Ekrem Serdar
@ekremserdar.bsky.social
Curator, art admin | Squeaky Wheel ( @squeakybuffalo.bsky.social )
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A brief batch of images from our current exhibition, Radiation Borders @squeakybuffalo.bsky.social , with work by Dion Smith-Dokkie, Elizabeth Tannie Lewin, Hanae Utamura, and Inas Halabi. On view through December 12. More info: squeaky.org/event/radiat...
October 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
A brief batch of images from our current exhibition, Radiation Borders @squeakybuffalo.bsky.social , with work by Dion Smith-Dokkie, Elizabeth Tannie Lewin, Hanae Utamura, and Inas Halabi. On view through December 12. More info: squeaky.org/event/radiat...
Opening next Friday, September 26: Happy to be presenting Radiation Borders, with work by Dion Smith-Dokkie, Elizabeth Tannie Lewin, Hanae Utamura, and Inas Halabi. The four artists in the exhibition trace the borders, and lives inside and outside of nuclear toxicity.
squeaky.org/event/radiat...
squeaky.org/event/radiat...
Radiation Borders
squeaky.org
September 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Opening next Friday, September 26: Happy to be presenting Radiation Borders, with work by Dion Smith-Dokkie, Elizabeth Tannie Lewin, Hanae Utamura, and Inas Halabi. The four artists in the exhibition trace the borders, and lives inside and outside of nuclear toxicity.
squeaky.org/event/radiat...
squeaky.org/event/radiat...
One of the books I'm most looking forward to this year.
September 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
One of the books I'm most looking forward to this year.
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We mourn the passing of Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim (1937–2025), whose fearless, unflinching works shaped generations of Arab literature. His voice endures.
We strongly recommend this piece via ArabLit, translated by Emily Drumsta.
We strongly recommend this piece via ArabLit, translated by Emily Drumsta.
Remembering Sonallah Ibrahim: His ‘Arsène Lupin’
Sonallah Ibrahim died this week at the age of 88. His "Arsène Lupin," originally written in the al-Wahat Prison Camp, Western Desert, Egypt, in 1963, appeared in translation in the Summer 2020 CRIME issue of ArabLit Quarterly.
Sonallah Ibrahim died this week at the age of 88. His "Arsène Lupin," originally written in the al-Wahat Prison Camp, Western Desert, Egypt, in 1963, appeared in translation in the Summer 2020 CRIME issue of ArabLit Quarterly.
Remembering Sonallah Ibrahim: His ‘Arsène Lupin’
Sonallah Ibrahim died this week at the age of 88. His "Arsène Lupin," originally written in the al-Wahat Prison Camp, Western Desert, Egypt, in 1963, appeared in translation in the Summer 2020 CRIME issue of ArabLit Quarterly.
arablit.org
August 22, 2025 at 9:17 AM
We mourn the passing of Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim (1937–2025), whose fearless, unflinching works shaped generations of Arab literature. His voice endures.
We strongly recommend this piece via ArabLit, translated by Emily Drumsta.
We strongly recommend this piece via ArabLit, translated by Emily Drumsta.
Reposted by Ekrem Serdar
We will soon be accepting applications for the Spring 2026 session of our Workspace Residency! Learn more at the link to learn more, and get your applications ready: squeaky.org/workspace-residency
Workspace Residency is supported in part by Teiger Foundation.
Workspace Residency is supported in part by Teiger Foundation.
August 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
We will soon be accepting applications for the Spring 2026 session of our Workspace Residency! Learn more at the link to learn more, and get your applications ready: squeaky.org/workspace-residency
Workspace Residency is supported in part by Teiger Foundation.
Workspace Residency is supported in part by Teiger Foundation.
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Join us for the Documentary Audit Book Launch! September 19, 6PM at NYU's Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway. Register here to attend in person or on Zoom: tisch.nyu.edu/cinema-studi... With special guests Lakshmi Padmanabhan, Jordan Lord, and LaCharles Ward.
Book Event: THE DOCUMENTARY AUDIT
How does listening in documentary become a proxy for justice—and what other kinds of listening might be possible?
tisch.nyu.edu
August 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Join us for the Documentary Audit Book Launch! September 19, 6PM at NYU's Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway. Register here to attend in person or on Zoom: tisch.nyu.edu/cinema-studi... With special guests Lakshmi Padmanabhan, Jordan Lord, and LaCharles Ward.
