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Mikiki
@mkkultra.bsky.social
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Performance & video artist, queer harm reduction & bodily autonomy activist, and rabid slut from Ktaqmkuk/Newfoundland based in Tkaronto. Mixed white settler/indigenous. Eats shoots and leaves, shoots, and leaves. Anarchist. Antitheist.
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mkkultra.bsky.social
Also doing this thing:
There’s no tools available to connect with sex post-chemsex.
We wanted to put us ‘back in the game’.
AFTERparTy is a 6wk somatics/proximity/breath + touch closed group workshop starting July 16 on Wednesday evenings.
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July 4, 2025 at 5:41 AM
mkkultra.bsky.social
So I’m doing this thing!
Sunday is the 1st of 3 landscape drawing classes held at dusk in Taylor Creek Park. Featuring a vocal score interpreted by local sonic legend alaska b!
Free! Supplies, snacks + bug spray provided!

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SHADOWLANDS promo 1. alaska b
YouTube video by Mikiki Performance and Video Artist
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July 4, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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saranahmed.bsky.social
Kind of glad to be able to share No Is Not A Lonely Utterance soon as it offers tools to diagnosis ‘campaigns’ such as this. Not that we need more tools.
goodlawproject.org Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Jun 12
Having stripped trans people of their right to be treated with dignity The Times is now coming for people of colour.
Headline: Equality Act blamed for surge in failed race discrimination claims. Don’t Divide Us believes in “colour-blind anti-racism” and campaigns against “divisive” political ideas such as critical race theory being imported from America. The findings have been published as part of a wider report on equality laws by the organisation entitled “The Equality Act Isn’t Working: Equalities Legislation and the Breakdown of Informal Civility in the Workplace”.
June 12, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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kimzetter.bsky.social
In light of the news this week that Cellebrite has acquired Corellium, here's an in-depth piece I previously wrote about Cellebrite, which looks at how the Israeli firm became the go-to hackers for the FBI and other federal agencies who want to get physical access into locked phones they seize
When the FBI Has a Phone It Can't Crack, It Calls These Israeli Hackers
Apple fights to keep the U.S. government out of its phones. Cellebrite is the leader in helping break in. An inside look at the secretive Israeli company.
theintercept.com
June 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
mkkultra.bsky.social
So we did a thing.
On Being Infectious.
Presented at the #QueerPharmaConference held at the Freie Universität Berlin

We spoke about the generative possibilities of HIV infection and its aesthetic (re)modulations.

With @alexmcclelland.bsky.social
Alex is a white gay with a multiple b&w tattoos on his arms and has a high & tight cropped haircut. He wears a black t-shirt that says ‘Acid’ in a white serif font typeface. His arms are crossed in front of his chest and he is making a ‘gay thoughts’ face. Mikiki is a white* gay** with one scratchy tattoo peeking out from between an aggressively styled black and fashion-misfitted t-shirt. They are bald and have a dangly crystal earring hanging from a safety pin. Their left hand is up in the air in a very gay way. Their face is scrunched up but their eyes are open. It looks weird. Two crisp gay whites hunch over a white work table while a video projection of Mariah Carey sings Hero live on a white wall. Same two dry whites wearing all black in same black and white room with a projection of Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ Maintenance Art from 1973. She is a white woman with shoulder length hair is on all fours scrubbing the stone stairs of the Wadsworth Atheneum. Goth gays wearing black on the U-Bahn looking at each other. Same ‘Acid’ shirt, but now Mikiki’s precious Rick Owen’s sneaker boots are visible and their modified/hand-dyed (in tones of green blue white and black) tote bag is present at their feet. They are seated. The surrounding train car is grey.
June 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
mkkultra.bsky.social
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🍂 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · Apr 3
Cops are not "popular culture" but sure
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Apr 3
Fentanyl overdoses occur from ingesting the synthetic opioid. But popular culture has misrepresented the risks to first responders.
April 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
mkkultra.bsky.social
Choose 20 pieces of art that have stayed with you. One per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 9/20

Self-Obliteration
(2008-11)
Ron Athey
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Photo of Ron from the waist up. He is bare chested and is heavily tattooed. He holds his right arm out of the frame and his left arm up above his head. He has a teased blonde wig, pinned with syringe tips to his scalp. Blood drips down his face from these piercings. He stares into the lens of the camera, entranced; his mouth, slightly open. Ron, sitting nude on a tall rectangular plinth in the middle of a dark room with bright lights illuminating him. One is visible within the frame of this image on the left. He rests on his heels in a kneeling position and holds up a large pane of glass in front of him. The glass is covered in his blood. The blood is coloured a bright red due to being back-lit from the spotlight behind him.
April 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social
On Refugee Rights Day, and every other day, the HIV Legal Network calls for the immediate suspension of the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) between Canada and the United States.

