Kirsten Leenaars

Video artist (NL) based in Chicago. Various forms of performance, theater, and documentary strategies make up the threads that run through my work.

[MAKE + Lit & Luz @MAKElit]

😍 Check out the full Lit & Luz schedule at https://t.co/F1FTsIYzZY 🗓️

[Kirsten Leenaars @KLeenaars]

@jecboyle Where is this located?

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

How long can we allow this to continue? How many more innocent lives must be lost? Immigration policy is set at the federal level, and the federal government must take action.

Join me in demanding that the Biden administration put a stop to these horrific and inhumane practices.

https://t.co/dUyW0GgRAq

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Nashville Democrat Justin Jones of the ‘Tennessee Three’ has won back his state House seat after Republican lawmakers expelled him for his participation in a pro-gun control protest in the Capitol earlier this year. https://t.co/NGC9aYxXcd

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

I don't know what to tell you guys. We have to expand the Court. If we don't expand the Court, no liberal policy will be allowed to exist for the rest of our lives. That's why Republicans stole the court, that's why rich people pay for justices.
Govern yourselves accordingly.

[Neal Katyal @neal_katyal]

Wow. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissent.

[Ari Berman @AriBerman]

John Roberts, who wrote affirmative action decision, has long history of distorting facts on race

He claimed “things have changed dramatically” in South when gutting Voting Rights Act 10 years ago, then 33 states passed 109 bills making it harder to vote https://t.co/DkhsnKUSKG

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent in affirmative action is on point.

[Consulate General of the Netherlands in Chicago @NLinChicago]

If you missed the premier of restorative justice organization @circles_ciphers and Dutch artist Kirsten Leenaars' feature-length documentary last week at @weinberg_newton gallery, there will be another screening this Friday in Rogers Park. 📽️🇳🇱🎤

[Circles & Ciphers @Circles_Ciphers]

Join us for another screening of "A Letter to The City: JAIL IS NOT MY HOME at Circles and Ciphers official headquarters!! Join us for food, community, hip hop and abolition 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Consulate General of the Netherlands in Chicago @NLinChicago]

Fantastic to have 🇳🇱 artist @KLeenaars today at our office with the book project “Letters From Young People Incarcerated”. On Friday, her feature length documentary A Letter to the City: “jail is not my home” is screening at @weinberg_newton Gallery. 🎥

[Kirsten Leenaars @KLeenaars]

Go see the video installation A Letter to the City: “jail is not my home” today @weinberg_newton. Hours: 12-4 pm https://t.co/c95ewWxWFc

[Dr. Dr. Desi (she/her) @native4data]

The #ICWA case in #SCOTUS has me rage crying. See @rebeccanagle & @yunpovi for brilliant analysis. Listen, taking children has always been a tool of war & genocide. When you take children, you take a nation's future. Tribes are NATIONS. This is happening NOW in the USA in 2022!

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

Here is why media coverage that centers or only tells the story of the white foster families in #Brackeen betrays a deep anti-Indigenous bias: it erases what happened to the Native families. #ICWA

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

During oral arguments, in #Brackeen Alito argued that tribes don’t share a common political interest, because we were all at war with each other before Europeans arrived.

Racist stereotypes about Native people sadly factor into how the justices see the case.

#ICWA #SCOTUS

[Rob Maxim @robmaxim]

This piece by @rebeccanagle on Brackeen and ICWA is also a must-read. It gets at the pernicious motivation for bringing the case, as well as the stakes for Tribal sovereignty:

“If the Court strikes down ICWA, everything else could soon go with it.”
https://t.co/KilpoTPAJz

[Taylor Dumpson-Lippincott @TaylorDumpsonJD]

The #Brackeen case, and the money behind their litigation efforts, highlight what many in Indian Country already knew:

First they come for our people, and then they come for our lands. If there are no tribal people, then there are no land obligations due to tribal communities.

[MAKE + Lit & Luz @MAKElit]

👉 Lit & Luz Collaborators: Laleh Motlagh @lalehmotlagh & Mariana Oliver @marianaloliver 👈

📌 Check out the debut of their collaboration at the Lit & Luz Live Magazine Show: Revision @LoganUChicago
Nov 3 / Doors at 7:00 pm
🎟 Tix: https://t.co/ueF1nrqYSy

[MS NOW @MSNOWNews]

Disabled Americans have the right to be represented, and most importantly, to work — and that includes working for the U.S. government. https://t.co/yQe1pENj8W

[Kirsten Leenaars @KLeenaars]

I just uploaded “Letter_to_the_City_matrox_final_web_1920x1080” to #Vimeo: https://t.co/NNW00532jl