Anuradha Vikram (Curative Projects)

Justice for Mahmoud Khalil—Urgent Support Needed Dear Friends, Allies, and Supporters,

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Once these Let Billions Suffer voters see how gruesome letting billions suffer gets they will surely come crawling back to the Let Millions Suffer party and we’ll finally be able to win elections without catering to those troublesome Nobody Should Suffer radicals

This is the question I threw together to ask our Chancellor and Executive Vice Chancellor (who ended her comments by citing former Columbia U President Lee Bollinger on the threats of fascism lmaooo) in our Senate meeting today.

[A: "we don't make the decisions, UCOP does" 💀]

Personality Crisis On the Importance of Friends and Allies

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The most horrifying slide from today’s National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) organization grant webinar, imo

CalArts student ID’ed as Newhall murder victim The L.A. County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified a California Institute of the Arts student as the woman found dead Feb. 4 in her Nandina Lane apartment in Newhall.  Santa […]

Truly terrible news for the CalArts community signalscv.com/2025/02/cala...

Forged in Flames by Anuradha Vikram on Apple Music Playlist · 19 Songs

I made an angsty playlist for you. Started during the wildfires in LA and completed during the dumpster fire in DC

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These Thiel cronies are the biggest threat so far - they're kids hired to break stuff

“Claims that DEI means “Didn’t Earn It” is one way people signal their support for old-school racism while avoiding the sanction of using open slurs. Couching bigotry in concern about “qualifications” (which only seems to apply to BIPOC)is just the socially acceptable way to launder racist disdain.

The Age of Unenlightenment If the past two weeks have shown us nothing else, they show the reality of our interdependence. Nothing can work without the cooperation of everything else.

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Would be a first if they did

Timeline: UCLA Students and Faculty Seek Justice After Zionist Mob Attack on Spring Encampment Palestine Square

Read: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656...

Oof. Remember the Zionist mob attack against students, faculty, and journalists at UCLA? Some assailants have finally been arrested, & 4 faculty members & students are suing the university. Lailah Bezan mapped an immaculate report for @PalStudies on developments.👇🏽📰

If Eungie's not safe none of us are

but of course none of us were

Perhaps I should design something more official along the lines of a "welcome to the club" certificate

It would seem the alleged "misconduct" involved an IG post in support of 🍉

SFMOMA head curator fired amid claim of workplace misconduct Eungie Joo, a prominent global curator and head of contemporary art at SFMOMA, was fired from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on Tuesday.

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Generous reviews always appreciated

Thanks Talia, for what you share here and on Twitter!
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Civility, Free Speech, and Academic Freedom in Higher Education: Faculty on the Margins Civility, Free Speech, and Academic Freedom in Higher Education: Faculty on the Margins represents a multidisciplinary approach, deploying different theoretical, methodological, sociological, politica...

Three years ago @drkakali.bsky.social and I edited “Civility, Free Speech, and Academic Freedom in Higher Education
Faculty on the Margins.” We are entering a period when these essays will be relevant again. Pls see the description and TOC below. www.routledge.com/Civility-Fre...

Remembering novelist Dorothy Allison, author of 'Bastard Out of Carolina' Allison, who died Nov. 6, based her critically acclaimed novel on her own experience of being physically and sexually abused by her stepfather. Originally broadcast in 1992.

Fresh Air replays a ‘92 interview with novelist Dorothy Allison (“Bastard Out of Carolina”). It’s great — if not easy — listening.

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On the bright side, justice is no longer trendy so the performative allies will get bored and fall away leaving the rest to do some real work

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Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway When Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and thinking. These pieces treated them …

After every US election, we get lectures suggesting that if we were nicer to Nazis they wouldn't be Nazis. I mean, they're threatening the very survival of a lot of us, and it's supposed to be uncouth of us to mention that in mixed company. Wrote about that in 2020: lithub.com/rebecca-soln...