Kristin Cato

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Art by Rylee Fitch, a 14 year old eighth grader, in the 4-H Building at the Minnesota State Fair.

#gunreform #mnstatefair

YouTube video by WashU Modern Literature Collection Robert Coover reads at Washington University in 1969, Part I

With only nine likes and two comments (one of them mine), I’m pulling up some rare diamonds from the seabed of YouTube. Listen to Stanley Elkin’s gutsplitting hilarious spoken introduction of Robert Coover #literature #robertcoover #stanleyelkin

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YouTube video by New York State Writers Institute Robert Coover Discusses His Early LIfe and Influences

I’ve been reading Robert Coover lately and watching interviews of him. Amazing thinker. Here he discusses his early influences, especially Samuel Beckett.

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Thank you for posting this. I don't have time to educate.😉

The people in this government are not people of faith, that is irrelevant. They are using Christianity as a tool of control and supremacy. They don't believe in diversity. They have created a fascist state, encoding persecution of minorities into law, and trampling human rights.

In sum, this government is all about white Christian supremacy, except that Stephen Miller, who is writing a lot of policy, favors Jews, and they are accusing people of anti-semitism as a cover to remove the rights of protesters and to deport people.

They are using Christianity to subjugate women like banning abortion rights and taking away their right to vote. To reverse LGBT rights. To install prayer in schools and to ostracize followers of other religions. This also underpins their rejection of science.

My faith is irrelevant. I am a caucasion descendant of European Christians if that helps you place me. Trump and the Republicans are foisting Christianity into laws and dismantling separation between church and state, a bedrock of democracy.

This is way beyond a political disagreement between two parties. That ship sailed long ago. Republicans are fashioning a Christofascist country and destroying democracy. Read Project 2025 and get informed.

Whooo Fascism just flew over your head!

The Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis is small but thrilling. A good study of artmaking within dictatorships. #tmora #museum #art #paintings #russianart #threemilkmaids

Oh great! Had no idea! xo

Miranda July’s bright yellow book with large font spelling the uncapitalized title: No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July. The book sits on a bright pink bedcover with stripes. A white cat is preening itself next to the book.

On a quest for #shortstories. Who is your favorite #shortstory writer. Just finished #MirandaJuly’s assembly of misfits and perversions. The voices feel ungrounded, with people brushing up against each other…

Jeffrey Skoller Film Writing Photography Pedagogy Contact: jskoller@gmail.com

Shout out to filmmaker Jeffrey Skoller, for his humanistic videos. See "Occupation Diary" about one man's complex choice during Nazi invasion in Greece during WWII. Skoller interviews neighbors and excavates astonishing tales from the people next door. jeffreyskoller.com/film%2Fvideo

An astonishing film by "Black Wave" Serbian filmmaker Zelmir Zilnik. A formal documentary where subjects shout, directily addressing the camera, their stories of resisting fascism in WWII. Pastoral mise-en-scene, poetic and impactful.

www.zilnikzelimir.net/uprising-jazak

YouTube video by Andy Arthur Smith Andy Arthur Smith - Native Tongue

I've watched this goofball on instagram for a while, then he came out with something rock hard serious! This instantly puts every other music video on mute.

#newmusic #andyarthursmith #nativetongue

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The character is clearly based on the author who is a member of GenX. Millenials aren't going through menopause yet.

All Fours a book by Miranda July AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The New York Times bestselling author returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and surprising novel about a woman upending her life"A frank novel about...

"July's novel is hot and weird and captivating and one of the most entertaining, deranged, and moving depictions of lust and romantic mania I've ever read." --New York Magazine

So there!

Snuggle up with #AllFours this spooky season.

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#MirandaJuly

The narrator and July are squarely GenX.

I've followed Miranda July's career for a long time, seen her live twice, and met her once. So it was exciting to find her new book in a Little Library waiting for me. I recommend it. It's about freedom, sexual and mental. It's airy with endless humor. #mirandajuly #kinky

YouTube video by Karsten W John Smith - The Black Tower

John Smith talks about his film The Black Tower. I love how he describes editing as a "repair job" or "salvage job" and the process of connecting parts of a film that don't quite fit together.

#experimentalfilm

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YouTube video by Gray Flowers John Smith - The Black Tower (1987, DVDRip)

Sink into this riveting, impeccable experimental film which has all the dementedness of a modernist mystery. Reminds me a bit of Cortazar's short story Axolotl or Beckett's Theatre of the Absurd.

#experimentalfilm

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Ha!!! That was a test to see if they would delete it. 😀👍

YouTube video by CRITERION Under the Influence: Miranda July on SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE

Art is better than politics. Would rather be inspired than infuriated. Going back to my aesthetic roots.
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1999 tour. Bobby Z of The Revolution lived next door to me and got us tickets. Went with my mom and Pam Cass, if you remember her.

Also saw Prince at the Met in 1983? With parent.

Donnie and Marie was the first album I ever bought at the record store.