Chahta Shaw
@chahtashaw.bsky.social
Museum professional, Chahta ohoyo, mom, wife, reader, writer and maker of all things delicious.
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We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.
June 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.
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The history of protest music is often incorrectly associated with men.
5 Women Musicians Behind Legendary Protest Songs
From Joan Baez to Nina Simone.
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March 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The history of protest music is often incorrectly associated with men.
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If you care about preserving online resources being scrubbed from federal gov't websites, support the work of the Internet Archive. I've used it for teaching, research, and writing. I donated & hope you will, too.
archive.org
archive.org
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
March 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
If you care about preserving online resources being scrubbed from federal gov't websites, support the work of the Internet Archive. I've used it for teaching, research, and writing. I donated & hope you will, too.
archive.org
archive.org
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I love to call my Senators' offices three times per week and try to cajole them into doing the most elementary political messaging and strategy. This is what it means to be an engaged citizen: leaving a strenuously polite voicemail for a 74yo on a more regular cadence than I talk to my parents.
March 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I love to call my Senators' offices three times per week and try to cajole them into doing the most elementary political messaging and strategy. This is what it means to be an engaged citizen: leaving a strenuously polite voicemail for a 74yo on a more regular cadence than I talk to my parents.
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This Elvis Costello lyric hits hard these days:
Man goes beyond his own decision
Gets caught up in the mechanism
Of swindlers who act like kings
And brokers who break everything
Man goes beyond his own decision
Gets caught up in the mechanism
Of swindlers who act like kings
And brokers who break everything
March 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This Elvis Costello lyric hits hard these days:
Man goes beyond his own decision
Gets caught up in the mechanism
Of swindlers who act like kings
And brokers who break everything
Man goes beyond his own decision
Gets caught up in the mechanism
Of swindlers who act like kings
And brokers who break everything
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My latest piece for @teenvogue.com delves into the horrific story of popular skincare ingredient Retin-A.
Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia, without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.
Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia, without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.
The miraculous wrinkle-erasing, acne-fighting cream, is the result of decades of horrifying medical abuse.
The Horrifying History Behind a Beloved Skin-Care Ingredient
Retin-A was developed through tests on incarcerated people.
www.teenvogue.com
March 1, 2025 at 11:09 PM
My latest piece for @teenvogue.com delves into the horrific story of popular skincare ingredient Retin-A.
Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia, without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.
Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia, without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.
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For her performance of "Strange Fruit" a song about lynching African American people, she would silence the crowd, a spotlight on her face. On the final note, all lights went out and she was gone....
Singer Billie Holiday,1947 #WomensArt
(Image by D.Hagerman)
Singer Billie Holiday,1947 #WomensArt
(Image by D.Hagerman)
February 27, 2025 at 7:07 AM
For her performance of "Strange Fruit" a song about lynching African American people, she would silence the crowd, a spotlight on her face. On the final note, all lights went out and she was gone....
Singer Billie Holiday,1947 #WomensArt
(Image by D.Hagerman)
Singer Billie Holiday,1947 #WomensArt
(Image by D.Hagerman)
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Happy Valentine’s Day! Take a moment to tell your loved ones ‘I love you’—and bless them by doing it in your Native language.
February 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Happy Valentine’s Day! Take a moment to tell your loved ones ‘I love you’—and bless them by doing it in your Native language.
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The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
February 14, 2025 at 7:07 AM
The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
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Nex Benedict has been gone a year. What have we learned? ⤵️
A Year Without Nex Benedict
"We are saying that the rhetoric is just as damaging as the bullet or the blow."
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February 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Nex Benedict has been gone a year. What have we learned? ⤵️
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You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
February 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
Being sick as a mom sucks because there’s no one to take care of you. So, I texted my mom for comfort. Im 47. Thank you for humoring me, mama. ❤️
February 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Being sick as a mom sucks because there’s no one to take care of you. So, I texted my mom for comfort. Im 47. Thank you for humoring me, mama. ❤️
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check on people
they are not okay
even the strong ones
I am not okay
I joke a lot
I hide it
but be nice
check on
your peoples
they are not okay
even the strong ones
I am not okay
I joke a lot
I hide it
but be nice
check on
your peoples
January 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
check on people
they are not okay
even the strong ones
I am not okay
I joke a lot
I hide it
but be nice
check on
your peoples
they are not okay
even the strong ones
I am not okay
I joke a lot
I hide it
but be nice
check on
your peoples
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Few material things can provide perspective. This does for me.
