Elizabeth Otto

Okay, this is helpful--I thought it DID have to do with ideology? It was shocking news today! (And for 2026 already???)

Visual Studies Colourised Histories, reading digital/analogue photography and film archives now. Volume 40, Issue 1 of Visual Studies

Proud to be part of this fantastic special issue of Visual Studies: Colourised Histories, edited by @liziwat.bsky.social and Dominic Williams, bridging film and still photography to address questions of historical method, racialization, ethics, AI, and more. Thread 🧵 to introduce each article 🗃️📜📷📸🎥

Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

100 Years After Mussolini's Dictatorship, a Trumpian US Flirts With the Long Night of Authoritarianism | Common Dreams The comparisons between Mussolini's declaration of dictatorship in 1925 and Trump’s re-election are striking.

Dr. @brianjgriffith.bsky.social -- one of NFS' two co-curators -- has just published an OpEd on @commondreams.org that explores the legal and political parallels between Benito #Mussolini's declaration of #dictatorship in January 1925 and Donald J. #Trump's re-election as POTUS. See the link below.

The Smithsonian's queer erasure of an AIDS artwork should alarm us all By omitting the tragic story behind Felix González-Torres "Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.), the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery is setting a perilous precedent, warns art scholar Ignacio Da...

By omitting the tragic story behind Felix González-Torres "Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.), the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery is setting a perilous precedent, warns art scholar Ignacio Darnaude.

www.out.com/gay-news/fel...

Man, that guy just always knows to say the right thing.

Do not despair! That is what they want. Focus. Pick your battles--as many as you can, but also no more than that. We must be in the eye of the shit storm and know it's not stopping anytime soon. We can do this because we must.

Yes! Do not turn away!!!

She is a tool.

Stained glass art of Bishop Budde

“Make good trouble.”

~ John Lewis

But let's concentrate on something really positive: that woman is a total badass!!!!! I hear civil courage is making a comeback.

If he doesn't watch out, I'm going to put him on his back and change his freaking diaper. But in fact, the comparison isn't fair; infants are infinitely more charming, at least most of the time. He's just an ass all the time. And here we are for the next 4 years. Sigh.

Just imagine if she'd actually criticized the pathetic fragile manbaby

Ah, this must have been the signings in the stadium directly after the inauguration?

Gorgeous painting.

That is so cool!!!

The Dream of the Raised Arm | Zadie Smith It’s no wonder those who lived under the Third Reich suffered ceaseless nightmares. What of our dreams today, under the totalitarianism of the online algorithm?

Zadie Smith is just the smartest. This review of a new edition of The Third Reich of Dreams is as much about our own times as the Nazi period. Her essay is deeply chilling and brilliant. Also everyone must read The Fraud. Just saying.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...