Keli Safia Maksud
@kelisafia.bsky.social
Artist, writer and curious
Gosh how beautiful this is - my whole soul has expanded / exploded at this notion. I am new @robincostelewis.bsky.social @davidnaimon.bsky.social ❤️❤️
November 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Gosh how beautiful this is - my whole soul has expanded / exploded at this notion. I am new @robincostelewis.bsky.social @davidnaimon.bsky.social ❤️❤️
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Baba Chokwe Lumumba used to say, "If you don't love the people sooner or later you'll betray the people."
Mayor Mamdani will face challenges. But his win will shake open new possibilities. What's clear is that he loves the people; he loves the city; he loves us. And that's the imperative start.
Mayor Mamdani will face challenges. But his win will shake open new possibilities. What's clear is that he loves the people; he loves the city; he loves us. And that's the imperative start.
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Baba Chokwe Lumumba used to say, "If you don't love the people sooner or later you'll betray the people."
Mayor Mamdani will face challenges. But his win will shake open new possibilities. What's clear is that he loves the people; he loves the city; he loves us. And that's the imperative start.
Mayor Mamdani will face challenges. But his win will shake open new possibilities. What's clear is that he loves the people; he loves the city; he loves us. And that's the imperative start.
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An important constructive counterpoint from @jcljules.bsky.social to the sea of hosannas for the Met's new "Africa, the Ancient Americas and Oceania" collection wing.
(Also, for the TNY diaeresis heads, the piece contains one I've not seen before: "reërection")
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
(Also, for the TNY diaeresis heads, the piece contains one I've not seen before: "reërection")
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Met’s Luminous New Rockefeller Wing Still Casts Some Shadows
A seventy-million-dollar renovation beautifully presents the museum’s non-Western art—even if doubts remain about whether all of it belongs in New York.
www.newyorker.com
June 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
An important constructive counterpoint from @jcljules.bsky.social to the sea of hosannas for the Met's new "Africa, the Ancient Americas and Oceania" collection wing.
(Also, for the TNY diaeresis heads, the piece contains one I've not seen before: "reërection")
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
(Also, for the TNY diaeresis heads, the piece contains one I've not seen before: "reërection")
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Polls are about to close, but if you’re in line by 9:00 PM, STAY IN LINE! They must let you vote!
June 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Polls are about to close, but if you’re in line by 9:00 PM, STAY IN LINE! They must let you vote!
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“Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of leaving, hesitations. Books leave certain sounds, a certain pacing; mostly they leave the elusive, which is all the story.”
~ Dionne Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return.
~ Dionne Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return.
April 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
“Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of leaving, hesitations. Books leave certain sounds, a certain pacing; mostly they leave the elusive, which is all the story.”
~ Dionne Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return.
~ Dionne Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return.
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The proliferation of the camera (in phones, etc) does not mean the lens is democratic and egalitarian. Get it right people!
March 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The proliferation of the camera (in phones, etc) does not mean the lens is democratic and egalitarian. Get it right people!
Must-read!!
I dove to the wreck of Brazil’s last slave ship—and wrote about the global network of maritime archaeologists excavating the Middle Passage www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Dredging Up the Ghostly Secrets of Slave Ships
A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.
www.newyorker.com
March 3, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Must-read!!
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Love this letter from David Velasco (the former Artforum editor fired for publishing an open letter against the carnage in Gaza) responding to that Harper’s piece lamenting the contamination of contemporary art by politics.
!["Sorry, I could barely get through Kissick’s orgy of grievances. I lived through the years he elegizes, saw some great art and even more middling art. Anyone reading his piece with a gimlet eye will notice that it was speculation, not ‘politics,’ that sucked the air out of the room. I do agree with him on one point: the art world is boring right now. But you’re not going to save it by being boring yourself. And you’re definitely not going to get art that ‘tears open [your] consciousness’ through nostalgia for Hans Ulrich Obrist. Go outside, look around. Stop being sad because markets and institutions aren’t pandering to you. Go where the energy is. Go make some real friends. Break a magazine. Go to a protest. Free Palestine.
David Velasco
New York City”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x7xmggpwlgtotuxi5as5igwy/bafkreihrenoebwsv5fnp2z63jnlvgvdmeoswiwbonxuwywtv4u2bzqhexq@jpeg)
January 30, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Love this letter from David Velasco (the former Artforum editor fired for publishing an open letter against the carnage in Gaza) responding to that Harper’s piece lamenting the contamination of contemporary art by politics.
