Kimberly Van Munching
@herdarkmaterials.bsky.social
I’m trying to make all the things. This is my note pad. 🪡🧵🧶🌈🇵🇸🌹
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We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights.
There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us.
This is my favorite guide.
There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us.
This is my favorite guide.
CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNC
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January 24, 2026 at 7:54 PM
We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights.
There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us.
This is my favorite guide.
There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us.
This is my favorite guide.
Reposted by Kimberly Van Munching
Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.
January 24, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.
Bishop blessing an anchoress. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 079, f. 96r.
An anchoress was a religious woman who chose to be walled into a small cell in order to live a life of contemplation and honesty…I can see the appeal.
An anchoress was a religious woman who chose to be walled into a small cell in order to live a life of contemplation and honesty…I can see the appeal.
January 19, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Bishop blessing an anchoress. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 079, f. 96r.
An anchoress was a religious woman who chose to be walled into a small cell in order to live a life of contemplation and honesty…I can see the appeal.
An anchoress was a religious woman who chose to be walled into a small cell in order to live a life of contemplation and honesty…I can see the appeal.
When I volunteered to donate blood at my local YMCA I didn’t know it would involve lying here listening to the Eagles. I was tricked. This is torture.
January 17, 2026 at 6:00 PM
When I volunteered to donate blood at my local YMCA I didn’t know it would involve lying here listening to the Eagles. I was tricked. This is torture.
Oasa DuVerney
Black Power Wave as Bodhisattva Manjushri Sankofa, 2023
Graphite on hand-cut paper (courtesy the artist and Welancora Gallery)
Wish I were in San Francisco for “Unbound: Art, Blackness, & the Universe” at the Museum of the African Diaspora (10.1.25 - 8.16.26)
Black Power Wave as Bodhisattva Manjushri Sankofa, 2023
Graphite on hand-cut paper (courtesy the artist and Welancora Gallery)
Wish I were in San Francisco for “Unbound: Art, Blackness, & the Universe” at the Museum of the African Diaspora (10.1.25 - 8.16.26)
January 17, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Oasa DuVerney
Black Power Wave as Bodhisattva Manjushri Sankofa, 2023
Graphite on hand-cut paper (courtesy the artist and Welancora Gallery)
Wish I were in San Francisco for “Unbound: Art, Blackness, & the Universe” at the Museum of the African Diaspora (10.1.25 - 8.16.26)
Black Power Wave as Bodhisattva Manjushri Sankofa, 2023
Graphite on hand-cut paper (courtesy the artist and Welancora Gallery)
Wish I were in San Francisco for “Unbound: Art, Blackness, & the Universe” at the Museum of the African Diaspora (10.1.25 - 8.16.26)
From the Daily Mirror, 1905.
January 13, 2026 at 1:09 AM
From the Daily Mirror, 1905.
Reposted by Kimberly Van Munching
Abolish ICE, Minneapolis, everywhere.
(Pen and ink and marker on paper)
(Pen and ink and marker on paper)
January 7, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Abolish ICE, Minneapolis, everywhere.
(Pen and ink and marker on paper)
(Pen and ink and marker on paper)
Minnie Evans
Untitled (Day to Night with Beasts and Angels)
1966
See The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans
Nov 14, 2025 – April 19, 2026
At the High Museum in Atlanta
Untitled (Day to Night with Beasts and Angels)
1966
See The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans
Nov 14, 2025 – April 19, 2026
At the High Museum in Atlanta
January 9, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Minnie Evans
Untitled (Day to Night with Beasts and Angels)
1966
See The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans
Nov 14, 2025 – April 19, 2026
At the High Museum in Atlanta
Untitled (Day to Night with Beasts and Angels)
1966
See The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans
Nov 14, 2025 – April 19, 2026
At the High Museum in Atlanta
Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, 1922/23
“Despite all my experiences, I’m stupid enough to believe in humanity.”
“Despite all my experiences, I’m stupid enough to believe in humanity.”
January 5, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, 1922/23
“Despite all my experiences, I’m stupid enough to believe in humanity.”
“Despite all my experiences, I’m stupid enough to believe in humanity.”
An illustration from Christine de Pizan's “The Book of the City of Ladies,” 1405 (thank you JSTOR)
January 1, 2026 at 8:31 PM
An illustration from Christine de Pizan's “The Book of the City of Ladies,” 1405 (thank you JSTOR)
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I am putting my art up in public for everyone. Pen and ink and color pencil on cardboard. Abolish ICE.
December 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I am putting my art up in public for everyone. Pen and ink and color pencil on cardboard. Abolish ICE.
A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Anson, Texas, April 28, 2025 (© Reuters/Paul Ratje) via Hyperallergic
December 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Anson, Texas, April 28, 2025 (© Reuters/Paul Ratje) via Hyperallergic
The mister and I just finished our weekly grocery deliveries to ICE-effected families. Loads of college kids on winter break pitching in. It was lovely. ❤️
December 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The mister and I just finished our weekly grocery deliveries to ICE-effected families. Loads of college kids on winter break pitching in. It was lovely. ❤️
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URGENT ACTION! #SaudiArabia: Stop deportation of Abdulrahman Al-Khalidi from #Bulgaria and address serious deterioration of his health
On 26 March 2025, Sofia Administrative Court ordered his release but he's still suffering in a deportation centre. Let him go free!
gc4hr.org/actions/stop...
