ending of the halftime show with the shoutouts and the flags and “DTMF.”🥹🤍

Lady Gaga. A salsa version of “Die With A Smile.” That was fire.

The production design and art direction for this halftime is incredible. In their baggg.

BENITO TIME!

No Kings includes Draft Kings

Many folks are reflecting on Prince’s extraordinary halftime performance, the best ever. What you may not know is that it was a profound, nuanced statement and a powerful reclaiming of a proud musical tradition. Some background: anildash.com/2021/02/05/h...

reminder that green day some real ones

"Green Day kicked off the performance with “Holiday,” followed by “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” and “American Idiot.”" The song is the statement.

They sang “American Idiot”

I just realized that I’m not watching any of the commercials. Can’t tell you a single thing that’s happened in any of them so far because as soon as the commercial hits, I’m on my phone like reading bookmarked articles lmao. I don’t care, baby.

so much of our present misery is just a giant, prolonged backlash to integration

Why is Charlie Puth dressed like a cheating dad from an 80s sitcom

Stop censoring Green Day’s lyrics.🫵🏾📺

We gotta get the yt boys back in the garage..

Bluestreak 🤣🤣

Tengo el gato..in los pantalones (Quick. What movie is that from?)

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

i do not remember who i bought this T-shirt from but you're either perplexed or delighted when you see it

I need to transition to blacksky but also keep my current handle because for obvious reasons I like the .photo but I also want it to be immediately visible I shifted from bsky lmao. What’s a girl to do.

Since the pronouns labeler is gone.

This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.

I think often how they get rewards for doing the same thing Black folks get disqualified for.

I realized that while yes literacy is a huge issue in the States, sometimes people are assholes. They know the meaning, the context…everything. They’re intellectually dishonest because they can gain attention by making you a target. Sometimes it’s personal malice too, but mainly attention thirst.

well wishes to christopher "kid" reid who recently underwent a heart transplant... stay up.

I give up on trying to figure out the right way to say that I am kind of tired of how anonymous followers engage with me on here. I think you forget I'm a person not a repository. I'm sorry you're sad/mad/scared. Me too. Does that absolve you of the responsibility of reading carefully? It does not.

It’s kinda interesting how Letterboxd has so much influence on how people now do both red carpet interviews and street interviews. Just random as hell publications or even legacy ones and creators asking about film in an almost academic way that they absolutely were not doing even 10 years ago.

So I heard we’re posting super bowls. Here’s a Fatimid lusterware bunny. Islamic lusterwares originate in Iraq to emulate the sheen of Chinese porcelain, but the combo with highly animated-looking Fatimid animal motifs is my favorite. He even has a little snack. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Every time I go to a comic book convention I see people waiting in line for hours to say hello and get a picture with an old man or woman who spends four minutes drawing on the flyleaf of an old book and writing “to [name].” Nobody would be happier if there was a computer to do a “better” drawing

A Florida A&M University law student says the school told her to remove the word 'Black' from a Black History Month event flyer. The school says it is in full compliance with state law

"one of Boseman’s plays, Deep Azure, is being revived for a 9-week run at Shakespeare’s Globe theatre in London. ...The play tells the story of the aftermath of the death of an unarmed Black man, Deep, who is murdered by a police officer." inspired by his friend Prince Jones (murdered sept 2000)

We’re already there

I wanted this album for years (an original, not the anniversary reissue). A record store I used to go to in my old neighborhood was always really kind to the customers, so the owner saved me one and one day when I went browsing in 2021, he told me he saved it and gave it to me for free.🥹🤍

You can't actually steal ppl's ability and capacity to create art so the next best thing is devaluing the creation of art itself.

I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.

And the thing that will have the most value for me is that people will see my name and know that a human being worked on this book and did her best to make it the best, and most meaningful, book she could.