Connie Zheng
@yconniezheng.bsky.social
maps, seeds, & experimental films
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sketch acct & research notes
artist / writer / phd candidate @ ucsc
still mostly on ig but slowly migrating over here
www.conniezheng.com
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sketch acct & research notes
artist / writer / phd candidate @ ucsc
still mostly on ig but slowly migrating over here
www.conniezheng.com
Reposted by Connie Zheng
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
October 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
Recycled my No Kings sign from June
Side A: No Kings F 🧊
Side B: Hands Off Our Healthcare!!!, with a doodle of me bringing down a cast-iron skillet on a tiny orange hand slithering out of a hole in the ground
Not my most inspired or formally inventive but I think it gets the point across
Side A: No Kings F 🧊
Side B: Hands Off Our Healthcare!!!, with a doodle of me bringing down a cast-iron skillet on a tiny orange hand slithering out of a hole in the ground
Not my most inspired or formally inventive but I think it gets the point across
October 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Recycled my No Kings sign from June
Side A: No Kings F 🧊
Side B: Hands Off Our Healthcare!!!, with a doodle of me bringing down a cast-iron skillet on a tiny orange hand slithering out of a hole in the ground
Not my most inspired or formally inventive but I think it gets the point across
Side A: No Kings F 🧊
Side B: Hands Off Our Healthcare!!!, with a doodle of me bringing down a cast-iron skillet on a tiny orange hand slithering out of a hole in the ground
Not my most inspired or formally inventive but I think it gets the point across
Pretty joyous vibes at No Kings Oakland
October 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Pretty joyous vibes at No Kings Oakland
THIS, 100%. My partner was one of the organizers of the No Kings in his small, v red town in rural GA and not only did turnout exceed his expectations (88 vs 40 projected max), he also met long-time residents who were ecstatic to learn they weren’t the only lefties in town and want to organize
the massive scale of the No Kings protests, from the organizers’ perspectives, was ALWAYS about making it easy for people to people to go and meet organizers and organizations and mutual aid:
“Let this be a springboard, not the end of your journey.”
if you went, how are you doing so?
“Let this be a springboard, not the end of your journey.”
if you went, how are you doing so?
October 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM
THIS, 100%. My partner was one of the organizers of the No Kings in his small, v red town in rural GA and not only did turnout exceed his expectations (88 vs 40 projected max), he also met long-time residents who were ecstatic to learn they weren’t the only lefties in town and want to organize
Gosh, first time my work has been called “dazzling”! Thank you to Max Crosbie-Jones for the very nice words in @eflux.bsky.social
Header image is of my drawing of commodity flows, “As It Is: Nothing Lasts Forever”
Showing at Ilham in Kuala Lumpur until 9/21 :)
www.e-flux.com/criticism/67...
Header image is of my drawing of commodity flows, “As It Is: Nothing Lasts Forever”
Showing at Ilham in Kuala Lumpur until 9/21 :)
www.e-flux.com/criticism/67...
- Criticism - e-flux
In a far corner of ILHAM plays Gogularaajan Rajendran’s Coolies’ Chorus (2025), a seventy-minute video in which Ind
www.e-flux.com
July 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Gosh, first time my work has been called “dazzling”! Thank you to Max Crosbie-Jones for the very nice words in @eflux.bsky.social
Header image is of my drawing of commodity flows, “As It Is: Nothing Lasts Forever”
Showing at Ilham in Kuala Lumpur until 9/21 :)
www.e-flux.com/criticism/67...
Header image is of my drawing of commodity flows, “As It Is: Nothing Lasts Forever”
Showing at Ilham in Kuala Lumpur until 9/21 :)
www.e-flux.com/criticism/67...
“For a Deaf person, an accommodation might mean access to an interpreter of a sign language that they know… But if an interpreter is not readily available or provided, it could keep a person in detention for longer than they otherwise might be.”
The Los Angeles raids make Deaf immigrants more vulnerable: ‘ICE doesn’t care,’ @andreagtrrz.bsky.social reports. As the city remains under siege, both disability rights & immigrant rights advocates are limited in the help they can offer disabled communities.
