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Kyle Tran Myhre
@guante.info
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aka guante. he/him/his. poet, activist, etc. minneapolis. www.guante.info
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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · Jan 1
An intro: I'm a poet and performer; a lot of my actual work is visiting schools, colleges, etc. to use art as a doorway into dialogue—about power, agency, counter-narrative masculinity, and beyond.

Find my sci-fi poetry book, climate crisis concept album, booking info, and more: guante.info/latest
KTM/Guante performing at the Target Center in Minneapolis, under a spotlight, surrounded by a sea of people, with a projection of him up on a giant screen at the other end of the space.
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utranmyhre.bsky.social
I have a few ideas! @guante.info might have more too

All the Threads Between Us: The Power of Poetry Clubs, Writing Circles, Open Mics, and Other Collective Efforts (Zine) guante.info/2024/04/18/p...

Something to Share with Friends and Neighbors Asking “What Do We DO?”
guante.info/2025/03/04/a...
All the Threads Between Us: The Power of Poetry Clubs, Writing Circles, Open Mics, and Other Collective Efforts (Zine)
A collection of tips, tools, and resources for people looking to start poetry clubs, writing circles, or other collective efforts.
guante.info
November 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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cgsunit.bsky.social
"Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair." – bell hooks, from Talking about a Revolution

This quote and so many more from linked @guante.info zine 💜. Some folks need to remember to imagine a better future!
Hope Does Not Glimmer; It Burns: Quotes on Hope, Resistance & Possibility
A zine full of quotes on the concept of hope, compiled by Kyle "Guante" Tran Myhre
guante.info
November 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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utranmyhre.bsky.social
I'm a new contributor for the @feministbookclub.bsky.social and I wrote about when the pop culture we love lets us down - specifically, a certain lyric from Kpop Demon Hunters.
The animated characters from Kpop Demon Hunters on stage with their weapons, in the background is a poster of the same characters as their Kpop idol personas.
November 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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interruptcrim.bsky.social
New resource⚡️ Block it! Don’t Build It. Don’t Fill It. Don’t Fuel It.

A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine.

Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
Artwork by Monica Trinidad, featuring illustrated tan-colored text on a purple background: “Block It! Don't Build It. Don't Fill It. Don't Fuel It. How are YOU disrupting the ICE kidnapping, detention, & deportation machine?" In the middle are three rows of drawings in orange, tan, and black, depicting: a protest in front of a construction vehicle, transport vans and three Avelo Airlines planes, and hands holding and ripping apart money and a paper with "Palantir" on it.
November 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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utranmyhre.bsky.social
Whenever I wear my Free Them All rice bag shirt, people ask where I got it - now you can get your own and support the MN8 Deportation Defense & Relief Fund: www.bonfire.com/free-them-al...
Free Them All (Rice Bag) | Bonfire
This product's profits will be donated to the MN8 Deportation Defense & Relief Fund.. The MN8 Deportation Defense & Relief Fund aims to support Southeast Asians currently...
www.bonfire.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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tigerrsmm.bsky.social
Please consider donating to TIGERRS on Give to the Max Day! Our trans and intersex communities are huge, visible targets for fascists and we need your support more than ever. Link here and also in our bio 💜 givemn.org/organization...
#GiveToTheMaxDay
#GiveToTheMax
#Tigerrs
TIGERRS logo and white text on a blue and pink background. QR code to donate.
November 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
guante.info
My favorite genre of selfie. Spent monday teaching poetry classes at a high school, then tuesday facilitating a bunch of zine workshops at uw-eau claire.

Bring me to your school, college, conference, org meeting, festival, church, basement, spaceship, poetry slam, or whatever: guante.info/booking
a photo of KTM, wearing a mask, standing next to a printed-out Onion article with the headline "oh god, teacher arranged desks in giant circle" a photo of KTM, wearing a mask, next to a poster for an event called "zine-making for social justice - Tuesday, November 18"
November 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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buildingmovement.bsky.social
In honor of Alice Wong, we're sharing a clip from the Solidarity Is This podcast archives, where she talks about growing up as an Asian American kid in the Midwest and the roots of her activism as a disability justice organizer: www.instagram.com/p/DRNnWiHgW2g/
Building Movement Project on Instagram: "Alice Wong passed away on Friday, November 14, at the age of 51. In a message she composed and asked her friend Sandy to share at the time of her passing, Al...
In this powerful conversation, Alice Wong shares her journey as a disability justice activist, community organizer, and writer. Growing up as a disabled Asian American in the Midwest, she faced unique...
www.instagram.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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mauratwit.bsky.social
If you were in St Paul today, thank you.