Read more: www.hivlegalnetwork.ca/site/today-i...
April 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
mkkultra.bsky.social
I worked providing harm reduction outreach in many women’s shelters and my mother experienced being unhoused due to intimate partner violence while I was an adult.
The fear of being homeless is omnipresent yet the conversation (similar to requiring harm reduction access) is always individualized.
thepoliticizedprac.bsky.social the.politicized.practitioner @thepoliticizedprac.bsky.social · Apr 3
“Framing the experience of a woman fleeing violence as ‘homelessness’ places the focus of the policy problem on her; it reframes who she is, even though her circumstances were the product of someone else’s violence.”

mentalhealthcommission.ca/catalyst/unh...
“Unhoused” and “Homeless” – What’s the Difference?
The best advice from advocates: talk about the issues and use terms that people use to refer to their own lived experience.
mentalhealthcommission.ca
April 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
mkkultra.bsky.social
Choose 20 pieces of art that have stayed with you. One per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 9/20

Through the Night Softly. Main Street, Los Angeles: September 12, 1973 (1973)
Chris Burden
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Chris Burden crawls on their stomach, wearing only briefs and with their hands held behind their back, through a parking lot covered with shattered glass.
April 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
mkkultra.bsky.social
Choose 20 pieces of art that have stayed with you. One per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 8/20

60 Unit Bruise (1976)
Paul Wong
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#videoarthistory #bodyart #queercontemporaryart
#cancon
March 31, 2025 at 9:18 PM
mkkultra.bsky.social
Choose 20 pieces of art that have stayed with you. One per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 7/20

Facial Weaponization Suite (2012-14)
Zach Blas
zachblas.info/works/facial...
#queeringai #queercontemporaryart
March 31, 2025 at 9:02 PM
mkkultra.bsky.social
Choose 20 pieces of art that have stayed with you. One per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 5/20

Skeleton Performing Zazen on Waves (1787)
Maruyama Ōkyo
円山 応挙
This ink painting is an image of a skeleton with bleached white bones sitting in the lotus position. The skeleton is floating above a background of tumultuous waves fading into the horizon, 2/3 of the way up the image, just above the skeleton’s head.
March 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM
mkkultra.bsky.social
Choose 20 pieces of art that have stayed with you. One per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 4/20

Visiting Hours
(2019)
kg Guttman

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#contemporaryart #dancingtheexhibition
Shahir holds in their hands one of three coloured boards in front of their body on the sidewalk outside the gallery, toward the visitor. The board is a medium brown color, and a blue board peeks out from behind it. The image was captured from behind the visitor. They are wearing a blue and white pattern shirt and they are facing Shahir a few feet away from them. Shahir wears all white. There are cars parked on the side of the street and green trees and a blue sky in the background. Kelly holds up a photograph of Jessica Karuhanga who is standing at an institutional window, looking out and down toward the ground. There is a brown brick institutional building in the background of the photo. Kelly is wearing white gloves to hold the photo against the wall. Standing in front of the photograph is kg who is holding Small cardboard viewing device in their hand and upward their eye. In the left of the image is a small yellow shelf screwed to the wall with five more viewing devices sitting at top it. Two visitors watch the interpreter/host on a triangular green screen/chroma key backdrop. They are wrapped in the same color, green fabric covering their entire body and our crouched on the floor. At the Apex of the triangle is a studio light and a white plinth with a laptop displaying a living room scene. In the background, a bench rests against a yellow orange wall, a roll of black paper is leaning in the corner and lo bil’s photograph is in a bright orange frame with orange backpack straps, hung on the wall. Shahir crouches down toward the floor. Their arms are raised in front of them and are parallel to the floor. They are holding the backpack straps connected to upright orange frame which rests on their head. They are wearing all white with red and black wrestling boots. The concrete floor is medium gray and the wall behind them is white.
March 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
mkkultra.bsky.social
Let’s protect Ontario’s bike lanes in this provincial election. Call on all parties to #ReverseBill212! act.gp/3WLGdrw
Stop the removal of Ontario’s bike lanes
Call on all parties running in the Ontario election to reverse Bill 212
act.gp
March 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
mkkultra.bsky.social
Choose 20 pieces of art that have stayed with you. One per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 4/20

