Adriana Hernández Bergstrom

Yes! I hadn’t thought about it in years until our meetup! I thought they were long gone. I also didn’t realize some of my fave books like that Grimm one and the Kitty one were in Spanish! My memory had translated them. Found them in unopened moving boxes while searching for art supplies!

The black face on ANTM as well as the “worst makeovers” are a frequent topic on YouTube. How did the show stay so popular for so long?

Books from my childhood. My uncle would give me books (from Venezuela) for my birthdays. These were the few that survived, and that I kept anyway after they got soaked in Hurricane Andrew

My favorite scene - The daughter gets to look at spiders. The family enjoys their vacation together while also being curious and enjoying nature. I would constantly come back to this double page spread. They all looked so happy and free to be themselves.

In a box I hadn’t opened in decades I found my surviving kids books. Drawn to it by a recent conversation about the books we loved as kids vs how we draw as adults. It is so telling. My favorite scene from my favorite book is that of a happy family. I dreamed of a loving, caring father.

I forgot about the braces. Wasn’t there one contestant that had their tooth gap widened by shaving their teeth? I stopped watching when I realized (in therapy) it was feeding my hatred of my own body. Those weigh-ins and the constant shaming. . . so unhealthy on so many levels.

I just listened to the author read aloud you posted. That is an excellent summation of where we find ourselves in this country (as well as what Tyra was doing to young people in ANTM… I remember the horrible hair treatments chosen for some on the basis of maximum humiliation)

Imposter Syndrome: A Buzzword with Damaging Consequences Like many racially minoritized faculty who engage in work for equity and social justice, we are no strangers to the daily manifestations of systems of oppression and oppressive behavior in academia. R...

"Calling it ‘imposter syndrome’ hides the fact that oppressive systems teach many of us to actively suppress and hate ourselves. It’s not imposter syndrome, it is the consequences of oppression"

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This post is going around again so I will add this excellent resource: leavesubstack.com

Short answer: yes

#abolishICE

So the confrontations, violent apprehensions, and general fear bearing down on communities like Minnesota is only the beginning of the nightmare. Behind the scenes, Orwellian anti-judicial antics thwart lawful recourse. And hidden from sight, non-citizens are tortured for being noncitizens.

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People can have different political opinions about immigration policy. Political differences are fine, healthy for a democracy.

But if you’re okay with this, that’s not a political opinion. That is a moral failing.

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And even when we move at warp speed and outpace this regime, DHS doesn’t care. They’ve moved people to Texas hours or days after being enjoined.

When ordered to return them, DHS just… doesn’t. The AUSAs let them: when we notify them of a violation, they send the email equivalent of a shrug.

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See ICE wants these cases in Texas, where Trump-infected courts are more tolerant of their antics, more biased against non-citizens, more willing to let DHS fill up concentration camps.

(Not all Texas judges, for sure. Plenty are bravely faithful to the rule of law. ICE is playing the numbers)

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Hundreds of judges reject Trump’s mandatory detention policy, with no end in sight Judges have ruled against the administration in more than 1,600 cases.

Judges have mostly rejected the government’s attempt to detain anyone who is black or brown. As of early January (the last time anyone had time to count) 300 judges in 1000s of decisions rejected the government’s arguments. Less than a dozen permit it.

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You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

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In my professional experience as a librarian, I’ve helped others of many backgrounds to learn and grow together.

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Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here.

Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

A rabbit in overalls and a goat in pants are sitting on the ground drawing pictures. The rabbit is saying “ART POSES A THREAT TO CORPORATOLRATIC SYSTEMS BECAUSE A PURPOSE OF ART IS TO REMIND THE INDIVIDUAL OF THEIR INHERENT AUTONOMY.”, the goat adds “THEIR HUMANITY.”

Make Art (1/4)

Photo of I Will Not Be Scared picture book

Photo of the dedication page of I Will Not Be Scared

This book has the most scathing dedication by an illustrator I have ever seen (and he is completely right)

#kidlit

I really really want to ditch but use InDesign for work and haven’t found anything (yet) to replace it with 😭

I had to replace my hard drive after the last update. Adobe killed my computer!!

Negro History Week A National Celebration Annually observed everywhere in the United States The second week in February Beginning the 7th Directed by The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History The purpose of the celebration are to popularize the study of Negro Life and History and to secure more support for its promotion

Today, February 7, 2026, is officially the 100th anniversary of Negro History Week and the 50th anniversary of Black History Month.

Carter G Woodson purposely started Negro History Week on February 7th so that it would end on February 14th, which is Frederick Douglass's birthday

and we’re back to the dark ages

Agreed. The exhibition does show the links to the cubists and abstract artists of the time. And yes, I sought out the women and BIPOC in modern art and abstract expressionism as a student and they were there; present and active but not counted by American art historians.

YES! I wish I had more time to sit with the art. Also a huge Ruth Asawa show that took my breath away. But Wilfredo Lam’s work - it is just so alive. I think he must have inspired Maurice Sendak in his illustrations of Where the Wild Things Are, but that might be my brain connecting worlds

LAPD Charges at Hundreds of High School Students in Peaceful Walkout Protest at MDC ~ L.A. TACO LAPD arrested at least two teenagers protesting ICE raids in Los Angeles yesterday. They were also seen corresponding with ICE agents on Alameda Street during the demonstrations.

I feel like Los Angeles is a place where people expect ICE to happen because the kidnappings have been happening to my home city for decades, so there’s less media attention to it now. and I want folks to see that in LA, Latine students are organizing major protests & the police are attacking them

He is, no? He is to us.

I just saw a bunch of his paintings, prints and drawings at the MoMA. I love his work and he wrote about a kind of “letting go” of the painting pupil inside him and found his own voice while in exile. His words and art really spoke to me.

😅 I’m referring to her audience

🫣 she might be facetious but so many young people repeat what they see on YT as if it were well-researched truth (we need media literacy from K-12)