solidad decosta (she/her)
@solidaddecosta.bsky.social
I am a queer multiracial writer, composer, filmmaker and poet.
https://poiseunderchaos.net
https://cyborgphilharmonic.bandcamp.com/
https://vimeo.com/cyborgphilharmonic/
https://poiseunderchaos.net
https://cyborgphilharmonic.bandcamp.com/
https://vimeo.com/cyborgphilharmonic/
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House of Chaos — Episode Three: "We're All Gender-bending Air Pirates Now"
CW: abuse, violence, flashing lights Emily Dickinson! "Are you nobody too?" As a documentarian, I use ephemera from a variety of sources to create new…
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This just in: we're all gender-bending air pirates now
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#film #video #experimental #filibus #queer #archival
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#film #video #experimental #filibus #queer #archival
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If you are able, please consider joining me in supporting
@prisonculture.bsky.social's Black Zine Fair in 2026. As someone who encourages students to read & make zines in my gender studies classes, I can attest to the power of the form.
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@prisonculture.bsky.social's Black Zine Fair in 2026. As someone who encourages students to read & make zines in my gender studies classes, I can attest to the power of the form.
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Black Zine Fair Returns in 2026 — Help Us Bring It to Life
The Black Zine Fair was founded by Mariame Kaba and Neta Bomani in 2023 to address a clear gap: Black publishers and artists have long shaped independent publishing, yet we were still underrepresented...
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January 9, 2026 at 2:46 AM
If you are able, please consider joining me in supporting
@prisonculture.bsky.social's Black Zine Fair in 2026. As someone who encourages students to read & make zines in my gender studies classes, I can attest to the power of the form.
gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...
@prisonculture.bsky.social's Black Zine Fair in 2026. As someone who encourages students to read & make zines in my gender studies classes, I can attest to the power of the form.
gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...
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portland city council confirms that two portland residents have been shot by federal agents. at this time, the city council has been told that both victims are alive.
January 8, 2026 at 11:47 PM
portland city council confirms that two portland residents have been shot by federal agents. at this time, the city council has been told that both victims are alive.
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Transphobia is inherently rooted in misogyny, example #238,953
Far-right pastor Dale Partridge says that feminism "is killing America" because "at its core, feminism is a form of transgenderism."
January 8, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Transphobia is inherently rooted in misogyny, example #238,953
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I teach bystander intervention for a living and have taught de-escalation to law enforcement.
Trust me when I say that bottle girls, gas station clerks, strippers, front desk employees at hotels and airports, baristas, etc. have better de-escalation skills than any cop I've ever seen.
Trust me when I say that bottle girls, gas station clerks, strippers, front desk employees at hotels and airports, baristas, etc. have better de-escalation skills than any cop I've ever seen.
January 8, 2026 at 8:44 PM
I teach bystander intervention for a living and have taught de-escalation to law enforcement.
Trust me when I say that bottle girls, gas station clerks, strippers, front desk employees at hotels and airports, baristas, etc. have better de-escalation skills than any cop I've ever seen.
Trust me when I say that bottle girls, gas station clerks, strippers, front desk employees at hotels and airports, baristas, etc. have better de-escalation skills than any cop I've ever seen.
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a lot of people who have felt safe for a long time are suddenly subject to state violence and it’s good to admit what you’re feeling but this can’t freeze you into inaction. Black, Indigenous, disabled and trans people among others have been under siege in the US for a long time and are still here
the government is telling you not even unarmed nice white lady moms surrounded by stuffed animals are off limits, and I’m sorry but: that is an extremely terrifying.
January 8, 2026 at 9:27 PM
a lot of people who have felt safe for a long time are suddenly subject to state violence and it’s good to admit what you’re feeling but this can’t freeze you into inaction. Black, Indigenous, disabled and trans people among others have been under siege in the US for a long time and are still here
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**SPOTIFY, target of a long and strong boycott campaign from @indivisible.org has announced ICE recruitment ads are no longer running on their platform.
**Another boycott target, Avelo Airlines just halted deportation flights.
**Next Up: Citizens Bank.
variety.com/2026/digital...
**Another boycott target, Avelo Airlines just halted deportation flights.
**Next Up: Citizens Bank.
variety.com/2026/digital...
Spotify Confirms ICE Recruitment Ads Are No Longer Running on Platform
Spotify has confirimed that ICE recruitment ads are no longer running on its platform following criticism from last year.
variety.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:43 PM
**SPOTIFY, target of a long and strong boycott campaign from @indivisible.org has announced ICE recruitment ads are no longer running on their platform.
