Paul Soulellis
@soulellis.com
Artist-publisher-writer. Founding member/organizer Queer.Archive.Work. Faculty RISD Graphic Design. he/him. @soulellis everywhere. Providence, RI
so apparently this symbol from a Japanese manga called One Piece has become the flag of the Gen Z protests? has it been seen in the US at all?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
‘A symbol of liberation’: how the One Piece manga flag became the symbol of Asia’s gen Z protest movement
Carried by a band of pirates that stand up to corrupt and repressive rulers, the meaning of the One Piece flag has resonated across borders
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
so apparently this symbol from a Japanese manga called One Piece has become the flag of the Gen Z protests? has it been seen in the US at all?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
is this the first product from the national design studio? trying to track how gebbia’s “apple store experience” design ethos gets eaten up by techno-fascism and regurgitated into 80s–90s-style ad campaign trash
September 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
is this the first product from the national design studio? trying to track how gebbia’s “apple store experience” design ethos gets eaten up by techno-fascism and regurgitated into 80s–90s-style ad campaign trash
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In today's "fighting antisemitism" news, Cornell has suspended a Jewish professor and cancelled his classes because they disagreed with his political views
Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint
Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.
www.thenation.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
In today's "fighting antisemitism" news, Cornell has suspended a Jewish professor and cancelled his classes because they disagreed with his political views
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Under pressure from Texas government officials, Angelo State University in Texas is banning all discussion or mention of the existence of trans people along with banning the LGBTQ pride flag from campus and forced misgendering of trans people.
conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...
conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...
September 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Under pressure from Texas government officials, Angelo State University in Texas is banning all discussion or mention of the existence of trans people along with banning the LGBTQ pride flag from campus and forced misgendering of trans people.
conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...
conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...
the president of the university resigned, the dean, the dept head, and the professor have all been fired or put on leave, meanwhile, there’s no law in TX that gender can’t be taught in a classroom
The new reality that is emerging in Texas is that certain topics or ideas are simply off the table in the classroom.
The censorship of academic speech and entire fields of knowledge in service to an ideology poses an unprecedented danger to the future of higher education.
#AcademicFreedom
The censorship of academic speech and entire fields of knowledge in service to an ideology poses an unprecedented danger to the future of higher education.
#AcademicFreedom
How a secret recording of a gender identity lecture upended Texas A&M
Officials have struggled to detail the exact reasons for the A&M professor’s termination, citing a technical issue with her course description. Faculty say the move was politically motivated.
www.texastribune.org
September 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
the president of the university resigned, the dean, the dept head, and the professor have all been fired or put on leave, meanwhile, there’s no law in TX that gender can’t be taught in a classroom
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Essential resource.
Also: it would help greatly if BlueSky allowed users to lock their accounts.
Also: it would help greatly if BlueSky allowed users to lock their accounts.
The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...
Advisory to Academic Workers
In a moment when it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the consequences of our online speech and choices, the AAUP and Faculty First Responders are issuing guidance to AAUP members and othe...
www.aaup.org
September 17, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Essential resource.
Also: it would help greatly if BlueSky allowed users to lock their accounts.
Also: it would help greatly if BlueSky allowed users to lock their accounts.
unfathomable
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move
Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM
unfathomable
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
www.kbtx.com
September 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
this is real chaos for small businesses: overnight, shipping to the US became impossible. the small publisher I’m working with in Portugal suddenly has to totally reimagine their business or else forfeit the entire US market
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
U.S. shoppers' orders canceled as world shuts down some American-bound shipments
The end of the “de minimis” exemption for cheap parcel shipments, nearly a century old, is prompting countries everywhere to suspend shipments to the U.S.
www.nbcnews.com
September 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM
this is real chaos for small businesses: overnight, shipping to the US became impossible. the small publisher I’m working with in Portugal suddenly has to totally reimagine their business or else forfeit the entire US market
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
I love this story of a handwritten community newspaper and how its founder manages to keep it going
www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
‘Our story’: A day in the life of a handwritten newspaper in Bangladesh
Hasan and his team of reporters juggle day jobs as labourers and seamstresses to report on their remote community.
www.aljazeera.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I love this story of a handwritten community newspaper and how its founder manages to keep it going
www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
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1. My newest Anti-Trans Legal Risk Map is here.
