Andrea Kleine

This Saturday 1/31, 7pm at Spotty Dog Books in Hudson NY: THAT TIME OF YEAR series w/ Davey Davis, Lauren Cook, Miriam Atkin, Stacy Szymaszek

I don’t know how much longer we can be expected to live alongside the lie that this is not exactly what it looks like: a violent siege, meant to destroy people. The lie makes it even more destructive.

public service Archives - The Portland Press Herald

The Portland Press Herald is on the ground covering the ICE surge in Maine without a paywall as a public service.

"Oh my gosh, it was so nice to see you! Have a lovely day, fuck ICE!"
"Oh you too hon! Stay safe in that traffic, fuck ICE!'

- two older Minnesota ladies, bidding farewell after the protest

Just in case someone missed this detail:
Wells Fargo used the ICE orks to clear out a building of lawful residents to make a buck

Again, a military terror purge was carried out with naked children in handcuffs for the benefit of Wells Fargo execs

A corrupt corp that will bleat at any reciprocity

On Agnès Varda’s Vagabond by Andrea Kleine July 9, 2018 –   As a teenager, my view of the world was bleak. I was the only one of my small group of misfit friends to leave home and go away to college. Not

8/30/85: Agnes Varda's Vagabond, w/Sandrine Bonnaire
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@carynjames.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/1986/05/16/m...
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What the United States government is letting Israel do to Gazans is monstrous. A grave crime against humanity. Shame on everyone who is enabling this.

The images of children starved to death in Gaza should be the lead of every news program.

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

can we please just have more book reviews instead of these weird pieces about whether or not straight white men can still read or publish novels

In libraries, we call this vocational awe. The idea that if you are invested in your calling, you should accept low wages/inhumane conditions is a nasty little trick of capitalism.

I’m an author, I’m hungry, I care deeply about my work, AND I deserve to be paid for it.

As someone who lives in Los Angeles, don’t let social or mainstream media gaslight you into thinking there’s a violent uprising taking place here. The Trump administration is trying to punish this state and this city. He’s also setting a precedent to unleash troops on Democratic cities.

NEA GRANT TERMINATION TRACKER

*please repost or forward* Here’s a sheet where arts orgs can record information about their NEA grant termination. Annie Dorsen is collecting this info as a first step towards coordinating a response docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Andrea is a brilliant artist support her project if you can!

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Announcing a new film project! I’m making an improvised, Cassavetes-style, Grotowski-esque, middle-aged Midsommar. Plants and trees and theater people and blood and guts and ecstatic rituals. Help us get ready for WE WANT TO BE READY fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/andrea-klein...

Thrilled to be a 2025 writing fellow at Lighthouse Works!

Do Not Obey In Advance: A Moral Crisis in Arts Funding February energy is the NEA falling apart, a story about my mother, and learning to tell the difference between being trapped and just being scared.

I had, as it turns out, a voluminous quantity of words to say about the National Endowment for the Arts demanding fealty to Trump in their new grant guidelines

(with side tangents into Robert Mapplethorpe, the Eight of Swords in tarot, compliance and resistance, and why budgets are moral documents)

Madeleine Cutrona “Like Any Living Thing” on view at The Draw @mkadkingston.bsky.social

This Saturday in Hudson NY, I’m hosting That Time of Year reading series at Spotty Dog Books with this stellar lineup: Dawn Lundy Martin, Anna Moschovakis, Marianne Shaneen. 1/25 at 7pm!