The Los Angeles raids make Deaf immigrants more vulnerable
Both disability rights and immigrant rights advocates are limited in the help they can offer disabled communities
prismreports.org
July 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
“For a Deaf person, an accommodation might mean access to an interpreter of a sign language that they know… But if an interpreter is not readily available or provided, it could keep a person in detention for longer than they otherwise might be.”
Making a tiger linocut for new 12’ x 12’ piece tentatively titled ‘Revolutionary Planting Calendar’, which will be showing in South Korea later this fall. Apparently tigers were a symbol of Korean sovereignty in resistance to Japanese imperialism during WWII
July 11, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Making a tiger linocut for new 12’ x 12’ piece tentatively titled ‘Revolutionary Planting Calendar’, which will be showing in South Korea later this fall. Apparently tigers were a symbol of Korean sovereignty in resistance to Japanese imperialism during WWII
Apparently he also didn’t know the US has a hurricane season, lucky us
Does anyone else feel like these clowns are not actual people but possibly AI hallucinations downloaded into man-suits? Because every day I feel like I am living in a movie written by the most demented and illogical LLM possible
Does anyone else feel like these clowns are not actual people but possibly AI hallucinations downloaded into man-suits? Because every day I feel like I am living in a movie written by the most demented and illogical LLM possible
FEMA Acting Administrator David Richardson is nowhere to be found, according to multiple reports. The former Marine also appears to have no experience leading disaster management.
What we know about how FEMA officials are failing Texas
Its acting administrator is MIA, and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem wants the agency eliminated.
www.motherjones.com
July 11, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Apparently he also didn’t know the US has a hurricane season, lucky us
Does anyone else feel like these clowns are not actual people but possibly AI hallucinations downloaded into man-suits? Because every day I feel like I am living in a movie written by the most demented and illogical LLM possible
Does anyone else feel like these clowns are not actual people but possibly AI hallucinations downloaded into man-suits? Because every day I feel like I am living in a movie written by the most demented and illogical LLM possible
Been diligently clocking in to Duolingo for Korean lessons for 1 week now and so far I can only confidently recognize vowels, but it’s kinda wild how big a level up that feels like
July 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Been diligently clocking in to Duolingo for Korean lessons for 1 week now and so far I can only confidently recognize vowels, but it’s kinda wild how big a level up that feels like
Reposted by Connie Zheng
By a wide majority, people in Canada and Mexico now see the United States as the "greatest threat" to their country.
www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...
www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...
People in Many Countries Consider the U.S. an Important Ally; Others See It as a Top Threat
People in 12 of 24 nations surveyed tend to say the U.S. is their top ally. But it's also widely seen as a top threat, as are Russia and China.
www.pewresearch.org
July 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
By a wide majority, people in Canada and Mexico now see the United States as the "greatest threat" to their country.
www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...
www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...
Writing a dissertation is very hard
July 9, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Writing a dissertation is very hard
Been working on a new painting about plants & animals + liberation struggles and spending a lot of time studying Albrecht Dürer’s “Great Piece of Turf” (1503), a watercolor depicting a gorgeous clump of weeds. Thinking about how power is underfoot everywhere, in the ‘ordinary’ + beneath our feet
July 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Been working on a new painting about plants & animals + liberation struggles and spending a lot of time studying Albrecht Dürer’s “Great Piece of Turf” (1503), a watercolor depicting a gorgeous clump of weeds. Thinking about how power is underfoot everywhere, in the ‘ordinary’ + beneath our feet
The fact that he said this on air makes me even more spooked for this year’s Atlantic hurricane season (which, fyi, doesn’t officially end until Nov 30)
July 9, 2025 at 12:26 AM
The fact that he said this on air makes me even more spooked for this year’s Atlantic hurricane season (which, fyi, doesn’t officially end until Nov 30)
Reposted by Connie Zheng
A Yahoo News/YouGov poll finds that Mamdani's proposals (freezing rent, free universal child care, taxes on the rich) are overwhelmingly popular, especially among Democrats – and that's nationally, not just in deep-blue NYC. www.yahoo.com/news/poll-zo...
