@alexripp.bsky.social
Arts administrator, producer, dramaturg, apple connoisseur, keeper of small humans.
Reposted
Kennedy Center contract employee Tavish Forsyth, troubled by President Trump's takeover of the national arts institution, strips naked and delivers a 35-minute protest poem suggesting that arts leaders nationwide must take a stronger stand.
Kennedy Center employee strips nude in protest video and asks, 'Should I quit?'
Kennedy Center contract employee Tavish Forsyth, troubled by President Trump's takeover of the national arts institution, strips naked and delivers a 35-minute protest poem suggesting that arts leaders nationwide must take a stronger stand.
www.latimes.com
March 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Kennedy Center contract employee Tavish Forsyth, troubled by President Trump's takeover of the national arts institution, strips naked and delivers a 35-minute protest poem suggesting that arts leaders nationwide must take a stronger stand.
Always grateful to read @alisasolomon.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Always grateful to read @alisasolomon.bsky.social
Massachusetts reps-proud of you
# of times voted with Trump
HIGHEST:
Gallego: 29
Fetterman: 27 (would be higher if not for absences)
Hickenlooper: 27
Rosen: 26
Shaheen: 26
Hassan: 25
Peters: 24
Kelly: 22
Slotkin: 22
LOWEST
Hirono: 2
Markey: 2
Merkley: 2
Warren: 2
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
HIGHEST:
Gallego: 29
Fetterman: 27 (would be higher if not for absences)
Hickenlooper: 27
Rosen: 26
Shaheen: 26
Hassan: 25
Peters: 24
Kelly: 22
Slotkin: 22
LOWEST
Hirono: 2
Markey: 2
Merkley: 2
Warren: 2
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Tracking Senate Votes 2025
docs.google.com
March 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Massachusetts reps-proud of you
To even consider the Black experience is now illegal, according to the diktats of the Trump administration.
hyperallergic.com/992061/show-...
hyperallergic.com/992061/show-...
Show on Artists of African Descent Loses Funding Amid Trump DEI Crackdown
The exhibition at the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, DC, would have featured works by Afro-Latino, Caribbean, and African American artists.
hyperallergic.com
February 26, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Higher Ed dismantling DEI has implications beyond higher ed-the funding crisis is real but the stakes are even greater.
Universities that advertised their commitment to diversity in glossy brochures & fundraising campaigns now face a reckoning: was it real or just marketing? The admin bets they’ll stay silent to keep their funding. But the cost of inaction will be far greater.
greencarelab.ucdavis.edu/how-universi...
greencarelab.ucdavis.edu/how-universi...
This Is Not a Drill: How Universities Can Save DEI
A roadmap for university faculty, staff, and administrators to support DEI through legal challenges, collective resistance, and institutional protections for faculty.
greencarelab.ucdavis.edu
February 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Higher Ed dismantling DEI has implications beyond higher ed-the funding crisis is real but the stakes are even greater.
Reposted
Are you an early career theater journalist or critic of color? You should apply for this program tcg.org/Web/Web/Our-...
RLC 2025 - Overview
tcg.org
February 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Are you an early career theater journalist or critic of color? You should apply for this program tcg.org/Web/Web/Our-...
From bad to worse/downright chilling
The NEA's new arts grants guidelines prioritize art celebrating next year's U.S. semiquincentennial, though not to the exclusion of other applicants. The bigger issue: All applicants must comply with President Trump's anti-DEI and anti-trans executive orders. www.americantheatre.org/2025/02/10/n...
New NEA Guidelines Require Compliance With Trump’s Anti-DEI, Anti-Trans Orders
Other updates include a cancellation of Challenge America grants and a new emphasis on patriotic ‘America250’ projects.
www.americantheatre.org
February 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
From bad to worse/downright chilling
“The greatest children’s fantasies were worth your time when you were twelve, and they are equally worth it now. [Imagination] is deadly serious, the necessary condition of political change, of love. It is the sharpest tool of ethics.”
Some hope for right now.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Some hope for right now.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Katherine Rundell · Why children’s books?
Children’s books, to a great extent because they are written for those who cannot participate in the market, can offer...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
“The greatest children’s fantasies were worth your time when you were twelve, and they are equally worth it now. [Imagination] is deadly serious, the necessary condition of political change, of love. It is the sharpest tool of ethics.”