We need more observers. There’s a thin line between protesting and observing. You don’t have to be on the front line!

If you see staging activity, call a response hotline! Describe what you see.

Resources and upcoming trainings here.
mauratwit.bsky.social Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social · Oct 19
Hey twin cities friends!

There’s a new website for the Mn Rapid Response network, now called Monarca.

It has the hotline to call if you see 🧊 activity as well as Know Your Rights information and lists upcoming community trainings.

A great resource. Please share widely!

monarcamn.org
Monarca
monarcamn.org
November 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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mspwhistles.bsky.social
Volunteers packaged hundreds of whistles tonight for Saint Paul and North Minneapolis deliveries.

Send us a DM if you need whistles for your community, and check out resources at bit.ly/mnresponse
Hundreds of plastic bags with zines and multicolored whistles sit in bins.
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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yourfriendnamee.bsky.social
Honored that my piece Moon Boots found the best home in @thesunmagazine.bsky.social

It's about the mayhem and magic of being a single mother. I hope you'll read it

www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/moo...
Moon Boots
Our baby could not yet hold his head up. I lay on my parents’ living room floor next to my son, wondering how I was going to afford and overcome everything by myself, thinking I was too clumsy to take...
www.thesunmagazine.org
October 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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rscspokenword.bsky.social
I donated. You should too.
guante.info Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 7d
Especially for friends and neighbors here in Minnesota: a call to proactively, intentionally, consistently show up for the kind of culture work + youth work + future-focused work that TruArtSpeaks does.

Please join me in donating before 11/20 to help get the 4x match: www.truartspeaks.org/donation
November 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Hey, I’m Trung! I’m a comic artist and author. Here are my books! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2192...
Angelica and the Bear Prince’s cover is blue featuring a dark-haired girl in a red cardigan and pink skirt holding hands with a blond non-binary person with short hair. The Magic Fish has a green cover fearing a young boy in tattered jacket reading a book. A mermaid is behind him.
November 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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utranmyhre.bsky.social
presenting the plot of Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
jessicacalarco.com Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 6d
If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
econmarshall.bsky.social Marshall Steinbaum @econmarshall.bsky.social · 7d
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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bringing this statement over from Alice’s Twitter. it appears the below was Alice’s last post before passing. I am heartbroken
This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.
November 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
guante.info
Especially for friends and neighbors here in Minnesota: a call to proactively, intentionally, consistently show up for the kind of culture work + youth work + future-focused work that TruArtSpeaks does.

Please join me in donating before 11/20 to help get the 4x match: www.truartspeaks.org/donation
November 14, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Here in MN, @releasemn8.bsky.social does important work with Southeast Asian communities, deportation defense, and more. They also have some of the best-designed merchandise of any movement org I've seen, and "every purchase goes directly towards the fight against deportation!" Shop:
Shop - Minnesota 8
minnesota8.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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yeah I think this album is as good as everyone is saying it is.

better.
ROSALÍA - Reliquia (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by RosaliaVEVO
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November 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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"...video shows a masked, helmeted man pointing a pepper-spray gun through his open window and firing into the car. A wave of a yellow-orange cloudy substance hits Veraza, 25, in the face. Herrera, 24, turned around to the backseat and saw their baby girl, Arianna Sofia, with her eyes screwed shut."
ckubzansky.bsky.social Caroline Kubzansky @ckubzansky.bsky.social · 12d
Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
Pepper-sprayed Berwyn family rattled after getting caught up in federal blitz
Southwest Side politicians condemned Saturday’s pepper spraying and the federal sweep of Little Village as “state-sponsored terrorism” at a news conference Sunday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 AM
guante.info
I’m working the @buttonpoetry.bsky.social table and signing books at the Twin Cities Book Festival this morning until 1pm or so. Got some free zine bundles too.
A photo of a masked KTM next to a sign that reads Button Poetry
November 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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justseeds.bsky.social
Submit your art to our Anti-ICE graphic care package! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
ABOLISH ICE call for art submissions: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScOQ6PBTXaNfozUEMWmRuuijQfuCktoQ3XHaeLo9cTr7VVbbA/viewform?pli=1
November 7, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.

Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
lyndab08.bsky.social Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 15d
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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lyndab08.bsky.social Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 15d
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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utranmyhre.bsky.social
I still get regular email updates from both Take Action and Black Visions and folks are still organizing with both groups.

www.instagram.com/blackvisions/

www.instagram.com/takeactionmn/
November 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM