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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 1d

Well this was devastating.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 2d

#OtD 6 Oct 1912 Emma Goldman began to hold a Yiddish and English Sunday lecture series in New York City on topics including psychology, the failings of democracy, economic efficiency, venereal disease and more . Check out this selection of her writings: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 4d

Just completed.

percy pig destroyer @owenlj.bsky.social · 4d

Save this public consultation from being overrun by bigots.

Abject Permanence @misslucyp.bsky.social · 4d

This survey is about trans men and women's access to Hampstead heath bathing ponds - please fill out, it's really quick and you don't need to live in N London to respond

hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...

Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 5d

Grateful to have got through the week having managed to end it with a haircut.

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 6d

Cut vinyl text in exhibitions is the bane of every install.

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 7d

Always loved, and will continue, Rachel's. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

‘People seemed deeply insulted’: how cult 90s band Rachel’s took chamber music out of the classical world

The graceful ensemble prefigured the neo-classical phenomenon and found surprising success in the post-Nirvana alt-rock boom. After the deaths of two members, reissuing their debut has proven bittersw...

www.theguardian.com

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 8d

We're happy to see that this important project covering the plight of journalists in Gaza has been recognised with an award. You can read Bellingcat's contribution here, which includes explorable 3D models of Jabalia Refugee Camp and Al-Shati Refugee Camp. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/03...

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The Cut @thecut.com · 8d

‘I don’t think it’s possible to find a genocide-life balance,’ Plestia Alaqad tells The Cut. In her memoir, ‘The Eyes of Gaza,’ the 23-year-old journalist who documented Israel’s bombardment for an audience of millions grapples with leaving her home.

A Diary of Survival

‘I don’t think it’s possible to find a genocide-life balance,’ Plestia Alaqad tells The Cut. In her memoir, ‘The Eyes of Gaza,’ the 23-year-old journalist who documented Israel’s bombardment for an audience of millions grapples with leaving her home.

www.thecut.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 9d

A lot of people seem to be under the impression that this is the plan unveiled today but this is the Blair sponsored AI slop that BCG made out of commission months ago and has ever since tried to disavow itself from

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 9d

This is what Blair’s team created together with BCG

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 8d

The British Labour Party's membership voted for a resolution deeming the war on Gaza a genocide, urging the Labour government to recognize it as such and take further action against Israel.

UK Labour Party members vote to recognise Gaza genocide at conference

The move adds pressure on the UK government, led by Keir Starmer, which has been slammed over its stance on Gaza war.

www.aljazeera.com

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Tijana Stevanović @tijana.bsky.social · 9d

Dear community, erasing our Academia online profiles is just a start. this symposium on collective infrastructures and feminist approaches to publishing on4th Oct in London provides hopeful alternatives

Collective Infrastructures for Publishing

4 October 2025, 12:30 to 18:00 BST: A hybrid symposium sharing insights gathered from the ongoing ‘ServPub’ experimental book pilot project. We will be discussing experimental tools, non-extractive pr...

copim.pubpub.org

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 10d

Forgot to add: edits (again) for a peer-review essay that has nearly killed me. All I want is some research time of my own..

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 10d

So far today: grocery shopping, meal prep for part of the week, emails, scheduling, trying to work despite lack of sleep.

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 10d

40s are amazing. The decades get better and better.

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 11d

The foxes 🦊 are really going for it tonight.

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 11d

So the V&A Storehouse is not a good place to go if you experience vertigo.

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 12d

Would love to read but don’t have access.

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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 12d

Assata Shakur exchanged letters with Audre Lorde from prison, and Lorde wrote for her the poem "For Assata":

I dream of your freedom
as my victory
and the victory of all dark women
who forego the vanities of silence

👇Here's the whole poem

For Assata
New Brunswick Prison, 1977

In this new picture your smile has been to war
you are almost obscured by other faces
on the pages
those shadows are sisters
who have not yet spoken
your face is in shadow
obscured by the half-dark
by the thick bars running across your eyes
like sentinels
all the baby fat has been burned away
like a luxury your body let go
reluctantly
the corners of your mouth turn down
I cannot look into your eyes
who are all those others
behind you
the shadows are growing lighter
and more confusing.

I dream of your freedom
as my victory
and the victory of all dark women
who forego the vanities of silence
who war and weep
sometimes against our selves
in each other
rather than our enemies
falsehoods
Assata my sister warrior
Joan of Arc and Yaa Asantewa
embrace
at the back of your cell.

By Audre Lorde

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 12d

I know, exactly! It was simple (a little visually clunky), but more than the sum of its parts. You can still access the archived site via the Wayback Machine btw. We fought the change for as long as we could but once legal got involved it was over. web.archive.org/web/20230927...

Chelsea Space

Chelsea Space is a public exhibiting space located inside of Chelsea College of Art and Design. Director of Exhibitions is Donald Smith.

web.archive.org

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 12d

"share files without duplication" they said. Now everyone has to create a local and an online versions of everything. Plus the ones lost to whatever onedrive folder someone added to because no one recognises file paths anymore..

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 12d

But without any visibility, all our work on public programming is obscured. This is one of many obstacles in the path. Some days the collective obstructions seem both ridiculous and ultimately debilitating. Finding workarounds is hard and puts you at odds.

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 12d

But in general, most things aren't working well. As a gallery we were forced to close our independent website (as part of legal compliance). Now we can't create or update webpages and the ones that are there keep disappearing. This seems small.

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 12d

As someone who works as both an academic and a curator at a university, the level of inoperability of systems, seems to me to be at its highest. Aided somewhat by sharepoint and onedrive.

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 13d

The eternal return of Tories

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Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social · 13d

Just endlessly oscillating though these bullshit ideas —

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