Mary Antonia Wood, PhD

“It’s not the painting, it’s the energy BEHIND the painting.”

Ethan Hawke — on the limitations of AI art — is very good. 🔥

@vulture.com

I'm voting no on DHS funding.

Masked agents are operating in our streets and hurting people with zero accountability. It’s un-American.

If you’re upset and want to help, call your senators and representatives and tell them this chaos needs to stop.

Amanda Gorman, once again, speaking truth to power.

Speechless.

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I am so tired of waiting,
Aren't you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?

Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two-
And see what worms are eating
At the rind

— Langston Hughes

5-year-old Liam Ramos,
abducted by ICE in Minnesota,
now held in a detention center in Texas.

She is an expert on authoritarian regimes, in case you're wondering whether peaceful protests matter.

Embroidery featuring a central standing female figure in a long dress surrounded by stylised birds and standing on a flower covered mound

Embroidery by the first UK hunger striking suffragette, Scottish artist Marion Wallace Dunlop (1864-1942) #womensart

Four images of an elderly Japanese woman and her white cat

Japanese photographer Miyoko Ihara documented the bond between her grandmother, Misao and her beloved cat Fukumaru in a series of many images #WomensArt

Here it is

60 Minutes CECOT Segment Axed by Weiss (Aired in Canada) YouTube video by JayyRodd

Watch Sharyn Alfonsi’s 60 Minutes piece on CECOT, axed by Bari Weiss, here—thanks to some Canadians who captured it, and to some Bluesky users who recorded and uploaded it to YouTube (so a Canadian VPN is not required):

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIm6...

This is the Solstice, the still point
of the sun, its cusp and midnight,
the year’s threshold
and unlocking, where the past
lets go of and becomes the future;

the place of caught breath

— Margaret Atwood

Edvard Munch Starry Night . 1893; 1922/24
Edvard Munch Kiss by the Window . 1892

This is an amazing essay on empathy and/against AI.

Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?

Naomi Klein looks to the Surrealists for tips on fighting fascism. They were willing to look into the abyss of so-called civilisation, admit to “pessimism all along the line”, and wrench from that darkness a poetics of revolutionary change.

www.equator.org/articles/sur... @equatormag.bsky.social

Oldie but a goodie

‘One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives depends on how we bear the light.’

— James Baldwin

Jimmy, in a Massachusetts classroom,
about a year before he joined the ancestors:

The Spring issue of Insights is out now! I'm so pleased to have my work featured on the cover, and to have been interviewed about my thoughts on the "Anima," the archetype of life itself, and the theme of the issue. issuu.com/kknightpgi/d...

Joy Harjo:

A PROPHECY

‘Mammon and Self in Malice blent, Struck down by arm omnipotent,
Pierced by the venom of it's own desires, Writhes in a cloud of darkness and expires’

Text and image: William Thomas Horton, the Way of the Soul, 1910

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.

Kurt Vonnegut man

Frida Kahlo, 1935 by photographer and best friend Lucienne Bloch, who said of this day..“We went to a Spanish restaurant and had a kind of strong stuff like Vodka..... We acted most crazy. It was a fine afternoon and cheered Frida up.” #WomensArt

"But some bonuses, like morning, / like right now."

“Το die before you die, no longer to live on the surface of yourself: this is what Parmenides is pointing to. It demands tremendous courage. The journey he describes changes your body; it alters every cell. Mythologically it's the journey of the hero.”

PETER KINGSLEY
Art: Miriam Eme

This is a dynamic global organization!

Taking a moment to marvel at the bigger picture–the much bigger picture...

"I get deeply tired because everything touches me. I am never indifferent. Indifference & passivity are impossible to me." ~Anaïs Nin, Journals, Vol. II~ (Nin speaks for all those, especially artists and makers, whose deep attention and sincere caring are non-negotiable.)

this

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde

Hero.

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"