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Joined April 2017
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“I post, and I post, and I post.” Jenson Leonard @coryintheabyss addresses class politics, police brutality, and the commodification of Blackness through a meme-based art practice rhizome.org/editorial/2021/j…
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A survey of the social media and media landscape this spring, for NEW MODELS (@newmodels_io), for Stolbun Institute (@sethstolbun) season 1: newmodels.io/proprietary/hel… – at Manhattan, NY
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*First piece published in 2021* ‘King of the Road’ by Muheb Esmat takes a closer look into contemporary visual and cultural production in Kabul, Afghanistan through the city’s vinyl car decals. dirtdmv.com/writing/kingofth…
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Contextualized with a history of Afghan poetry and culture, Esmat writes of the cars windshields as odes to a broken society in uncertain times — passing screens of wisdom soaked with truths about Kabul’s realities and anxieties.
Congress is gonna be wild – at Brooklyn, NY
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Combined, trustees at MoMA and the Frick Collection shelled out $900,000 to the Trump re-election campaign. 😬 buff.ly/3pnQwjb
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Hiring more people of color doesn’t dismantle structural racism within an organization. A white dominant organization could hire 100 people of color but if the policies and the practices stay the same, that’s 100 more people that can be harmed by them. 1/2
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WALLACE: "Why did you decide to do that, to end racial sensitivity training — and do you believe that there is systemic racism in this country?" TRUMP: "I ended it because it's racist" #Debates2020 trib.al/aE4212N
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Would it be too hard to turn off the mic of the person who isn't supposed to be speaking?
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Normal Eyes Normalize Normal Lies #staywoke
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🤮 So gross. But a great measure of how ill-equipped you are to cover this community.
Artists who rent studio space at STABLE are demanding resignations and restitution over racial micro-aggressions and other conflicts. But one artist called the campaign against STABLE a “personal vendetta,” a “smear campaign” and a “performance piece.” bit.ly/3i54RMp
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Just posted a photo @ Washington D.C. instagram.com/p/CFM_QlLFRn4/…
A message from [B R A N D]™️
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