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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · 2d

Stay cozy in style this fall with Aroko

www.aroko.coop/product/supp...

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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · 4d

@zariah-cam.bsky.social takes us through another money saving library experience that’s sure to put some money back in your pockets

www.aroko.world/using-a-libr...

Using a Library Card a Day Keeps Capitalism at Bay: Happy Freedom to Read Week

On this next creative library adventure, I visited the Myers Park Library for an Arts & Crafts Drop-in experience. Normally, I’m used to booking an art event where you have to stay for the full 2 hour...

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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · 4d

@zariah-cam.bsky.social takes us through another money saving library experience that’s sure to put some money back in your pockets

www.aroko.world/using-a-libr...

Using a Library Card a Day Keeps Capitalism at Bay: Happy Freedom to Read Week

On this next creative library adventure, I visited the Myers Park Library for an Arts & Crafts Drop-in experience. Normally, I’m used to booking an art event where you have to stay for the full 2 hour...

www.aroko.world

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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · 6d

📢 Call for Submissions! Àrokò invites writers from Africa & the diaspora to send us stories that reimagine folklore, myth, and legend. Deadline Dec 31 2025.

www.aroko.world/aroko-anthol...

Àrokò Anthology: Call for submissions

ÀROKÒ ANTHOLOGY NO.1: FOLKLORE FROM AFRICA & THE DIASPORA Curated and edited by Aishatu Ado DEADLINE 12.31.25 // Submit to: [email protected] THEME We invite fiction that breathes new life into ...

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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · 6d

📢 Call for Submissions! Àrokò invites writers from Africa & the diaspora to send us stories that reimagine folklore, myth, and legend. Deadline Dec 31 2025.

www.aroko.world/aroko-anthol...

Àrokò Anthology: Call for submissions

ÀROKÒ ANTHOLOGY NO.1: FOLKLORE FROM AFRICA & THE DIASPORA Curated and edited by Aishatu Ado DEADLINE 12.31.25 // Submit to: [email protected] THEME We invite fiction that breathes new life into ...

www.aroko.world

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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · 9d

DJ DRONE STRIKE IN THE MIX 😭

Image of Barack Obama with a DOOM SCROLL t-shirt DJing with one hand up.

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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · 9d

A peek of our fall roundup picks for are here, produced by our star studded cast of writers. To see this and more articles like these sign up for our newsletter. www.aroko.world

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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · 9d

A peek of our fall roundup picks for are here, produced by our star studded cast of writers. To see this and more articles like these sign up for our newsletter. www.aroko.world

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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · 17d

Our portfolio is up to date with new work from 2025. If you are looking for help with your brand, website, magazine, or more, hit us up!

www.aroko.coop/work

Àrokò Cooperative

Àròko Cooperative is a multidisciplinary creative community reimagining art and design as a social practice.

www.aroko.coop

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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · 17d

Our portfolio is up to date with new work from 2025. If you are looking for help with your brand, website, magazine, or more, hit us up!

www.aroko.coop/work

Àrokò Cooperative

Àròko Cooperative is a multidisciplinary creative community reimagining art and design as a social practice.

www.aroko.coop

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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · 22d

145,000 young Nepalis turned Discord into a digital parliament and elected their country's first woman interim prime minister. Design reflects the values of those who wield it, not those who built it.

www.aroko.world/discord-deci...

Discord Decides: How Nepal's Youth Turned Gaming Infrastructure into Architecture For Liberation

145,000 young Nepalis turned Discord into a digital parliament and elected their country's first woman interim prime minister. Design reflects the values of those who wield it, not those who built it.

www.aroko.world

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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · 22d

145,000 young Nepalis turned Discord into a digital parliament and elected their country's first woman interim prime minister. Design reflects the values of those who wield it, not those who built it.

www.aroko.world/discord-deci...

Discord Decides: How Nepal's Youth Turned Gaming Infrastructure into Architecture For Liberation

145,000 young Nepalis turned Discord into a digital parliament and elected their country's first woman interim prime minister. Design reflects the values of those who wield it, not those who built it.

www.aroko.world

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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · Aug 21

They called it beautiful, this bill that turns cupboards into graveyards and hospitals into ghosts. "Alaska's tundra cracks beneath the weight of drills that puncture permafrost—each wellhead a monument to extinction's acceleration."

Read the full poem here:
www.aroko.world/matricide/

Matricide

On July 4th 2025, America murdered its safety net: Medicaid gutted, food stamps slashed, Arctic drilled—all for billionaire tax cuts. "The cupboards testify: nothing grows in hunger's house.”

www.aroko.world

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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · Aug 20

Here's your reminder to pay your local library a visit–you never know what you might uncover!

