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
https://latanyasautry.net/
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral http://alturl.com/ajzd5
Social Justice & Museums http://bit.ly/2UG1aUD
recalling
Carrie Mae Weems opened her "Contested Sites of Memory" performance w/ discussing 🧊. this thoughtful and moving address introduced her thoughts on histories of disenfranchisement and violence, struggles for parity and the ability to live, and hopes for reconnection and social betterment.
Carrie Mae Weems opened her "Contested Sites of Memory" performance w/ discussing 🧊. this thoughtful and moving address introduced her thoughts on histories of disenfranchisement and violence, struggles for parity and the ability to live, and hopes for reconnection and social betterment.
February 3, 2026 at 4:33 AM
recalling
Carrie Mae Weems opened her "Contested Sites of Memory" performance w/ discussing 🧊. this thoughtful and moving address introduced her thoughts on histories of disenfranchisement and violence, struggles for parity and the ability to live, and hopes for reconnection and social betterment.
Carrie Mae Weems opened her "Contested Sites of Memory" performance w/ discussing 🧊. this thoughtful and moving address introduced her thoughts on histories of disenfranchisement and violence, struggles for parity and the ability to live, and hopes for reconnection and social betterment.
"....enslavement must be casual wrath and random manglings, the gashing of heads and brains blown out over the river as the body seeks to escape. It must be rape so regular as to be industrial."
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭"
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭"
February 3, 2026 at 3:12 AM
"....enslavement must be casual wrath and random manglings, the gashing of heads and brains blown out over the river as the body seeks to escape. It must be rape so regular as to be industrial."
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭"
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭"
I recall this a lot --
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage. Enslavement was not merely the antiseptic borrowing of labor—it is not so easy to get a human being to commit their body against its own elemental interest.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage. Enslavement was not merely the antiseptic borrowing of labor—it is not so easy to get a human being to commit their body against its own elemental interest.
February 3, 2026 at 3:09 AM
I recall this a lot --
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage. Enslavement was not merely the antiseptic borrowing of labor—it is not so easy to get a human being to commit their body against its own elemental interest.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage. Enslavement was not merely the antiseptic borrowing of labor—it is not so easy to get a human being to commit their body against its own elemental interest.
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Next Thursday 2/5 at the Schomburg Center at 6:30 EST, we will be having a timely conversation on "Policing Blackness: Resisting Repression, Police Violence & Surveillance" with LaShawn Harris, Joshua Clark Davis, Aaron Fountain, and Brittany Friedman. Please join us in person or online!
January 27, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Next Thursday 2/5 at the Schomburg Center at 6:30 EST, we will be having a timely conversation on "Policing Blackness: Resisting Repression, Police Violence & Surveillance" with LaShawn Harris, Joshua Clark Davis, Aaron Fountain, and Brittany Friedman. Please join us in person or online!
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Collaborators make it work.
Empire could not exist without them.
Empire could not exist without them.
February 2, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Collaborators make it work.
Empire could not exist without them.
Empire could not exist without them.
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The 2026 edition of @blackfilmarchive.bsky.social's 28 Films for the 28 Days of Black History Month is out. A good number of these are available online for free. Thank you @mayascade.bsky.social 🖤
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM2026
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM2026
28 Films for the 28 Days of Black History Month
28 Films to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Black History Month
blackfilmarchive.substack.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:01 AM
The 2026 edition of @blackfilmarchive.bsky.social's 28 Films for the 28 Days of Black History Month is out. A good number of these are available online for free. Thank you @mayascade.bsky.social 🖤
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM2026
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM2026
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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
It would be nice if ppl recognized "keeping track of" as a synonym for surveillance.
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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.
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
better things are possible!!
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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-...
hammerandhope.org/article/ice-...
December 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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-...
hammerandhope.org/article/ice-...
slave catcher thugs
to be correct.
nomenclature.
to be correct.
nomenclature.
January 22, 2026 at 3:38 AM
slave catcher thugs
to be correct.
nomenclature.
to be correct.
nomenclature.
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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
Happy MLK Day! Poster by Jesse Purcell from our collaboration with the Poor People's Campaign justseeds.org/product/figh...
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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
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.
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Happy MLK Day, from Kwame Nkrumah. The Second Emancipation.
January 19, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Happy MLK Day, from Kwame Nkrumah. The Second Emancipation.
❤
photo by Benedict Fernandez
Countdown to Eternity, Photographs of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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
❤
photo by Benedict Fernandez
Countdown to Eternity, Photographs of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
photo by Benedict Fernandez
Countdown to Eternity, Photographs of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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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
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
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
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
Minneapolis.
Big props to ya'.
Big props to ya'.
January 18, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Minneapolis.
Big props to ya'.
Big props to ya'.
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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
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.
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this is one of our best zines. LOL.
"White People Hate Protests: A Zine" by @prisonculture.bsky.social
www.usprisonculture.com/2018/02/28/w...
bsky.app/profile/jord...
www.usprisonculture.com/2018/02/28/w...
bsky.app/profile/jord...
January 15, 2026 at 4:55 PM
this is one of our best zines. LOL.
and pays better
This is easier than actual investigative reporting.
January 15, 2026 at 3:08 PM
and pays better
it keeps spinning bs/corporate propaganda
and yet
so many people keep venerating it
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...
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
it keeps spinning bs/corporate propaganda
and yet
so many people keep venerating it
and yet
so many people keep venerating it
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Lemme know when the GoFundMe goes up.
The Michigan auto worker who was flipped off by Trump after heckling him has reportedly been suspended
A Ford worker called out Trump. The president flipped him off. Now, he's been suspended. • Michigan Advance
A union-backed auto worker at Ford Motor Co. was caught on video heckling President Donald Trump when he visited a Dearborn factory on Tuesday ahead of his address to the Detroit Economic Club. The vi...
michiganadvance.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:47 AM
Lemme know when the GoFundMe goes up.
where "we" at?
January 14, 2026 at 3:06 AM
where "we" at?
where they at?
come get this gorgon!
come get this gorgon!
January 14, 2026 at 3:05 AM
where they at?
come get this gorgon!
come get this gorgon!
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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
WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.