Jordy Yager
@jordyyager.bsky.social
Journalist • JSAAHC Director of Digital Humanities • Co-Director & Writer Raised/Razed • Executive Producer of Plot of Land • Mapping Cville-Albemarle
"No climbing" signs have been up for a while now, and yet kids are still running on the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers. Makes me sad, mad, and frustrated.
November 9, 2025 at 2:57 AM
"No climbing" signs have been up for a while now, and yet kids are still running on the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers. Makes me sad, mad, and frustrated.
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Nikuyah Walker, former mayor of Charlottesville, has endorsed me for the Charlottesville School Board.
October 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Nikuyah Walker, former mayor of Charlottesville, has endorsed me for the Charlottesville School Board.
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“From the 1950s to the 1970s, federal contractors building the system deliberately mapped routes that rammed through and dismantled Black neighborhoods — payback, some say, for gains made during the Civil Rights Movement.”
Why Do Highways Run Through Black Neighborhoods?
The documentary “Interstate” exposes how highway routes are by design.
wordinblack.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
“From the 1950s to the 1970s, federal contractors building the system deliberately mapped routes that rammed through and dismantled Black neighborhoods — payback, some say, for gains made during the Civil Rights Movement.”
They say Charlottesville is the Paris of the South…
October 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
They say Charlottesville is the Paris of the South…
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LA turns Confederate statues into art exhibit
LA turns Confederate statues into art exhibit
The 18 decommissioned Confederate monuments have been deconstructed and displayed to make a statement on the horrors of slavery.
www.bbc.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM
LA turns Confederate statues into art exhibit
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Photo from a review of the exhibition that opens on the 23rd: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Breathtaking, unsettling, healing: a new exhibit by Black US artists transforms Confederate monuments
The sweeping exhibition Monuments opens in Los Angeles on 23 October and is on view through May
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Photo from a review of the exhibition that opens on the 23rd: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Connect with your people offline. Take the chats to signal but also take your close relationships offline entirely. We need to be connected when they shut this all down.
What’s your organizing plan if things go dark? Where do you meet? Who picks up what work? How do we communicate?
What’s your organizing plan if things go dark? Where do you meet? Who picks up what work? How do we communicate?
October 6, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Connect with your people offline. Take the chats to signal but also take your close relationships offline entirely. We need to be connected when they shut this all down.
What’s your organizing plan if things go dark? Where do you meet? Who picks up what work? How do we communicate?
What’s your organizing plan if things go dark? Where do you meet? Who picks up what work? How do we communicate?
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September 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
As part of the 75th Anniversary of Gregory H. Swanson's successful case to desegregate the University of Virginia, I created a Storymap.
We wanted to share a bit more of the context of Swanson's actions in Charlottesville, and the far reaching ripple that's with us still today.
arcg.is/1T8aC85
We wanted to share a bit more of the context of Swanson's actions in Charlottesville, and the far reaching ripple that's with us still today.
arcg.is/1T8aC85
Gregory Swanson
Honoring Gregory H. Swanson's pivotal role in a movement for civil rights.
arcg.is
September 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
As part of the 75th Anniversary of Gregory H. Swanson's successful case to desegregate the University of Virginia, I created a Storymap.
We wanted to share a bit more of the context of Swanson's actions in Charlottesville, and the far reaching ripple that's with us still today.
arcg.is/1T8aC85
We wanted to share a bit more of the context of Swanson's actions in Charlottesville, and the far reaching ripple that's with us still today.
arcg.is/1T8aC85
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Kara Walker Deconstructs a Statue, and a Myth.
Meanwhile boards and curators worry about bad press and retaliations.
Meanwhile boards and curators worry about bad press and retaliations.
Kara Walker Deconstructs a Statue, and a Myth
www.nytimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Kara Walker Deconstructs a Statue, and a Myth.
Meanwhile boards and curators worry about bad press and retaliations.
Meanwhile boards and curators worry about bad press and retaliations.
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Kara Walker has long been one of my favorite living artists. She’s brilliant.
“Offered the Stonewall Jackson statue, w/ no restrictions on how to use it, she has deconstructed the equestrian form, to render horse and rider in a kind of melted mutant grotesque.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/a...
“Offered the Stonewall Jackson statue, w/ no restrictions on how to use it, she has deconstructed the equestrian form, to render horse and rider in a kind of melted mutant grotesque.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/a...
Kara Walker Deconstructs a Statue, and a Myth
www.nytimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Kara Walker has long been one of my favorite living artists. She’s brilliant.
“Offered the Stonewall Jackson statue, w/ no restrictions on how to use it, she has deconstructed the equestrian form, to render horse and rider in a kind of melted mutant grotesque.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/a...
“Offered the Stonewall Jackson statue, w/ no restrictions on how to use it, she has deconstructed the equestrian form, to render horse and rider in a kind of melted mutant grotesque.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/a...
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I spent my childhood (sometimes literally) in the shadow of this Stonewall Jackson monument. Kara Walker has a wonderful facility for marrying complex ideas and simple truths, in addition to producing aesthetically excellent work. This is a triumph. (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/a...
Kara Walker Deconstructs a Statue, and a Myth
www.nytimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I spent my childhood (sometimes literally) in the shadow of this Stonewall Jackson monument. Kara Walker has a wonderful facility for marrying complex ideas and simple truths, in addition to producing aesthetically excellent work. This is a triumph. (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/a...
The mission of the Center for Local Knowledge (CLK) at @jsaahccville.bsky.social is rooted in reparative and spatial justice.
The CLK helps empower communities reclaim and celebrate their histories, while also addressing injustices and deepening our collective understanding of the past.
