Panatrope Arts Journal

‘Winning hearts and minds’: How protest signs shaped the anti-ICE movement in Minnesota Minnesota has seen an explosion of art made in response to ICE’s presence. Perhaps more than any other art form, artists and designers have made protest posters and signs en masse. “There’s never been...

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Singing Resistance: Minneapolis Community Comes Together in Song YouTube video by Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church

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The Poem Is Good - Mizna The poem talks to god at night The poem reminds their children and each other to be patient With hardship comes ease they utter

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More than 50 Minnesota authors unite for statewide “Authors for Minnesota Day” on Feb. 28

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Welcoming the Stranger and Fighting the Power: A Roundup Resistance is happening in a thousand ways from people destroying Flock cameras to judges upholding the Constitution to the pope once again spurning JD Vance's advances. Resistance in solidarity with ...

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The #GoodTrouble quilts celebrate the life and legacy of Congressman John Lewis ❤️.

In or near #Montgomery, #Alabama? Stop by the "Good Trouble" exhibit at the SPLC's #CivilRights Memorial Center until April 13.

Bad Bunny’s Sign Language Interpreter Is Ready to Make Super Bowl History It’s the first time the halftime show will feature Puerto Rican Sign Language — a win for Deaf Latino representation.

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Neighbors: Blockades are pop-up parties that also slow down ICE agents Organizers are trying a new tactic to slow and deter federal agents from entering city neighborhoods: pop-up block parties in the middle of city streets. Tom Homan, the Trump administration border cza...

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Claude Cahun’s Survival Guide for the Ages A new translation of the French artist’s 1930 memoir is a kaleidoscopic collection of dialogues, sketches, and Blakean proverbs.

In our present age, when we seem forced to repeat the horrors of last century, it feels improbable that a survival kit should reach us in the form of modernism itself. Yet Claude Cahun’s “Cancelled Confessions (Or Disavowals),” first published in 1930, offers a counter-arsenal of dreams.

‘We can do hard things’: The impact of ICE enforcement on the arts The fatal shooting of Alex Pretti and Renee Macklin Good by federal agents and related immigration enforcement actions in Minneapolis disrupted arts and education institutions across the Twin Cities, ...

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Letter From Minnesota: “If They Take Me and Leave the Children…” Today is Tuesday, January 27th, 2026. I got gas for the first time this year by myself. The gas station was mostly empty. I drove into the station, heart thudding in my chest. I did everything as f…

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Alex Pretti 'had a way of lighting up every room he walked into' • Minnesota Reformer His parents described him as “a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans” he cared for as a nurse.

Alex Jeffrey Pretti, 37, was an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs hospital before he was shot and killed by federal agents Saturday morning on Nicollet Avenue. Family and friends, as well as former coworkers and teachers, described him as generous and kind-hearted.

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

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‘Weapons of mass construction’: the US ‘craftivists’ using yarn to fight back against Trump Fiber artists across the US are using their craft to protest against everything from national guard deployments to rollbacks on abortion rights

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Inflatable frogs and ice scrapers: nine innovative ways Americans protested against Trump in 2025 Historically, when organizers have used tactical innovation, movement activity has peaked

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‘A family reunion of artists’: Minnesota Anishinaabe artists showcased in Detroit and beyond A major exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts brings together more than 60 Anishinaabe artists, including over 15 from Minnesota, in a rare, large-scale celebration of contemporary Native art.

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Artists respond to a cultural squeeze during the 'Fall of Freedom' Artists in more than 40 states are spending Friday and Saturday participating in the "Fall of Freedom" – which they say represents a creative resistance to authoritarianism.

Artists in more than 40 states are spending Friday and Saturday participating in the "Fall of Freedom" – which they say represents a creative resistance to authoritarianism.

We’re LIVE, join us for UNBANNED! with Alison Bechdel and Rachel DeWoskin.

And we're raising money for EveryLibrary to fight book banning and stop censorship, please consider donating and spread the word.

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Apps are open for our spring session of the Cross-Reference Coalition! We're exploring Search & Discovery! "Our journey will encompass the history of exploration + cartography, legacies of inquiry, tools of discovery, theories of curiosity, and counter-algorithmic means of 'finding things out.'"

New Dyani White Hawk show at the Walker is a 'love letter' to community The “Dyani White Hawk: Love Language” exhibition, which is up at the Walker through Feb. 15, is a big and bright kaleidoscopic show, an expansive mid-career survey spanning 10,000 square feet of the W...

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PEN International’s resolutions to defend free expression, gender diversity, human rights, and climate justice  — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide “At this 91st Congress we affirmed that freedom of expression cannot be atomized —whether in defending peace against authoritarianism, protecting our planet, standing with trans and gender-diverse peo...

"...we affirmed that freedom of expression cannot be atomized —whether in defending peace against authoritarianism, protecting our planet, standing with trans and gender-diverse people, or confronting censorship in the United States and beyond. "

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My latest essay in full, A Downward Turn: What the Catastrophozoic is Teaching Us & a little late-night audio note for you all

Haworth writing about climate disasters: What the Catastrophozoic is Teaching Us:

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Ocean Vuong: “This is where we must always return… pure possibility undergirded by pure humility.” Thank you, everyone, for being here. It’s an immense pleasure to stand here again. I know we hear it a lot in our culture, which worships decisive moments and grand narratives, but this momen…

“What do you write about,” but rather, “What are you writing towards?” asks Ocean Vuong. lithub.com/ocean-vuong-...

‘Stop Killing Black People’: How a Minneapolis designer branded a movement Graphic designer and activist Terresa Hardaway created the bold “Stop Killing Black People” typeface as a protest tool during the George Floyd uprising, turning expressive, hand-drawn lettering into a...

Graphic designer and activist Terresa Hardaway created the “Stop Killing Black People” typeface as a protest tool during the George Floyd uprising, turning expressive, hand-drawn lettering into a widely distributed visual language of abolition that rejected commercialization and embraced mutual aid.

Bombing of Poems: 100,000 poems descend on Rotterdam HAPPENING 14 May 2025 – Rotterdam will mark the 85th anniversary of the 1940 bombing with an unusual poetic tribute. At sunset, thousands of poems...

HAPPENING 14 May 2025 – Rotterdam will mark the 85th anniversary of the 1940 bombing with an unusual poetic tribute. At sunset, thousands of poems will descend upon the city centre as a symbolic gesture of peace and reflection.
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May Day and the intersection of civil rights and workers' rights It took a bit, but labor eventually got on board with protecting everyone's rights.

May Day and the intersection of civil rights and workers' rights... fascinating piece by the brilliant April Ryan open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Tina Modotti's photograph of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with members of the Artists' Union, on the May Day March, Mexico City, 1929 #womensart

#MayDay

Annual May Day plug for you to read many of the books on this list but specifically The Long Deep Grudge, a book I cannot and will not shut up about, which has deeply influenced my understanding of unions and what is possible in them.