Artforum Editor David Velasco was fired for publishing an open letter signed by thousands of artists. Here is the back story of how art world money pressured the signatories and took away his job. https://t.co/y5NKFLfJZO
We are calling on @songtradr to meet our demands so that we can continue to do our work and preserve Bandcamp’s mission:
* Employment offers for ALL workers
* Voluntary severance offers
* Immediate union recognition & continuation of bargaining
👉https://t.co/JetUB1PN1d
Read an article about the current wave of book bans in the US and it was described as "a bad parody of 1984."
Shit's gotten Orwellian, but there was another book we all read in high school that was specifically about banning books that we can use as a literary reference.
New York City’s migrant crisis is a crisis of categories as much as it is a crisis of numbers. 110,000 new arrivals in a year is not a historically large number. What's changed is how the new arrivals see themselves.
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Today is #WorldSuicidePreventionDay. And we’re proud to be standing with @theCALMzone to help let anyone and everyone out there who can’t see a way out know: “Things can change”. To help more people to Stay.
Join us. Share this post. Help someone Stay.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides, which we first published as a short story 3 years before the book materialized.
To mark the occasion, we’re unlocking the original story from our archive.
https://t.co/ba51zHDrBT
If we can’t handle even a little discomfort while roughing it for a week in the desert, how do we make the changes necessary to combat climate change?
That’s what I wonder when I see those full carts, and those mountains of trash a week later. /end
"A lot of climate activism does feel highfalutin, where you buy your Prius and go composting, and a lot of people just don’t do that. But when I’m tabling in the Bronx, saying, “Hey, don’t you hate ConEd?” that just connects."
in the new @HammerandHope
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Listen to @Raydeepeet's conversation with the legendary @shirleyeCollins on the @Talkhouse podcast. Thoroughly fascinating chats about discovering new songs, the genius of Davey Graham and hating jazz. The last 30 seconds may also make you cry...
https://t.co/Pq0A7FxTNd