Some hope for right now.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Some hope for right now.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The mist chilling grafs from the NEA’s new compliance doc.
February 8, 2025 at 9:55 AM
While the federal nightmare unfolds, I am reading this beautiful piece by Katherine Rundell about the importance of children’s literature. It will actually give you a kind of hope.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Katherine Rundell · Why children’s books?
Children’s books, to a great extent because they are written for those who cannot participate in the market, can offer...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 8, 2025 at 12:21 AM
While the federal nightmare unfolds, I am reading this beautiful piece by Katherine Rundell about the importance of children’s literature. It will actually give you a kind of hope.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
I appreciate this headline from @hyperallergic.com being clear about what exactly is going down w/o euphemism
February 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I appreciate this headline from @hyperallergic.com being clear about what exactly is going down w/o euphemism
Dismantling the little we have
NEA
The Challenge America opportunity is canceled for FY 2026.
February 13 Grants for Arts Projects deadline has been canceled.
Funding priority will be given for projects that take place in 2026-2027 that celebrate and honor the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
The Challenge America opportunity is canceled for FY 2026.
February 13 Grants for Arts Projects deadline has been canceled.
Funding priority will be given for projects that take place in 2026-2027 that celebrate and honor the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Home | Grants.govLock
Grants.gov
February 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Dismantling the little we have
Now that I have deleted Facebook and Instagram, I guess this is the social media app I post on to celebrate being off social media
February 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Now that I have deleted Facebook and Instagram, I guess this is the social media app I post on to celebrate being off social media
I’m not even halfway through this article by @caity.bsky.social and have laughed out loud multiple times (never have I done this reading the @nytimes.com magazine) so I’m sharing before I’m even done bc please read
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/m...
How My Trip to Quit Sugar Quickly Became a Journey Into Hell
For my whole life, I’ve been a hard-core sweets junkie. Could a spa help me quit in a week?
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I’m not even halfway through this article by @caity.bsky.social and have laughed out loud multiple times (never have I done this reading the @nytimes.com magazine) so I’m sharing before I’m even done bc please read
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/m...
I struggle to think of a more tone-deaf email I have seen in real life.
February 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
“…if our field is a garden, every part of the garden needs to be watered. If you water just one plot, the other will die. Cultural institutions and artists are collaborators. […]How can the whole be irrigated and thought of as a system?”
open.substack.com/pub/dancelet...
@sioburke.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/dancelet...
@sioburke.bsky.social
Curating in Motion
with Ali Rosa-Salas of Abrons Arts Center
open.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:36 AM
“…if our field is a garden, every part of the garden needs to be watered. If you water just one plot, the other will die. Cultural institutions and artists are collaborators. […]How can the whole be irrigated and thought of as a system?”
open.substack.com/pub/dancelet...
@sioburke.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/dancelet...
@sioburke.bsky.social
Bluesky is filling up with writers, journalists, activists, celebrities, politicians—-are artists, cultural policy workers, art/performance critics, dramaturgs, producers and arts administrators out here? Is this a platform in which exchange of ideas and community for us works?
January 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Bluesky is filling up with writers, journalists, activists, celebrities, politicians—-are artists, cultural policy workers, art/performance critics, dramaturgs, producers and arts administrators out here? Is this a platform in which exchange of ideas and community for us works?
I anticipate being mostly a lurker on Bluesky but I’m here to say Krugman’s Substack is great (and
even a little funny). Between him, Miranda July, @hunterh.bsky.social, @maxread.info @annehelen.bsky.social and others I’m having a nice non-Meta experience.
even a little funny). Between him, Miranda July, @hunterh.bsky.social, @maxread.info @annehelen.bsky.social and others I’m having a nice non-Meta experience.
Krugman says the editors at the Times editorial page were increasingly trying to water down his columns and arguments www.cjr.org/analysis/pau...
Paul Krugman on Leaving the New York Times
The paper wanted to take away his newsletter or make him write less frequently, he says.
www.cjr.org
January 26, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I anticipate being mostly a lurker on Bluesky but I’m here to say Krugman’s Substack is great (and
even a little funny). Between him, Miranda July, @hunterh.bsky.social, @maxread.info @annehelen.bsky.social and others I’m having a nice non-Meta experience.
even a little funny). Between him, Miranda July, @hunterh.bsky.social, @maxread.info @annehelen.bsky.social and others I’m having a nice non-Meta experience.