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Michaela holds a copy of Joanna Ruocco’s novel DAN — the cover includes the title and author’s name in white all-caps, a vintage wooden television console with tv screening a woman in a pool with a striped beach ball and inner tube, all set atop an image of a forested mountain valley. Michaela is on the train.
August 12, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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most of the time I forget I have Bluesky (is this healing?) but rn I’m here to brag
Michaela holds a Brooklyn Public Library card and mini keychain card, the former a dark grey crowd shot with sea foam text “2024 WNBA Champions” and the latter featuring NY Liberty mascot Ellie the Elephant holding a trophy up in her Statue of Liberty crown and jersey. An orange Zohran pin is visible on the butcher block below where Michaela holds the cards.
July 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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left it all on the pavement at the closing shift for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social in Jackson Heights tonight 😭🥺😭 excited for my teen homie who showed up to the wrong poll site at 8:58pm to vote for Z in November 😭❤️
Clear Nalgene water bottle, black lanyard, and blue and red Zohran for NYC flyers laid out on the concrete sidewalk
June 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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these days I'm trying to focus on what I'm grateful for
a homemade meme featuring an MTA bus making a turn on a sunlit street. atop the bus, I've typed "They could never make me hate u" in yellow italic Helvetica and drawn magenta hearts
February 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Excerpt from Russo’s speech; white text on black background: “So, if I'm dying from anything, I'm dying from homophobia. If I'm dying from anything, I'm dying from racism. If I'm dying from anything, it's from indifference and red tape, because these are the things that are preventing an end to this crisis. If I'm dying from anything, I'm dying from Jesse Helms. If I'm dying from anything, I'm dying from the President of the United States. And, especially, if I'm dying from anything, l'm dying from the sensationalism of newspapers and magazines and television shows, which are interested in me, as a human interest story -- only as long as I'm willing to be a helpless victim, but not if I'm fighting for my life.”
February 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Natalia Ginzburg
Photo of black text on off white page, from Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg: “I, too, thought the poem with the black schists beautiful and was consumed with envy not to have written it myself. It was simple. Green pastures, black schists. I'd seen those things myself so many times in the mountains, but it had never occurred to me that I could do something with them. All I had done was observe them. That's what poems were then, simple and made of nothing, made of things that you observed. I looked around me with watchful eyes. I looked for things that could be like those black schists, those green pastures, and made sure that this time no one would take them away from me.”
December 26, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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Nikki Giovanni
Excerpt from Nikki Giovanni’s website: “I was asked to do a biography so this is it. I am 71 years old. I highly recommend old age; it's fun. I have been awarded an unprecedented 7 NAACP Image Awards which makes me very very proud. I have been nominated for a Grammy; been a finalist for the National Book Award. I am very proud to have authored 3 New York Times and Los Angeles Times Best Sellers, highly unusual for a poet. I am a University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech. I don't have a lot of friends but I have good ones. I have a son and a granddaughter. My father, mother, sister and middle aunt are all deceased literarily making me go from being the baby in the family to being an elder. I like to cook, travel and dream. I'm a writer. I'm happy.”
December 10, 2024 at 4:28 AM
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ACT UP meeting in the Great Hall at Cooper Union, March 1992. Just before Bob Rafsky recounts confronting Bill Clinton: “I’m dying of AIDS and you’re dying of ambition.” Footage by Tony Arena / part of the ACT UP Oral History Project — www.actuporalhistory.org/actions/act-...
ACT UP activists dressed in ironic patriotic garb holding signs that say “Fight AIDS” and similar statements stand in the white pillared Great Hall at The Cooper Union.
December 1, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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A very nice book
Michaela holds a copy of Being Here is Everything: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker. An early expressionist self-portrait of Modersohn-Becker fills the cover. She stares out with dark pupils, amber necklace, red hair parted in the middle with pieces in the front hanging down. The background are purple lilies against green. Photo of text from a page in the book. “A twenty-five-year-old woman paints a girl who is becoming a woman. A young married woman paints a very young married woman. What they share remains silent. Time is reverberating. The sun is always shrouded in these paintings. Here, in this place, outside, in the woods and in the fields, is the fuzzy presence, muffled but powerful, of young human beings alive in the world. It's not about what young girls are dreaming, but what they are thinking. Martha Vogeler, escaped from one of her husband's paintings, Pre-Raphaelite daisies in her hair, wearing a sky-blue tunic, holding a vase in her hands. This serious, slightly hieratic pose, the gaze off into the distance, will be Paula's style from now on: a solemn young girl carrying an object as an offering. Nothing exalted, no awkward-ness, no deliberate eroticism. There is no anguish or secrecy in these worlds — these are worlds of thought.”
December 1, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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the only living girl in New York unhappy about the rain
Scruffy umber and white dog in chartreuse harness cowers on a wet leafy sidewalk.
November 21, 2024 at 3:17 PM
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thinking of Pauli Murray today, their birthday
Pauli Murray in work shirt and pants stands on grass with their dog in front of an academic or church building. Pauli is smiling.
November 21, 2024 at 12:34 AM
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header image is Ruth Nazario — LES tenants’ rights organizer & sweat equity co-op member — Untitled, 1982. An imagined neighborhood block party composite / solar panels generating power from the roof / people dance and read poetry and talk, weaving in out and around a geodesic dome 🌐
Painting by Ruth Nazario: NYC’s Twin Towers frame a snippet of the Lower East Side, where a block party takes place between brick buildings. Neighbors chat and dance on the street, which houses a geodesic dome in the middle. the East River and beyond are visible in the background. Zoom in on same painting by Ruth Nazario: a snippet of the Lower East Side, where a block party takes place between multicolored brick buildings. Neighbors chat and dance on the street, which houses a geodesic dome in the middle. the East River and beyond are visible in the background.
November 15, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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Grayish brown text against a cream-colored background; a screenshot from an interview between Siobhan Burke and Gillian Walsh. "Siobhan Burke: What is a dream dance? Gillian Walsh: The first day, I asked everyone to take time to think about what their dream performance would be, their fantasy performance. Every single thing about it, every detail. Like, is it at night? In the day? Are you in the center? Are you even onstage? Did you make it? Is it cold out? Is it on film? Are you dancing? Are you singing? Can I see your face? Are you playing the guitar? Who’s watching you? How are they watching you? Maybe you know what you're doing, maybe you don't."
November 14, 2024 at 10:08 PM