La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)

Nicolas Lampert, A People’s Art History of the United States: 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements

In this scenario, artists and artists’ organizations would provide cultural services to trade unions—theatre productions, books, lectures, mural decorations—and in turn, the trade unions would financially support the artists."
—Nicolas Lampert, A People’s Art History of the United States

Nicolas Lampert, A People’s Art History....

"Orozco stressed that it was essential for artists to organize into trade unions and to link up with other working-class organizations. Moreover, he argued that trade unions, not the government, should be the primary backers to fund working-class art.

if you’re teaching hip hop 101 & starting from the beginning, this record has to be in the curriculum.

It’s still the basis for everything hip hop is today.

the message - grandmaster flash & the furious five

#hiphopsky #hiphop #musicsky

"We artists must act. Individually we are powerless. Through collective action we can defend our interests. We must ally ourselves with all groups engaged in the common struggle against war and fascism."
—American Artists’ Congress,1935

Nicholas Lampert's A People’s Art History of the United States

individualism

OK, you booed the bad guys, but what happened to the Black woman who was targeted? I really hope she’s OK (and has a good lawyer).

Nicolas Lampert, A People’s Art History of the United States: 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements

"Emory Douglas, Minister of Culture and revolutionary artist for the Black Panther Party (BPP), was not one to make subtle images. Rather, his art was designed to rip the heart out of those oppressing the black community."
—Nicolas Lampert, A People’s Art History of the United States

This article identifies how people who seemingly would oppose authoritarianism are supporting it, acknowledges that throughout history various communities have fought back using a variety of tactics, and provides ideas of what we can and should do now.
Very useful.

Attention Artists - if you have the ability to put a robots.txt block on your website - you absolutely should!

More people need to do this, but unfortunately not everyone has the ability to do it. Here’s an excellent study from UCSD (it’s a very quick, MUST READ) !!!

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

We've updated and republished our guide to surveillance-resistant protest, first published in the summer of 2020. Paywall is down for this. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

A lot of my friends are visual artists and they're struggling/are concerned about protecting their work from #genAI.
This is a good overview of the things they can/cannot do in this area.
@digelsrud.bsky.social

News media: For stories about this admin. deploying federal troops in D.C., don't continuously feature photos of Trump, giving him more free publicity & power.

Instead, feature photos of people & everyday life in D.C. Otherwise, you make the people this will impact invisible.

Images tell a story.

Imagine if "combating homelessness" meant housing people, not brutalizing and disappearing them.

Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment by David Garland. How American-style capitalism creates a coercive state unlike any other.

How American-style capitalism creates a coercive state unlike any other.

David Garland's Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment publishes August 19. Learn more and preorder your copy: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

"It’s not only racism, but economic exploitation of poverty would be one, and then militarism. And I think that in a sense, a very real sense, that these three are tied inextricably together and that we aren’t going to get rid of one without getting rid of the other.”
—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

DC is FORTY-ONE PERCENT Black.

Do you understand?

quoted in

Helen Langa, Radical Art: Printmaking and the Left in 1930s New York

Nicolas Lampert, A People’s Art History of the United States : 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements

“Art has turned militant. It forms unions, carries banners, sits down uninvited, and gets underfoot. Social justice is its battle cry!”
—Mabel Dwight, WPA-FAP printmaker

If only Black radical intellectuals could be heard. Not fetishized, heard.

I’m confused, is Sydney in the Epstein files?

Aug. 8, 1964: Freedom Schools Convention The Freedom Schools Convention was held in Meridian, Mississippi

#tdih 1964 Students from 41 Freedom Schools in Mississippi met for a Convention in Meridian, held day after James Chaney's funeral.

Students took lead & drafted their political platform for MFDP.

Supported by Free Southern Theater, Bob Moses, A. Philip Randolph, & more.

Read platform & more ⬇️

between the prolonged and sordid cruelty of practices such as slavery, colonialist and racial oppression, and imperial subjection on the one hand, and the poetry, fiction, philosophy of the society that engages in these practices on the other."
—Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism

Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism

"the trouble with this idea of culture is that it entails not only venerating one’s own culture but also thinking of it as somehow divorced from, because transcending, the everyday world. Most professional humanists as a result are unable to make the connection

was reminded

“Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.”
—Toni Morrison

news report:
old racist says...

over and over again

A piñata sold in Mexico in the shape of an ICE officer

Mexican entrepreneurship knows no limits…

Behold the ICE officer piñata 🪅

As a kid, I often heard my mom and other female relatives, suddenly implore, "lord, help me!" and "lord, give me strength!"

I think I've reached the age where I understand what it means to need to call for spiritual intervention to assist with an onslaught of relentless problems.

Weight is real.

Flyer for a zine launch titled "Abolition, Organizing, and Collective Futures" on August 29, 6-8 PM, at 629 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn, NY; purple text and silhouettes of people at the bottom.

Join us for the launch of 3 zines on Aug 29 in Brooklyn - 6 to 8 pm. You can check out the *Another World* space which exists to support political education, mutual aid and organizing.