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dubravka

@dubravka.bsky.social

architect and educator, programme lead of MA City Design at Royal College of Art, London minorplanning, spatial literacy, and spatial social contract some poetry and a lot of music

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Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 2h ago

I missed this feature last month :) "The sign shop, which is part of the NYC Department of Transportation, has a staff of 46 workers, including seven letterers who lay out signs by hand and a blacksmith who makes custom brackets to securely attach signs to traffic poles."

There Are Over 1 Million N.Y.C. Street Signs. Here’s How They Are Made.

From Cornelia Street to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, the 46 workers in this Queens building bring to life the words and symbols that guide the city.

nytimes.com

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Alex’s opening. As artist-in-residence with the Dept of Homeless Services, Alex took inspiration from shelter logs, conducted workshops with residents, invited them to journal their experiences, then worked with the Dept of Transportation’s sign shop to transform those letters into installations

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 7d ago

Israel is still killing children every day in Gaza. Five-year-old Wafaa was murdered today by an Israeli drone strike on her family’s car on the way back from her first day at school.

Beautiful little girl in a blue shirt doing a thumbs up signDrop Site @DropSiteNews X.com • BREAKING: Five-year-old Wafaa Yusuf Akilah went to school on Sunday. It was her first day of the year. Israel killed her before she made it home. An Israeli drone struck the vehicle carrying Wafaa and her father, Yusuf, near Hamid Junction in western Gaza City, killing them both without warning, witnesses told Drop Site. In photographs, Wafaa smiles in her blue school uniform and gives a thumbs-up. At the site of the strike, her school books lay open atop the burned wreckage. Her small body lay face down in the street.Footage captured by Drop Site contributor Abdel Qader Sabbah shows two men holding pieces of her hair. "This is all that's left, world," one says. "What truce are you talking about?" "There has been no ceasefire," another says. "Every day there are massacres. Every day there is killing. Every day children are dying." "Enough of this abandonment." * Abdel Qader Sabbah
Haymarket Books@haymarketbooks.org · 2w ago

If you can’t make it to Chicago, the @socialismconference.org virtual program will feature Angela Y. Davis, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Michelle Alexander, Saul Williams, @silkys13.bsky.social, @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @reallandsend.bsky.social, @avierkant.bsky.social, and more!

Register now – Socialism 2026 Virtual Program – YouTube

Socialism 2026 Virtual Program – YouTube, Fri Sep 4, 2026 - Sun Sep 6, 2026 - Can't make it to Chicago for the Socialism Conference? Check out our live-stream schedule, and RSVP to attend virtually! *...

events.haymarketbooks.org

Verso Books@versobooks.bsky.social · 2w ago

"A paradigm-shifting book. Essential reading for classrooms, activists, and anyone interested in Palestinian liberation, Palestinian feminism, or global and decolonial feminist movements." --Dr. Nadine Naber Available for pre-order now!

Falastiniyyat: A Century of Palestinian Feminisms by Nada Elia
Asif Siddiqi@historyasif.bsky.social · 2w ago

Am pretty much done with the AHA. At a time when the discipline of history (&humanities broadly) is under attack by the right (not to mention university administrators), our professional association spent *our* valuable dues hiring a lobbying firm to attack its own members. Unfuckingbelievable.

Stacy Fahrenthold@sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 3w ago

The American Historical Association hired a lobbying firm to help silence member advocacy on Palestine. In this essay, Adam Rzepka covers @historians.org's relationship w/ Thorn Run Partners, its deep ethical conflicts, & the advocacy crisis AHA has thrust upon us. www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc...

Michelle@catfi9ht.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Unrelenting oppression has to be met with unrelenting resistance. Fascism being met with tolerating politics will only help it expand further."

Prism@prismreports.org · 2w ago

What does “governance” do for people who use it as a synonym for concessions? Pragmatic governance will not defeat fascism, writes @williamcson.bsky.social in “Another way out.” Some people act as if they have to work with fascism, letting it grow into the unstoppable beast that will devour them.

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 3w ago

On Tues, Sept 22, we’re celebrating the launch of our Misfits book (designed by Elaine Lopez) + our Search & Discovery zine set (designed by zoë pulley) at the Center for Brooklyn History! We’ll honor the equinox, make maps, + play bingo! NYC / Westchester librarians + archivists esp welcome!

METRO Fall Gathering + Publication Launch

Join us for a community gathering on Tuesday, September 22 at the Center for Brooklyn History.

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Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · last mo.

Our first cohort, the Misfits, worked w/ Elaine Lopez to create this beautiful book 👇; and our second cohort, Search & Discovery, is currently working w/ zoë pulley to create a zine set :) We're freely distributing a limited print run + making AI-resistant digital copies freely available in Sept!

We're folding riso-printed zines
Beatgrrrl@beatgrrrl.bsky.social · last mo.

“I guess it was 1965, when I finally left New York….” Diane di Prima relates the story of her move to San Francisco, in 1968 after the assassinations of Martin Luther King & RFK, and how, reading poems daily on the steps of San Francisco City Hall she started to write her Revolutionary Letters.

Diane di Prima, Revolutionary Letters, on the 1968 San Francisco origins (1974)— The Poetry Center

YouTube video by Poetry Center Archive Goes Live!

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