When’s the last time you dreamed? Collaging on a Budget

Zariah Cameron continues her adventures in creativity, all through her experiences at the local library.

www.aroko.world

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · Aug 22

friends - we've noticed the way that punishment for pro-Pal activity bears down esp hard on Black women, right?

sharing a fundraiser for a Black trans academic who's been put thru a cruel process for months now

this is urgent. rent is due in a week. contribute here:

chuffed.org/project/1455...

Black Trans Academic Targeted and Fined for Pro-Palestine Speech

Black trans academic suspended and fined for pro-Palestine/anti-z1onist speech.

chuffed.org

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · Aug 22

don't forget to donate to individual fundraisers too. here is a site that tracks individual campaigns and boosts the ones with little or no donations:

lifeline4gaza.com

lifeline4gaza - a list of appeals from families, individuals & grassroots community efforts in Gaza

lifeline4gaza gathers links to existing chuffed & gofundme appeals from families, individuals & grassroots community efforts in Gaza.

lifeline4gaza.com

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Shakeil @shakeil.bsky.social · Aug 21

i think it's high time you subscribed to @aroko.bsky.social for more incisive poetry and criticism like this from myself and folks like the brilliant @aishatuado.bsky.social

Independence Day: the President's pen bleeds
across three hundred pages—each zero burns
a mouth unfed, each subsection feeds

the petroleum wells. Alaska's tundra turns
to wound beneath the drill's metallic weight.
The diabetic woman holds her vial, learns

three doses left. Her kidneys cannot wait
while Congress pops champagne over the debt—
three trillion our children's blood will navigate.

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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · Aug 21

They called it beautiful, this bill that turns cupboards into graveyards and hospitals into ghosts. "Alaska's tundra cracks beneath the weight of drills that puncture permafrost—each wellhead a monument to extinction's acceleration."

Read the full poem here:
www.aroko.world/matricide/

Matricide

On July 4th 2025, America murdered its safety net: Medicaid gutted, food stamps slashed, Arctic drilled—all for billionaire tax cuts. "The cupboards testify: nothing grows in hunger's house.”

www.aroko.world

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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · Aug 20

Here's your reminder to pay your local library a visit–you never know what you might uncover!

When’s the last time you dreamed? Collaging on a Budget

Zariah Cameron continues her adventures in creativity, all through her experiences at the local library.

www.aroko.world

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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · Aug 18

@zariah-cam.bsky.social is your guide for making the most out of your local library.

When’s the last time you dreamed? Collaging on a Budget

Zariah Cameron continues her adventures in creativity, all through her experiences at the local library.

www.aroko.world

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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · Aug 18

@zariah-cam.bsky.social is your guide for making the most out of your local library.

When’s the last time you dreamed? Collaging on a Budget

Zariah Cameron continues her adventures in creativity, all through her experiences at the local library.

www.aroko.world

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · Aug 10

Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians

Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

www.theguardian.com

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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · Aug 8

@shakeil.bsky.social goes in on the best, worst, and weirdest album covers of the month

The Most Notable Album Covers of July, from Jim Legaxcy to Clipse: Cover Stories

Welcome to Cover Stories, a monthly column celebrating and shading anything and everything related to design and music.

www.aroko.world

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Shakeil @shakeil.bsky.social · Aug 8

Come for my takedown of the horrendous KAWS cover for the Clipse, stay for me singing the praises of Jim Legxacy, gumskool, and Josh Sterling's alternate cover for Let God Sort 'Em Out.

Screenshot that reads, "The KAWS cover feels cynical, designed to elicit a market response more than an emotional one. Josh Sterling’s special edition cover feels far more evocative of the record itself, playing upon Pusha T and Malice’s established dichotomy in tone, and weaves in the religious undertones in a way that is subtle and serious. KAWS on the other hand, reminds us that at a certain level, hip hop is a marketing product, and in 2025 you better be moving vinyl, merch, and anything else you can in order to hit those financial targets. While the refrain, “THIS IS CULTURALLY INAPPROPRIATE,” rings over and over on the record, the KAWS cover feels painfully appropriate."

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Shakeil @shakeil.bsky.social · Aug 8

Getting back in my writing bag over at @aroko.bsky.social! My latest is a new monthly column where I'll be reviewing album covers, music videos, merch, and anything else at the intersection of design and music (with a focus on Black artists).

The Most Notable Album Covers of July, from Jim Legxacy to Clipse: Cover Stories

Welcome to Cover Stories, a monthly column celebrating and shading anything and everything related to design and music.

www.aroko.world

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