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#SneakPeek 👀 @carolinaebeid.bsky.social's HIDE—a reinvention of visual poetry and personal history charting exile’s impact on memory, identity, and futurity—is out March 3, 2026.
Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/hide...
Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/hide...
August 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
#SneakPeek 👀 @carolinaebeid.bsky.social's HIDE—a reinvention of visual poetry and personal history charting exile’s impact on memory, identity, and futurity—is out March 3, 2026.
Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/hide...
Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/hide...
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The Amistad Research Center, one of the largest repositories of Black history, cut half its staff after the Trump administration ended four federal grants
60-year-old Black history archive faces uncertain future after federal cuts
The Amistad Research Center, one of largest repositories of Black history, cut half its staff after the Trump administration ended four federal grants.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The Amistad Research Center, one of the largest repositories of Black history, cut half its staff after the Trump administration ended four federal grants
For international consistency sake, it does make me happy to hear US lefties embrace “liberal” as an insult.
July 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
For international consistency sake, it does make me happy to hear US lefties embrace “liberal” as an insult.
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Israel brutally detaining Gaza hospital director as ‘bargaining chip,’ says lawyer
Held without charge for 7 months, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has been beaten, starved, isolated, and cut off from his family. His freedom is nowhere in sight.
Interview by Shatha Yaish
www.972mag.com/hussam-abu-s...
Held without charge for 7 months, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has been beaten, starved, isolated, and cut off from his family. His freedom is nowhere in sight.
Interview by Shatha Yaish
www.972mag.com/hussam-abu-s...
Israel brutally detaining Gaza hospital director as ‘bargaining chip'
Held without charge for 7 months, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has been beaten, starved, isolated, and cut off from his family. His freedom is nowhere in sight.
www.972mag.com
July 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Israel brutally detaining Gaza hospital director as ‘bargaining chip,’ says lawyer
Held without charge for 7 months, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has been beaten, starved, isolated, and cut off from his family. His freedom is nowhere in sight.
Interview by Shatha Yaish
www.972mag.com/hussam-abu-s...
Held without charge for 7 months, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has been beaten, starved, isolated, and cut off from his family. His freedom is nowhere in sight.
Interview by Shatha Yaish
www.972mag.com/hussam-abu-s...
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Outward portents and inward presentiments
July 10, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Outward portents and inward presentiments
I forget current fascist aesthetics sometimes, and am taken aback when someone who looks like they went on tour with the Disco Biscuits starts spouting qanon
July 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I forget current fascist aesthetics sometimes, and am taken aback when someone who looks like they went on tour with the Disco Biscuits starts spouting qanon
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A reminder that Dr. @shannonmattern.bsky.social announced her resignation from this awful place just yesterday. I’ll link to what she had to say about it. Imagine what went unsaid.
This is a dramatic understatement of what UPenn agree to. They are also banning any and all Title IX protections for trans students and agreeing that trans people don't actually exist.
July 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A reminder that Dr. @shannonmattern.bsky.social announced her resignation from this awful place just yesterday. I’ll link to what she had to say about it. Imagine what went unsaid.
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zohran winning is satisfying but not as satisfying as my archnemesis the nyt once again being WRONG AS FUCK
June 25, 2025 at 2:20 AM
zohran winning is satisfying but not as satisfying as my archnemesis the nyt once again being WRONG AS FUCK
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Bill Clinton’s just chilling in his living room, watching ICE kidnappings on tv, when the sex pest election trouble alarm goes off in his kitchen. “Not cuomo,” he says to himself. “Not another member of the brotherhood”
June 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Bill Clinton’s just chilling in his living room, watching ICE kidnappings on tv, when the sex pest election trouble alarm goes off in his kitchen. “Not cuomo,” he says to himself. “Not another member of the brotherhood”
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i am deeply troubled by the media’s reluctance to cover the rise of conversion therapy activism in the U.S. and hope that future coverage of this ruling focuses on how it could further popularize what some U.S. states and other countries consider to be cruel and inhumane treatments
OHCHR | Report on conversion therapy
"Conversion therapy" is an umbrella term used to describe interventions of a wide-ranging nature, all of which have in common the belief that a person's sexual orientation or gender identity can and s...