**Another boycott target, Avelo Airlines just halted deportation flights.
**Next Up: Citizens Bank.
variety.com/2026/digital...
**Another boycott target, Avelo Airlines just halted deportation flights.
**Next Up: Citizens Bank.
variety.com/2026/digital...
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If you're out observing ICE and need to use the bathroom, we're open from 11-6:30 and have three public restrooms. We've got a plunger and we know how to use it!
January 8, 2026 at 4:41 PM
If you're out observing ICE and need to use the bathroom, we're open from 11-6:30 and have three public restrooms. We've got a plunger and we know how to use it!
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A local (to me) Food Not Bombs here in Texas is starting a free clinic to support unhoused folks and others abandoned by the State. GOOD THINGS ARE HAPPENING TOO. And you can find the helpers to volunteer with or donate to in your area. Action > despair. Or do it while despairing; just do it.
January 8, 2026 at 7:20 PM
A local (to me) Food Not Bombs here in Texas is starting a free clinic to support unhoused folks and others abandoned by the State. GOOD THINGS ARE HAPPENING TOO. And you can find the helpers to volunteer with or donate to in your area. Action > despair. Or do it while despairing; just do it.
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Also: " Border Patrol officials also plan to send all nonlethal weapons housed in Chicago to Minnesota, according to the documents."
"The Department of Homeland Security plans to pause operations in Chicago — where Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol official, has led controversial arrest efforts — to support the immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota."
Trump Administration Deploying More Border Patrol Agents to Minnesota
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Also: " Border Patrol officials also plan to send all nonlethal weapons housed in Chicago to Minnesota, according to the documents."
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Times are tough, and some of my paid subscribers have had to cancel lately due to financial hardships. I get it, and I wish for better times for us all. Unfortunately, paid subscriptions are now dipping into unsustainable territory. I am hoping to get eight new paid subscribers before the new year.
Organizing My Thoughts
Kelly Hayes writes about things you should know if you want to change the world.
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December 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Times are tough, and some of my paid subscribers have had to cancel lately due to financial hardships. I get it, and I wish for better times for us all. Unfortunately, paid subscriptions are now dipping into unsustainable territory. I am hoping to get eight new paid subscribers before the new year.
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In the spirit of "it's important to go join the work, AND it's important to bring the work to where you are," I'll be facilitating a virtual discussion for ARTISTS, MUSICIANS, POETS, ETC. exploring how we can meaningfully contribute to the organizing happening now.
Tuesday, January 13. Register:
Tuesday, January 13. Register:
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: What Can Artists Do?. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
A virtual workshop for musicians, poets, and other artists to explore how we can meaningfully support movement work in this historical moment. There will be a special focus on (1) Minnesota and (2) an...
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January 8, 2026 at 7:34 PM
In the spirit of "it's important to go join the work, AND it's important to bring the work to where you are," I'll be facilitating a virtual discussion for ARTISTS, MUSICIANS, POETS, ETC. exploring how we can meaningfully contribute to the organizing happening now.
Tuesday, January 13. Register:
Tuesday, January 13. Register:
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protest in Boston tonight
January 8, 2026 at 7:20 PM
protest in Boston tonight
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"This is rather dramatic but lost in the general media turmoil over everything else - 🇺🇸 is withdrawing from 66 international organizations and treaties, most notably everything connected with climate change, democracy and rule of law."
www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Withdraws the United States from International Organizations that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
WITHDRAWING FROM INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum directing the withdrawal of the United
www.whitehouse.gov
January 8, 2026 at 3:10 PM
"This is rather dramatic but lost in the general media turmoil over everything else - 🇺🇸 is withdrawing from 66 international organizations and treaties, most notably everything connected with climate change, democracy and rule of law."
www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
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Chelsea’s Fund, a Wyoming org that helps pay for abortions, said that Tuesday’s decision affirms “that abortion is essential health care, and Wyoming women have a constitutional right and the freedom to make their own health care decisions, and that should be without government interference.”
Abortion-rights advocates cheer Wyoming Supreme Court ruling; opponents plan constitutional amendment
As a plaintiff in the 2022 lawsuit that kicked off years of legal sparring over Wyoming abortion rights, Dr. Giovannina Anthony had waited a long time for Tuesday’s Supreme Court decision on the state...
www.newsfromthestates.com
January 8, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Chelsea’s Fund, a Wyoming org that helps pay for abortions, said that Tuesday’s decision affirms “that abortion is essential health care, and Wyoming women have a constitutional right and the freedom to make their own health care decisions, and that should be without government interference.”