July 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A Yahoo News/YouGov poll finds that Mamdani's proposals (freezing rent, free universal child care, taxes on the rich) are overwhelmingly popular, especially among Democrats – and that's nationally, not just in deep-blue NYC. www.yahoo.com/news/poll-zo...
And now for some positivity amidst the doom times
This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)
July 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
And now for some positivity amidst the doom times
10£ and 10ƒ redesigns in intaglio form
February 15, 2025 at 7:42 PM
10£ and 10ƒ redesigns in intaglio form
ALSO did you know that the Dutch East India Company was the 1st multinational corporation in the world? It even had the ability to wage war, raise its own armies, print its own currency etc ….. so ofc it behaved in a lawless manner that in NO WAY seems like it could be a model for companies today 🙃
February 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
ALSO did you know that the Dutch East India Company was the 1st multinational corporation in the world? It even had the ability to wage war, raise its own armies, print its own currency etc ….. so ofc it behaved in a lawless manner that in NO WAY seems like it could be a model for companies today 🙃
And here is a 10-guilder banknote made from a tulip catalogue I found in a rummage bin. Did you know that the first recorded speculative bubble in the world was over tulips (which are from Central Asia, fyi)? Single bulbs would sell for over 10x the annual salary of a skilled artisan
February 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
And here is a 10-guilder banknote made from a tulip catalogue I found in a rummage bin. Did you know that the first recorded speculative bubble in the world was over tulips (which are from Central Asia, fyi)? Single bulbs would sell for over 10x the annual salary of a skilled artisan
Hard not to think about failed empires these days. Here’s a 10£ banknote I designed w/the poppies section of one of my heirloom seed catalogues, as a nod to the British Empire’s flooding of opium — produced on their plantations in India — into China in order to reduce their trade deficit. Nefarious
February 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Hard not to think about failed empires these days. Here’s a 10£ banknote I designed w/the poppies section of one of my heirloom seed catalogues, as a nod to the British Empire’s flooding of opium — produced on their plantations in India — into China in order to reduce their trade deficit. Nefarious
The highlights are blown out but not too terrible for an initial test run. Also I swear this project has nothing to do with the fact that a certain unelected billionaire with quasi-governmental powers has just seized control of our treasury 🫥
February 3, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The highlights are blown out but not too terrible for an initial test run. Also I swear this project has nothing to do with the fact that a certain unelected billionaire with quasi-governmental powers has just seized control of our treasury 🫥
Collaged together a $1 bill made of seed catalogue pics of watermelon/okra/cowpeas & a $100 bill of the Three Sisters (squash, corn, beans) 🌽🍉 b/c where else does *actual* wealth come from but the earth and its bounty
February 3, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Collaged together a $1 bill made of seed catalogue pics of watermelon/okra/cowpeas & a $100 bill of the Three Sisters (squash, corn, beans) 🌽🍉 b/c where else does *actual* wealth come from but the earth and its bounty
Cutting up my old heirloom seed catalogues for collage work
February 3, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Cutting up my old heirloom seed catalogues for collage work
Reposted by Connie Zheng
Well, we knew they would blame the plane crash on DEI, and Trump's sycophants will just nod their heads even though it is a nonsensical claim. I don't know how Republicans live with themselves. I really don't. And frankly, most of those Democrats, too, as they put up no resistance.
January 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Well, we knew they would blame the plane crash on DEI, and Trump's sycophants will just nod their heads even though it is a nonsensical claim. I don't know how Republicans live with themselves. I really don't. And frankly, most of those Democrats, too, as they put up no resistance.
Just learned that one of my art heroes, Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith (Confederated Salish/Kootenai), passed away last week. Deeply sad about this news, esp amidst the onslaught of these past 2 weeks. Sharing one of my fav (& quieter) pieces of hers, Kalispell #1 (1979) 💚
January 31, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Just learned that one of my art heroes, Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith (Confederated Salish/Kootenai), passed away last week. Deeply sad about this news, esp amidst the onslaught of these past 2 weeks. Sharing one of my fav (& quieter) pieces of hers, Kalispell #1 (1979) 💚