Michelle ✧˚ · .
@michelleruiz.bsky.social
Design Researcher with a Social Innovation MA. 🇪🇨🇲🇽🇺🇸
she/her/ella
CHI → LDN
she/her/ella
CHI → LDN
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I’m at the combination Pizza Hut and Kennedy Center.
December 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I’m at the combination Pizza Hut and Kennedy Center.
Cannot stop listening to Sessa’s new album. Brazilian psych-y lush swaying goodness. And hey look he’s on Bandcamp!
sessa.bandcamp.com/album/pequen...
sessa.bandcamp.com/album/pequen...
Pequena Vertigem de Amor, by Sessa
9 track album
sessa.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Cannot stop listening to Sessa’s new album. Brazilian psych-y lush swaying goodness. And hey look he’s on Bandcamp!
sessa.bandcamp.com/album/pequen...
sessa.bandcamp.com/album/pequen...
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“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
Interactive AIDS Quilt
The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 48,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience People around the world can experie...
www.aidsmemorial.org
December 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
A lovely morning being in community, making banners with the Protest Banner Lending Library’s stop in London.
November 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
A lovely morning being in community, making banners with the Protest Banner Lending Library’s stop in London.
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Fuck me this slaps.
"Join ICE" - Jesse Welles (LIVE on The Late Show)
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Fuck me this slaps.
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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
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."
About time for a Mira Nair films rewatch?
November 5, 2025 at 11:57 AM
About time for a Mira Nair films rewatch?
New fave seasonal image. 💀
“Calavera de artesanos” by José Guadalupe Posada from The Met’s collection, 1892.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
“Calavera de artesanos” by José Guadalupe Posada from The Met’s collection, 1892.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
October 31, 2025 at 10:41 AM
New fave seasonal image. 💀
“Calavera de artesanos” by José Guadalupe Posada from The Met’s collection, 1892.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
“Calavera de artesanos” by José Guadalupe Posada from The Met’s collection, 1892.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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This Halloween I’m roasting a mini pumpkin and listening to a fave spooky (but no TOO spooky) album by Broadcast and The Focus Group. 🧙🎃 open.spotify.com/album/6LjY0v...
Broadcast And The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age
Broadcast · Album · 2009 · 23 songs
open.spotify.com
October 31, 2024 at 6:04 PM
This Halloween I’m roasting a mini pumpkin and listening to a fave spooky (but no TOO spooky) album by Broadcast and The Focus Group. 🧙🎃 open.spotify.com/album/6LjY0v...
Love this! Last year Vasilis kindly shared some of his favorite books with me for my lil Instagram books x designers project. Very nice dude. www.instagram.com/p/C4plqOYNJd...
For the New York Times, I talked to Vasilis Marmatakis, the Greek artist behind the unique posters for Yorgos Lanthimos’ brilliantly bizarre films starting with DOGTOOTH, and for every film since, including his latest, BUGONIA: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/m...
October 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Love this! Last year Vasilis kindly shared some of his favorite books with me for my lil Instagram books x designers project. Very nice dude. www.instagram.com/p/C4plqOYNJd...
Checked out the very interesting maps of Ursula K Le Guin exhibition yesterday at the AA Gallery. She would often draw maps before she wrote the book!
October 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Checked out the very interesting maps of Ursula K Le Guin exhibition yesterday at the AA Gallery. She would often draw maps before she wrote the book!
When Human Rights Watch even has to take notice of what’s happening in the Chicago area.
NEW: @homelandgov.bsky.social federal agents have used excessive force against protesters, medics, legal observers, and journalists at numerous protests outside a US ICE facility in Illinois.
This isn’t crowd control but a campaign of intimidation.
Congress must act. https://bit.ly/476v5uS
This isn’t crowd control but a campaign of intimidation.
Congress must act. https://bit.ly/476v5uS
October 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
When Human Rights Watch even has to take notice of what’s happening in the Chicago area.
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When I was younger, I thought one day maybe I'll go to a bar all the time and the bartender will know my order. Never happened. But today the pharmacist looked at me and said, we got your order, hold on. Not the way I imagined this moment at all.
