Kennedy Center employee strips nude in protest video and asks, 'Should I quit?' Kennedy Center contract employee Tavish Forsyth, troubled by President Trump's takeover of the national arts institution, strips naked and delivers a 35-minute protest poem suggesting that arts leaders nationwide must take a stronger stand.

Kennedy Center contract employee Tavish Forsyth, troubled by President Trump's takeover of the national arts institution, strips naked and delivers a 35-minute protest poem suggesting that arts leaders nationwide must take a stronger stand.

Always grateful to read @alisasolomon.bsky.social

Massachusetts reps-proud of you

Higher Ed dismantling DEI has implications beyond higher ed-the funding crisis is real but the stakes are even greater.

@sioburke.bsky.social doing the good work too

Yes!

Alas my IG account is gone! But I Will check it out

Are you an early career theater journalist or critic of color? You should apply for this program tcg.org/Web/Web/Our-...

wow! that's great

I’m enjoying Substack though I know there are issues…

I had liked IG - esp. the close friends and private account options- and never used Twitter. i am off Meta and want to use this account optimally but feels like Twitter -- best for journalists, politicians, cultural critics, public figures? how to be "better" at it, and create community?

Just discovered @marisakabas.bsky.social - essential independent journalism covering what’s going on w Trump chaos

From bad to worse/downright chilling

Katherine Rundell · Why children’s books? Children’s books, to a great extent because they are written for those who cannot participate in the market, can offer...

“The greatest children’s fantasies were worth your time when you were twelve, and they are equally worth it now. [Imagination] is deadly serious, the necessary condition of political change, of love. It is the sharpest tool of ethics.”

Some hope for right now.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Oh hello my friend just lamenting over here

Ughhhhhh

My jaw literally dropped.

Katherine Rundell · Why children’s books? Children’s books, to a great extent because they are written for those who cannot participate in the market, can offer...

While the federal nightmare unfolds, I am reading this beautiful piece by Katherine Rundell about the importance of children’s literature. It will actually give you a kind of hope.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Absolutely

I appreciate this headline from @hyperallergic.com being clear about what exactly is going down w/o euphemism

Dismantling the little we have

I’ve not seen an example but I can investigate how it might be doable!

I am enjoying Substack! But don’t have the bandwidth myself to write regularly. I have wondered what a communally- generated Substack could look like but not thought it through much (cc @acanarytorsi.bsky.social )

I just wish there was a good way for the arts folks to be direct communication, you know? A good forum and place to dialogue and troubleshoot. Maybe this is it?

It’s been a long time coming! And hi to you :) glad you’re here

Now that I have deleted Facebook and Instagram, I guess this is the social media app I post on to celebrate being off social media