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A save the date graphic featuring photos of KTM, SMP, and Kat Parent, with text: saturday, 3/7/26 (7pm ct): a virtual live performance (1) for a moment in which we’re not all able to leave our homes to go to a show; (2) for an excuse to raise money for an important MN rent relief effort; (3) for an opportunity to share some new songs and poems! More info: guante.info/salt

Releasing some NEW music friday, then a virtual performance saturday with me, @seemore.bsky.social and @katparent.bsky.social. All proceeds from both going to the Neighbors Helping Neighbors Twin Cities ICE Relief Fund. More info: guante.info/salt

“We Belong to Each Other Now”: Lessons from Minneapolis “This extreme closeness, togetherness and intimacy — you cannot infiltrate your way into a space where you'll understand that," says May, a rapid responder in Minneapolis.

After months of relentless rapid response in Minneapolis, members of Defend the 612 had a moment to breathe and reflect on the lessons they’ve learned, the grief they carry, and the citywide fellowship they hope will endure. The crisis is not over, and I’m grateful they made time to speak with me.

a screenprinted patch on handdyed yellow fabric, depicting the grumpy trash-loving Sesame Street character Oscar popping out of his trash can to yell at passersby. Text around him reads "No one is disposable, and everyone can SCRAM!"

new patch for my grumpy abolitionist friends ♻️🧌💚 Had fun crumpling these up and splatter-dyeing them with different colors of "trash juice" (leftover fabric paint) #oscarthegrouch #scram #abolishprisons #abolishice #screenprint

A collage of four video chat screens featuring Kyle Tran Myhre, Isha Camara, Ollie Schminkey and SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE. In the center of the image, text: "poetry against ICE: an asynchronous panel discussion: available now"

New! I got to "talk shop" with three of my favorite MN poets: @ollieschminkey.bsky.social, @seemore.bsky.social, and Isha Camara. We share poems, but *also* tools + tactics related to how language can be put to work as part of the struggle to abolish ICE and build a better world: guante.info/ICEOUT

Two pages from a black and white zine. On the left page, the silhouette drawing of a cat hissing emphatically is filled with the words "bella meow", surrounded by typed meows and the text "meow a full verse [of Bella Ciao] here". On the right page, a cat hisses over the text "We HISS at fascists! and scratch their faces! Bella meow bella meow bella meow meow meow! We knock opressors off of high tables, because all cats are beautiful."

bella meow pt 2 #abolishICE #fuckICE #bellameow #bellaciao #zine

Nick Fuentes Wants Women in “Gulags.” Here’s Why That Matters. "Gender has always been an important throughline of fascist politics," says Shane Burley.

I talked with my friend @shaneburley.bsky.social about Nick Fuentes' recent rant about putting women in gulags. How seriously should we take Fuentes, culturally and politically? And what does rhetoric like this reveal about the broader trajectory of the movement he’s trying to shape? We get into it.

A spread of two pages from a zine. On page one, a drawing of a cat yawns as it awakens + text “oh one fine morning I was awakened / Bella meow, Bella meow, Bella meow meow meow! / Oh one fine morning I was awakened to find the fascists at my door…” On page two, the cat stares sternly ahead, plus the text “abolish ICE.”

ICE OUT won't be over until we abolish ICE #bellameow #bellaciao #zine #abolishICE

that's my kitty! he loves a full body smoosh! 😭 thank you 😍

Wrote a cat version of Bella Ciao and illustrated a zine with the lyrics that anyone can print and meow at home 🐈‍⬛💖🐈‍⬛💖🐈‍⬛💖 all models are angry local cats #bellameow #bellaciao #standwithMinnesota #fuckICE #abolishIcE #zine

Here is the Bella Meow illustrated lyrics zine file for anyone who wants to print at home and share! all drawings are of angry local cats 🐈‍⬛💖🐈‍⬛

Former Native American concentration camp lies beneath current immigration detention center - ICT Fort Snelling, the site of a Dakota War era concentration camp, is once again being used to detain Indigenous people

Necessary reading on the history of the Whipple Building via @ict-news.bsky.social for those who aren't aware of the history of this site at Fort Snelling: ictnews.org/news/former-...

With so much info flying around, just want to uplift this link to specific calls-to-action from a coalition of *Minnesota* immigrant rights orgs: iceoutnowmn.com

(resharing without the image; that's a longer conversation but the link is still worth amplifying)

Hosted a watercolor free-paint art space while Good Trouble held a community sing and vigil in Minneapolis this weekend.

A simple illustration of a sun against cold bright sky, above a snowy hill with bare trees. A combination of words at bottom in black, yellow and blue reads both Happy Solstice, and using the last three letters in solstice, "Fuck ICE."

a black felt hat with a slightly wonky chocolate kiss-shaped pointy crown floats above a patch of yellow and brown fall ferns

hat magic 🪄 made a silly witch hat by slowly squishing a damp thrifted felt hat over a makeshift pointy hat block (funnel + water jug) #diy #costume #upcycled #witchhat #hatmaking #mending #witchy

a hand holding a lockstitch awl tool poised over a worn black leather work boot with a zigzag repair seam across the top

trying a lockstitch sewing awl on the busted seam of my favorite work boots, from a box of vintage leatherworking tools my aunts gave me. It's easier than I expected, and if this repair holds up I'll definitely be using it on more household mending! #awl #repair #leatherwork #mending #shoerepair

A ghostly image of a person covered in moss, superimposed on a photo of a rumpled quilt soaking in a deep green dye bath

@seemore.bsky.social edited me into this picture of one of my green dye bath experiments like a Victorian ghost photo and I feel so seen 👻💚🧟‍♀️ #dyeing #prociondye #swampling #swampthing #green #spookyart #horrorart #textileart #goblincore #moss

making a moss hat #embroidery #upcycling #moss #goblincore #mending #slowfashion

A 10 ft by 10 ft painted canvas mural of the world with stylized continents, surrounded by stars and a vibrant border of children's paintings of flowers, animals, rainbows and other dreams for the world.

My giant summer project is up at Our Saviour's on Chicago! a canvas map mural surrounded by local children's dreams for the world. It's designed to be taken down regularly and knelt around/on for peace and solidarity prayers. More permanent hanging system to come 🌍 #kidsart #mural #communityart

a large mixed media painting of green and pink maple buds against a rain-streaked, smoky sky with ghostly hands reaching from the trees and clouds

Made #liveart this weekend to my friend Kenny's piano improvisations, and tested my supplies in extra heat and humidity 😅 Inspirations: maple buds amid hazy spring storms, grief and the Malvina Reynolds tune "The World's Gone Beautiful [because it's asking not to die]" #acrylicpainting #mixedmedia

a photo of three handbills, each promoting secret rivers at silverwood on stage: july 23, 2025: secret rivers is ktm on poems, and see more perspective on the mpc and loop station 505. free, all ages. more: guante.info/secretrivers

for twin cities friends: we're playing a free, outdoors, all-ages show on wednesday, july 23 at silverwood park. 6:30-8pm.

secret rivers is me on vocals and @seemore.bsky.social on the MPC and loop station 505 - guante.info/SecretRivers

a blue test print of a linocut carving of a very fluffy cat rolling on his back, paws outstretched

Linocut proof of joyous lil guy, Gimbal Jen. What a man! #linocut #wip #blockprint #cat #catart #meow

a student's magnificent cat stuffie painted with vibrant stripes and spots of red, green, blue, orange and purple

A truly wondrous week making stuffies with grades K-4 as a teaching artist at S Mpls Day Camp! Such a treat to watch students develop their projects over 5 sessions ✨💖✨ #kidsart #stuffie #plushie #textileart #artteacher #artproject

It's hammock weather + I'm surrounded by tree tassels and trilliums with my old friends the Bolt Weevils sweet tunes in my head. They're having a rare reunion show and I'll be playing a set of original tunes (Fri bonus set: @too.oldcat!) 💖🌿🌸 come enjoy fab songwriting, queer joy and spring magic

Happy May Day parade! upcycled a tablecloth into this Snufkin hat in honor of spring #moomin #snufkin #mumrik #maydayparade

A little art quilt about grief and precarity...I had this idea for a tiny soft quilted moving box full of deep purple scrap quilt sky and stars. #artquilt #softsculpture #griefquilt #scrapquilt #textileart #movingbox

a painting of a swan on three blue eggs, gently arranging them with its beak surrounded by a colorful nest of brown twigs

2012 painting of a nesting swan I met in Norway #painting #acrylicpainting #coloredpencil #mixedmedia #swan #nesting

a painting of glowing two hands palm to palm with a tiny plant seedling between them against a dark blue background with lightning-like diagonal streaks

#painting #acrylicpainting #mixedmedia #surrealistart #dreamscape #mystical