@cyberbanshee.bsky.social
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The care, commitment, solidarity from artists/arts workers was palpable last night here in the belly of the beast. Free, Free Palestine, stop artwashing genocide. #GazaBiennale
Me with my research colleague, Dr Han Reardon-Smith - @cyberbanshee.bsky.social⬠who writes about it below.
Activists gathered outside Londonβs Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) to show support for the Gaza Biennale and protest the ICAβs sponsorship ties.
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β¦importance of artmaking, as well as the need for cultural institutions to refuse complicity in genocide and colonial violence β to drop n divest from z1onist orgs and sponsorship.
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beautiful eve w Prof @sandyosullivan.bsky.social at the Gaza Biennale event n protest outside the Institute of Contemporary Art (more info in the thread below). what an honour to join the Palestinian and solidarity community in london, along w artists n arts workers, to affirm the power andβ¦
15.01.2025 14:06 β π 11 π 2 π¬ 1 π 1yayyy for the Glasgow recommendation β will defs visit in when iβm there in feb!!
15.01.2025 13:17 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We are currently running a survey that focuses on queer Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander gaming practices. Particularly, asking about character creation, representation, playing and watching practices.
Here is the link to the survey: limesurvey.mq.edu.au/index.php/75...
You can't stop this, little poem. What use is your witness? Everything is the demand. All I ask of you is to be A pillow for Reem A pillow for Tareq A pillow for Omar A pillow for the babies A pillow for the Babas A pillow for the mothers A pillow for the martyrs And yes, for the fighters. Softer, softer still. Rest, beloveds. Rest ya albi.
A black and white portrait of the martyr Khaled Nabhan cradling his murdered granddaughter, baby Reem
A spread from The Nightmare Sequence. This book is meant to be our way of honouring the living as well as the dead, but Iβm desperately afraid that by the time it is out in April, the portraits of living Palestinians will instead be memorials of martyrs. Allah yerhamon.
16.12.2024 18:39 β π 33 π 13 π¬ 2 π 0I'm still surprised at queer studies scholars who seem incapable or uninterested in writing about gender - or queerness in general - without automatically connecting it to sexuality. It's as though they can't parse queerness without discussing sexuality.
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Vaccination/Immunization is at a tipping point. We have to call our Senators.
15.12.2024 17:05 β π 13444 π 1898 π¬ 106 π 57The track is 'Cracks Everywhere' by my dear friend and brilliant artist and @radioreversal.bsky.social co-producer Han Reardon-Smith, in collab with Matt Hsu's Obscure Orchestra, feat. words from Nick Montgomery & carla bergman's Joyful Militancy - track released next week!! You can cry too!
05.12.2024 03:42 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0I'm so excited for @radioreversal.bsky.social tmw - our theme is 'Cracks Everywhere', & I've got contributions from dear friends-comrades-scholars-activists-artists reflecting on the moments, events, practices, relationships, etc. that have sustained them in communities of struggle & care this year
11.12.2024 09:53 β π 8 π 2 π¬ 1 π 1so lovely ! forever an honour to work with Prof π
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