For the sake of humanity, can we please do something! I want to throw up. meidasnews.com/news/donald-...

Tariffs, Signal, the nominations, abandoning our allies, disappearing innocent people… none of this is incompetence, it’s on purpose. they are destroying this country on purpose. What is that purpose? Maybe we need to ask Russia. All of this only benefits them.

We (Black Americans) warned you about fascism. This isn’t new to us. Colonialism and racism is just an appendage of fascism. You just didn’t listen because you believed it wouldn’t happen to you since you’re not Black. it’s exactly this belief that got us here. It’s time to decolonize your mind.

So crazy. I fell asleep watching Sen. Cory Booker speaking at his 8th hour. I wake up to him speaking non-stop at his 15th hr. I checked my Apple News Top Stories feed and did not see one top story with his name on it. This is amazing. He’s still on fire. #corybooker

Senator Cory Booker has been speaking for 8 hours right now and will keep going until he can no longer continue and I can barely find any media coverage of this. Pathetic. Thank you Sen. Booker! #corybooker www.youtube.com/live/v2utlMx...

Bernie & AOC right now in Tucson. There’s around 20,000 people here and they’re pumped up.

RIP Nona Faustine. Thank you. ❤️

Black women have been activists for as long as Black women have existed. Try valuing, trusting, and hearing us sometime. We have met the required 10k hrs + bonus hrs no one wanted to make us experts on the evils of white greed. But I guess you didn’t think they’d come for you. Leopards, faces, etc.

Thank you to The Print Center @theprintcenter for inviting me to share more about my series, Black Diamonds this Thursday!

Feels good to get back in the studio today.

Happy Women’s Day! 😉

Barbarella is an artist. Her chocolates are sexy af!

I cut these guys out of my life back in Jan. Don’t shop at Target. Let them feel the weight of their decisions and become a lesson for other companies who cave to the orange it.

It can’t keep it’s lies straight because: a.) dementia b.) it lies so much it can’t keep them straight anymore c.) it doesn’t give a shit aka narcissistic psychopath d.) all the above

Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

As we head into tax season I have to really ponder the action of paying taxes that ultimately go into their pump and dump crypto scheme. This is not what our taxes are for and so we shouldn’t have to pay them. Right?

Feb 28 – Torkwase Dyson (b. 1973) Creates radical Black geographies through abstract art—redefining what space, freedom, and movement mean for Black people. #BlackArtMatters

Can’t afford anything anyway. Don’t give them any of your money. They’re already thriving too much as it is. #economicboycott #resist

Feb 27 – Ja’Tovia Gary (b. 1984) A filmmaker blending archival footage and experimental film to explore Black womanhood, rage, and survival. #BlackFilmHistory

I’m going to close out the month future forward as we continue to make history. ❤️ Feb 26 – LaToya Ruby Frazier (b. 1982) Photographs Black working-class life with the raw honesty museums don’t always want to see. #BlackPhotography

Hanging at The Projects_ and The Space_ from noon -4pm today and through Friday. Stop by and say hi!

Feb 25 – Ann Petry (1908–1997) The first Black woman to sell over a million copies of a novel (The Street, 1946), Ann Petry’s work tackled racism, poverty, and gender oppression in a way still radical today. #BlackLiterature

Feb 24 – Hazel Scott (1920–1981) A Black woman took on Hollywood and won. Pianist Hazel Scott refused to play for segregated audiences and was blacklisted for standing up to McCarthyism. #BlackHistoryMonth

Thank you, Tucson Museum of Art, for adding this work to your collection and featuring it on the giant poster outside! Grateful to be part of a reimagined, inclusive vision of the American West. #TucsonMuseumofArt #AmericanWest #ArtInclusion #ContemporaryArt

Feb 9 – Nancy Elizabeth Prophet (1890–1960) A sculptor who lived in poverty in Paris to perfect her craft. Her carved wooden busts of Black subjects were raw, emotional, and groundbreaking. #BlackSculpture

Feb 23 – Elaine Brown (b. 1943) Only woman to lead the Black Panther Party. Elaine Brown redefined revolutionary leadership and fought for Black feminist power. #BHM

I watch as Jasmine Crockett stands as one of the few boldly defending democracy, and I’m reminded—once again—of the relentless labor Black women put into saving a country that continually refuses to value them. She deserves #rest.

