Clara Kundin

A protester drums in front of other protestors holding signs.

At least 200 out to say No Kings in small town, rural, red eastern New Mexico.

Happy mail delivery! New article out discussing consent in drunk performance.

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Advisory to Academic Workers In a moment when it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the consequences of our online speech and choices, the AAUP and Faculty First Responders are issuing guidance to AAUP members and othe...

advisory to academic workers from @aaup.org

@uam-umd.bsky.social
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State steps in to ensure access to COVID-19 vaccine Public health order counters potential limitations set by the USFDA

New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them.

States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.

AGAINST AI

teachers!

excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.

take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com

Grateful to have received the faculty research travel award from the American Theatre and Drama Society today!

How to turn off Google’s AI Overviews in web searches If you find Google's AI Overview more irritating than helpful, here's now to turn it off in Chrome.

www.engadget.com/big-tech/how...

Not my daughter crashing someone else’s photo so she could pet a dog with @debhaalandnm.bsky.social today - can’t wait to see her elected governor next year (Deb, not my daughter…or the dog)

Thoughts and prayers for the Texan man making small talk with me who, after discovering I was Jewish, tried to bond over how much he loves Netanyahu

Image Description: Patty Berne,a Japanese-Haitian person with light brown skin, smiles playfully with love and light shining from their brown eyes. They wear an off the shoulder opalescent blue dress and an amethyst pendant. Their brown hair is pulled back into their signature two buns. Behind Patty is a pink background with radiant red and yellow flowers. At the top of the image, iridescent capital letters spell out “PATTY LIVES THROUGH US.” On the bottom right corner is Sins Invalid’s logo, a black rectangular box with white letters that read “Sins Invalid.”

With deep sorrow, we share that Sins Invalid’s Co-Founder & Director, Patty Berne, joined the ancestors on May 29, 2025.

Patty’s brilliance, love, and vision shaped how we move, care, resist, and imagine. We honor her by continuing the work she led.

🖤 #PattyBerne #SinsInvalid

an image of text that says 'Patrick McKelvey. Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation. New York: NYU Press, 2024; 344 pp. Reviewed by Clara Kundin, Eastern New Mexico University Patrick McKelvey sets Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation within the historical context of the post-WWII United States, when vocational rehabilitation expanded to become the dominant framework for approaching disability. Through deep, archival research, McKelvey presents six timeframe preceding passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to develop studies representative of the the concept of"disability works" in the period "after rehabilitation." He defines disabiliry works as "the performance institutions and practices that promulgated labor as either an' .

Review #3 of Disability Works is out in Theatre Annual!

Grateful to Clara Kundin for taking on this labor.

My pleasure! Hope I did it justice :)

Happy surprise in the mail! Disability Works by @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social was a fascinating read.

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...

This has been the best part of moving to NM. In nyc I paid $20k for a year of daycare.

New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line The state, which has long ranked worst in the US for child wellbeing, became the first and only in the country to offer free childcare to a majority of families

New Mexico made child care free for most families. Believe it or not, the good thing is good.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

As ASTR VP for Publication, I invite scholars in theatre, dance, & performance studies, who have received grants from the NEH to email me (DM for info) to share stories about your grants, outcomes of those projects, & the impacts that your NEH supported research has made on your communities,

That’s cool! I’m not saying grades are a perfect solution because I don’t know that they encourage learning in any way. Just saying that not using them isn’t a blanket solution for all students.

I think that’s true in a lot of situations but ungrading isn’t always great for students who aren’t highly motivated and privileged. If I didn’t do grades half my students wouldn’t show up because their priorities are elsewhere - making money, passing another class, life, etc.

Small town street with a few protestors holding signs in front of a local post office.

Now that I live in a tiny, rural, red city, I’m finding so much joy and energy from the small local protests. Today we spoke out to save the USPS from privatization, and I was surprised by how many cars honked in solidarity. Definitely feeling less isolated.

Almost 8 million students aged 3-21 receive special education and related services under the Individuals with Disabilities Act. Through the Department of Education. What’s the plan?

Federal Cuts Threaten Babies and Preschoolers with Disabilities from All Angles Slashing the U.S. Department of Education, Medicaid, and more hurts young children with delays and disabilities.

Something I haven't seen covered extensively with regards to the Department of Education is the fact that the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (IDEA) funds early intervention services, along with Medicaid. EI is usually free, or very low cost for families.

You are throwing away our only leverage. They are already shutting down the government. If the tables were turned they would have no problem shutting down the government to force negotiation.

This weekend, DHS targeted and seized Mahmoud Khalil as punishment for his political speech, and indicated that they are revoking his green card. They have since handed him over to ICE where he is being detained — his location unknown — and held for deportation without due process. This is what fascist governments do, and it will not stop here. This extreme escalation is the test case; the Trump/Musk administration is trying to see how far they can go without public outrage and legal checks on their power. Now is the moment to speak out and oppose this as fiercely and loudly as possible.

This extreme escalation is an egregious violation of first amendment rights. Now is the moment to speak out and oppose this as fiercely and loudly as possible.

Artists Mount 1st Amendment Challenge to New NEA Grant Requirements Filed by the ACLU on behalf of theatre organizations, including TCG, the suit is aimed at a new anti-trans guideline recently added by the endowment.

The @aclu.org & @riaclu.bsky.social have filed suit on behalf of theatre organizations, including TCG, to challenge a new NEA grant guideline mandating that applicants comply with the president’s anti-trans “gender ideology” executive order to receive funding. www.americantheatre.org/2025/03/06/a...

This festival celebrating neurodiverse audiences and artists is returning to NYC The Big Umbrella Festival spreads its ribs at Lincoln Center next month.

Some nice news! Let an Umbrella be your smile. www.timeout.com/newyork/news...

The Association of Theatre in Higher Ed spring symposium starts tomorrow. I’ll see you bright and early, fellow ATHE directors, educators, and theatre artists!
#ATHE25 #Directing #TheatreSky #HigherEd

This year’s ATHE Directing Symposium focuses on translating creative processes & projects into research & writing.
@clarakallday.bsky.social and I are excited to partner w/SDC in this working group, guiding theatre artists in engaging PAR methodologies on the way to publication!

#TheatreSky #ATHE25

Grassroots college leader group resists anti-DEI legislation Education for All, a grassroots network of mostly community college leaders, is spreading strategies for how to resist anti-DEI bills and rhetoric.

Leaders who are leading.

Teaching history divorced from the concerns of the present is actually doing a bad job at teaching history.