Kate Powers
@plain-kate.bsky.social
Stage director, prison theatremaker, college professor, Shakespeare nerd, trauma-informed / consent-based maker of good trouble, striving to be anti-racist, hates Nazis and patriarchal nonsense. Redhead. #SlawaUkrainii #GoBills 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🚫👑
Brendan Loper draws facts. www.newyorker.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Brendan Loper draws facts. www.newyorker.com
Tiny but mighty on our icy bridge today in support of military veterans, who are losing access to medical care of all kinds under this regime. Two other bridge brigades around Bflo today.
November 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Tiny but mighty on our icy bridge today in support of military veterans, who are losing access to medical care of all kinds under this regime. Two other bridge brigades around Bflo today.
Today. At the eleventh hour.
Republican cuts hurt America's military veterans in dozens of ways.
Republican cuts hurt America's military veterans in dozens of ways.
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Today. At the eleventh hour.
Republican cuts hurt America's military veterans in dozens of ways.
Republican cuts hurt America's military veterans in dozens of ways.
A friend found this image. I have not been able to find the artist's name, but their work is powerfully on point.
October 27, 2025 at 12:51 AM
A friend found this image. I have not been able to find the artist's name, but their work is powerfully on point.
Getting a much fuller picture of the absolutely craven, vile, and cruel world of Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein as I read Virgina Giuffre's difficult NOBODY'S GIRL.
October 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Getting a much fuller picture of the absolutely craven, vile, and cruel world of Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein as I read Virgina Giuffre's difficult NOBODY'S GIRL.
Fun fact: the recidivism rate for incarcerated participants in prison theatre programs drops to less than 5%. It's one way to have an embodied experience of imagining different and more constructive outcomes.
October 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Fun fact: the recidivism rate for incarcerated participants in prison theatre programs drops to less than 5%. It's one way to have an embodied experience of imagining different and more constructive outcomes.
October 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Rebellious are built on hope.
October 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Rebellious are built on hope.
We say "No Kings. No kidnapping people off the streets. No mangling of due process. No thuggish, vindictive bending of the entire federal govt to the whims of one petty, narcissistic, racist, sexist individual."
#NoKings
#NoKings
October 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
We say "No Kings. No kidnapping people off the streets. No mangling of due process. No thuggish, vindictive bending of the entire federal govt to the whims of one petty, narcissistic, racist, sexist individual."
#NoKings
#NoKings
Bonjour, Snoops! Just traveling home from visiting a student in Montana.
October 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Bonjour, Snoops! Just traveling home from visiting a student in Montana.
At this afternoon's visibility protest.
September 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
At this afternoon's visibility protest.
From the lovely humans at All in the Board, an apt reminder today—
September 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
From the lovely humans at All in the Board, an apt reminder today—
People are angry and they are hungry for more ways to stand in opposition to this fascistic criminality. Buffalo, NY on Labor Day: which side are you on?
September 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
People are angry and they are hungry for more ways to stand in opposition to this fascistic criminality. Buffalo, NY on Labor Day: which side are you on?
*You do not need to be a direct constituent to call, as committees represent the nation. They are responsible to ALL of us for any issues in their specific committee. However, if one of these members is YOUR senator, your call may carry more weight with them personally.#CDC #RFKJrWillKillUsAll (2/2)
August 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
*You do not need to be a direct constituent to call, as committees represent the nation. They are responsible to ALL of us for any issues in their specific committee. However, if one of these members is YOUR senator, your call may carry more weight with them personally.#CDC #RFKJrWillKillUsAll (2/2)
From Tijuana to San Diego, from Buffalo to Blaine, WA to Quebec, we the people of North America came together today to say we are friends, and we reject division and diabolical propaganda. Friends don't annex friends. Or let friends support fascism. #friendsxborders
#never51
#never51
August 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
From Tijuana to San Diego, from Buffalo to Blaine, WA to Quebec, we the people of North America came together today to say we are friends, and we reject division and diabolical propaganda. Friends don't annex friends. Or let friends support fascism. #friendsxborders
#never51
#never51
Fact check: crime is down. In DC and across the US.
August 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Fact check: crime is down. In DC and across the US.
Thread. Because friends don't annex friends. #Never51 #ElbowsUpforCanada
August 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Thread. Because friends don't annex friends. #Never51 #ElbowsUpforCanada
Y'all. Join or create an event for the International Day of Friendship, 8/16. Events all over North America to say we are friends with our friends; we reject propaganda and false crises to militarize the border. Https://friendsxborders.org
July 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Y'all. Join or create an event for the International Day of Friendship, 8/16. Events all over North America to say we are friends with our friends; we reject propaganda and false crises to militarize the border. Https://friendsxborders.org