Namita Gupta Wiggers
@namitawiggers.bsky.social
work to build a craftscape. Recovering academic, curator, arts admin. Working on project on craft museums, fiction, art, making a writing life
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a big runoff last night, in New Orleans:
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan wins Orleans clerk of court race - Verite News New Orleans
Duncan, a political newcomer and former prisoner, defeated incumbent Darren Lombard by a wide margin in Saturday's runoff.
veritenews.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
a big runoff last night, in New Orleans:
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
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All the paintings of cows on view from the Frye family collection at The Frye Art Museum, Seattle
August 1, 2025 at 1:35 AM
All the paintings of cows on view from the Frye family collection at The Frye Art Museum, Seattle
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Thirty years ago this month, a deadly heat wave hit Chicago. It killed over seven hundred people, most of the victims were elderly and poor. But as Eric Klinenberg wrote in issue no. 15, it was more than just the heat that did them in.
Heat Wave | Eric Klinenberg
What Chicago needed was a social autopsy, a study of the institutions and relationships that permitted this catastrophe.
thebaffler.com
July 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Thirty years ago this month, a deadly heat wave hit Chicago. It killed over seven hundred people, most of the victims were elderly and poor. But as Eric Klinenberg wrote in issue no. 15, it was more than just the heat that did them in.
Gorgeous day for writing in the Portland Japanese Garden today
July 20, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Gorgeous day for writing in the Portland Japanese Garden today
News | Project launched to safeguard intangible cultural heritage in Scotland – @museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk initiative will fund partnerships between 'tradition bearers' and cultural heritage organisations
Project launched to safeguard intangible cultural heritage in Scotland - Museums Association
MGS initiative will fund partnerships between 'tradition bearers' and cultural heritage organisations
www.museumsassociation.org
July 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Pittsburgh moments. Gifted a copy of Joyce J. Scott’s Stop Asking. We Exist from former director of Contemporary Craft. Cemetery. Former site of billboard - There are Black People in the Future - by Alisha B. Wormsley. Great catch-up with Miriam Devlin.
July 3, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Pittsburgh moments. Gifted a copy of Joyce J. Scott’s Stop Asking. We Exist from former director of Contemporary Craft. Cemetery. Former site of billboard - There are Black People in the Future - by Alisha B. Wormsley. Great catch-up with Miriam Devlin.
Sharing images from Fiber Art International at Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh with their IG so you can follow them:
July 1, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Sharing images from Fiber Art International at Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh with their IG so you can follow them:
This is how we win
June 25, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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"[Enslaved people] ingeniously employed 'waiting time' + communication in codes, symbols, songs, chants, + other means of [obfuscation]—a social network relying on Afrodiasporic technologies... The past, present, + future were interwoven into a collective memory and aspiration for true liberation."
Juneteenth | Revolution by the Book
An excerpt from Dismantling the Master's Clock by Rasheedah Phillips Juneteenth [is] widely celebrated as Freedom Day. The day commemorates June 19, 1865, when thousands of enslaved Africans held capt...
revolutionbythebook.akpress.org
June 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
"[Enslaved people] ingeniously employed 'waiting time' + communication in codes, symbols, songs, chants, + other means of [obfuscation]—a social network relying on Afrodiasporic technologies... The past, present, + future were interwoven into a collective memory and aspiration for true liberation."
New post on craftscape
Dishtowels and Side Projects
Marking time and place in my kitchen
open.substack.com
June 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
New post on craftscape
Looking for a place to put your thinking about craft and learning into writing? This could be the anthology.
Proposals are due by August 15. Link to the Google form for submissions and call for proposals docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
You can help make the book you want to read.
Proposals are due by August 15. Link to the Google form for submissions and call for proposals docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
You can help make the book you want to read.
June 10, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Looking for a place to put your thinking about craft and learning into writing? This could be the anthology.
Proposals are due by August 15. Link to the Google form for submissions and call for proposals docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
You can help make the book you want to read.
Proposals are due by August 15. Link to the Google form for submissions and call for proposals docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
You can help make the book you want to read.
June 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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cops doing crime on camera. as @chadloder.bsky.social has been pointing out all day, this is totally illegal. cops doing crime. on camera. adjust your stupid headlines accordingly.
LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
cops doing crime on camera. as @chadloder.bsky.social has been pointing out all day, this is totally illegal. cops doing crime. on camera. adjust your stupid headlines accordingly.