The CLK helps empower communities reclaim and celebrate their histories, while also addressing injustices and deepening our collective understanding of the past.
September 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The mission of the Center for Local Knowledge (CLK) at @jsaahccville.bsky.social is rooted in reparative and spatial justice.
The CLK helps empower communities reclaim and celebrate their histories, while also addressing injustices and deepening our collective understanding of the past.
The CLK helps empower communities reclaim and celebrate their histories, while also addressing injustices and deepening our collective understanding of the past.
“Ever wondered what you would have done during the rise of fascism? You’re doing it RIGHT NOW!”
July 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
“Ever wondered what you would have done during the rise of fascism? You’re doing it RIGHT NOW!”
Screening Raised/Razed to a group of Government officials from Roanoke, Amherst, Warren, Virginia Beach, Hampton, Shenandoah, Prince George, Staunton, Colonial Beach, Vienna, VA + Ennis, TX, Riverside, MO, Westminster, CO, Gaithersburg, MD + Onslow, Gastonia, and Nags Head, NC.
July 18, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Screening Raised/Razed to a group of Government officials from Roanoke, Amherst, Warren, Virginia Beach, Hampton, Shenandoah, Prince George, Staunton, Colonial Beach, Vienna, VA + Ennis, TX, Riverside, MO, Westminster, CO, Gaithersburg, MD + Onslow, Gastonia, and Nags Head, NC.
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We can still save the Institute for Museum and Library Services. Here's a practical guide to what to do right now to save not just the agency's funding but its future all together.
Part of this is messaging on reauthorizing the Museum and Library Services Act.
bookriot.com/we-can-still...
Part of this is messaging on reauthorizing the Museum and Library Services Act.
bookriot.com/we-can-still...
We Can Still Save the Institute for Museum and Library Services
Act now to help save the Institute for Museum and Library Services and ensure the well-being of public libraries nationwide.
bookriot.com
July 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
We can still save the Institute for Museum and Library Services. Here's a practical guide to what to do right now to save not just the agency's funding but its future all together.
Part of this is messaging on reauthorizing the Museum and Library Services Act.
bookriot.com/we-can-still...
Part of this is messaging on reauthorizing the Museum and Library Services Act.
bookriot.com/we-can-still...
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The UVA Board of Visitors has quite a history. (Below is far from the only grim example.) The current board, which schemed with the Trump regime to oust the university's president, is honoring it.
Feels like a good time to remember that when Gregory Swanson applied for admission into UVA Law School, the graduate committee accepted him.
It was the UVA Board of Visitors who overrode that decision and denied him admission, because he was Black.
Swanson took them to court, and won.
It was the UVA Board of Visitors who overrode that decision and denied him admission, because he was Black.
Swanson took them to court, and won.
July 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The UVA Board of Visitors has quite a history. (Below is far from the only grim example.) The current board, which schemed with the Trump regime to oust the university's president, is honoring it.
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Persuade me otherwise, but I don’t think every public utterance needs to be archived or posted on the internet. Indeed, at some moments, perhaps this one included, it can actually be risky. Mentioned this to a colleague, who sent this helpful article about security in social movement culture.
Security Culture – Defend Dissent
Digital suppression and cryptographic defense of social movements
open.oregonstate.education
July 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Persuade me otherwise, but I don’t think every public utterance needs to be archived or posted on the internet. Indeed, at some moments, perhaps this one included, it can actually be risky. Mentioned this to a colleague, who sent this helpful article about security in social movement culture.
Feels like a good time to remember that when Gregory Swanson applied for admission into UVA Law School, the graduate committee accepted him.
It was the UVA Board of Visitors who overrode that decision and denied him admission, because he was Black.
Swanson took them to court, and won.
It was the UVA Board of Visitors who overrode that decision and denied him admission, because he was Black.
Swanson took them to court, and won.
July 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Feels like a good time to remember that when Gregory Swanson applied for admission into UVA Law School, the graduate committee accepted him.
It was the UVA Board of Visitors who overrode that decision and denied him admission, because he was Black.
Swanson took them to court, and won.
It was the UVA Board of Visitors who overrode that decision and denied him admission, because he was Black.
Swanson took them to court, and won.
I wonder if anyone's studied the first 30 years of UVA graduates (1829-1859) to see where they went & what they did—TJ designed the school to teach, espouse, and spread very specific ideas and ideals, so what did the first three decades of that look like exactly—collectively, in total?
July 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I wonder if anyone's studied the first 30 years of UVA graduates (1829-1859) to see where they went & what they did—TJ designed the school to teach, espouse, and spread very specific ideas and ideals, so what did the first three decades of that look like exactly—collectively, in total?
“There are no good or bad guys, that's the part we're all struggling with.” -- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
moneywithkatie.com/status-power...
moneywithkatie.com/status-power...
A Masterclass in Connecting Status, Power, and the Economy with Tressie McMillan Cottom
Podcast Episode · The Money with Katie Show · 06/25/2025 · 1h 31m
podcasts.apple.com
July 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
“There are no good or bad guys, that's the part we're all struggling with.” -- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
moneywithkatie.com/status-power...
moneywithkatie.com/status-power...
One day maybe we'll see the connection between our political and ethical values, and where we spend our money? Maybe?
July 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
One day maybe we'll see the connection between our political and ethical values, and where we spend our money? Maybe?
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The kids at the cav daily are doing very, very good work. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
A dive into the Board of Visitors’ political donations
Here is a look at Board members’ political donations — all but one of whom has records of political donations which are overwhelmingly to Republican candidates and campaigns.
www.cavalierdaily.com
July 6, 2025 at 2:06 AM
The kids at the cav daily are doing very, very good work. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...