Damned #1
(2019)
Sondra Meszaros
A framed black-and-white photograph on a white wall. The photograph contains the image of a female figure crouching/resting on her heels, with shins flat on the floor. The top 2/3 of the image have been painted over/redacted with a thick coat of black ink.
March 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
mkkultra.bsky.social
Choose 20 pieces of art that have stayed with you. One per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 3/20

Washing/Tracks/Maintenance: Outside (1973)
Mierle Laderman Ukeles

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Mierle Laderman Ukeles, the artist, washes the steps of the Wadsworth Atheneum. This black-and-white photograph shows the artist dumping washing water from an industrial/commercial mop bucket over and down the front steps of the institution.
March 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
mkkultra.bsky.social
Choose 20 pieces of art that have stayed with you. One per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 2/20

To Be A Flamingo
(2024)
Arjun Lal

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Arjun sits in their inflatable flamingo costume. Eye holes at the base of the neck and a mouth hole to breathe from. The inflatable wings have black tips and our extensions of their arms. The head is not visible. Just an expanse of pink inflated latex. They are sitting on the edge of a pool Wearing the headpiece and wings and a hot pink matching latex singlet. Arjun floats in the pool on the back we see the inflatable wings and neck, head and beak of the hot pink latex flamingo, they’re human form submerged in the pool. The beak of the hot pink latex flamingo head dips into the pool and water ripples in concentric circles around it. Their clogs have a toe hole and leg extensions which are in the water. Their hot pink latex inflatable wings are cradling the head near the waters edge. Arjun as the flamingo constructed of hot pink latex floats in the middle of the YMCA pool. The wings, neck and head are all inflated and above the water. It appears as a symbol of a flamingo. An icon. A fetish object.
March 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
mkkultra.bsky.social
Ok I’ll bite.
(h/t @danielmacivor.ca)

Choose 20 pieces of art that have stayed with you. One per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 1/20

Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991)
Cornelia Parker CBE RA
Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View is the restored contents of a garden shed exploded by the British Army at the request of the artist Cornelia Parker. The surviving pieces have been used by Parker to create an installation suspended from the ceiling as if held mid-explosion. Lit by a single lightbulb the fragments cast dramatic shadows on the gallery’s walls
March 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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davehitchcock.bsky.social
Hey fellow Canadians abroad. Remember we're able to vote in Canada's elections again after Trudeau got rid of Harper's horrendous policy preventing us from doing so. If you're not registered to, now's the time to do it. All you need is your Canadian passport and last Canadian address.
March 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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tryangregory.bsky.social
Things far more important for the Canadian economy than tax cuts for millionaires:

* Dental, pharma, vision care.
* Clean indoor air.
* Worker safety.
* Mental health care.
* Environmental health.
* Education.
* Support for chronically ill and disabled folks.
* Research funding.
March 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
mkkultra.bsky.social
This alone makes me want to riot.
But most things do these days.
March 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
mkkultra.bsky.social
Well it looks liiike
that dinnerrrrrr
is ooooverrrrrrrr
#pinktriangleday #valentinesdaydinner
#thedepanneur
In a warmly Litt, white room with red and black velvet curtains and dark upholstered couches a tall white drag queen stands in contrapposto. They have a Shaggy asymmetrical Bob wig with a long tail, exaggerated, dark eye, make up and dark coloured overdrawn lipstick. They are wearing a long black evening cloak over a pale halter neck, chiffon gown, which is transparent from the waist down, revealing their underpants through the skirt. Their head is cocked to the side and the image, taken from a video still, catches them in mid sentence: speaking to an unseen crowd behind the camera. In their left hand they are holding a baking tray, which holds the ingredients of the amuse bouche course about to be distributed amongst the tables.
February 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
mkkultra.bsky.social
I’ve been a fan of repurposing Valentine’s Day in favour of Pink Triangle Day as I find the primacy of romantic love to be a source of much social pain.
I’m excited to see who I have to thank for this.
🥰💞🧡💚🖤
Thanks darlin’ 😘
robinmetcalfe.bsky.social Robin Metcalfe @robinmetcalfe.bsky.social · Feb 14
On 14 February 1979, officers of Pink Triangle Press received the first of three acquittals on obscenity charges. That summer, on my initiative, the Canadian Lesbian & Gay Rights Coalition declared the date an annual lesbian and gay holiday, Pink Triangle Day.
www.robinmetcalfe.ca/pink-triangl...
Pink Triangle Day
Pink Triangle Day
www.robinmetcalfe.ca
February 14, 2025 at 2:28 AM