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.
today I spent the day discussing photography, types of propaganda, and the Black freedom struggle with 100 young people.
I'm exhausted but also proud to support young people in learning about our history, interpretating our present, and imagining our futures.
I'm exhausted but also proud to support young people in learning about our history, interpretating our present, and imagining our futures.
January 10, 2026 at 9:41 PM
today I spent the day discussing photography, types of propaganda, and the Black freedom struggle with 100 young people.
I'm exhausted but also proud to support young people in learning about our history, interpretating our present, and imagining our futures.
I'm exhausted but also proud to support young people in learning about our history, interpretating our present, and imagining our futures.
a lot of stuff is absolute trash.
yet, like before, we out here dancing and shit.
yet, like before, we out here dancing and shit.
December 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
a lot of stuff is absolute trash.
yet, like before, we out here dancing and shit.
yet, like before, we out here dancing and shit.
yesterday I had the pleasure of visiting The Gay Harlem Renaissance at the New York Historical, @nyhistory.
I appreciate that this ambitious exhibition spotlights how gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual, and queer identities were fundamental aspects of the Harlem Renaissance's vibrancy.
I appreciate that this ambitious exhibition spotlights how gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual, and queer identities were fundamental aspects of the Harlem Renaissance's vibrancy.
December 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
yesterday I had the pleasure of visiting The Gay Harlem Renaissance at the New York Historical, @nyhistory.
I appreciate that this ambitious exhibition spotlights how gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual, and queer identities were fundamental aspects of the Harlem Renaissance's vibrancy.
I appreciate that this ambitious exhibition spotlights how gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual, and queer identities were fundamental aspects of the Harlem Renaissance's vibrancy.
Thanks for highlighting this video!
"Nov. 26, 1925: A Thanksgiving march by the Muskogee Symphony Band of Tulsa."
via poster 100 years ago news, Twitter
"Nov. 26, 1925: A Thanksgiving march by the Muskogee Symphony Band of Tulsa."
via poster 100 years ago news, Twitter
November 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Thanks for highlighting this video!
"Nov. 26, 1925: A Thanksgiving march by the Muskogee Symphony Band of Tulsa."
via poster 100 years ago news, Twitter
"Nov. 26, 1925: A Thanksgiving march by the Muskogee Symphony Band of Tulsa."
via poster 100 years ago news, Twitter
last week at the Schomburg Center's Division of Photographs and Prints we were elated to introduce Chef Carla Hall to collection materials documenting Black foodways.
👩🏾🍳 🙌🏾✨
👩🏾🍳 🙌🏾✨
November 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
last week at the Schomburg Center's Division of Photographs and Prints we were elated to introduce Chef Carla Hall to collection materials documenting Black foodways.
👩🏾🍳 🙌🏾✨
👩🏾🍳 🙌🏾✨
I absolutely love this newspaper from The Black Archives!
Happily I had the opprtunity to meet Jessica De Abreu and Mitchell Esajas of The Black Archives, based in Amsterdam, at Wednesday night's fab Black Europe conference at Columbia University.
Good diaspora energy come through!
Happily I had the opprtunity to meet Jessica De Abreu and Mitchell Esajas of The Black Archives, based in Amsterdam, at Wednesday night's fab Black Europe conference at Columbia University.
Good diaspora energy come through!
November 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I absolutely love this newspaper from The Black Archives!
Happily I had the opprtunity to meet Jessica De Abreu and Mitchell Esajas of The Black Archives, based in Amsterdam, at Wednesday night's fab Black Europe conference at Columbia University.
Good diaspora energy come through!
Happily I had the opprtunity to meet Jessica De Abreu and Mitchell Esajas of The Black Archives, based in Amsterdam, at Wednesday night's fab Black Europe conference at Columbia University.
Good diaspora energy come through!
movement generated art "Let Art Be Training in the Practice of Freedom" by Kyle Goen (IG @ kyledidthis)
𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮
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𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮
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October 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
movement generated art "Let Art Be Training in the Practice of Freedom" by Kyle Goen (IG @ kyledidthis)
𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮
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𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮
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"We were never articulating that stuff as artwork. It was other people who were doing that . . . we were only concerned about making a dent in the AIDS crisis . . . We were making propaganda."
—Marlene McCarty, Gran Fury member
Gran Fury, Kissing Doesn't Kill, 1989, poster, offset lithography
—Marlene McCarty, Gran Fury member
Gran Fury, Kissing Doesn't Kill, 1989, poster, offset lithography
September 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"We were never articulating that stuff as artwork. It was other people who were doing that . . . we were only concerned about making a dent in the AIDS crisis . . . We were making propaganda."
—Marlene McCarty, Gran Fury member
Gran Fury, Kissing Doesn't Kill, 1989, poster, offset lithography
—Marlene McCarty, Gran Fury member
Gran Fury, Kissing Doesn't Kill, 1989, poster, offset lithography
enjoyed a beautiful & restorative evening honoring the 25th anniversary of Dr. Deborah Willis' foundational photography text Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present.
many good souls turned out for the opening of her new exhibition
Reflections in Black: A Reframing
many good souls turned out for the opening of her new exhibition
Reflections in Black: A Reframing
September 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
enjoyed a beautiful & restorative evening honoring the 25th anniversary of Dr. Deborah Willis' foundational photography text Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present.
many good souls turned out for the opening of her new exhibition
Reflections in Black: A Reframing
many good souls turned out for the opening of her new exhibition
Reflections in Black: A Reframing
American Gestapo
mid 20th Century
mid 20th Century
August 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
American Gestapo
mid 20th Century
mid 20th Century
Faith Ringgold, “We Came to America: The American Collection # 1,” 1997. Acrylic on canvas with painted and pieced fabric.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
July 19, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Faith Ringgold, “We Came to America: The American Collection # 1,” 1997. Acrylic on canvas with painted and pieced fabric.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
we out here! celebrating the Schomburg Center's, @schomburgcenter, 100th! surviving and flourishing.
our Centennial party continues throughout 2025 and 2026. join us!
