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Mary Hawkins
@maryhawkins.bsky.social
Art Director, Animator + Designer
Activist + emerita board member, Rise and Resist
Head Jeerleader, Gotham Roller Derby

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Thanks to @brianxrayfilms.bsky.social and @sethpolansky.bsky.social for the chat, and make sure you all check out Igniting the Spark!
August 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Today's 1st read: a dense-but-good scholarly article that I've had open as a tab forever. Identifying seemingly "small" acts of resistance enables people to see themselves as capable and resilient instead of broken or depressed.

TW: violence + assault.

www.responsebasedpractice.com/wp-content/u...
www.responsebasedpractice.com
August 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Our collective loss of existential appetite is a healthy response to a profoundly unhealthy situation.

substack.com/home/post/p-...
This Isn't Burnout
Why Your Creative Job Isn’t Fun Anymore
substack.com
July 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Gonna take a second to brag about my awesome wife @maryhawkins.bsky.social, who illustrated these PSAs for swimming safety in NYC. She also created animated versions. It’s wild seeing her art on busses, in subway stations, on kiosks, etc, and I’m super proud of her!
#NYC #PSAs #SwimSafety #Art
June 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This morning's reading:

"while the digital world has removed all friction, the physical world is where the friction still lives. Not the good kind... but the bad kind: the exhaustion of trying to hold together systems that no one’s willing to invest in anymore."

kyla.substack.com/p/the-most-v...
The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction
AI Chatbots, Newark, and the West Village Girls
kyla.substack.com
June 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
We're still hoping to have Gotham games here, but in the meantime...

www.change.org/p/say-no-to-...
Sign the Petition
Say NO to Pickleball and YES to Expanding Roller Skating at The LeFrak Center
www.change.org
May 2, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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This protest sign hits pretty damn hard, big props to this teacher
April 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Today's reading:

"We create more than ever, but it weighs nothing... movement isn’t meaning. ... Light things shape culture, but rarely shape us. ... Creation [is] a process of becoming....You don’t just create heavy things. You become someone who can."

www.workingtheorys.com/p/make-somet...
Make Something Heavy
We're creating more than ever, but it weighs nothing.
www.workingtheorys.com
April 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This morning's reading... I'm hopeful-not-hopeful for our solarpunk future where not all of us make it? Ooof.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
‘All of his guns will do nothing for him’: lefty preppers are taking a different approach to doomsday
Liberals in the US make up about 15% of the prepping scene and their numbers are growing. Their fears differ from their better-known rightwing counterparts – as do their methods
www.theguardian.com
April 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Alice Guy-Blaché, an early director who made thousands of films (at one point, her studio was putting out three a week!) but was erased out of the story of early cinema history...

www.acmi.net.au/stories-and-...
Alice Guy-Blaché: female filmmaking pioneer
Alice Guy-Blaché was one of the first people to make a narrative film, and she helped create over a thousand films as either director, producer or writer.
www.acmi.net.au
April 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The Sky Has No Edge... Stop motion with mosaics from Invisible Friends, a group of expat Russian animators.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-lc...
У неба нет края - Sky has no edge
YouTube video by Юра Богуславский
www.youtube.com
April 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Reading this a little late, because: firehose, but...

"The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration."

newrepublic.com/post/192660/...
Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.
newrepublic.com
March 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
"If liberal democracy is to thrive and not just survive in the 21st century, we must develop a deeper understanding of the attraction of alternative political conceptions and their envisioned good life that competes with it."

www.noemamag.com/from-statecr...
From Statecraft To Soulcraft | NOEMA
How the world’s illiberal powers like Russia, China and increasingly the U.S. rule through their visions of the good life.
www.noemamag.com
March 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Thank you for voting!
#PTVinTheWild

Got a postcard in the mail yesterday. Unlike last fall, this one was actually addressed to me! (vs the 10+ years ago prior homeowner)

We voted yesterday for Crawford, Underly, and No on the Constitutional Amendment. And local races, too. #Wisconsin #VoteBlue #GOTV
March 22, 2025 at 2:38 AM
“I am tired of mainstream media pretending that neutrality and gullibility are the same thing.”

Thank you to @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for that gem. Catching up on email newsletters, and that was lovely…
March 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
A hopeful history… I didn’t know the full story of Muncie Indiana:

dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
What Felt Impossible Became Possible | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
March 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
substack.com/home/post/p-...

"It doesn’t reward depth, patience, or complexity. Instead, it rewards the immediate & the easily digestible. ...What does that do to creativity? Inspiration? ...what ideas never had the chance to grow because they were harvested too early ...their smallest form?"
Instagram and the Creative Process
Why are we still here?
substack.com
March 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
This morning's reading: "this is dark stuff: A $160b AI company and a $2 trillion tech giant invoking the need to maintain technological—and implicitly, military—superiority over China...to justify eroding artists’ already meager rights and protections."

www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/openai-and...
OpenAI and Google's dark new campaign to dismantle artists' protections
OpenAI and Google have cozied up to Trump's imperialist approach to AI for a shot at tearing down artists' copyright protections.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
March 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Members of the House AND the Senate are home during recess NOW through Sunday, March 23rd. This is our time to send them a message.

Welcome home @schumer.senate.gov 👋
New Yorkers are calling on you to #Resign

Times Square ✍️ @karinschall.bsky.social

#StopTheCoup #FightFascism #RiseandResist
March 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
This evening's reading: a long, loving tribute to Gorton, a font whose letterforms that were right in front of us the whole time,

aresluna.org/the-hardest-...
The hardest working font in Manhattan
A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.
aresluna.org
March 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Our friends, Resistance Revival Chorus, were on @colbertlateshow.bsky.social with Paris Paloma. They sang the theme song to our Womxn’s March! Pure beauty & power 😭

Join us SATURDAY, MARCH 8 at 11am in Washington Square Park.

@50501movement.bsky.social @womensmarch.bsky.social #womensmarch #Resist
March 7, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Basically bookmarking this for myself: a project to categorize all those seen-it-everywhere aesthetics and design movements from the last few decades.

(h/t to Patrick Butler for sending this my way...)

cari.institute/aesthetics
CARI | Aesthetics
cari.institute
March 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM