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Lauren Arrington

@laurenarrington

NEH Public Scholar (2023). I write books. Bylines @ LitHub, LARB, TLS, Irish Times, Public Books; rep’d Peter Straus @ RCW

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Tears 😭 of Thee

28.02.2026 23:09 👍 15 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0

question aside her explanation shows a much healthier perspective on than people pretend high performers have to have and everyone would be better off with it

18.02.2026 20:20 👍 1337 🔁 203 💬 16 📌 2

Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways

16.02.2026 00:19 👍 4098 🔁 850 💬 37 📌 25
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It’s @notquitehydepark.bsky.social making a cameo in Steve Mentz’s lecture launching Keywords in Blue Humanities at USF English!
Our online symposium starts tomorrow: www.stpetersburg.usf.edu/events/#even...

12.02.2026 18:06 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

You’re here!!

04.02.2026 01:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Did you see the Brian Bilston poem omg

25.01.2026 22:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pretty much. Attn @scriblerian.bsky.social @cspaide.bsky.social @laurenarrington.bsky.social

25.01.2026 22:19 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Bohemians on the Breadline The extraordinary and unexamined history of a radical group of women artists funded by Roosevelt’s New Deal, who challenged racism and inequality and creat...

BOHEMIANS ON THE BREADLINE is now available to pre-order from wherever you get your books: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

21.01.2026 23:47 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

“…no gigs, no concerts, no pubs...Book buying went up slightly, but then new books often went under the radar... The Irish state began a pilot scheme for artists & writers to sort of fund a base level of income in a way 2 compensate 4 those losses of the pandemic.” @laurenarrington.bsky.social
#UBI

13.11.2025 13:32 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
MSN

"The picture looks to only get worse next year: a proposed 2026 federal budget includes a plan to eliminate the #NEH, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services." #IMLS #NEH #humanities

www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

15.06.2025 11:35 👍 25 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 1
Peter McDonald One Little Room Book Launch
Peter McDonald One Little Room Book Launch The recording of the online book launch held for One Little Room by Peter McDonald, hosted by Tim Kendall on 4th December 2024. Find out more info and buy the book here: https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800174498/one-little-room/ Carcanet Press is supported by Arts Council England. Please consider donating to support our future work: https://www.paypal.me/carcanet Edited by Pixel Assist www.pixelassist.co.uk

You can now watch the online launch held for One Little Room by Peter McDonald, hosted by Tim Kendall: www.youtube.com/watch

11.06.2025 12:00 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

The Joseph M. Hassett Creativity Bursary 2025-26 provides an opportunity to work on a Film project linking contemporary creative practice with UCD’s cultural heritage 🎞️

Applications for the bursary are open until 5 pm on Wednesday, 11 June

04.06.2025 09:04 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
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Women in the Federal Arts Project with Lauren Arrington We speak with Lauren Arrington about her forthcoming book on women artists in the Federal Arts Project. The Great Depression rendered 140,000 women and girls across the United States homeless. In 1…

"I wanted to write a book that was focused on the lives of these women and how, in the midst of the depression, they found ways to live as artists and to keep themselves creatively alive, and the role that the state played in making that kind of creativity possible."

01.06.2025 23:07 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

It was such a pleasure, Scott! Thanks again for the invitation!

01.06.2025 21:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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MotL 80 is live! 🗣️

✨ Women in the Federal Arts Project w/ @laurenarrington.bsky.social ✨

moneyontheleft.org/2025/06/01/w...

We explore how women in the Federal Arts Project challenged segregationist, xenophobic & sexist structures.

Please listen, read & share! 🎧 👩‍💻 🙌

01.06.2025 21:06 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 4

Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes

29.05.2025 20:07 👍 803 🔁 262 💬 5 📌 9
Visit Tallersol in Santiago or check out the archive online!

Visit Tallersol in Santiago or check out the archive online!

Learn more about our project Memories of Resistance, an online archive of dictatorship-era posters from Chile, and Tallersol, the graphic arts collective that created them.

meap.library.ucla.edu/projects/mem...

@richie-in-bradwell.bsky.social @slaslatam.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

29.05.2025 05:07 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1

Don't miss it. 👀

29.05.2025 18:39 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

About salmon, our eldest child feels exactly thus:

13.05.2025 19:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Make a poster! 🧐

13.05.2025 19:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I couldn’t make the launch but enjoyed writing an essay for the catalogue for this exhibit at Dublin Castle, supported by the Polish Embassy. Congrats to Katy and Emily on a great night and wonderful show!

25.04.2025 10:48 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The National Humanities Alliance is organizing a response for people whose NEH grants have been terminated, get in touch with them @humanitiesall.bsky.social

10.04.2025 21:26 👍 25 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0
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The money is going to what now

07.04.2025 14:51 👍 7250 🔁 1529 💬 182 📌 269

A few tips for NEH grantees:
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.

2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,

02.04.2025 22:09 👍 466 🔁 325 💬 17 📌 57
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We're now accepting Burns Visiting Scholar applications for a semester or academic year in 2026-2028!

Appointments available to established academics, writers, artists, journalists & notable public figures

Application info is on our website: www.bc.edu/content/bc-w...

@burnslibrary.bsky.social

10.03.2025 15:28 👍 4 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
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The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans.

Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

14.02.2025 23:25 👍 23217 🔁 8569 💬 793 📌 587
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University announces new scholarships for Palestinian students These scholarships will provide fully-funded support for two Palestinian students, with a particular focus on those impacted by the conflict in Gaza

Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate?

www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

13.02.2025 09:55 👍 343 🔁 371 💬 4 📌 11
Experiments in Silence – Clemson University Press

Thrilled to share news of the publication of Sana R. Chaudhry's _Experiments in Silence: the Urdu Short Story After 1947_ in the series Modernist Constellations, which Emilie Morin and I edit for @cupress.bsky.social. Congratulations to Sana!
libraries.clemson.edu/press/books/...

13.02.2025 02:09 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0