✨🙌🏿🖤
our Centennial party continues throughout 2025 and 2026. join us!
✨🙌🏿🖤
May 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
we out here! celebrating the Schomburg Center's, @schomburgcenter, 100th! surviving and flourishing.
our Centennial party continues throughout 2025 and 2026. join us!
✨🙌🏿🖤
our Centennial party continues throughout 2025 and 2026. join us!
✨🙌🏿🖤
corporate news as "independent"
May 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
corporate news as "independent"
checked out a copy of The African Gaze: Photography, Cinema, and Power by Amy Sall, 2024
I'm excited to learn more about photographers from the continent. they were mostly excluded from my institutionalized studies. so I'm always happy to encounter their work in books, exhibitions, etc.
I'm excited to learn more about photographers from the continent. they were mostly excluded from my institutionalized studies. so I'm always happy to encounter their work in books, exhibitions, etc.
April 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
checked out a copy of The African Gaze: Photography, Cinema, and Power by Amy Sall, 2024
I'm excited to learn more about photographers from the continent. they were mostly excluded from my institutionalized studies. so I'm always happy to encounter their work in books, exhibitions, etc.
I'm excited to learn more about photographers from the continent. they were mostly excluded from my institutionalized studies. so I'm always happy to encounter their work in books, exhibitions, etc.
Dr. Haunani-Kay Trask, a brilliant and fierce leader.
We seriously need more cultural work that speaks to the roots of issues, of existence, especially in these troubling days.
We need more real radical cultural work that fosters community, coalition-building, empowerment, respect.
We seriously need more cultural work that speaks to the roots of issues, of existence, especially in these troubling days.
We need more real radical cultural work that fosters community, coalition-building, empowerment, respect.
February 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Dr. Haunani-Kay Trask, a brilliant and fierce leader.
We seriously need more cultural work that speaks to the roots of issues, of existence, especially in these troubling days.
We need more real radical cultural work that fosters community, coalition-building, empowerment, respect.
We seriously need more cultural work that speaks to the roots of issues, of existence, especially in these troubling days.
We need more real radical cultural work that fosters community, coalition-building, empowerment, respect.
I especially love photos of Dr. King surrounded by people. This 1957 photo by Moneta Sleet features him in conversation with people who traveled to Washington, D.C. for the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom demonstration he co-organized, published in Ebony.
January 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I especially love photos of Dr. King surrounded by people. This 1957 photo by Moneta Sleet features him in conversation with people who traveled to Washington, D.C. for the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom demonstration he co-organized, published in Ebony.
one of several stunning images by Bermudian photojournalist Richard Saunders. I learned of him after arriving at the Schomburg Center, which has a strong collection of his work.
"Palestinian National Dress, April 1970"
sharing the beauty with you.
stop the genocides, ceasefire
"Palestinian National Dress, April 1970"
sharing the beauty with you.
stop the genocides, ceasefire
January 26, 2024 at 1:53 AM
one of several stunning images by Bermudian photojournalist Richard Saunders. I learned of him after arriving at the Schomburg Center, which has a strong collection of his work.
"Palestinian National Dress, April 1970"
sharing the beauty with you.
stop the genocides, ceasefire
"Palestinian National Dress, April 1970"
sharing the beauty with you.
stop the genocides, ceasefire
TODAY - 1/19/24
At 1 pm I'll speak briefly (4 min lightning presentation) at the virtual book launch for Critical Memory Studies: New Approaches, published 2023. I'll share some insights about my essay "Critical Black Memory as Curatorial Praxis and Collective Care."
Event Launch Meeting - Zoom
At 1 pm I'll speak briefly (4 min lightning presentation) at the virtual book launch for Critical Memory Studies: New Approaches, published 2023. I'll share some insights about my essay "Critical Black Memory as Curatorial Praxis and Collective Care."
Event Launch Meeting - Zoom
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Book Launch
Critical Memory Studies: New Approaches
Edited by Brett Ashley Kaplan
Bloomsbury
12 pm US Central Time, January 19th, 2024
Zoom link
Please join us for an online book launch of Critical Memory Studies!
Several contributors will present lightning talks about their contributions to the volume.
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5n3q7lloronbhrydpntene23/bafkreihdgqtuqjovwtdx7iz7fv2rqqiby3tmnfphk7xc7lxbw5vjt2fbs4@jpeg)
January 19, 2024 at 5:13 PM
TODAY - 1/19/24
At 1 pm I'll speak briefly (4 min lightning presentation) at the virtual book launch for Critical Memory Studies: New Approaches, published 2023. I'll share some insights about my essay "Critical Black Memory as Curatorial Praxis and Collective Care."
Event Launch Meeting - Zoom
At 1 pm I'll speak briefly (4 min lightning presentation) at the virtual book launch for Critical Memory Studies: New Approaches, published 2023. I'll share some insights about my essay "Critical Black Memory as Curatorial Praxis and Collective Care."
Event Launch Meeting - Zoom
I love this.
January 7, 2024 at 4:17 PM
I love this.
December 23rd, NYC
December 22, 2023 at 7:12 PM
December 23rd, NYC