Photo of Otto Frank, returning to his family’s hiding place. In 1944, an informant betrayed them and the family was sent to Auschwitz.
His wife (Edith) was murdered, his daughters (Margot & Anne) died of Typhus.
Photo of Otto Frank, returning to his family’s hiding place. In 1944, an informant betrayed them and the family was sent to Auschwitz.
His wife (Edith) was murdered, his daughters (Margot & Anne) died of Typhus.
January 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Few material things can provide perspective. This does for me.
Photo of Otto Frank, returning to his family’s hiding place. In 1944, an informant betrayed them and the family was sent to Auschwitz.
His wife (Edith) was murdered, his daughters (Margot & Anne) died of Typhus.
Photo of Otto Frank, returning to his family’s hiding place. In 1944, an informant betrayed them and the family was sent to Auschwitz.
His wife (Edith) was murdered, his daughters (Margot & Anne) died of Typhus.
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A Complete Unknown opening scene, immortalized in metal
January 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
A Complete Unknown opening scene, immortalized in metal
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This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.
Pete Seeger’s banjo. @woodyguthriecenter.bsky.social
Pete Seeger’s banjo. @woodyguthriecenter.bsky.social
January 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.
Pete Seeger’s banjo. @woodyguthriecenter.bsky.social
Pete Seeger’s banjo. @woodyguthriecenter.bsky.social
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“Lord knows, I never sing nor play one single word or note that is not for the help of the working classes to know more, feel better, rise up, and to own and control this world that they have built.”
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January 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
“Lord knows, I never sing nor play one single word or note that is not for the help of the working classes to know more, feel better, rise up, and to own and control this world that they have built.”
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laws aren’t real. solidarity is.
January 20, 2025 at 10:41 PM
laws aren’t real. solidarity is.
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“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King
- Dr. Martin Luther King
January 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King
- Dr. Martin Luther King
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I remember the hope her words brought. I'm still clinging to those words today. Be brave today....I may say that to you, but I am really saying that for myself too. Be brave.
January 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I remember the hope her words brought. I'm still clinging to those words today. Be brave today....I may say that to you, but I am really saying that for myself too. Be brave.
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In a world of Kid Rocks and Carrie Underwoods, be a Woody Guthrie.
January 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
In a world of Kid Rocks and Carrie Underwoods, be a Woody Guthrie.
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In August, I spent a week in Longyearbyen, a former Norwegian mining camp that’s now the northernmost settlement in the world, to dig into the region’s coal-fueled past—and its current uncertain position as a geopolitical hotspot. New story for Atmos: atmos.earth/the-worlds-n...
The World’s Northernmost Coal Mine Closing Is Good News… Right? | Atmos
As Norway shutters its last coal mine, locals who remain in Svalbard fear they’re being left helpless against an encroaching Russia.
atmos.earth
January 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
In August, I spent a week in Longyearbyen, a former Norwegian mining camp that’s now the northernmost settlement in the world, to dig into the region’s coal-fueled past—and its current uncertain position as a geopolitical hotspot. New story for Atmos: atmos.earth/the-worlds-n...
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Women, Aliens, and Dangerous Things: Female Bodies in ALIEN 3
Women, Aliens, and Dangerous Things: Female Bodies in Alien 3
Alien 3, more than any other Alien movie, is aware of Ripley’s existence as a woman, and the unique and universal horrors that come with the territory of inhabiting a woman’s body.
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January 13, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Women, Aliens, and Dangerous Things: Female Bodies in ALIEN 3
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Guitar Center Foundation is helping musicians replace instruments that were lost in LA fires guitarcenterfoundation.org/fires/?fbcli...
January 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Guitar Center Foundation is helping musicians replace instruments that were lost in LA fires guitarcenterfoundation.org/fires/?fbcli...