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Karen Carpenter
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Theater-maker, collaborator, new play incubator. Artist-activist. #Resist✨🪷🧘🏻‍♀️🌊🏊🏻‍♀️🌎🕊️💫 🦋 #HonorRoll 🏳️‍⚧️ally🏳️‍🌈 🌻 🇺🇦 🚫👑🇺🇸💪🏻💙

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

To support my artistic work, buy me a coff.ee/kcdirector ! 🙌🏻🎭🙌🏻
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Happy Thanksgiving, all of you 🦋!
Grateful for our inalienable right to free speech…
A vintage Thanksgiving postcard, depicting a big Tom Turkey on a rock fence, bordered by a pumpkin and clusters of grapes below. The colors are jewel-toned, resplendent in blues and purples. In colorful calligraphy below, “Kindest Regards and Best Wishes for a Very Happy Thanksgiving Day.”
November 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Thanks for the boost, Teeshasmom!
🦋🚫👑 💙🌊🇺🇸 #Resist
Sepia-toned pencil drawing of Winnie the Pooh and Piglet walking in the woods. Dialogue reads: “Is he dead yet?” asked Piglet. “No” said Pooh. “Fuck” said Piglet.
November 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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I’ve signed the Cultural Freedom Demands Collective Courage letter.
Artistic & intellectual freedom are under attack. 275+ leaders and 150+ institutions are standing up. No to censorship. Yes to imagination + free thought. Join me at 👉 collective-courage.com
The Poster for Cultural Freedom Demands Collective Courage. Features a simple line drawing of hands holding hands in a circular configuration, on a pale grey background. The black logos of The New School’s Vera List Venter for Art and Politics and the National Coalition Against Censorship are in the lower left and right corners.
August 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Happy Friday, Foxy, and all you Badasses! 🦋💙🤜🏻🤛🏻💙🦋
Quote hand penned in black ink on white background, over an aqua watercolor wash: “We made it to FRIDAY! Raise your cup to surviving another week of WTF-ery. At the bottom right-hand corner, an aqua colored coffee cup is featured.
August 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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TYSM @chillprov1.bsky.social !
✊🏻💙🦋
Back lawn sign with title: “WHEN INJUSTICE BECOMES LAW RESISTANCE BECOMES DUTY. And the centered is the word RESIST, it’s letters comprised of earth, books, rainbow, black fist, nuclei, woman’s reproductive organs.
August 6, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Our SOLD OUT show, remounted in NYC for World Refugee Day, heads to the Off-Avignon Festival next week! All tickets benefit @novaukraine.org
PLEASE SUPPORT 🙌🏻🙏🏻🇺🇦🙏🏻🙌🏻
Poster for Lara’s Journey by Joanna Pickering, shows a woman with fist raised in protest, and Ukrainian flag to the right of title. Features a black background, play title and 5 stars in yellow, special author performance and director in blue, tickets for July 17 at 11:30 a.m. can be found at www.theatredelange.com for Festival Off-Avignon.
July 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Statue of Liberty's Silent Protest, by Judith de Leeuw: Liberty covers her face in shame over tRumps immigration policies. “Roubaix has a large migrant population, many live in extremely difficult circumstances…values the statue once stood for—freedom, hope, the right to be yourself—have been lost.”
Alt text: a giant mural on a French building was completed in 6 days and unveiled for the 4th. Depicts Lady Liberty with her hands over her face, both disgusted and ashamed. The title of the mural is The Statue of Liberty's Silent Protest. The mural was created by Judith de Leeuw, a Dutch artist.
July 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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🇺🇸Happy 4th of July, Foxy!🇺🇸
♥️🤍💙🧨🎆🎇🎆 🧨♥️🤍💙
My avatar in a red blouse, riding on the back on an eagle waving an American flag. Fireworks explode overhead. Banner underneath reads “Happy 4th of July”
July 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Paramount giving a 16mil. bribe to the orange turd to approve their merger… please boycott. Cancel your subscription. I did: #nogrift #noparamount
Screenshot of cancellation of Paramount plus.
July 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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In honor of World Refugee Day, to support Ukrainian refugees and the Center at West Park, please join us for a benefit stage reading of Lara’s Journey, by Joanna Pickering: June 20th at 8pm. www.centeratwestpark.org/laras-journey
Blurred background in muted colors of a train window, showing another train traveling in the opposite direction. In the foreground, a small hand tentatively reaches toward the window. Text: Lara’s Journey, a new play by Joanna Pickering, directed by Karen Carpenter, for World Refugee Day. Performer Yeva Sevriukova. June 20, 8:00 p.m. at The Center for West Park, NYC. QR code to purchase tix or visit www.centeratwestpark.org/laras-journey
June 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Thanks for asking! Here’s one of my projects, Michael (though I have three going up in the space of 8 days!)
Blurred background in muted colors of a train window, showing another train traveling in the opposite direction. In the foreground, a small hand tentatively reaches toward the window. Text: Lara’s Journey, a new play by Joanna Pickering, directed by Karen Carpenter, for World Refugee Day. Performer Yeva Sevriukova. June 20, 8:00 p.m. at The Center for West Park, NYC. QR code to purchase tix or visit www.centeratwestpark.org/laras-journey
June 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Notre-Dame de Paris #AdoorableThursday
Tall, double wooden doors to Notre-Dame Cathedral, covered in decorative curlicues of weathered ironwork dating back to the 13th century. Surrounded by arched stonework of many saints on either side , the last supper, and the birth of Christ are depicted overhead.
May 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Blue sea, blues clear skies in Capri, Italy. Stone formations, including the famous archway, jut out of the sea and dominate the picture. In the foreground, a traditional gozzo boat floats, while in the distance clouds hide the island.
May 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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🥳 Happy Birthday to Me!

