Russell Patrick Brown, PhD
@timedancers.org
Romani Survival Embodiment
Dance • Strength • Recovery
Harper, Engineer, Researcher, Multi-disciplinary Artist
Dance • Strength • Recovery
Harper, Engineer, Researcher, Multi-disciplinary Artist
Hi BlueSky!
I’m a harper, dancer, software engineer, fortune teller, dance PhD and Romani gay man living with disabilities. I write about how traveling traditions sustain life in unstable times.
My work looks at:
• Code as choreography for machines
• Choreography as social code
I’m a harper, dancer, software engineer, fortune teller, dance PhD and Romani gay man living with disabilities. I write about how traveling traditions sustain life in unstable times.
My work looks at:
• Code as choreography for machines
• Choreography as social code
January 19, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Hi BlueSky!
I’m a harper, dancer, software engineer, fortune teller, dance PhD and Romani gay man living with disabilities. I write about how traveling traditions sustain life in unstable times.
My work looks at:
• Code as choreography for machines
• Choreography as social code
I’m a harper, dancer, software engineer, fortune teller, dance PhD and Romani gay man living with disabilities. I write about how traveling traditions sustain life in unstable times.
My work looks at:
• Code as choreography for machines
• Choreography as social code
For those looking to help US Americans resist, I wrote a piece on “meaningful participation”. It emerged because some have asked me what they can do.
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January 9, 2026 at 10:49 PM
For those looking to help US Americans resist, I wrote a piece on “meaningful participation”. It emerged because some have asked me what they can do.
newsletter.timedancers.org/p/what-you-c...
newsletter.timedancers.org/p/what-you-c...
Fellow Americans. If you do not act now we will surely lose our chance to act peacefully. If you work for the bad guys, please leave your employment. I quit in July. Disinvest. I pulled my funds out of war. You know who you are if you can do these things. Now is the time.
January 5, 2026 at 5:53 AM
Fellow Americans. If you do not act now we will surely lose our chance to act peacefully. If you work for the bad guys, please leave your employment. I quit in July. Disinvest. I pulled my funds out of war. You know who you are if you can do these things. Now is the time.
Setting the precedent of kidnapping presidents is a bold move for an administration hated by the world and their own people.
January 3, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Setting the precedent of kidnapping presidents is a bold move for an administration hated by the world and their own people.
Excited to say my chapter proposal on “Naming Betrayal: Romani Knowledge and the Making of American Bohemianism” is accepted for a book with Routledge on “Romani Realities in the Americas.” From “Romany Marie”’s founding of the Greenwich Village Bohemian movement at 20 Christopher
December 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Excited to say my chapter proposal on “Naming Betrayal: Romani Knowledge and the Making of American Bohemianism” is accepted for a book with Routledge on “Romani Realities in the Americas.” From “Romany Marie”’s founding of the Greenwich Village Bohemian movement at 20 Christopher
Until my landlord at 18 Gay Street NYC died, she gave us gift bags every year for the holidays. She wasn’t a saint, but she did say I love you every time saw her. I miss her dearly. She was proof that you don’t have to be evil to give people a place to stay as a tenant.
December 23, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Until my landlord at 18 Gay Street NYC died, she gave us gift bags every year for the holidays. She wasn’t a saint, but she did say I love you every time saw her. I miss her dearly. She was proof that you don’t have to be evil to give people a place to stay as a tenant.
Another housing crisis tenant rights issued to add to the fire.
December 22, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Another housing crisis tenant rights issued to add to the fire.
It took me 13 years to be able to write this. Dance history has a secret, and we’ve all been moving inside its shadow. I’m done pretending it’s not there. I’m done pretending it’s interesting or legitimate in any way.
Part II is out now.
Part II is out now.
The Big Lie in Dance History
Enclosing, Extracting and Excluding Bodies in the Hall of Mirrors
open.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
It took me 13 years to be able to write this. Dance history has a secret, and we’ve all been moving inside its shadow. I’m done pretending it’s not there. I’m done pretending it’s interesting or legitimate in any way.
Part II is out now.
Part II is out now.
Whenever someone brings up their “higher selves,” I take a step back. Just how many of you am I dealing with? If you have a higher self why would you not want to be that person every moment that you can?
December 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Whenever someone brings up their “higher selves,” I take a step back. Just how many of you am I dealing with? If you have a higher self why would you not want to be that person every moment that you can?
Happy St Nicholas Day. I hope you may consider making a donation to a mother-child charity this year. They need your help.
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December 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Happy St Nicholas Day. I hope you may consider making a donation to a mother-child charity this year. They need your help.
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May this super moon help heal the world tonight
December 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
May this super moon help heal the world tonight
I get so mad when people slam astrology, but not because they don’t respect it or me. It means they don’t respect other methods of keeping time. They don’t feel the year by anything other than “good weather” and “bad weather”. They don’t value ancient wisdom and its poetry.
