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artstuffmatters.bsky.social
La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)
@artstuffmatters.bsky.social
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Cultural worker/curator/art historian
https://latanyasautry.net/
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral http://alturl.com/ajzd5
Social Justice & Museums http://bit.ly/2UG1aUD
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thrasherxy.bsky.social
I was deeply honored that the cover is original woodcut artwork made by Jamaal Barber. Check out this video of his process

youtu.be/c9Te0Ia8bDE?...

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December 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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thrasherxy.bsky.social
Coming May 19, 2026 from Amistad Books and HarperCollins

THE OVERSEER CLASS:
A Manifesto

by Steven W. Thrasher

cover art by Jamaal Barber

Available for pre-order now www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
Cover art of the book "The Overseer Class: A Manifesto" by Steven W. Thrasher. The cover is a black and white woodcut, with the title appearing over the images of three African American faces. To the left, is a face without eyes, in profile. To the right, is a man in a suit with no eyes looking forward. In the center is a police officer with eyes. Inside of him is a Black man on his knees, appearing to have been whipped. They all tower over raised fists.
December 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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karenho.bsky.social
It's jarring to see how much money is going to ICE instead of education, healthcare, public transportation, international aid, green energy infrastructure, and the arts, but I guess that's the point.
February 10, 2026 at 4:46 PM
artstuffmatters.bsky.social
"They asked if something different could not be created. They wanted to redefine politics, make up new rules, and play the game with some personal integrity. Out of a negative force, fear, grew the positive drive to think new."
—Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael),
Stokely Speaks....

𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘦𝘸 ✨
February 13, 2026 at 3:15 AM
artstuffmatters.bsky.social
"that"
does/be doing a lot of work
February 10, 2026 at 2:55 AM
artstuffmatters.bsky.social
"𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒎"

ok, ok!
February 10, 2026 at 2:54 AM
artstuffmatters.bsky.social
we out here!
February 10, 2026 at 2:29 AM
artstuffmatters.bsky.social
thank you.

years ago early in the pandemic, I hosted an office party each week online called "give a fuck about somebody party".
a few people held it together.
I think about it a lot.

this is a hard place, y'all.
February 10, 2026 at 2:28 AM
artstuffmatters.bsky.social
and, they are trampling yhe truth.
again.
we are still speaking.

hear us! hear us, good people! hear us!
February 10, 2026 at 2:11 AM
artstuffmatters.bsky.social
ok! we are speaking truth. ok!
February 10, 2026 at 2:09 AM
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ellyzoe.bsky.social
This is so fucking sad
mprnews.org MPR News @mprnews.org · 7d
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.

“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
www.mprnews.org
February 10, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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akpress.org
"During the next year, Sostre repeatedly emphasized that 'the same oppressive and repressive forces exist outside as well as in,' calling the world on the outside 'minimum security' and connecting it with the 'maximum security' of incarceration." (2/2)
HOME | Martin Sostre
www.martinsostre.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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akpress.org
"On February 9, 1976, Martin Sostre left prison for the last time. When he returned to New York City, he was almost fifty-three years old and had spent most of his adult life inside." (1/2)

-Excerpted from A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre by Garrett Felber (2025)
February 10, 2026 at 12:28 AM
artstuffmatters.bsky.social
"I was at a dinner in Venice some years ago with the sponsors of the Biennale, and one guy said to me, 'You know, we don’t have that race problem in Europe.' I think I might have been tired. I shouldn’t have done this, but I said, 'No, you threw all of your trash over to us.'”
—Toni Morrison
February 10, 2026 at 12:35 AM
artstuffmatters.bsky.social
it's been a day for listening to Billie Holiday

it usually is, of course.
but even more so today

𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨
February 6, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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susankayequinn.bsky.social
After striking for 3 years and winning healthcare, the company shut down the paper... so a coalition has come together to figure out how to do a worker-owned local paper for PGH. I love this so much, have donated, and I super hope they can make it happen.

www.wtae.com/article/pitt...
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Pittsburgh coalition forms to address news gap after Post-Gazette closure
In response to the upcoming closure of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a new coalition aims to create a community-focused news platform.
wtae.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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aureliusr2.bsky.social
The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit.
Gentle Spades
"I'm a veteran"
February 6, 2026 at 8:23 AM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Appreciate that folks lift up the Panthers. Black groups pre-dating the Panthers were also doing community patrols. See one example here: nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaah...

