Dr. Laura M. Furlan

Close up of Tigh an Dáin (The House of the Poem), a vintage dollhouse decorated with printed materials.

The wall card for the dollhouse, made in 2024 by (and on loan from) the Over the River Collective.

Yesterday I took my creative nonfiction class to the university art museum to do some ekphrastic writing. Highly recommend!

Your Brain’s Memory of a Story Depends on How It Was Told Telling the same story in different ways can change the brain networks that the listener uses to form memories

Storytelling Methods Alter How Memories Are Stored in the Brain, Neuroscientists Find www.scientificamerican.com/article/stor...

A large turkey next to a sidewalk and fence with parked cars.

Saw one of the turkeys in downtown Northampton.

Yep! That’s where I first saw it!

The first page of the essay, entitled “Wendy Red Star’s Archival Interventions.” Below my by-line is an image by Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie, and to the right are two mostly out of focus paragraphs.

The front cover of the catalog, entitled Wendy Red Star: Her Dreams Are True. Background is one of her collages: it’s reddish, with a fringed hide dress behind the title, and handwriting in black next to and beside the dress.

It’s here! My first exhibition catalog essay!!

Good morning and happy Sunday to everyone. Before you buy Girl Scout cookies you should know they support transgender girls and reject donations from anti-transgender organizations, so make sure you order extra boxes of the new rocky road ice cream-inspired Exploremores.

I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.

As promised, if you’re inspired by the march today but don’t know how else to get involved, how to sustainably fight fascism, that can look a few different ways. Here’s a thread of thoughts, short of nationwide withholding of labor / sustained protest:

Making Things Together: Zines, Strategy, and Survival “We’re going to need a lot more in-person opportunities for us to expand our humanity,” says organizer Mariame Kaba.

I talked with @prisonculture.bsky.social and Red Schulte about the importance of zines under fascism, political education that builds power, finding collective courage, and the mistakes we’ll make along the way. Audio + transcript:

Indigenous artists transform works at Metropolitan Museum in unsanctioned augmented reality project The digital interventions by 17 Native artists, launched on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, put pointed twists on works in the museum’s American Wing

Indigenous artists transform works at Metropolitan Museum in unsanctioned "augmented reality" project.
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/13/i...

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

A montage of images from the Molly of Denali episode Halloween Party Panic featuring the Molly kids in Halloween costumes.

I wrote a Molly of Denali episode this season! It’s about Native themed Halloween costumes and how to celebrate a person respectfully. Thanks to Quannah ChasingHorse for letting us use her likeness!
I’m going to miss this show and this team so much.
Molly & PBS Kids forever ❤️

Hey, Massachusetts! Help tell our legislators they should pass An Act Regarding Free Expression to protect libraries, schools, and authors from book bans by sending them a postcard! Instructions on how to do this and where to get postcards here: www.massfreedomtoread.org/act @massaabb.bsky.social

My creative nonfiction students are writing such brave, funny, important essays in the midst of *all this*.

Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day | Getty News Jana Schmieding on Native joy, building community, and the importance of Native women.

Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day:
Jana Schmieding on Native joy, building community, and the importance of Native women. www.getty.edu/news/celebra...

We see you and appreciate you.

Omg you have to TELL her!

Congrats!! Can’t wait!

Available for preorder from Scholastic today! Espionage, Indigenous super heroes, thrills, chills and spills and a whole lot of explosions!

www.scholastic.ca/our-books/bo...

Yikes!

Dog Flowers by Danielle Geller

I’m sorry for your loss.

Love this one.

State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.

On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US.

And nobody covered it.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

I’ve not been. Tell me if it’s good!

We do have hills!!! Glad you made it. You need anything?

I have called all of my representatives today to implore them to stand up for trans rights and healthcare. I urge you to do the same.

Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.

At Cornell University, an eminent prof, whose work I was reading in graduate school got suspended b/c an IDF veteran grad student enrolled in his class for the express purpose of disrupting it. We are all cooked.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Welcome to Indian Land Exhibit - Alcatraz Island (U.S. National Park Service) Welcome to Indian Land: Resistance, Resilience, and Activism on Alcatraz exhibit, 2025

New exhibit on Alcatraz Island!
"Welcome to Indian Land: Resistance, Resilience and Activism on Alcatraz."
www.nps.gov/alca/welcome...

JOB ALERT: Assistant Professor of Art at Smith College, focusing on artists’ books and artist publications:

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