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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 7d

Appreciate you Ali!

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Ali Elabbady @egyptoknuckles.bsky.social · 7d

Spent part of the summer penning a foreword for Back of House, a cookbook written by @ryanstopera.bsky.social & Diana Albrecht, featuring recipes from those who aren’t necessarily deemed chefs, but caretakers of their community.

Available for preorder today: www.ryanstopera.com/shop/p/back-...

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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 7d

Come celebrate our official book release November 8 at Bar Brava! It's going to be a great party with delicious food from Jook Sing, an amazing list of natural wines, a DJ and we'll be signing books all night. You can pre-order Back of House from the link below
www.ryanstopera.com/shop/p/back-...

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ms. maas (she/her) @msmaas.bsky.social · Aug 27

Ghouls already using this tragedy—our city’s 4th shooting in 24 hours—to stoke hate and violence against our trans loves. Please minimize your social media use for the rest of today . . . go outside, love on as many people as you can, and come to Lynnhurst for the 8 pm vigil if you’re able

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Aug 24

NEW: In 40 cities across Australia, an estimated one million people have been on the streets calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza.

These were the scenes in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.

Tens of thousands seen on the Victoria Bridge in Brisbane. A banner at the front reads “March for Palestine”. Photo credit to Getty images.

Tens of thousands are seen filling the streets of Melbourne. Photo credit to Getty images.

1000s are seen filling the streets of Perth in Western Australia. Photo taken on a balcony looking down to the street. Photo credit to Getty images.

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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · Aug 22

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Aug 10

Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · Jul 27

“Comics were the first ones to punch Nazis before movies. They are inherently political. One thing they want to do is erase the past, but that’s one thing that this museum celebrates.” Guillermo del Toro at San Diego Comi-con on the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art

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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · Jul 21

Reading this powerful book in front of half dome is giving me life
@rlmartstudio.bsky.social

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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · Jul 19

Most people haven’t seen The Strange Thing About the Johnsons, but if they have it makes sense why Ari Aster is so bad at writing anything about race or creating characters of color with any depth

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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · Jun 23

Thank you for blessing the book, Ali. Appreciate you!

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Ali Elabbady @egyptoknuckles.bsky.social · Jun 23

The big news in three photos: I wrote the foreword for @ryanstopera.bsky.social & Diana Albrecht’s cookbook “Back of House” coming out in November 2025.

A community meal & celebration is taking place as they send the book off to print. Details below.

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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · May 9

Thank you for an essential conversation as we approach what’s going to be an intense summer
@bullycreative.bsky.social
Nadia Shaawari
Lorenzo Suerna
Sadie Luetmer

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Clarkisha Kent @clarkishakent.blacksky.app · May 3

If you were curious about how Ryan Coogler and his team constructed that musical sequence in Sinners, here’s a clip of him explaining it.

(Via The NY Times 😒)

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · Apr 23

Update!

Over 1750 people have signed up for the Resistance Summer School pilot course!

This is the seed to a new movement and parallel education structure.

It won't put participants in lifelong student debt. Or be subject to attacks on diversity.

karenattiah.substack.com/p/columbia-c...

Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway.

This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.

karenattiah.substack.com

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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · Apr 20

Nice seats homie

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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · Apr 16

Timeline cleanse

Public Functionary and Cinefilmu are hosting Open Screen: The Forum, a three-week gathering of filmmakers, photographers, and artists who see image-making as a means for connection and resistance. All screenings, workshops and panels are FREE

publicfunctionary.org/openscreenfo...

Open Screen: The Forum — Public Functionary

Open Screen: The Forum is a three-week gathering of filmmakers, photographers, and artists who see image-making as a means for connection, resistance, and cultural storytelling at Public Functionary ...

publicfunctionary.org

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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · Apr 11

Thank you so much, Allegra. Appreciate you

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Allegra Lockstadt (she/her) @alockstadt.bsky.social · Apr 11

MPLS/STP pals! If you are in a spot to support a project:
I'd appreciate it if you could lend a few dollars to support @ryanstopera.bsky.social and Diana Albrecht's Back of House book project:

Back of House — Diana Albrecht

www.diana-albrecht.com

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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · Apr 2

The Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival kicks off tonight with a screening of Free Leonard Peltier. Next Wednesday The People’s Way premieres. There are so many great films this year @mspiff.bsky.social

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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · Mar 13

No idea it’s the most obscure campaign messaging I’ve seen in awhile

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tru @thetrudz.photo · Mar 9

Toni Morrison:

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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · Mar 8

Please see Mickey 17 in a theater. For some reason Warner Bros is doing a terrible job at promoting this film. We need more political satire in all forms of art right now. Anti capitalist/colonialist sentiments while still maintaining some levity is how we just might get through the next four years.

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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · Mar 4

The poorest families receive an average of $26,000 a year from the government whereas the top richest families get $36,000 a year from the government.
Collecting unpaid federal income taxes from the top 1% would bring in some $175 billion a year.

- Matthew Desmond

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Matthew Desmond - “Poverty, by America” & What It Takes to Close the Poverty Gap | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Mar 3

"No Other Land," the Palestinian-Israeli made film showing the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers, just won the Oscar for Best Documentary.

It can't get a distributor in the US.

Which tells you everything about censorship in the US.

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