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Extra Teeth @extrateethmag.bsky.social · Jun 10

GLASGOW!

This FRIDAY 13th 👻 join us at Mount Florida Books for our second launch!

Expect fabulous readings from fabulous @lwhalen.bsky.social and Suki Hollywood

Delicious wine from Smith and Gertrude

Please do join us — we are so happy to be back we have to party twice 🥳

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Lottie Whalen @lwhalen.bsky.social · May 15

Thrilled to have my essay The Quick & The Dead - on reproductive rights, my great grandma, her abortionist neighbour & histories of other working-class women’s lives, birth, death & the borderlands between - in this gorgeous new issue of Extra Teeth. In brilliant company! Available to preorder 👇

Extra Teeth @extrateethmag.bsky.social · May 15

ANNOUNCING: ISSUE NINE!

FICTION
Amy Twigg
Suki Hollywood
Julie Galente
Katie Webster
@spacedolphin93.bsky.social
Vanessa Santos
Beina Xu
@kybettie.bsky.social
Nazaret Ranea
@jacquestsiantar.bsky.social

NONFICTION
@lwhalen.bsky.social
Paul McQuade

Art by: KMG

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Extra Teeth @extrateethmag.bsky.social · May 27

And she’s here!!! Issue Nine is currently winging her way out into the world 🐟 🦷

We are so excited about this issue; not only is it a massive banger but it is so good to be BACK!

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · May 27

In homage to Audre Lorde, the artist’s exhibition at SCAD Museum of Art explores whether subsistence itself can be a form of resistance artreview.com/diedrick-bra...

Diedrick Brackens: Social Fabric

In homage to Audre Lorde, the artist’s exhibition at SCAD Museum of Art explores whether subsistence itself can be a form of resistance

artreview.com

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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · May 12

Actor's Mask http://www.moma.org/collection/works/80094

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Decorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social · May 26

‘I love pushing mediums into the monumental and the monstrous’ 🍃

Read our latest interview with artist Jonathan Baldock, who pushes craft to its limits:

decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/myth-and-m...

Myth and making: An interview with Jonathan Baldock

Pushing craft mediums into the monumental and the monstrous...

decoratingdissidence.substack.com

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FANZINES @fanzines.bsky.social · May 18

MAKE ZINES! poster by zine maker / artist Cort Hartle.

Download the free high res version (PDF) to print at home: freight.cargo.site/m/W234787385...

Printing and distribution encouraged by the artist, so please RT, print it, fly post it, flyer it & spread the word!

#zine #zines #fanzine #fanzines

Black and white A4-shaped poster with the word MAKE in big bold letters at the top and ZINES! in big bold letters at the bottom.

In between, in capital letters is the following text...

NO ONE CAN TAKE SELF PUBLISHING AWAY FROM YOU.

NO ALGORITHMS OR OLIGARCHS CAN CENSOR YOU.

NO GATEKEEPERS CAN TELL YOU WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY IS NOT IMPORTANT OR VALUABLE.

NO GRANT FUNDING CAN BE WITHDRAWN FROM YOUR WORDS.

NO INSTITUTION CAN BAR YOU FROM ENTERING.

NO KNOWLEDGE IS UNAUTHORIZED.

THAT IS WHY YOU MUST MAKE ZINES!

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Extra Teeth @extrateethmag.bsky.social · May 16

And last but extremely not least: LAUNCHES!

We are very excited to be hosting TWO launches, one in Edinburgh with the fab @portybooks.bsky.social and one in Glasgow, with the equally fab Mount Florida Books!

Please join us in launching Issue 9, and let us celebrate the ET comeback in style 🎉

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Lottie Whalen @lwhalen.bsky.social · May 15

Thrilled to have my essay The Quick & The Dead - on reproductive rights, my great grandma, her abortionist neighbour & histories of other working-class women’s lives, birth, death & the borderlands between - in this gorgeous new issue of Extra Teeth. In brilliant company! Available to preorder 👇

Extra Teeth @extrateethmag.bsky.social · May 15

ANNOUNCING: ISSUE NINE!

FICTION
Amy Twigg
Suki Hollywood
Julie Galente
Katie Webster
@spacedolphin93.bsky.social
Vanessa Santos
Beina Xu
@kybettie.bsky.social
Nazaret Ranea
@jacquestsiantar.bsky.social

NONFICTION
@lwhalen.bsky.social
Paul McQuade

Art by: KMG

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The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social · May 15

🚨 NEW: Opportunities for the poorest young people in London far outstrip the rest of England, we have found.

Our new Opportunity Index reveals how the area young people grow up in shapes their life chances, with huge differences between constituencies across the country 🧵⬇️

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · May 14

Guess it's a good time to let people know that in 1969 Air France commissioned artist Sheila Hicks to create series of unique panels in Chinese silk for business-class sections of their 747 aircraft. Hicks hand-embroidered 19 in all; only remaining one is now at MoMA www.moma.org/collection/w...

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Lottie Whalen @lwhalen.bsky.social · May 8

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Apr 21

During his life, Willy Ley predicted the dawn of the Space Age with remarkable accuracy. How did his remains end up forgotten in a co-op on the Upper West Side?

Willy Ley Was a Prophet of Space Travel. His Ashes Were Found in a Basement.

During his life, Willy Ley predicted the dawn of the Space Age with remarkable accuracy. How did his remains end up forgotten in a co-op on the Upper West Side?

www.nytimes.com

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Extra Teeth @extrateethmag.bsky.social · Apr 18

Are you working on a piece of writing, unsure of whether it’s ready to send out? Or are you ready but you don’t know where your work might fit? Have you always wondered how the submission process works?

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Rose Knapp 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social · Apr 20

Enchantment by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

poets.org/poem/enchant...

#poetry #dadaism

Enchantment

Here / crawls / moon—

poets.org

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Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou @hannahhg.bsky.social · Apr 20

My Fane talk with the brilliant author @sineadgleeson.bsky.social is still available to stream for free until tomorrow eve.

Watch it here for more on art, feminism, communes & community in Sinéad's #novel #hagstone:

www.fane.co.uk/sinead-gleeson

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · Apr 13

Georgia O'Keeffe, Pink Moon Over Water, 1924

(Smith College Museum of Art collection)

O'Keeffe painting with blue and green waves in front of a red moon over mountains

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Lottie Whalen @lwhalen.bsky.social · Apr 13

It’s a lovely project!

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · Apr 11

Variant “Adobe: Gray Turns Violet” by Josef Albers, 1958 #artbots #guggenheim
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137803

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Gift, The Josef Albers Foundation, Inc., 1991

© 2016 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · Apr 12

Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK.
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

Palestinian Scholarship

www.gold.ac.uk

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Lottie Whalen @lwhalen.bsky.social · Apr 12

🌳🍃Larkin on a glorious spring day in Glasgow, via @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social 🌳🍃

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The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social · Apr 10

"It felt important to honour the fact that motherhood doesn’t finish when you’ve weaned the baby"

Touring exhibition Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood comes to @dcadundee.bsky.social this summer – read @lwhalen.bsky.social's interview with curator Hettie Judah

Motherhood in the Art World – The Skinny

This month, Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, a Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition, arrives at Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA). We talk to curator Hettie Judah on the importance of making space…

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Lottie Whalen @lwhalen.bsky.social · Mar 12

Towards the end of her long, colourful life, Beatrice Wood became known as the Mama of Dada and attributed her great longevity to ‘art books, chocolate & young men’! Read more in @decodissidence.bsky.social newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/decorati...

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