Feb 21 – Lorraine O’Grady (b. 1934 – 2024) Photographer, conceptual artist, critic. O’Grady stormed an all-white art gala in a dress covered in words like Jezebel and Mammy—a Black feminist mic drop. ❤️#ArtAsActivism

Feb 20 – Alexis Pauline Gumbs (b. 1982) Futurist, poet, radical thinker, and one of my true inspirations. Alexis Gumbs teaches us to dream new worlds with Black feminist love. Read any essay or book of hers to be moved to build a better world. #BlackFeminism

Just received stacks and stacks of family photos. Looks like I’m the family archivist now! I’ll be going through these, scanning, and cataloging everything with names and dates. So excited to discover all the treasures. I love these old photos and thread to my ancestors.

Hundreds of artists rebuked the National Endowment for the Arts in an open letter after the agency imposed new requirements for grant applicants not to operate DEI programs or use federal funds to “promote gender ideology.”

Because I’m in a mood. Here is How to Make a Country (2019).

A great few days visiting with Hank Willis Thomas and Rujeko Hockley while they were in town for the LOVEROVERULES show at University of Arizona Museum of Art. ❤️

Feb 19 – Pauli Murray (1910–1985) Nonbinary Black feminist, lawyer, and poet. Pauli Murray’s legal work inspired both Thurgood Marshall & RBG in fighting race and gender discrimination. #BlackFeminism

Feb 18 – Beverly Buchanan (1940–2015) Her sculptures of Southern shacks challenged racist, sexist art spaces. Buchanan used Black women’s folk art to resist. #BlackArtMatters

Feb 17 – Faith Ringgold (b. 1930) When museums wouldn’t show her work, Faith Ringgold turned quilts into storytelling protests. Her Tar Beach series let Black girls dream of flying over the city—free. Rest in peace. ❤️ #BlackArtHistory

Feb 17 – Bettye Saar (b. 1926) Turned a racist Aunt Jemima figurine into a weapon of resistance. Her 1972 piece The Liberation of Aunt Jemima redefined Black feminist art. ❤️ #BlackFeministArt

Feb 15 – Florynce “Flo” Kennedy (1916–2000) Cowboy hat. No-nonsense attitude. One of the boldest Black feminists in history, Flo Kennedy sued Harvard Law to get in, co-founded NOW, and mentored radical feminists of the 1970s. She’s EVERYTHING! #BHM #IntersectionalFeminism

Feb 14 – Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012) A sculptor and printmaker who used her art to fight for Black and Mexican liberation. Her radical woodcuts and sculptures celebrated Black womanhood in ways museums tried to ignore. #ArtAsResistance

Feb 13 – Callie House (1861–1928) The first person to demand reparations for slavery. In the 1890s, Callie House organized 300,000+ Black people for pensions, arguing that former slaves should be compensated for their stolen labor. #BHM #ReparationsNow

Random atmospheric shots found on my phone. Needed to start the day with a palette cleanser.

Congratulations to @waynemartinbelger.bsky.social for this stellar Smithsonian cover and 11 pages of beautiful photography of Canyon de Chelly and Mummy Cave. I even got a tiny photo credit. 😏 #smithsonianmagazine #mummycave

Feb 12 – Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915–1973) Before Elvis. Before Chuck Berry. A queer Black woman invented rock & roll. Sister Rosetta Tharpe shredded the electric guitar and changed music forever. Give her credit. #BlackWomenRock #BHM

Happy Birthday to big brained super talent, Wayne Martin Belger. Photographer, camera maker, former mascot, nail tech, world class mountaineer, velodrome racer, Irish band heartthrob…May this be your best day ever. ❤️ Please stop by @waynemartinbelger.bsky.social and wish him a happy birthday!

More of this please!

Feb 11– Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965) Wrote A Raisin in the Sun—the first play by a Black woman on Broadway. A radical Black feminist, socialist, and LGBTQ+ activist, she fought for liberation in her short but powerful life. #BHM

Sometimes it’s the details of the work that are the most exciting to me. Here are a few of my favorite details in various works of mine.

Hey photo friends, Flak Photo would like to see your portfolio!

Going to leave rhus here. I’m on board this analysis. I love the subtle but precise intellectual gut punch art can produce. youtube.com/shorts/Kg2gZ... #kendricklamar #halftimeshow #superbowl #artasresistance

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