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In "The Time beneath the Concrete," Nasser Abourahme argues that settler colonialism in #Palestine is always as much an attempt to conquer time as it is to conquer land. Read the introduction for free now.
https://buff.ly/3BwdKyr
https://buff.ly/3BwdKyr
December 18, 2024 at 2:03 PM
In "The Time beneath the Concrete," Nasser Abourahme argues that settler colonialism in #Palestine is always as much an attempt to conquer time as it is to conquer land. Read the introduction for free now.
https://buff.ly/3BwdKyr
https://buff.ly/3BwdKyr
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'Soul of my soul'. Khaled Nabhan grieved peacefully for his granddaughter Reem last year. On Monday, Israel killed him in Gaza, too
Grieving the Gaza granddad who wept for the ‘soul of his soul’
Khaled Nabhan grieved peacefully for his granddaughter Reem last year. On Monday, Israel killed him in Gaza, too.
aje.io
December 17, 2024 at 10:34 PM
'Soul of my soul'. Khaled Nabhan grieved peacefully for his granddaughter Reem last year. On Monday, Israel killed him in Gaza, too
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Luigi got them shook.
North Carolina’s Atrium Health says it will forgive the debts of 11,500 people — less than a week after NBC News reported that the company has aggressively pursued former patients’ medical debts, placing liens on their homes to collect on bills.
'Like a miracle': N.C. couple free of nearly $100,000 medical debt after 15 years
The lien on Donna and Gary Lindabury's home for a 2009 heart surgery debt was among 11,500 wiped away by Atrium Health after an NBC News report.
www.nbcnews.com
December 13, 2024 at 12:37 AM
Luigi got them shook.
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As world leaders celebrate the reopening of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, a reminder that its design was inspired by Islamic architecture in Syria. See this interview with scholar Diana Darke from LATimes in 2021: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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December 9, 2024 at 3:01 AM
As world leaders celebrate the reopening of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, a reminder that its design was inspired by Islamic architecture in Syria. See this interview with scholar Diana Darke from LATimes in 2021: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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What Happened This Week:
Martial law declared in South Korea, rescinded by parliament, mass protests
Vigilante assassinated health insurance CEO
Military junta in Burkina Faso, prime minister removed, government dissolved
French government collapsed
Bashar al-Assad’s regime overthrown in Syria
Martial law declared in South Korea, rescinded by parliament, mass protests
Vigilante assassinated health insurance CEO
Military junta in Burkina Faso, prime minister removed, government dissolved
French government collapsed
Bashar al-Assad’s regime overthrown in Syria
December 8, 2024 at 3:43 PM
What Happened This Week:
Martial law declared in South Korea, rescinded by parliament, mass protests
Vigilante assassinated health insurance CEO
Military junta in Burkina Faso, prime minister removed, government dissolved
French government collapsed
Bashar al-Assad’s regime overthrown in Syria
Martial law declared in South Korea, rescinded by parliament, mass protests
Vigilante assassinated health insurance CEO
Military junta in Burkina Faso, prime minister removed, government dissolved
French government collapsed
Bashar al-Assad’s regime overthrown in Syria
“The effects of texts that were part of that colonial project are still heavily felt and recycled in this moment…Those texts keep being reworked because the system that produced them is an evolving system that doesn’t leave them behind…” DB 🎯
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
How the Western Literary Canon Made the World Worst
A talk with Dionne Brand about her recent book, Salvage, which looks at how the classic texts of Anglo-American fiction helped abet the crimes of capitalism, colonialism, and more.
www.thenation.com
December 5, 2024 at 2:37 PM
“The effects of texts that were part of that colonial project are still heavily felt and recycled in this moment…Those texts keep being reworked because the system that produced them is an evolving system that doesn’t leave them behind…” DB 🎯
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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It made me physically ill following updates from the Supreme Court today. Sending love to trans people, trans kids especially, and their families because… whew. Enduring this kind of hostility is an experience us cisgender will never fully understand.
December 4, 2024 at 7:00 PM
It made me physically ill following updates from the Supreme Court today. Sending love to trans people, trans kids especially, and their families because… whew. Enduring this kind of hostility is an experience us cisgender will never fully understand.
Note 165 of Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social ✨
December 4, 2024 at 2:29 AM
Note 165 of Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social ✨
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“Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.”– Ursula K. Le Guin
November 14, 2024 at 1:24 AM
“Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.”– Ursula K. Le Guin