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Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading.

Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.

Just. Keep. Reading.

hardcover copy of mexican gothic on a wood table with cream coloured lace doily

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia; on a gothic kick currently and this hits the spot so well

a plate with a partially eaten orange roll, a tea cup, and the book plain bad heroines on a side table

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M Danfort; truly a sapphic horror masterpiece across time

the book chlorine on a denim skirt

Chlorine by Jade Song; a modern gothic tale (hehe)

a psalm for the wild built, open to the title page, on a side table with tea cup, creamer, sugar bowl, and tarot deck

A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers; a softer world to build towards

my AIC conference badge on a quilt, showing I am a speaker, my pronouns, and that I hablo español, along with a conservators for palestine pin

what a whirlwind few days at @conservators.bsky.social AIC annual meeting 🪆

A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers; a softer world to work for

Sinners (2025) was phenomenal, the blending of genre, time, the score. this movie is a period drama the way Nope (2022) is a blockbuster.

much sadness to realize i am visiting nyc the week after this!

books read thread 📚

photo of my desk, zoom is focused on the youtube live of senator cory booker on my computer

felt good to watch sen booker break the record for longest senate speech yesterday, one small win in the face of everything

Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding for programs with 'improper ideology' President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on the Smithsonian Institution that targets funding to programs that contain what he calls “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.”

more violence

"Trump singled out the National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opened in 2016 near the White House, the Women’s History Museum, which is in development, and the American Art Museum for criticism."

#MuseumsAreNotNeutral

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Slide 1: Pink, white, and blue text over a background image of a trans flag. Text Reads: The 2025 Trans Rights Readathon: A decentralized grassroots event that focuses on UPLIFTING trans books, AMPLIFYING trans stories, and SUPPORTING trans organizations and communities. March 21-31, 2025.

Slide 2: Text Reads: The #TRR Isn’t Just Reading, It’s Action! The Trans Rights Readathon encourages readers to seek out works by and/or about trans, nonbinary, 2Spirit, and gender non-conforming authors and characters. Along with taking action on the mutual, local, and national level! Image includes a blue box with the word UPLIFT, a white box with the word AMPLIFY, and a pink box with the word SUPPORT with a dollar sign in place of the S.

Slide 3: Text Reads: It’s not too late to sign up! You can find resources, graphics, and more information via our website. We also encourage you to sign up and so we can communicate with you throughout the readathon. This effort is decentralized. We encourage you to get involved and support your local community directly!

Slide 4: Text Reads: Get Loud, Stay Loud. Trans people, trans voices, trans stories have always been here, and will always remain. If this is your first or third readathon, you’re an author or a reader, an accomplice, young or old—let’s always remain loud for Trans Rights!

SHE’S HERE! The Trans Rights Readathon has officially begun! ✨🥳🎊🎉📚 #booksky #trr25 #transrightreadathon

probably 5ish hours, definitely in one sitting

#booksky #diversebooks I asked my reader community their favorite Indigenous reads of 2024. I’m going to share them below! You should join the community here: discord.gg/S6vwHnjfZh

listening to Dr Anna Blume talk about bannerstones and the way she breathes life onto these mostly overlooked Indigenous objects thousands of years old is a powerful experience

bronze disease?

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

A parody of "Join, or Die." revolution political cartoon. Instead of a snake, a dragon, representing various minorities, holding a cracked crown, representing the American oligarchy.

Sick and tired
(Disclaimer: trans is at the head for a reason, but all else is random. Getting distracted by what should go where is exactly the petty distraction they want.)

a one-eyed tuxedo cat sits upon a giraffe pillowpet on a red couch

my darling chicken

mars, la luna, venus, jupiter

“Nosferatu”: Chilling, but perhaps not for 21st-century moviegoers Warning: spoilers ahead.   From “Beauty and the Beast” to “King Kong” to the original 1922 “Nosferatu,” movies—and horror movies especially—have never been averse to connecting the beautiful female vi...

this review puts it into words better than i could observ naer.case.edu/nosferatu-chilling-but-perhaps-not-for-21st-century-moviegoers/

Nosferatu (2024) has made me angry in a way no other movie has, everyone who described it as a woman reclaiming sexual agency is wrong and needs to rethink their relationship to power/consent

Returning the Gaze of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Portraits As an artist, reading Euphrosyne Doxiadis’s book made me consider how we can draw inspiration from Egyptian art while engaging it thoughtfully — reverently, even.

Rooted in the gazes of those lost to history, Euphrosyne Doxiadis’s book “The Mysterious Fayum Portraits” explores the cultural significance of ancient Egyptian funerary portraits across time and geographies.