MMC
@mmsea.bsky.social
Enthusiastic grump. Textile conservator. Muppet. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
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It’s that time again; 3rd annual Mira Bellwether Buy A Trans Woman A Pizza Day is Monday, March 31st.
March 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
It’s that time again; 3rd annual Mira Bellwether Buy A Trans Woman A Pizza Day is Monday, March 31st.
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#Neolithic textile production: an amazing find! A charred spindle with a charred ball of flax thread.
Found in the pile dwelling settlement of Sipplingen-Osthafen, Lake Constance, dating 3316-3306 BC. The damp environment has preserved it in good condition
🏺 #archaeology
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Found in the pile dwelling settlement of Sipplingen-Osthafen, Lake Constance, dating 3316-3306 BC. The damp environment has preserved it in good condition
🏺 #archaeology
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
March 29, 2025 at 7:43 AM
#Neolithic textile production: an amazing find! A charred spindle with a charred ball of flax thread.
Found in the pile dwelling settlement of Sipplingen-Osthafen, Lake Constance, dating 3316-3306 BC. The damp environment has preserved it in good condition
🏺 #archaeology
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
Found in the pile dwelling settlement of Sipplingen-Osthafen, Lake Constance, dating 3316-3306 BC. The damp environment has preserved it in good condition
🏺 #archaeology
📷 @almbawue.bsky.social
This past week I examined cobweb fibers used as a paintings substrate. High magnification, and hyperspectral imaging techniques with variable lighting direction were super helpful to show certain features and properties of the web of fibers. #TextileConservation #ArtConservation
March 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This past week I examined cobweb fibers used as a paintings substrate. High magnification, and hyperspectral imaging techniques with variable lighting direction were super helpful to show certain features and properties of the web of fibers. #TextileConservation #ArtConservation
Hi I’m catatonically anxious but at least I’m still decent at fiddling with little threads. Slowly replacing the missing decorative binding threads by surrealist artist Mary Reynolds. Almost done! #TextileConservation #ArtConservation
March 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Hi I’m catatonically anxious but at least I’m still decent at fiddling with little threads. Slowly replacing the missing decorative binding threads by surrealist artist Mary Reynolds. Almost done! #TextileConservation #ArtConservation
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I was interviewed for this piece! It is a very important topic so do give it a read. hyperallergic.com/992452/its-t...
It’s Time for Museums to Step Up for Queer and Trans People
Amid ceaseless attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, art institutions have a responsibility to center and support their queer and trans staff and visitors.
hyperallergic.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I was interviewed for this piece! It is a very important topic so do give it a read. hyperallergic.com/992452/its-t...
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Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes.
You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.
My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.
www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.
My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.
www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
Public comment on US passport form changes related to trans
www.reddit.com
February 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes.
You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.
My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.
www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.
My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.
www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
Me and Katrina stretching a 10’ x 10’ ModCon assemblage of painted canvas, knit wool, and wooden bars. #ArtConservation #TextileConservation #ModernAndContemporaryArt
February 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Me and Katrina stretching a 10’ x 10’ ModCon assemblage of painted canvas, knit wool, and wooden bars. #ArtConservation #TextileConservation #ModernAndContemporaryArt
It’s me and all the loves of my life. Happy Valentine’s Day!
For Valentine's Day, this heartfelt & adoring letter from artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres to his lover Ross Laycock, building on Gonzalez-Torres's artwork Untitled (Perfect Lovers): "We are synchronized, now and forever. I love you."
February 15, 2025 at 2:00 AM
It’s me and all the loves of my life. Happy Valentine’s Day!
Look at this adorable winter gnome! It’s Erin!
February 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Look at this adorable winter gnome! It’s Erin!
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Rally tomorrow co-sponsored by Chicago DSA to defend trans rights and gender affirming care, UI Health, downtown Chicago
February 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Rally tomorrow co-sponsored by Chicago DSA to defend trans rights and gender affirming care, UI Health, downtown Chicago
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We are calling for a nationwide and international boycott of all Elon Musk-related products and services. Sell your Tesla shares, avoid buying Tesla vehicles, cancel Starlink, and delete your X accounts.
February 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
We are calling for a nationwide and international boycott of all Elon Musk-related products and services. Sell your Tesla shares, avoid buying Tesla vehicles, cancel Starlink, and delete your X accounts.
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1. Major trans news: Corewell Health, Michigan's largest healthcare provider, becomes the first hospital to resume care for trans people under 19 years of age after pausing it.
