Mary Vaneecke
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Artist/Craftivist
Founder of TheMourningProject.com
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Mary Vaneecke
@vaneecke.bsky.social
· Nov 18
The Mourning Project Installation Time-Lapse Video
YouTube video by Mary Vaneecke; Artist, Activist, Teacher
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#20000BabyBooties
#UnitedAgainstInfantMortality www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIqq.... This is the first installation in Tucson, AZ 2023.
#20000BabyBooties
#UnitedAgainstInfantMortality www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIqq.... This is the first installation in Tucson, AZ 2023.
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The poem 'Dangerous Coats' by contemporary Irish writer Sharon Owens #womensart
Home Office surveillance photograph of suffragette Olive Beamish, 1914
#WomensArt
Home Office surveillance photograph of suffragette Olive Beamish, 1914
#WomensArt
October 24, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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This only happens to you once
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This only happens to you once
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mRNA medicine is a miracle. We should be investing in it HARD as a country, not cutting it.
a new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
www.bbc.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
mRNA medicine is a miracle. We should be investing in it HARD as a country, not cutting it.
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Renown artist Theaster Gates is having his first solo exhibition in Chicago at the Smart Museum of Art on University of Chicago’s campus. It represents a turning point in his relationship to both his craft and his city.
Theaster Gates is an art world superstar. In Chicago, he finally gets his solo museum moment.
The artist, who has made a practice out of trafficking in "unwanted things," is having his first solo hometown exhibition at the Smart Museum of Art on University of Chicago’s campus.
trib.al
September 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Renown artist Theaster Gates is having his first solo exhibition in Chicago at the Smart Museum of Art on University of Chicago’s campus. It represents a turning point in his relationship to both his craft and his city.
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The Prado, national art gallery of Spain, founded in 1819, only hosted its first solo exhibition of a female artist's work in 2016, 17thc painter Clara Peeters (her work below), not untypical of many major galleries across the world....
#WomensArtHistory
#WomensArtHistory
September 19, 2025 at 5:05 AM
The Prado, national art gallery of Spain, founded in 1819, only hosted its first solo exhibition of a female artist's work in 2016, 17thc painter Clara Peeters (her work below), not untypical of many major galleries across the world....
#WomensArtHistory
#WomensArtHistory
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“The law doesn’t matter anymore” is obeying in advance.
I know it's frustrating when lawyers point out when something the administration is doing is not legal. But responding with "the law doesn't matter anymore" is really unhelpful and defeatist. Clarifying the law is important because it reminds us not to comply in advance and to resist and take action
September 19, 2025 at 2:21 AM
“The law doesn’t matter anymore” is obeying in advance.
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Commentary: This month, hundreds of Chicagoans will do something that would have been unthinkable a generation ago: Dive into the Chicago River for an organized open-water swim, the first since 1926.
Alaina Harkness: The once-polluted Chicago River now hosts open-water swims
The inaugural Chicago River Swim is a symbol of how far we’ve come toward treating urban rivers, not as scars but as veins.
trib.al
September 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Commentary: This month, hundreds of Chicagoans will do something that would have been unthinkable a generation ago: Dive into the Chicago River for an organized open-water swim, the first since 1926.
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Chicago. You have somewhere to be on Saturday.
Been working on this for weeks with a crew of badass organizers. It’s free. It’s all day. You will leave so very prepared to help protect your community.
www.eventbrite.com/e/free-chica...
Been working on this for weeks with a crew of badass organizers. It’s free. It’s all day. You will leave so very prepared to help protect your community.
www.eventbrite.com/e/free-chica...
Free Chicago Citywide Training - Sat. September 20th
Practical resistance training by and for community organizers to bolster local responses to ICE and possible Nat'l Guard incursions.
www.eventbrite.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Chicago. You have somewhere to be on Saturday.
Been working on this for weeks with a crew of badass organizers. It’s free. It’s all day. You will leave so very prepared to help protect your community.
www.eventbrite.com/e/free-chica...
Been working on this for weeks with a crew of badass organizers. It’s free. It’s all day. You will leave so very prepared to help protect your community.
www.eventbrite.com/e/free-chica...
According to oral tradition, Spider Woman taught the Navajo nation to build looms and weave. Diné weaving is encoded with meaning and is a much respected part of Navajo heritage #WomensArt
September 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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What happened to Charlie Kirk in Utah is horrific. You can completely reject his ideas and still recognize he’s a husband, father, and human being who shouldn’t have to fear being shot at a public event.
No one should. #GunReform
No one should. #GunReform
September 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
What happened to Charlie Kirk in Utah is horrific. You can completely reject his ideas and still recognize he’s a husband, father, and human being who shouldn’t have to fear being shot at a public event.
No one should. #GunReform
No one should. #GunReform
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"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." —Justice Sonia Sotomayor
September 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." —Justice Sonia Sotomayor
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The First Amendment protects our right to record ICE officers and law enforcement in public, whether Secretary Noem likes it or not.
DHS Claims Videotaping ICE Raids Is ‘Violence’
The expanded definition has justified assaults on journalists who have documented detentions of immigrants.
prospect.org
September 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The First Amendment protects our right to record ICE officers and law enforcement in public, whether Secretary Noem likes it or not.