Risk has increased sharply for youth in many states as clinics shutter under Trump and state AGs refuse to enforce civil rights laws.
For adults, some increases in risk.
Nationwide risk remains extreme.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
Risk has increased sharply for youth in many states as clinics shutter under Trump and state AGs refuse to enforce civil rights laws.
For adults, some increases in risk.
Nationwide risk remains extreme.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
August 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
1. My newest Anti-Trans Legal Risk Map is here.
Risk has increased sharply for youth in many states as clinics shutter under Trump and state AGs refuse to enforce civil rights laws.
For adults, some increases in risk.
Nationwide risk remains extreme.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
Risk has increased sharply for youth in many states as clinics shutter under Trump and state AGs refuse to enforce civil rights laws.
For adults, some increases in risk.
Nationwide risk remains extreme.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
Looking at these ridiculous images that the US Dept of Labor is posting over on X and questioning how to teach graphic design anymore
September 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Looking at these ridiculous images that the US Dept of Labor is posting over on X and questioning how to teach graphic design anymore
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“maybe it will happen today” - early 21st century american proverb
August 30, 2025 at 12:12 AM
“maybe it will happen today” - early 21st century american proverb
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No, you're not ineligible for the vaccine. Let me introduce you to the concept of lying.
August 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
No, you're not ineligible for the vaccine. Let me introduce you to the concept of lying.
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I wrote about the administration’s “national design studio,” and how its shoddy construction isn’t a mistake. It’s a clear signal of priorities, and ones we need to actively, urgently rebuke. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-noti...
I wrote about the administration’s “national design studio,” and how its shoddy construction isn’t a mistake. It’s a clear signal of priorities, and ones we need to actively, urgently rebuke. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-noti...
A notional design studio. — ethanmarcotte.com
A design language, if you can keep it.
ethanmarcotte.com
August 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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I wrote about the administration’s “national design studio,” and how its shoddy construction isn’t a mistake. It’s a clear signal of priorities, and ones we need to actively, urgently rebuke. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-noti...
I wrote about the administration’s “national design studio,” and how its shoddy construction isn’t a mistake. It’s a clear signal of priorities, and ones we need to actively, urgently rebuke. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-noti...
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Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social
August 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social
National Design Studio has a site now, a single webpage to direct to American by Design, which seems to be all about going beyond what Nixon did
ndstudio.gov
ndstudio.gov
National Design Studio
The National Design Studio is leading the America by Design initiative working to improve how Americans experience their government.
ndstudio.gov
August 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
National Design Studio has a site now, a single webpage to direct to American by Design, which seems to be all about going beyond what Nixon did
ndstudio.gov
ndstudio.gov
Come!Unity Press in the documentary The Disappearance of Shere Hite / recently learned that she printed her famous questionnaire there, also found this photo of her printing with Mercure in a 1978 issue of Off Our Backs
August 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Come!Unity Press in the documentary The Disappearance of Shere Hite / recently learned that she printed her famous questionnaire there, also found this photo of her printing with Mercure in a 1978 issue of Off Our Backs
Just submitted manuscript 1.0 to the publisher, and even though it needs *so much work* it feels good, like something happened
August 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Just submitted manuscript 1.0 to the publisher, and even though it needs *so much work* it feels good, like something happened
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
the latest from homeland security
August 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
the latest from homeland security
I shouldn’t be surprised but the comments, they’re just so terrible. they’re particularly bad. I wish there were more places for nuanced design discourse
www.dezeen.com/2025/08/07/c...
www.dezeen.com/2025/08/07/c...
"We must confront design's colonial inheritance"
For design to become truly sustainable in the face of rapid climate change we must first acknowledge its ties to colonialism, writes Céline Semaan.
www.dezeen.com
August 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I shouldn’t be surprised but the comments, they’re just so terrible. they’re particularly bad. I wish there were more places for nuanced design discourse
www.dezeen.com/2025/08/07/c...
www.dezeen.com/2025/08/07/c...
trying something new for me, a performance. will go like this: an activation of an archive outdoors with a live audience, titled notes on transmission for live voice and circulation, and to say i’m nervous is an understatement, but also thrilling, just trying to push thru it
August 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
trying something new for me, a performance. will go like this: an activation of an archive outdoors with a live audience, titled notes on transmission for live voice and circulation, and to say i’m nervous is an understatement, but also thrilling, just trying to push thru it