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Uhuhuh does anyone know a place that may be interested in a short essay about the Indigenous field workers in the borderlands/Rio Grande valley during the early 1900s? Specifically rooted in my family.
January 8, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Uhuhuh does anyone know a place that may be interested in a short essay about the Indigenous field workers in the borderlands/Rio Grande valley during the early 1900s? Specifically rooted in my family.
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Here is the fundraiser for Renee Good’s wife and son, from a very trusted source.
Donate to Support for Renee Good’s wife and son, organized by Mattie Weiss
Please support the wife and son of Renee Good as they grapple with the devastating … Mattie Weiss needs your support for Support for Renee Good’s wife and son
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January 8, 2026 at 2:18 AM
Here is the fundraiser for Renee Good’s wife and son, from a very trusted source.
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Can you accept - even w/o agreeing with all our positions - that Black people know profound truths about this country that are not on Schoolhouse Rock?
Now that the tactics they’ve used in our communities are becoming national policy, are you ready to concede that you need our “expertise” as well?
Now that the tactics they’ve used in our communities are becoming national policy, are you ready to concede that you need our “expertise” as well?
I’m glad to see Bill say this. But when after a century of just the type of abuse we saw today - relentless and cruel, ensnaring our children and intimidating our communities - young Black people said in frustration, anger, and demand for change “defund the police” - so many of you denounced them.
January 8, 2026 at 3:03 AM
Can you accept - even w/o agreeing with all our positions - that Black people know profound truths about this country that are not on Schoolhouse Rock?
Now that the tactics they’ve used in our communities are becoming national policy, are you ready to concede that you need our “expertise” as well?
Now that the tactics they’ve used in our communities are becoming national policy, are you ready to concede that you need our “expertise” as well?
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These systems that allow ICE to kill and terrorize communities come from settler colonial law. The same law that stole Indigenous land, and justified other violence, like stealing Indigenous children and putting them into Indian boarding/residential "schools" under the Doctrine of Discovery.
January 8, 2026 at 3:52 AM
These systems that allow ICE to kill and terrorize communities come from settler colonial law. The same law that stole Indigenous land, and justified other violence, like stealing Indigenous children and putting them into Indian boarding/residential "schools" under the Doctrine of Discovery.
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It was not "domestic terrorism.” It was state sanctioned violence.
A family will forever live with the pain caused by the admin's reckless and deadly actions.
Abolishing ICE is not enough. They must be held accountable.
A family will forever live with the pain caused by the admin's reckless and deadly actions.
Abolishing ICE is not enough. They must be held accountable.
Rep. Omar: Trump admin’s take on MN shooting is ‘delusional,’ ‘we’ve all seen the video’ | CNN
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar joins The Lead.
www.cnn.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:50 AM
It was not "domestic terrorism.” It was state sanctioned violence.
A family will forever live with the pain caused by the admin's reckless and deadly actions.
Abolishing ICE is not enough. They must be held accountable.
A family will forever live with the pain caused by the admin's reckless and deadly actions.
Abolishing ICE is not enough. They must be held accountable.
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Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power
- file impeachment articles every day in the House
- withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee
- be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable
- file impeachment articles every day in the House
- withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee
- be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable
January 8, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power
- file impeachment articles every day in the House
- withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee
- be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable
- file impeachment articles every day in the House
- withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee
- be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable
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“People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.” ― James Baldwin
January 4, 2026 at 4:39 PM
“People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.” ― James Baldwin
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People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
January 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM
People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
Grad school applications done!
January 2, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Grad school applications done!
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Today's newsletter: I read the Jack Smith transcript Republicans released on New Year's Eve so you don't have to. Here are 12 takeaways:
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House Republicans Buried the Jack Smith Transcript on New Year’s Eve. I Read It So You Don’t Have To.
12 takeaways from Smith's closed-door testimony
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January 1, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Today's newsletter: I read the Jack Smith transcript Republicans released on New Year's Eve so you don't have to. Here are 12 takeaways:
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Savings that were supposed to go to AC/heat repair spent on essentials so we re back to needing $995 for AC and heat motor repair. Still going to be owing on upcoming bills, if we can't get it met asap we stay in deficit.
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December 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM