Leila Weefur

Artist, Writer, Curator • Collective @blck_aesthetic • Lecturing @Stanford

[Susan Stryker @susanstryker]

I love being involved with this film! It’s gonna be great!

[🦋🌸Gimme the Lute🌸🦋 סלע @moontwerk]

I love this section from a flyer called “Why A Symposium?” for a past “Expose the Prisons Free the Prisoners” event by the Campus Committee to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners, great points of departure for conversations about ways of educating and communicating🧵

[Prentis Hemphill @prentishemphill]

The quote came originally from a post about my father and the complexity of loving someone who has harmed you.

[Karen Attiah @KarenAttiah]

“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion." - bell hooks

[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto ذوالفقار علي ڀٽو @BhuttoZulfikar]

An eight year old was charged with blasphemy in Pakistan today. What a disgrace. Allah’s first two names are Rahman and Raheem, the gracious and the merciful. We have forgotten both and choose cruelty instead.

[Leila Weefur @SpikeLeila]

Oppose the program and position cuts at SFMOMA - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/GBgzDj0p92 via @Change

[Leila Weefur @SpikeLeila]

@mcevoyarts

[Leila Weefur @SpikeLeila]

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[Letterform Archive @Lett_Arc]

Leila Weefur, Between Beauty & Horror, Sming Sming Books, 2019. Essays by Leila Weefur @SpikeLeila and Elena Gross @yung_sch0lar. This book is an extension of Weefur's video installation of the same name exploring the symbiotic nature of beauty and horror: https://t.co/WQe66RIIGK

[Collective for Black Iranians @BlackIranians]

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صدای آواز نهیم بر روی کشتی بادبانی از آب‌های اقیانوس هند به گوش می‌رسد در حالی که از مومباسا به بندرهای خلیج فارس تا بمبئی و فرای آن را می‌پیماید.

[Kat Trataris @KTrataris]

Institutions are deeply attuned to “inheriting” colonial objects and BUYING cultural representation. This has established a lineage of non-consent and/or artists needing to other themselves and others for payment. This form of cultural dominance ends now.

[Kat Trataris @KTrataris]

Artists have a historical relationship with institutional support (aka the wealthy) that has yet to shift beyond the hierarchies established in medieval times with the church and the state.

[Kat Trataris @KTrataris]

YOU CANNOT BUY REPRESENTATION. If there is one thing museums should be doing right now, it’s examining the ways in which they acquire wealth, power, and artwork and their metrics for ongoing financial and overall support of living artists. #changethemusuem

[Open Space @Open_Space]

Any list would be too brief to do justice to the fullness of his art and life, but we humbly here offer some of our favorite Kevin Killian collaborations:

https://t.co/k5JtU2g7P3

[Kate Rhoades @KateRhoades]

People, the LAB is so close to its fundraising goal! Please support one of the most bad ass arts orgs in one of SF's most rad historical buildings: https://t.co/RAOkjPGfzC

[Leila Weefur @SpikeLeila]

@karaQsmith Feels so good to be seen. ✨

[Leila Weefur @SpikeLeila]

I miss out on so much art because of my refusal to wear headphones. Sorry Korea #venicebiennale2019

[Leila Weefur @SpikeLeila]

To the Russian Pavilion: I get the argument that the museum is factory, is theme park, is a depository but is commentary about Rembrandt useful in 2019?

[Leila Weefur @SpikeLeila]

Can I also express how well they fucking use a double screen?? So many people waste their time on multiple screens, but they get it.

[Leila Weefur @SpikeLeila]

“Nations alone are built on fairytales.” - Larissa Sansour from the Denmark Pavilion.