"Care decisions are best made between physicians and their patients and families."
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"Care decisions are best made between physicians and their patients and families."
Subscribe to support my journalism.
Corewell, Largest Michigan Provider, Resumes Trans Youth Care Despite Illegal Trump EO
On Wednesday, the hospital system announced that it was resuming gender affirming care after a brief pause due to Trump's executive order attempting to ban it for those under 19.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
1. Major trans news: Corewell Health, Michigan's largest healthcare provider, becomes the first hospital to resume care for trans people under 19 years of age after pausing it.
"Care decisions are best made between physicians and their patients and families."
Subscribe to support my journalism.
"Care decisions are best made between physicians and their patients and families."
Subscribe to support my journalism.
Looking at cobweb samples under the microscope. It was used as a substrate for a painting in the Northwestern University library special collections. The fibers are SO narrow. #ArtConservation
February 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Looking at cobweb samples under the microscope. It was used as a substrate for a painting in the Northwestern University library special collections. The fibers are SO narrow. #ArtConservation
I’m a floor person through and through. It’s my signature party move, third in line after not going at all, and leaving without saying goodbye. Bonus Edie on the floor with me.
February 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I’m a floor person through and through. It’s my signature party move, third in line after not going at all, and leaving without saying goodbye. Bonus Edie on the floor with me.
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If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
February 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
Sometimes my job is especially joyful and silly: many examples of fake lion’s mane mushrooms, made by three conservation colleagues and myself. For a multimedia object installation in the museum that originally used live rotting mushrooms on furniture, can you spot the real one! #ArtConservation
February 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Sometimes my job is especially joyful and silly: many examples of fake lion’s mane mushrooms, made by three conservation colleagues and myself. For a multimedia object installation in the museum that originally used live rotting mushrooms on furniture, can you spot the real one! #ArtConservation
Disassociating from the world while stitching this brittle little charmer. #TextileConservation
February 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Disassociating from the world while stitching this brittle little charmer. #TextileConservation
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Weird how not a single one of the newspapers and magazines that have been breathlessly churning out "cancel culture" thinkpieces for the past four years have managed to use the word "censorship" at all to describe the most rapid and comprehensive campaign of mass-censorship in recent US history.
February 4, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Weird how not a single one of the newspapers and magazines that have been breathlessly churning out "cancel culture" thinkpieces for the past four years have managed to use the word "censorship" at all to describe the most rapid and comprehensive campaign of mass-censorship in recent US history.
I’m back to thinking about the etchings printed on highly reflective synthetic fibers by Barbara Rossi. Many of them she also stitched, pieced, quilted, embroidered or beaded. Forever fascinated by her style and methods. #TextileConservation #ArtConservation
February 4, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I’m back to thinking about the etchings printed on highly reflective synthetic fibers by Barbara Rossi. Many of them she also stitched, pieced, quilted, embroidered or beaded. Forever fascinated by her style and methods. #TextileConservation #ArtConservation
😮 doesn’t even cover it.
February 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
😮 doesn’t even cover it.
So What by Judy Ledgerwood, part of my exploration into Chicago artists now that I live here. A pastel grid to interrupt the drumbeat of terror in the world.
February 1, 2025 at 4:07 AM
So What by Judy Ledgerwood, part of my exploration into Chicago artists now that I live here. A pastel grid to interrupt the drumbeat of terror in the world.
Thomas, looking like a cross between a horizontal Bernini and a relic of Pompei, while measuring the underside of a mount. #TextileConservation
January 31, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Thomas, looking like a cross between a horizontal Bernini and a relic of Pompei, while measuring the underside of a mount. #TextileConservation
I love this tiny painted and gilded tiger-legged man, from Tamil Nadu, 19thC.
January 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I love this tiny painted and gilded tiger-legged man, from Tamil Nadu, 19thC.
Look at this is amazing fake binding with deteriorated decorative threads that my coworker made as a mock up to perfect a treatment! Today I helped them spin and ply some custom dyed yarn to match the original, and we tested adhesives. #TextileConservation
January 30, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Look at this is amazing fake binding with deteriorated decorative threads that my coworker made as a mock up to perfect a treatment! Today I helped them spin and ply some custom dyed yarn to match the original, and we tested adhesives. #TextileConservation
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Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:
www.404media.co/declassified...
www.404media.co/declassified...
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
www.404media.co
January 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:
www.404media.co/declassified...
www.404media.co/declassified...