Kimberly Van Munching
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Kimberly Van Munching
@herdarkmaterials.bsky.social
I’m trying to make all the things. This is my note pad. 🪡🧵🧶🌈🇵🇸🌹
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Honestly, we need politicians who respect sex workers way more than we need those who only respect lobbyists.
November 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Sliman Mansour
Shrinking Object, 1996
mud on plywood

#palestine
November 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Today my son and I went to see “Predator: Badlands” which is about the limitations of individualism and how coalition building across different cultural groups is crucial for achieving collective action.

We give it 3 out of 4 Kalisk head trophies
November 8, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Rae Klein
Bodyguard, 2024–2025
oil on canvas
80 x 80 in
203 x 203 cm
November 7, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I left Spotify when I learned that Daniel Ek invested €600 million in an AI military drone company. I downloaded my playlists using Soundiiz and moved them to Qobuz. Super easy.
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I thought one of my son’s friends made this in photoshop as a joke. It’s real?!
November 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Dems in ARRAY
November 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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If you’re still in line, STAY IN LINE
November 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Enjoying proto-slasher Thirteen Women (David Archainbaud, 1932) based on the novel by Tiffany Thayer. It’s streaming on HBO until the end of November
#precode
November 5, 2025 at 12:44 AM
"I am convinced, the hope of the future lies in woman: woman honoured, woman cultured, woman free."

Charlotte Despard speaking at an anti-fascist rally, Trafalgar Square, 12 June 1933 at age 94 (photograph by James Jarché, Daily Herald Archive)
November 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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looks like Chicago’s anti-ICE resources and whistle codes have made their way to D.C. (Pilsen Arts and Community House is credited on the bottom)
Sign of the times: Someone was handing these out to adults in my D.C. neighborhood while kids were trick or treating
November 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
It’s amazing that the men in my hometown have not deviated from the same dress code in 70 years. The costume is: Sperry topsiders or L.L.Bean bluchers, khaki pants, and a blue or pink Oxford shirt. Imagine being able to dress exactly the same from grade school to retirement. It boggles the mind.
November 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I’m reading “Matisse at War.” Matisse stayed in France during WW2, not wanting to desert his country. Although his work was designated “degenerate” by the Nazis, that did not stop Hermann Göring from stealing multiple Matisse paintings from the collection of Jewish art dealer Paul Rosenberg.
November 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
“Who saw him die?
I, said the Fly,
with my little eye,
I saw him die.”

Illustration by H. L. Stephens for “Death and Burial of Poor Cock Robin,” circa 1865, the book that completely traumatized me in kindergarten. Why did the sparrow do it? I had so many questions.
November 1, 2025 at 1:07 AM
“This is my out. This is what puts me on the outside.” - Chill, incarcerated quilter

The Quilters, directed by Jenifer McShane, 2024 (Netflix)
November 1, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Shoutout to my friends who are spooky 365 days a year

Pretty Birdies, Hungry Kitties by Julia Soboleva
October 31, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Scrolls stitched by Lorina Bulwer (1838–1912) while interned within a Norfolk workhouse

(Thackray Museum of Medicine)

#textileart
October 31, 2025 at 11:32 AM
The American federal government has confirmed it does not plan to issue November SNAP grocery benefits, leaving families hungry in one of the richest countries in the world.

Photo: 10th October 1908: The unemployed marching in Trafalgar Square, London.
October 30, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Raúl de Nieves, Who Would We Be With Out Our Memories, 2017-2021
Paper, xerox copies, photographs, ribbons, feathers, plastic flowers, yarn, dirt, tape, glue, vintage postcards, beads, fabric, glitter, ink, acrylic paint, and graphite
107 x 204 x 6 inches
Courtesy of Morán Morán
October 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Felipe Baeza’s “Finding Home in My Own Flesh” | “When I speak about the body as a landscape, it is a response to questions around belonging. There is something powerful about choosing not to belong. That's where the body is a landscape. The body is your own home—the only home that many of us have.”
October 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Kara Walker, Unmanned Drone, Bronze, 2023

Wish I were in LA to see the “Monuments” show at The Brick
October 29, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Fiber artists of the Bauhaus, Dessau 1927. Lena Bergner, Grete Reichardt, Lijuba Monastirsky, Otti Berger, Lis Beyer, Elisabeth Mueller, Rosa Berger, Ruth Hollos, Lisbeth Oestreiche, and Gunta Stölzl in front.

Photo Lux Feininger (Colorized)
October 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Does someone know a doctor who will prescribe a stay in a sanatorium preferably in the Swiss Alps.
October 29, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Kurt Schwitters and Theo Van Doesburg, Poster for the “Kleine Dada Soirée”, 1922/1923
Lithographic poster
Image size: 11 3/4 by 11 3/4 in.
October 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM