Ethel Baraona Pohl
@ethelbaraona.bsky.social
Critical observer of the real world, co-founder of dpr-barcelona + researcher Architecture and Care ETH Zürich. They|them antifascist 🌈 "Love, music, wine and revolution." Don’t stop talking about Palestine. dpr-barcelona.com dpr-barcelona.bsky.social
Will never get tired to recommend the short, beautiful text 'Being Taken For Granite,' by Ursula K. Le Guin As described by my dear friends from continent. «a muddy reflection on misrecognition, transformation, and support (...) a reminder that solidity is nowhere, fluidity everywhere.»
continent. | Being Taken For Granite
Ursula K. Le Guin,
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Happy anniversary! "The uprising on 10 August 1680 was one of the most successful acts of Indigenous resistance against colonialism and is sometimes called the first American revolution." My July essay on contemporary Pueblo artist Virgil Ortiz and his art about past and future Pueblo revolts.
Rebecca Solnit · Diary: Before 1776
In 1848, the US seized the northern half of Mexico, from California to New Mexico, and imposed American law and the...
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“Normalize starting essays with ‘okay so’ and ending them with ‘and yeah’.”
I’m reading a book published in 1944 and this logo is so unbelievably tough. I’d absolutely wear a shirt with this exact design.
“Conversation is one of the loveliest of arts.”—Wilde
Palestine very present at the exhibition ‘THE FRATERNITY OF METAPHORS. Jean-Luc Godard’ and I loved it.
Zines appeal to artists and organizers because they sidestep digital surveillance and reach people in real life. https://bit.ly/4fUv6Fk
Can zines help us resist the slop overtaking the Internet? - Chicago Reader
Zines appeal to artists and organizers because they sidestep digital surveillance and reach people in real life.
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the certainty of this criterion is far from demonstrable
just make them –––––––longer––––––– like why not, they look pretty. dash against them machine!
Ethel Baraona Pohl@ethelbaraona.bsky.social · 5d ago🙋🏻
El selfie de hoy es cortesía de la expo ‘El culto a la belleza’ en el CCCB 🪞🫧💄
I fundamentally believe that higher ed reform needs to begin by protecting the mission and labor of libraries
Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams: “There’s a lot of discourse around trans athletes and what they can compete in. I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team. Anytime. I don’t think it’s a problem in the world, it’s just another way to kind of attack trans people.”
Felizmente y finalmente he encontrado este libro en Barcelona—tenía (tengo) muchas ganas de leerlo, básicamente por culpa de (o gracias a) @gwarez.bsky.social @pollitaconpapos.bsky.social @atahualpa.bsky.social 📚🫧
¿Les había dicho la maravilla que son los podcasts de @radiowebmacba.bsky.social?
Nuevas #escenaseliminadas 📻️ Apuntes de la escritora y editora Vivian Abenshushan sobre la crianza, entendida no es solo algo íntimo o familiar: como un acto profundamente político. ¿Desde dónde decidimos traer (o no traer) otres al mundo? rwm.macba.cat/es/podcasts/... #podcast #crianza #trans
In this mediated world where we are used to announce all our fights and radicalisms, I’m just thinking on the incredible beautiful things that people do when nobody is looking. #JoyfulMilitancy
It's been so great to see how exciting it is for people to work with a graphic designer for the first time: to realize that they can shape the composition of elements on a page, that they can envision form as a critical rhetorical dimension, that they can make their ideas *beautiful* 🥹
‘Longing,’ says the poet Robert Hass, because desire is full of endless distances.’ — Often it is the distance between us and the object of desire that fills the space in between with the blue of longing. -Rebecca Solnit, “The Blue of Distance” #everynightapoem #ofsorts
I do like it when a cloud appears as hand-painted backdrop for the heart-breakingly beautiful anime of my life story.