Rep. Gomez: LA County alone is 34% foreign born, 34%. So when he says they're going to liberate us, who is he going to liberate us from? Ourselves?
June 9, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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ICE arrested 36 Chinese & Taiwanese immigrants after raiding an LA nightclub. That's them, ziptied on the sidewalk.
Yo Asians—if you weren't already outraged and mobilizing on behalf of others, guess what? That "First they came for the..." poem has gotten up to us.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Yo Asians—if you weren't already outraged and mobilizing on behalf of others, guess what? That "First they came for the..." poem has gotten up to us.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
June 8, 2025 at 8:16 AM
ICE arrested 36 Chinese & Taiwanese immigrants after raiding an LA nightclub. That's them, ziptied on the sidewalk.
Yo Asians—if you weren't already outraged and mobilizing on behalf of others, guess what? That "First they came for the..." poem has gotten up to us.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Yo Asians—if you weren't already outraged and mobilizing on behalf of others, guess what? That "First they came for the..." poem has gotten up to us.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing.
ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him.
seiuca.org/press-releas...
ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him.
seiuca.org/press-releas...
SEIU California | SEIU California President David Huerta Injured, Detained at ICE Raid in Los Angeles
We are proud of President Huerta’s righteous participation as a community observer, in keeping with his long history of advocating for immigrant workers and with the highest values of our movement…
seiuca.org
June 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing.
ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him.
seiuca.org/press-releas...
ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him.
seiuca.org/press-releas...
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6.5.2025 building in Vancouver WA that used to be a school. Few moments that caught my attention
June 7, 2025 at 1:59 AM
6.5.2025 building in Vancouver WA that used to be a school. Few moments that caught my attention
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San Diego. Minneapolis. The urgency is showing and I’ve never been this confident that the people will win. I’ve never been this proud to be an American. From the bottom-up is how we fix this. We walk in fear but we walk together. Thank you. We have a role to play where we can. We all get to choose.
June 4, 2025 at 2:29 AM
San Diego. Minneapolis. The urgency is showing and I’ve never been this confident that the people will win. I’ve never been this proud to be an American. From the bottom-up is how we fix this. We walk in fear but we walk together. Thank you. We have a role to play where we can. We all get to choose.
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“The ever and the always. Every motherf*cking thing.”
A conversation for @bombmag.bsky.social with my brother in brilliance, Douglas Kearney.
We talk survival. Spectacle. Specters. And the work of making anyway.
👇🏾
bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
A conversation for @bombmag.bsky.social with my brother in brilliance, Douglas Kearney.
We talk survival. Spectacle. Specters. And the work of making anyway.
👇🏾
bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
BOMB Magazine | Samiya Bashir and Douglas Kearney
Unruly spells: poetry that builds expansive portals for a world that needs truth and love.
bombmagazine.org
May 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
“The ever and the always. Every motherf*cking thing.”
A conversation for @bombmag.bsky.social with my brother in brilliance, Douglas Kearney.
We talk survival. Spectacle. Specters. And the work of making anyway.
👇🏾
bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
A conversation for @bombmag.bsky.social with my brother in brilliance, Douglas Kearney.
We talk survival. Spectacle. Specters. And the work of making anyway.
👇🏾
bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
This class starts next week - see you there? Link here: www.jracraft.org/jracrafteven...
May 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This class starts next week - see you there? Link here: www.jracraft.org/jracrafteven...
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Start every day with this reality:
EVERY HOUSE SEAT and 33 Senate seats are up for election in 2026. THAT must be the focus. Let’s get disciplined.
#LeaveNoPowerOnTheTable
ballotpedia.org/United_State...
EVERY HOUSE SEAT and 33 Senate seats are up for election in 2026. THAT must be the focus. Let’s get disciplined.
#LeaveNoPowerOnTheTable
ballotpedia.org/United_State...
United States Congress elections, 2026
Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics
ballotpedia.org
May 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Start every day with this reality:
EVERY HOUSE SEAT and 33 Senate seats are up for election in 2026. THAT must be the focus. Let’s get disciplined.
#LeaveNoPowerOnTheTable
ballotpedia.org/United_State...
EVERY HOUSE SEAT and 33 Senate seats are up for election in 2026. THAT must be the focus. Let’s get disciplined.
#LeaveNoPowerOnTheTable
ballotpedia.org/United_State...