Ansley Erickson
@ansleyerickson.bsky.social
US cities & schools, historically.
Books: Making the Unequal Metropolis; Educating Harlem.
Thoughts here represent me, not my employer.
www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/ate11
nyccivilrightshistory.org
Also 🌱 🪴 and 🏊♀️ 🏊♀️ and I♥️NYC.
Books: Making the Unequal Metropolis; Educating Harlem.
Thoughts here represent me, not my employer.
www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/ate11
nyccivilrightshistory.org
Also 🌱 🪴 and 🏊♀️ 🏊♀️ and I♥️NYC.
Pinned
Boulder kept my dad alive. So did the government
My father never quite understood how I could live in New York City. He always preferred Montana, open rather than dense, prairie rather than concrete. Great Falls was his birthplace,
www.boulder-monitor.com
I wrote about my dad, our government, and how we need each other to stay alive.
Whether Trump, Musk, and the gang think so or not.
Whether Trump, Musk, and the gang think so or not.
Reposted by Ansley Erickson
I was introduced to serious reading and a love of art by a generation of intellectuals fueled by nostalgia for what could have been had the US not invaded my country to topple a brilliant democratic socialist. How many toppled governments since...
January 3, 2026 at 8:46 PM
I was introduced to serious reading and a love of art by a generation of intellectuals fueled by nostalgia for what could have been had the US not invaded my country to topple a brilliant democratic socialist. How many toppled governments since...
Reposted by Ansley Erickson
Elizabeth Catlett & Alberto Beltrán, Untitled (Composition for a Peace Poster), c. 1950 www.artic.edu/artworks/222...
January 3, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Elizabeth Catlett & Alberto Beltrán, Untitled (Composition for a Peace Poster), c. 1950 www.artic.edu/artworks/222...
Sticking with Week of Art despite it all... Day 5, art that describes the word to challenge it & make it otherwise.
NY Print Center showed works by William Villalongo & Shraddha Ramani, remaking DuBois's famous data visualizations.
NY Print Center showed works by William Villalongo & Shraddha Ramani, remaking DuBois's famous data visualizations.
January 3, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Sticking with Week of Art despite it all... Day 5, art that describes the word to challenge it & make it otherwise.
NY Print Center showed works by William Villalongo & Shraddha Ramani, remaking DuBois's famous data visualizations.
NY Print Center showed works by William Villalongo & Shraddha Ramani, remaking DuBois's famous data visualizations.
Small act of self-preservation is refusing to watch video of Trump talk about Venezuela until I've had the chance to watch video of Mamdani talking about NYC's future.
January 3, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Small act of self-preservation is refusing to watch video of Trump talk about Venezuela until I've had the chance to watch video of Mamdani talking about NYC's future.
Mantra for 2026.
In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.
You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.
That is all.
January 2, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Mantra for 2026.
Always proud to call Kim Phillips-Fein a colleague. Great piece here.
It brings to mind Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s condemnation of the logic of recruiting & building wealth so that its crumbs can fall downward on the regular people: “Philanthropy is the private allocation of the stolen social wage.”
It brings to mind Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s condemnation of the logic of recruiting & building wealth so that its crumbs can fall downward on the regular people: “Philanthropy is the private allocation of the stolen social wage.”
Opinion | Since When Is It Radical to Reclaim New York for New Yorkers?
www.nytimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Always proud to call Kim Phillips-Fein a colleague. Great piece here.
It brings to mind Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s condemnation of the logic of recruiting & building wealth so that its crumbs can fall downward on the regular people: “Philanthropy is the private allocation of the stolen social wage.”
It brings to mind Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s condemnation of the logic of recruiting & building wealth so that its crumbs can fall downward on the regular people: “Philanthropy is the private allocation of the stolen social wage.”
And against another city wall, we seek BAGELS. 🥯 Welcome back, Absolute! IYKYK.
January 2, 2026 at 4:34 PM
And against another city wall, we seek BAGELS. 🥯 Welcome back, Absolute! IYKYK.
Week of Art Day 4
Park Dae-Sung at National Museum of
Asian Art. So beautiful (and long) that it needs two images.
Park Dae-Sung at National Museum of
Asian Art. So beautiful (and long) that it needs two images.
January 2, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Week of Art Day 4
Park Dae-Sung at National Museum of
Asian Art. So beautiful (and long) that it needs two images.
Park Dae-Sung at National Museum of
Asian Art. So beautiful (and long) that it needs two images.
Such a wonderful NYC history here, and a criticism of so many modes of attacking Mamdani.
They tried to smear him as an antisemite – but Mayor Zohran Mamdani walks in a rich Jewish tradition | Molly Crabapple
When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York
www.theguardian.com
January 1, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Such a wonderful NYC history here, and a criticism of so many modes of attacking Mamdani.
Reposted by Ansley Erickson
WPA poster, late 1930s
www.loc.gov/item/98518254/
www.loc.gov/item/98518254/
![Poster for democracy showing the hand and torch of the Statue of Liberty with text that says "Democracy...a challenge". Chicago : Illinois WPA Art Project, [between 1936 and 1940]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kok4aqdr3qnsj6ktfkq76kqz/bafkreigo26z7ohet2fmm3ge6f2xkgfc3r4adoailrjjlz7j2szkx64iqwq@jpeg)
January 1, 2026 at 2:02 PM
WPA poster, late 1930s
www.loc.gov/item/98518254/
www.loc.gov/item/98518254/
Reposted by Ansley Erickson
Happy New Year, Everyone! May 2026 bring us more justice and some peace.
happy new year written in gold balloons on a purple background
ALT: happy new year written in gold balloons on a purple background
media.tenor.com
January 1, 2026 at 5:03 AM
Happy New Year, Everyone! May 2026 bring us more justice and some peace.