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"Rising Sun" Quilt, 1825 - 1835 created by Mary Totten, born in 1781 in Staten Island, New York #WomensArt
September 9, 2025 at 2:34 AM
"Rising Sun" Quilt, 1825 - 1835 created by Mary Totten, born in 1781 in Staten Island, New York #WomensArt
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Yesterday's Supreme Court decision endangers our communities and subjects people to immigration stops simply because of the color of their skin, occupation, or the language they speak.
This fight isn't over. Our right to live free from racial profiling is fundamental.
This fight isn't over. Our right to live free from racial profiling is fundamental.
September 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Yesterday's Supreme Court decision endangers our communities and subjects people to immigration stops simply because of the color of their skin, occupation, or the language they speak.
This fight isn't over. Our right to live free from racial profiling is fundamental.
This fight isn't over. Our right to live free from racial profiling is fundamental.
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It is worth keeping in mind this morning that the feds are already here, embedded with your local police on task forces, doing illegal things to get information they want on the people of Illinois:
DEA agent used Illinois cop’s Flock license plate reader password for immigration enforcement searches
A federal Drug Enforcement Administration agent on a Chicago area task force used Palos Heights Detective Todd Hutchinson’s login credentials to perform unauthorized searches this past January. Group ...
unraveledpress.com
August 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It is worth keeping in mind this morning that the feds are already here, embedded with your local police on task forces, doing illegal things to get information they want on the people of Illinois:
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Bianca degli Utili Maselli surrounded by her five sons, one daughter, slightly dazed dog, & bird. Fantastic study in family resemblance & textile complementarity by Lavinia Fontana of Bologna. It’s her birthday.
August 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Bianca degli Utili Maselli surrounded by her five sons, one daughter, slightly dazed dog, & bird. Fantastic study in family resemblance & textile complementarity by Lavinia Fontana of Bologna. It’s her birthday.
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Dee Farmer filed suit in 1989 to stop the sexual and physical abuse she faced in prison. We took her case all the way to the Supreme Court, who unanimously ruled in her favor.
Tens of thousands of lawsuits have since cited the case when challenging cruel and unusual punishment in jails and prisons.
Tens of thousands of lawsuits have since cited the case when challenging cruel and unusual punishment in jails and prisons.
In Prison, She Changed Constitutional Law. Meet the Trans Woman Behind the Case.
In Farmer v. Brennan, Dee Farmer paved the road for tens of thousands of people to sue the government for a wide range of prison and jail issues.
www.themarshallproject.org
July 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Dee Farmer filed suit in 1989 to stop the sexual and physical abuse she faced in prison. We took her case all the way to the Supreme Court, who unanimously ruled in her favor.
Tens of thousands of lawsuits have since cited the case when challenging cruel and unusual punishment in jails and prisons.
Tens of thousands of lawsuits have since cited the case when challenging cruel and unusual punishment in jails and prisons.
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Born on this day in 1609, in Haarlem, Judith Leyster. Famed in her own day and in yours. Here, by herself, laughing along with her subject. Hope she didn't really wear a big white collar while painting!
July 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Born on this day in 1609, in Haarlem, Judith Leyster. Famed in her own day and in yours. Here, by herself, laughing along with her subject. Hope she didn't really wear a big white collar while painting!
A day to celebrate...
2/2 Just so you can admire it some more. A fantastic painting. Judith Leyster, born OTD 1609.
July 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
A day to celebrate...
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If anyone would like a pair of lovely, bonded, healthy 11 year old cats- delivered in the upper midwest/Chicagoland, let me know.
Due to an allergy issue and death in the family, friend needs to rehome -with all of their supplies. Absolute cuddle bugs, used to high rise living w older woman
Due to an allergy issue and death in the family, friend needs to rehome -with all of their supplies. Absolute cuddle bugs, used to high rise living w older woman
July 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
If anyone would like a pair of lovely, bonded, healthy 11 year old cats- delivered in the upper midwest/Chicagoland, let me know.
Due to an allergy issue and death in the family, friend needs to rehome -with all of their supplies. Absolute cuddle bugs, used to high rise living w older woman
Due to an allergy issue and death in the family, friend needs to rehome -with all of their supplies. Absolute cuddle bugs, used to high rise living w older woman
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People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
July 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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July 4. 250 years deep.
We’ve stumbled, we’ve crawled, we’ve risen.
Democracy isn’t flawless — it’s unfinished.
Patriotism means staying in the fight.
The ideal still matters.
Celebrate the experiment.
#NoKings #LibertyForAll
We’ve stumbled, we’ve crawled, we’ve risen.
Democracy isn’t flawless — it’s unfinished.
Patriotism means staying in the fight.
The ideal still matters.
Celebrate the experiment.
#NoKings #LibertyForAll
July 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
July 4. 250 years deep.
We’ve stumbled, we’ve crawled, we’ve risen.
Democracy isn’t flawless — it’s unfinished.
Patriotism means staying in the fight.
The ideal still matters.
Celebrate the experiment.
#NoKings #LibertyForAll
We’ve stumbled, we’ve crawled, we’ve risen.
Democracy isn’t flawless — it’s unfinished.
Patriotism means staying in the fight.
The ideal still matters.
Celebrate the experiment.
#NoKings #LibertyForAll