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this is what happens when I put my phone in my pocket after looking at Bluesky! 😅

Watch My Favorite Shapes by Julio Torres (HBO) | HBO Max Watch My Favorite Shapes by Julio Torres (HBO) on HBO Max. Plans start at $9.99/month. In this multimedia comedy show, Julio Torres explores his favorite shapes -- which lead to fantastical stories, a...

very Julio Torres–coded!
www.hbomax.com/movies/my-fa...

Can I Be Frank? In a desperate attempt to prove they can think about someone other than themself, Morgan Bassichis turns to the work of queer comedian, musician, and performance artist Frank Maya.

And a timely one as the related show is now up at SoHo Playhouse—Morgan Bassichis and Frank Maya www.canibefrank.nyc

Search Results Established in 1979, we are the only artist-founded museum in Los Angeles. We are dedicated to collecting and exhibiting contemporary art.

@moca-la.bsky.social's "Introducing" series may be of interest: www.moca.org/search?q=int...

High Desert Test Sites had their HDTS HQ selling their publications, postcards, etc. at the Sky Village Swap Meet in Yucca Valley, CA from 2015–2022
archive.hdts.site/programs/pro...

On Community and its discontents.

this essay from @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social was very clarifying for me back in 2020 for similar reasons www.aliciakennedy.news/p/on-community

also, while not counter data surveillance projects, @datasociety.bsky.social and @404media.co are great sources for background reading

S.T.O.P. - The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project S.T.O.P. litigates and advocates for privacy, fighting excessive local and state-level surveillance. Our work highlights surveillance-based discrimination against Muslim Americans, immigrants, and com...

+ a similar group in NYC: Surveillance Technology
Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) www.stopspying.org

Watch The Watchers A copwatch tool that publishes public records about LAPD

Stop LAPD Spying Coalition's Watch the Watchers watchthewatchers.net

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Home - TFI The Feminist Institute is documenting feminist contributions to culture by preserving and digitizing archival materials for students, researchers, and the public to access.

and The Feminist Institute has a lot of digitized ephemera online www.thefeministinstitute.org

the Wildenstein Plattner Institute digital archives are mostly pre-1945 but still worth a look wpi.art/archival-res...

CCS Bard has also been acquiring NYC commercial gallery archives (Gavin Brown, Colin de Land, Dwan, Pat Hearn) that I think might include material from that era, but they don't have a digitization program. still maybe worth to reach out to them! ccs.bard.edu/research-cen...

(not sure if they still do, but AAA has had a dedicated New York Collector so many NYC commercial gallery archives are in their collection)

but they should also look at Archives of American Art's digitized collections. difficult to facet to the exact scope but the topics facet may help identify relevant collections ("Art markets," "Art galleries, Commercial," "Sales records"):
www.aaa.si.edu/search/colle...

that time period is difficult for digitized materials due to copyright restrictions. e.g. there's some gallery ephemera in this collection but much of it is onsite only: digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/...

there may be some useful guidance here: cdrh.unl.edu/articles/pro...

The critical window of shadow libraries How can we claim to preserve our collections in perpetuity, when they are already approaching 1 PB?

And even online pirate libraries such as Anna's Archive, who wrote about the idea of "shadow libraries" on their blog annas-archive.org/blog/critica...

The Rise of Bookstores With a Social Mission The pandemic fueled a boom in social justice movements and indie bookstores. The two come together in these worker-owned shops.

Also thinking of how community archives and worker-owned leftist bookstores (particularly those that serve as mutual aid hubs, e.g. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/10/b...) both overlap and diverge from fugitive libraries

Afrophon' Reading Room (global pop-up); Edward Said Public Library (Palestine); The Rolling Library (Astoria, NYC); Radical Hood Library (Los Angeles); Southern California Library (Los Angeles); For Keeps Books (Atlanta); MayDay Rooms (London)