Oh, forgot Tom Lloyd!
December 31, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Oh, forgot Tom Lloyd!
Week of Art, day 3. Recollecting the wonderful and now re-opened Studio Museum in Harlem. A few works that struck me, mini 🧵:
Have to start with Elizabeth Catlett, Mother & Child. Viscerally true, always.
Have to start with Elizabeth Catlett, Mother & Child. Viscerally true, always.
December 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Week of Art, day 3. Recollecting the wonderful and now re-opened Studio Museum in Harlem. A few works that struck me, mini 🧵:
Have to start with Elizabeth Catlett, Mother & Child. Viscerally true, always.
Have to start with Elizabeth Catlett, Mother & Child. Viscerally true, always.
Taniguchi Shigeru, “Point Out,” 1983.
Intended as comment on the relationship between the artist and the viewer.
I see my phone pointing out
at me…
Intended as comment on the relationship between the artist and the viewer.
I see my phone pointing out
at me…
December 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Taniguchi Shigeru, “Point Out,” 1983.
Intended as comment on the relationship between the artist and the viewer.
I see my phone pointing out
at me…
Intended as comment on the relationship between the artist and the viewer.
I see my phone pointing out
at me…
Week of Art #2 - treasures from Korea at the Museum of Asian Art at the Smithsonian. Amazing ancient work, almost all of and by men.
Loved this fierce grandma.
Loved this fierce grandma.
December 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Week of Art #2 - treasures from Korea at the Museum of Asian Art at the Smithsonian. Amazing ancient work, almost all of and by men.
Loved this fierce grandma.
Loved this fierce grandma.
This quiet week is for art. Sharing daily something marvelous I've seen.
First up: Oliafur Eliason at the Hirschhorn.
One light source, one rotating crystal ring, a white wall. That is all.
First up: Oliafur Eliason at the Hirschhorn.
One light source, one rotating crystal ring, a white wall. That is all.
December 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This quiet week is for art. Sharing daily something marvelous I've seen.
First up: Oliafur Eliason at the Hirschhorn.
One light source, one rotating crystal ring, a white wall. That is all.
First up: Oliafur Eliason at the Hirschhorn.
One light source, one rotating crystal ring, a white wall. That is all.
#job! History of education and social studies education at Northern Arizona University
careers.nau.edu/jobs/assista...
#edusky #histed 🗃️
careers.nau.edu/jobs/assista...
#edusky #histed 🗃️
Assistant Professor and Coordinator of History Education - Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
Special Information
This position is an on-site position which requires the incumbent to complete their work primarily at an NAU site, campus, or facility with or without accommodation. Opportunities...
careers.nau.edu
December 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
#job! History of education and social studies education at Northern Arizona University
careers.nau.edu/jobs/assista...
#edusky #histed 🗃️
careers.nau.edu/jobs/assista...
#edusky #histed 🗃️
Jeeze, imagine being a parent who is mourning your child at Brown and then you have to fight against the xenophobic weaponization of their death. Shame on these people.
The admin is wasting no crisis... Sec. Kristi Noem said she is suspending the diversity visa lottery program (DV-1) after the Brown University suspect entered the U.S. through it in 2017.
December 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Jeeze, imagine being a parent who is mourning your child at Brown and then you have to fight against the xenophobic weaponization of their death. Shame on these people.
Reposted by Ansley Erickson
"refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future than the one that is telling us that the future is already decided"
Dr. McMillan Cottom, 1:01 minute mark (and listen to every word)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwwn...
Dr. McMillan Cottom, 1:01 minute mark (and listen to every word)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwwn...
Urban Consulate: Jason Reynolds & Tressie McMillan Cottom
YouTube video by Urban Consulate
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future than the one that is telling us that the future is already decided"
Dr. McMillan Cottom, 1:01 minute mark (and listen to every word)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwwn...
Dr. McMillan Cottom, 1:01 minute mark (and listen to every word)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwwn...
NYC teachers and friends of same - please share this great learning opportunity. A day at the NY Historical Society to invigorate and expand how you teach Civil Rights Movement history. #nyc #nyccivilrightshistory #maemallory #harlem9
Civil Rights and Schools: From Little Rock to NYC
This workshop focuses on efforts to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957 and in Harlem in 1958. This event will be in-person.
www.facinghistory.org
December 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
NYC teachers and friends of same - please share this great learning opportunity. A day at the NY Historical Society to invigorate and expand how you teach Civil Rights Movement history. #nyc #nyccivilrightshistory #maemallory #harlem9
Reposted by Ansley Erickson
"I refuse." This is it. There's no reason we should accept a narrative of an already settled future which marginalizes humans and individual agency. No one wants this. No one asked for it.
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
"I refuse." This is it. There's no reason we should accept a narrative of an already settled future which marginalizes humans and individual agency. No one wants this. No one asked for it.
New work from my girl!
The church's fundraising brought in nearly 10 times the original goal to assist residents displaced by the fire. www.westsiderag.com/2025/12/15/u...
UWS Church Raises Over $200,000 for 107th Street Fire Victims: ‘Everyone Lost Everything’
Sunday afternoon at Ascension Roman Catholic Church. Photos by Lily Seltz By Lily Seltz By the time about 150 people
www.westsiderag.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:54 AM
New work from my girl!