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La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)
@artstuffmatters.bsky.social
Cultural worker/curator/art historian
https://latanyasautry.net/
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral http://alturl.com/ajzd5
Social Justice & Museums http://bit.ly/2UG1aUD
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It would be nice if ppl recognized "keeping track of" as a synonym for surveillance.
January 28, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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better things are possible!!
For those following we started this on substack, but thanks to folks who gently called us in, we've moved it to beehiiv.

We appreciate the support and want to thank @angryblacklady.blacksky.app who put out informative videos on the problems of that platform.
January 27, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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In this special issue, Hammer & Hope commissioned the photojournalist Ashley Gilbertson to show us the Trump administration's arrest and deportation campaign.
hammerandhope.org/article/ice-...
December 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
slave catcher thugs

to be correct.

nomenclature.
January 22, 2026 at 3:38 AM
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Faith Ringgold’s 201O portrait of Martin Luther King Jr., currently on display at Jack Shainman Gallery at 46 Lafayette St in New York City. #BlackArt #MLKDay #MLKJr #NYC
January 19, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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Happy MLK Day! Poster by Jesse Purcell from our collaboration with the Poor People's Campaign justseeds.org/product/figh...
January 19, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.
This is so smart. I’m so impressed with all the different ways you’re helping your neighbors.
January 19, 2026 at 12:39 AM
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Happy MLK Day, from Kwame Nkrumah. The Second Emancipation.
January 19, 2026 at 1:14 PM

photo by Benedict Fernandez
Countdown to Eternity, Photographs of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Dr. Benjamin Spock, MLK and Monsignor Rice of Pittsburg march from Riverside Church to the UN, NYC April 17, 1967.
January 19, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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Reminder: Troops are still deployed in NYC subways, under the Biden administration's direction, as ordered by Kathy Hochul, both Dems.

The National Guard is in NYC subways supposedly to "fight crime," even though NYC crime is at close to historic lows🤡

1000 troops have been there since March 2024
January 18, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Minneapolis.
Big props to ya'.
January 18, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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Today the Minneapolis City Council unanimously passed a resolution calling on Governor Walz to enact an eviction moratorium to keep Minneapolis families in their homes to protect them from ICE.
January 16, 2026 at 12:27 AM
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this is one of our best zines. LOL.
January 15, 2026 at 4:55 PM
and pays better
This is easier than actual investigative reporting.
January 15, 2026 at 3:08 PM
it keeps spinning bs/corporate propaganda
and yet
so many people keep venerating it
come on man

how is this real

why are we getting quotes from random people at a small-town bar called Ye Olde Pickle Factory

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
January 15, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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Lemme know when the GoFundMe goes up.
January 14, 2026 at 3:47 AM
where "we" at?
January 14, 2026 at 3:06 AM
where they at?
come get this gorgon!
January 14, 2026 at 3:05 AM
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.
January 13, 2026 at 9:49 PM
"white on white violence"

"?"
I've been telling people that the reason this is happening in no small part is because they see urban white Minnesotans as race traitors. For having a semi-integrated society at all, but also for 2020.
January 14, 2026 at 2:05 AM
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Part of why we are here is that there WERE in fact millions of white people who took to the streets in 2020 after George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and others were killed by the cops. So no it's not the case that white people are just out in the streets now. Fascist white people were ENRAGED by this.
January 13, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Toni Cade Bambara

"Our art, protest, dialogue no longer spring from the impulse to entertain, or to indulge or enlighten the conscience of the enemy; white people, whiteness, or racism; men, maleness, or chauvinism: America or imperialism … depending on your viewpoint and your terror.
January 14, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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America is now at the heavily armed secret police doing warrantless door-to-door house raids in search of undesirable ethnicities and/or political dissenters stage. The difference from well known historical cases is down to scale.
A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis

The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway

They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
January 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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The White House says the Smithsonian Institution must submit materials about current and upcoming exhibitions and events for a review that will determine whether they express "improper ideology." n.pr/4583d8f
Today is the Smithsonian's deadline to give thousands of documents to the White House
The White House says the Smithsonian Institution must submit materials about current and upcoming exhibitions and events for a review that will determine whether they express "improper ideology."
n.pr
January 13, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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More US artists forced to pay for their own shows as museum and culture budgets shrink
More US artists forced to pay for their own shows as museum and culture budgets shrink
A non-profit initiative in Miami exposes the widening funding gap redefining who can afford to exhibit at American institutions
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January 7, 2026 at 9:32 PM