October 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
When I was younger, I thought one day maybe I'll go to a bar all the time and the bartender will know my order. Never happened. But today the pharmacist looked at me and said, we got your order, hold on. Not the way I imagined this moment at all.
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🌟 New release!
Love & Lightning is a collection of manifestos with a queer, feminist or queer-feminist perspective. Discover how the manifestos jump across time and space, and sometimes even outside of it.
This book is in collaboration with Girls Like Us Magazine.
🛒 👉 valiz.nl/en/publicati...
Love & Lightning is a collection of manifestos with a queer, feminist or queer-feminist perspective. Discover how the manifestos jump across time and space, and sometimes even outside of it.
This book is in collaboration with Girls Like Us Magazine.
🛒 👉 valiz.nl/en/publicati...
October 15, 2025 at 9:04 AM
🌟 New release!
Love & Lightning is a collection of manifestos with a queer, feminist or queer-feminist perspective. Discover how the manifestos jump across time and space, and sometimes even outside of it.
This book is in collaboration with Girls Like Us Magazine.
🛒 👉 valiz.nl/en/publicati...
Love & Lightning is a collection of manifestos with a queer, feminist or queer-feminist perspective. Discover how the manifestos jump across time and space, and sometimes even outside of it.
This book is in collaboration with Girls Like Us Magazine.
🛒 👉 valiz.nl/en/publicati...
All this talk about French jewel thieves makes me think it’s a good time to rewatch Jules Dassin’s great “Rififi.”
October 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
All this talk about French jewel thieves makes me think it’s a good time to rewatch Jules Dassin’s great “Rififi.”
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Happening now: Here’s a view of the “No Kings” protest in Washington, DC
October 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Happening now: Here’s a view of the “No Kings” protest in Washington, DC
One of my favorite live performances from D’Angelo. What a beautiful song.
youtu.be/CEph_2Qx-7Q?...
youtu.be/CEph_2Qx-7Q?...
D'Angelo, The Vanguard - Really Love (Live on SNL)
YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO
youtu.be
October 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
One of my favorite live performances from D’Angelo. What a beautiful song.
youtu.be/CEph_2Qx-7Q?...
youtu.be/CEph_2Qx-7Q?...
One Battle after Another 🫨😮💨🥴🫠
October 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
One Battle after Another 🫨😮💨🥴🫠
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The frogs have landed in Chicago!
October 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The frogs have landed in Chicago!
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Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela
Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.
www.theatlantic.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
There are so many tickets for the London run of “Oh, Mary!” which has me confused but also okay with since I already snapped mine up.
October 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
There are so many tickets for the London run of “Oh, Mary!” which has me confused but also okay with since I already snapped mine up.
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‘Like James Baldwin, she thought social revolution required a reckoning of all relationships, including the individual’s relationship to herself.’
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@keeanga.bsky.social) on Audre Lorde: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@keeanga.bsky.social) on Audre Lorde: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor · I do not have to be you: Audre Lorde’s Legacy
Lorde never had to persuade her comrades about a strategy, tactic or new idea, lose an argument in order to maintain a...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM
‘Like James Baldwin, she thought social revolution required a reckoning of all relationships, including the individual’s relationship to herself.’
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@keeanga.bsky.social) on Audre Lorde: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@keeanga.bsky.social) on Audre Lorde: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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it's wild that we're expected to just go to work and be normal
September 19, 2025 at 9:29 AM
it's wild that we're expected to just go to work and be normal
Sweater’s on, which means it’s officially Harold Budd with Cocteau Twins season. youtu.be/hvKdWQmCa9g?...
Sea, Swallow Me (2024 Remaster)
YouTube video by Cocteau Twins - Topic
youtu.be
September 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Sweater’s on, which means it’s officially Harold Budd with Cocteau Twins season. youtu.be/hvKdWQmCa9g?...
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One of my favorite Robert Redford stories is when Mike Nichols was considering him for "The Graduate" and told him he needed to act like a guy who has struck out with women and Redford replied "what do you mean?"
September 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
One of my favorite Robert Redford stories is when Mike Nichols was considering him for "The Graduate" and told him he needed to act like a guy who has struck out with women and Redford replied "what do you mean?"