Joshua Clark Davis's Police Against the Movement offers some other examples too.
February 6, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Gordon Parks (American, 1912-2006)
Watts Community Alert Patrol providing transportation for the Watts rally, Los Angeles
1966
Gelatin silver print
Courtesy of and © The Gordon Parks Foundation
A man stands by a white car labeled "Community Alert Patrol" in front of a house. Another "Community Alert Patrol" car passes by on the street. The scene appears to be from a mid-20th century suburban neighborhood.
February 6, 2026 at 1:41 PM
artstuffmatters.bsky.social
“As long as we formed little committees and went to the bus company and asked to be treated like human beings and continued to travel on the bus nothing happened.”
—Rosa Parks, quoted in The Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks, by Jeanne Theoharis

Rosa told us.

#SweetRosa
February 6, 2026 at 2:44 AM
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sjcerv.bsky.social
Happy birthday to Rosa Parks💐
February 4, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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dael.bsky.social
As the article notes, UD removed my students' research from public access on the internet in July 2025.

However, you can see a pre-deletion version of their work on the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/web/20250612...

(Of course, any further work on these projects within UD has stopped.)
Research | Legacies of Enslavement and Dispossession at UD
This page highlights student research into the history of enslavement, dispossession, segregation, and other forms of racial injustice and inequality at...
web.archive.org
February 3, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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dael.bsky.social
The journalist, Kelly Powers, did a very thorough job reporting this out.

Here's the opening of the feature, which spotlights the amazing work a UD PhD student did in recovering the deep history of a neighborhood adjacent to campus, that once was an Af-Am community, but now is student housing:
Anisha Gupta struggled to focus on other work. Just a few more minutes. A few more pages of census records, of Newark land deeds, of university archives, might reveal details on African Americans living around her university in the mid 1800s. “My research was on free Black landownership around UD, and that was really difficult,” the doctoral student recalled. “I mean, we didn't even have the names of the people who did incredible things, like free themselves, and then buy land and homes for their families.” Finally, one hand-drawn map of Newark’s New London Road neighborhood unlocked the names of a burgeoning Black community. These families owned their land years before owning other people was outlawed in the U.S., or just down the street. Others even fought in the Civil War. This University of Delaware graduate student plugged away at her research with the help of UD archives, professors and local historians. By 2022, she published a paper that even surprised living decedents. “This was the first time I really felt like I was doing work alongside these community members,” said the student of preservation studies, who had just left a museum job that felt too detached. “And the impact – it didn't matter if my work was published in an academic journal, which would have been a previous goal – it really was sharing it with the community members who it mattered to the most.” It was published on a university-hosted website, among some five years' worth of other student and faculty work exploring the history of slavery, segregation and Black history around UD. Now, it’s gone. Over the past year, Delaware’s largest university has been quietly reacting to pressure under a second Trump administration, while fine-tuning a “long-term strategy” to review campus practices on diversity and inclusion. In one small part, that has included taking down a website dedicated to research. Gupta’s work was published in one area of the broader “UD Anti-Racism Initiative." This site now reroutes users to a letter announcing the “Campus Culture and Engagement” initiative. On this Newark campus, the past year has hummed along like any other for many. But for some faculty and diverse student leaders, they sense an ongoing air of confusion and uncertainty. “I think it's just another act of erasure for this history,” Gupta said. “And it absolutely demonstrates how easy it can be. It took us so much time to do this work, and it felt like such a drop in the bucket.”
February 3, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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dael.bsky.social
Today, in local news (paywalled alas)

Kelly Powers, “UD Removes Student Research on Slavery, Newark History amid Federal Pressure,” The News Journal, February 3, 2026,

www.delawareonline.com/story/news/e...
UD removes student research on slavery, Newark history amid federal pressure
Over the past year, UD has reacted to pressure under a second Trump administration, while tuning a “long-term strategy” on campus inclusion.
www.delawareonline.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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kringelberg.bsky.social
Jeff Koons being in the Epstein files is so unsurprising. No one is surprised by that, are they?
February 3, 2026 at 1:42 PM