On 26 March 2025, Sofia Administrative Court ordered his release but he's still suffering in a deportation centre. Let him go free!
gc4hr.org/actions/stop...
May 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
URGENT ACTION! #SaudiArabia: Stop deportation of Abdulrahman Al-Khalidi from #Bulgaria and address serious deterioration of his health
On 26 March 2025, Sofia Administrative Court ordered his release but he's still suffering in a deportation centre. Let him go free!
gc4hr.org/actions/stop...
On 26 March 2025, Sofia Administrative Court ordered his release but he's still suffering in a deportation centre. Let him go free!
gc4hr.org/actions/stop...
Victorians designed the best Christmas cards
December 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Victorians designed the best Christmas cards
Kent Monkman
Miss America
2012
Miss America
2012
December 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Kent Monkman
Miss America
2012
Miss America
2012
Shahzia Sikander
Fleshy Weapons, 1997
Acrylic on Linen
8.5 X 5.5 Feet
Fleshy Weapons, 1997
Acrylic on Linen
8.5 X 5.5 Feet
December 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Shahzia Sikander
Fleshy Weapons, 1997
Acrylic on Linen
8.5 X 5.5 Feet
Fleshy Weapons, 1997
Acrylic on Linen
8.5 X 5.5 Feet
W. E. B. Du Bois's “Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America” is one of the books on my Christmas list.
December 23, 2025 at 1:37 AM
W. E. B. Du Bois's “Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America” is one of the books on my Christmas list.
What power art thou, who from below
Hast made me rise unwillingly and slow
From beds of everlasting snow?
See'st thou not how stiff and wondrous old
Far unfit to bear the bitter cold,
I can scarcely move or draw my breath?
Let me, let me freeze again to death.
youtu.be/uwbFDoXpDZU?...
Hast made me rise unwillingly and slow
From beds of everlasting snow?
See'st thou not how stiff and wondrous old
Far unfit to bear the bitter cold,
I can scarcely move or draw my breath?
Let me, let me freeze again to death.
youtu.be/uwbFDoXpDZU?...
Purcell: The Cold Song (What Power Art Thou) - (Neil Balfour)
YouTube video by Neil Balfour
youtu.be
December 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
What power art thou, who from below
Hast made me rise unwillingly and slow
From beds of everlasting snow?
See'st thou not how stiff and wondrous old
Far unfit to bear the bitter cold,
I can scarcely move or draw my breath?
Let me, let me freeze again to death.
youtu.be/uwbFDoXpDZU?...
Hast made me rise unwillingly and slow
From beds of everlasting snow?
See'st thou not how stiff and wondrous old
Far unfit to bear the bitter cold,
I can scarcely move or draw my breath?
Let me, let me freeze again to death.
youtu.be/uwbFDoXpDZU?...
The woman sitting next to me in this doctor’s waiting room has not disengaged the texting sound on her iPhone and I am outraged.
PS She’s texting madly right now LADY COME ON
PS She’s texting madly right now LADY COME ON
December 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The woman sitting next to me in this doctor’s waiting room has not disengaged the texting sound on her iPhone and I am outraged.
PS She’s texting madly right now LADY COME ON
PS She’s texting madly right now LADY COME ON
Chris Ofili
The Great Beauty (2020–2023)
The Great Beauty (2020–2023)
December 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Chris Ofili
The Great Beauty (2020–2023)
The Great Beauty (2020–2023)
Arthur Hacker
Annunciation
1892
Annunciation
1892
December 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Arthur Hacker
Annunciation
1892
Annunciation
1892
Goblin napping
December 16, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Goblin napping
Today the mister and I went to see Ursula von Rydingsvar’s gloriously heroic cedar sculptures at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT. The exhibit is worth the train ride from NYC.
“Ursula von Rydingsvard: states of becoming,” curated by Margarita Karasoulas, November 28, 2025–May 10, 2026
“Ursula von Rydingsvard: states of becoming,” curated by Margarita Karasoulas, November 28, 2025–May 10, 2026
December 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Today the mister and I went to see Ursula von Rydingsvar’s gloriously heroic cedar sculptures at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT. The exhibit is worth the train ride from NYC.
“Ursula von Rydingsvard: states of becoming,” curated by Margarita Karasoulas, November 28, 2025–May 10, 2026
“Ursula von Rydingsvard: states of becoming,” curated by Margarita Karasoulas, November 28, 2025–May 10, 2026
Another mass shooting; this time at Brown. My son is safe, but I am sick at heart. And furious. Because nothing ever changes.
Antifa is not a terrorist organization but the NRA is.
Antifa is not a terrorist organization but the NRA is.
December 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Another mass shooting; this time at Brown. My son is safe, but I am sick at heart. And furious. Because nothing ever changes.
Antifa is not a terrorist organization but the NRA is.
Antifa is not a terrorist organization but the NRA is.