December 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I get so mad when people slam astrology, but not because they don’t respect it or me. It means they don’t respect other methods of keeping time. They don’t feel the year by anything other than “good weather” and “bad weather”. They don’t value ancient wisdom and its poetry.
I’m terrified to share this. Dance tells a very important story of colonialism within Europe, and Romani and Irish dance provide critical insight as to what happened and how we can and are changing our connection to the land, to each other, to those who came before us and those who will come after.
It's time to stop lying about European history. What really happened to indigenous Europe? — Dance knows.
A four-part series on how Europe lost its body and what dance remembers
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November 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I’m terrified to share this. Dance tells a very important story of colonialism within Europe, and Romani and Irish dance provide critical insight as to what happened and how we can and are changing our connection to the land, to each other, to those who came before us and those who will come after.
I don’t think this will be of interest to anyone, but for the first time in 20 years, I’m in love with and have a boyfriend. This year has been absolute hell…and then this happens. He feels like the love of my life, and I couldn’t feel any safer, more understood or loved.
November 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I don’t think this will be of interest to anyone, but for the first time in 20 years, I’m in love with and have a boyfriend. This year has been absolute hell…and then this happens. He feels like the love of my life, and I couldn’t feel any safer, more understood or loved.
2025 forced me to flee the U.S. and live in hiding. For years, the city, state, and federal governments were supposed to protect me didn’t while people targeted me for my housing rights activism. I lost my home, my career, my love life and my friends.
November 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
2025 forced me to flee the U.S. and live in hiding. For years, the city, state, and federal governments were supposed to protect me didn’t while people targeted me for my housing rights activism. I lost my home, my career, my love life and my friends.
Any other former victims of gaslighting feeling the need to feel vindicated right now by the latest release from the Epstein files? I’m exhausted after ten years of people telling me what I know about trump to be true isn’t true. That man is a true predator. We warned y’all.
November 14, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Any other former victims of gaslighting feeling the need to feel vindicated right now by the latest release from the Epstein files? I’m exhausted after ten years of people telling me what I know about trump to be true isn’t true. That man is a true predator. We warned y’all.
Reposted by Russell Patrick Brown, PhD
November 7, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Former manager in magazine media here, all the news has been strategically removed over the last decade from all magazines. Teen Vogue frankly is one of the last to lose their political journalism team.
November 4, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Former manager in magazine media here, all the news has been strategically removed over the last decade from all magazines. Teen Vogue frankly is one of the last to lose their political journalism team.
I really appreciate all the in-depth analysis of society that’s going on, but it does seem like the main problem is that a handful of greedy pedophiles are lying in every way they can to get what they want.
Rupert Murdoch-owned @thetimes.com of London completely fabricates a hit piece on @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social , gets called out by former mayor Deblasio — then deletes it.🤔
October 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I really appreciate all the in-depth analysis of society that’s going on, but it does seem like the main problem is that a handful of greedy pedophiles are lying in every way they can to get what they want.
When the world goes upside down, I do too so that I can hold on.
October 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
When the world goes upside down, I do too so that I can hold on.
Reposted by Russell Patrick Brown, PhD
This woman just gave us a template that I know I will use in my community. Thank you. Like Fred Rogers said, “look for the helpers”. We are out here. We won’t let cruelty win.
This is community care. This is mutual aid. This is how we survive.
October 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This woman just gave us a template that I know I will use in my community. Thank you. Like Fred Rogers said, “look for the helpers”. We are out here. We won’t let cruelty win.
Colonialism required the reduction and polarization of our senses. To articulate color—and to see the sacredness of blackness in the world and in ourselves—is an act of resistance. open.substack.com/pub/timedanc...
freedom beyond light supremacy
painting dance
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October 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Colonialism required the reduction and polarization of our senses. To articulate color—and to see the sacredness of blackness in the world and in ourselves—is an act of resistance. open.substack.com/pub/timedanc...
Reposted by Russell Patrick Brown, PhD
Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action.
#climatecrisis #tippingpoint #auspol www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
#climatecrisis #tippingpoint #auspol www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
‘New reality’ as world reaches first climate tipping point
Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action.
www.leeds.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action.
#climatecrisis #tippingpoint #auspol www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
#climatecrisis #tippingpoint #auspol www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
Reposted by Russell Patrick Brown, PhD
This is what ice is doing
George was just trying to get to work.
ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.
This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.
This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."
@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
October 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This is what ice is doing
Reposted by Russell Patrick Brown, PhD
Civil rights, voting rights and freedom fighter who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and who forced the Democratic National Committee to admit Black delegates Fannie Lou Hamer was born in Rueville, MS October 6, 1917.
Arrests, beatings and bombings didn't stop this Queen of freedom.
Arrests, beatings and bombings didn't stop this Queen of freedom.
October 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Civil rights, voting rights and freedom fighter who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and who forced the Democratic National Committee to admit Black delegates Fannie Lou Hamer was born in Rueville, MS October 6, 1917.
Arrests, beatings and bombings didn't stop this Queen of freedom.
Arrests, beatings and bombings didn't stop this Queen of freedom.