www.ohchr.org
June 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM
i am deeply troubled by the media’s reluctance to cover the rise of conversion therapy activism in the U.S. and hope that future coverage of this ruling focuses on how it could further popularize what some U.S. states and other countries consider to be cruel and inhumane treatments
2003 was mostly rage walks but I’m 41 now, so it’s mostly crying
June 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
2003 was mostly rage walks but I’m 41 now, so it’s mostly crying
Absolutely refusing to learn why they’re calling him taco
June 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Absolutely refusing to learn why they’re calling him taco
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RIP to the great Flo Jacobs, may her memory be a blessing to us all
June 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
RIP to the great Flo Jacobs, may her memory be a blessing to us all
This program is now online through June 6. Hope you enjoy!
Houston friends, online friends, this Fri and Sat and next week: I had the great pleasure of curating this edition of Aurora Picture Show's Extremely Shorts Film Festival. I had a lovely time curating the 30 brief films of funny, piercing, moving work.
www.aurorapictureshow.org/programs/ext...
www.aurorapictureshow.org/programs/ext...
Extremely Shorts Film Festival 2025 — AURORA PICTURE SHOW
Aurora’s annual showcase of contemporary short films (3 minutes or shorter), the 28th annual Extremely Shorts will screen May 30-31, with some participating filmmakers in attendance and receptions…
www.aurorapictureshow.org
June 2, 2025 at 3:10 AM
This program is now online through June 6. Hope you enjoy!
Houston friends, online friends, this Fri and Sat and next week: I had the great pleasure of curating this edition of Aurora Picture Show's Extremely Shorts Film Festival. I had a lovely time curating the 30 brief films of funny, piercing, moving work.
www.aurorapictureshow.org/programs/ext...
www.aurorapictureshow.org/programs/ext...
Extremely Shorts Film Festival 2025 — AURORA PICTURE SHOW
Aurora’s annual showcase of contemporary short films (3 minutes or shorter), the 28th annual Extremely Shorts will screen May 30-31, with some participating filmmakers in attendance and receptions…
www.aurorapictureshow.org
May 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Houston friends, online friends, this Fri and Sat and next week: I had the great pleasure of curating this edition of Aurora Picture Show's Extremely Shorts Film Festival. I had a lovely time curating the 30 brief films of funny, piercing, moving work.
www.aurorapictureshow.org/programs/ext...
www.aurorapictureshow.org/programs/ext...
Reposted by Ekrem Serdar
“All of my favourite artists are people who think about everything — there's no aspect of expression and the way that it could be received that isn't considered. jes was one of those 'everything' artists.”
🙏 to Chris Hampton for commissioning this text about jes sachse:
www.cbc.ca/arts/remembe...
🙏 to Chris Hampton for commissioning this text about jes sachse:
www.cbc.ca/arts/remembe...
Remembering jes sachse: disability activist, artist and maker of good trouble | CBC Arts
Friend and collaborator Gabrielle Moser reflects on the late Toronto artist who approached life and work with 'radical freedom.' They died earlier this month at the age of 40.
www.cbc.ca
May 24, 2025 at 7:25 AM
“All of my favourite artists are people who think about everything — there's no aspect of expression and the way that it could be received that isn't considered. jes was one of those 'everything' artists.”
🙏 to Chris Hampton for commissioning this text about jes sachse:
www.cbc.ca/arts/remembe...
🙏 to Chris Hampton for commissioning this text about jes sachse:
www.cbc.ca/arts/remembe...
Very happy to share that @squeakybuffalo.bsky.social, with artist Anna Scime and scientist Neil Patterson J, has been selected as one of the 15 cohorts for the Open Interval Program, part of the Simons Foundation's Science, Society & Culture division. www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/05/19/n...
New Open Interval Cohort Will Explore Symmetry Through Art and Science
New Open Interval Cohort Will Explore Symmetry Through Art and Science on Simons Foundation
www.simonsfoundation.org
May 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Very happy to share that @squeakybuffalo.bsky.social, with artist Anna Scime and scientist Neil Patterson J, has been selected as one of the 15 cohorts for the Open Interval Program, part of the Simons Foundation's Science, Society & Culture division. www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/05/19/n...
One of the books I’m most excited for this year
I reviewed Maya Abu Al-Hayyat’s extraordinary novel for the Whitney Review
May 18, 2025 at 2:54 AM
One of the books I’m most excited for this year