#makeawish #thisis66
A white and pink frosted Birthday cake lit with so many candles, it’s turned into a raging fire! Pastel balloons tied with ribbons float behind it in the background.
May 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Howdy, Ray!
Thanks for the shoutout!

💖Happy Mother’s Day💐
to All you Moms here…

#SuperSundayParty
Black and white and grey scale cartoon of two women at a perfume counter. Caption: “For Mother’s Day, my mom would like the activism of her youth to not be for nothing.”
May 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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♥️ Happy Easter, Daniel, dear! 🐣
A vintage postcard of two white and brown bunnies peering over a wooden fence at three chicks looking up at them from the green grass in the foreground, with two red and blue tinted Easter eggs at right. “A Happy Easter” in elaborate script captions the image at the top, surrounded by a green frame.
April 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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☕️ Good morning #BreakfastCrew !
🦋💙🦋 From the Heather Garden, NYC, overlooking the Hudson…
Beds of blooming daffodils, with budding trees surrounding and purple snowdrops in the foreground. A hint of the Hudson River appears between the trees…
April 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Hi, Janet! Gald to be here, it’s great to “hear” from you! #SpiritChat
Bright pink lotus flower against green leaves, in brilliant sunshine.
April 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Don Pedro: ... to be merry best becomes you, for out o’ question, you were born in a merry hour.

Beatrice: No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then
there was a star danced, and under that was I born.

Much Ado About Nothing 2.1

#ShakespeareSunday
A ballerina with long brown hair, wearing a black lace leotard, on point, her arms arcing up, extends one hand to touch an apparition comprised of sheer black fabric, towering above her.
April 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Namaste, Kumud and all of #spiritchat from the Heather Gardens of Ft. Tryon Park, NYC! Joining you late today…
Beds of blooming daffodils and crocus in Ft Tryon Park.
April 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Please be careful out there everyone joining #50501Movement @50501washington.bsky.social Here are great safety guidelines for protest today:
List of guidelines for safe protests. List of safety precautions for protesting. List of safety steps to take to prepare for protests.
April 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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💙🦋💙 #Resist #BlueStormComin
Black and white photo of a very hip elder woman wearing a light colored shirt with snaps and a popped collar, in John Lennon sunglasses , giving the finger. Caption overlaid reads Project 2025.
April 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Have you ever seen such global economic turmoil due to the (abhorrent and ignorant) actions of one man?
Screenshot of NYT graph showing global stock indexes tumbling. Headline “U.S. Markets Plunge From Shock of Trump’s New Tariffs.
April 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Thank you, Senator. You are extraordinary. 🙌🏻💙🙌🏻
Photo of Cory Booker wearing a dark suit, with his hand over his heart, as he breaks the Senate record for holding the floor.
April 2, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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ACLU virtual town hall “Protect People, Not Power” with Senator Chris Murphy and Joy Reid - 3/26 at 4ET/1PT - register here:
act.aclu.org/a/aclutownha...
Poster for the ACLU virtual town hall: dark green background announcing “Protect People, Not Power” with Senator Chris Murphy and Joy Reid for Weds., 3/26 at 4PM ET/1PM PT. Color photos of Murphy and Reid are dropped in circles in the foreground, their names and titles below them. In the upper right corner is a lavender-filtered photo of the White House and the E Pluribus Unum seal, also rendered in lavender.
March 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM