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Thoroughly enjoying reading my fresh new copy of The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archivam Possibilities, written by @dorothyjberry.bsky.social and published by @wehere.bsky.social. Immediate classic!
Photo of the paperback volume The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities by Dorothy Berry. It features an assemblage of older black and white photographs of African American families on the top half of the cover, and black text upon a sea green background on the lower half. My thumb briefly appears to hold the spine of the book.
October 28, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Local, local folks: starting this Thursday, Ritcey's East in Watertoen, MA will be providing free frozen meals to SNAP recipients. These meals will be available through an online order portal. See more at this link:

www.instagram.com/p/DQSireLkoi...
Screenshot of an Instagram post by Ritcey's East advertising free meals for SNAP recipients beginning October 30th. Food drive for items is also beginning on October 27th. Those who bring a donation will get a coupon for a free order of fried pickles.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Mostly off of social media but want to amplify a missing person report about a friend of a friend.

Folks in Chicago, please keep an eye out for this young woman, who has been missing since October 17th.
Flyer featuring the face of a young South Asian woman named Lisa Shah who was last seen on Friday, October 17th near 10 S Kedzie Avenue in Chicago's Garfield Park. Contact 773-203-6467 if you have any information regarding her disappearance.
October 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Spent some time with Corita yesterday—
Typewritten class directives recorded by a student who took a course with artist Corita Kent in the 1960s at Immaculate Heart: "Keep a journal—fill it with everything you come in contact with—be very aware—of shapes, everything, because letters are shapes." "Make a list of 100 signs you read today. Look and jot down the message that it gives you." From the Papers of Corita, Schlesinger Library, Harvard Radcliffe Institute
July 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Celebrating the day with a double-feature of films I hadn't seen before. Just because.

THE WATERMELON WOMAN (1996)
MISSISSIPPI MASALA (1991)
Theatrical release poster for "The Watermelon Woman" (1996). Red background with large black lettering and the face of an African American woman with their hair tied in a knotted rag, wearing an expression of wonder. Theatrical release poster for "Mississippi Masala" (1996). Inset photograph of an African American man and a South Asian woman against a bright blue background with the film's title in colorful lettering. Tagline for the film is: "Passion. Tradition. Mix it up."
July 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Spotted yesterday at work
A vintage minivan in the same make and model as what I replied to.
May 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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A very Seaport story.
Stemless glasses of wine, a bag of chips, and an artisanal Ho-Ho on a paper plate. Snacks before a concert.
March 9, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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And as promised, a glimpse of what we bought, clockwise from left:

🚉 Transit Maps of the World by Mark Ovenden (for the 13 yo)
🗺 Wild Maps for Curious Minds (for the 8 yo)
💭 An Atlas of Imagined Islands (me)
✂️💦 RISD Cry Zine (ofc moi)
+ a Hawkeye State postcard

Many thanks again to Andrew!
Books, a zine, and a postcard purchased from The Map Center of Pawtucket, RI. They are displayed on a wooden table. Their covers are primarily blue and have images of maps superimposed or in the background layers.
January 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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I made this, thinking of a table where many would gather and eat and talk and pause.

Started this day thinking about posting less, but here I am, still posting.

Not a baker, nor much of a poster. And yet.
A freshly baked chai masala apple cake topped with confectioners' sugar next to the recipe written by Nik Sharma from his book Season. Another view of the chai masala apple cake.
December 16, 2024 at 3:39 AM
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Well, doesn't she sound like fun?

(and no, not named for the drink ffs)

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My mood ring analysis from Bluesky Roast, which states I am Comfortably Lost in Thoughtful Chaos.
December 4, 2024 at 11:43 AM
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After a 2.5 year gap, I finally made a batch of samosas yesterday.
A foil tray of samosas accompanied by cranberry chutney, as well as bowls of grapes, assorted nuts, papaya, abs strawberry on a wooden table. Two wine glasses and wind bottles are on the side.
November 30, 2024 at 3:38 AM
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Beautiful show by @vijayiyer.bsky.social, Linda May Han Oh, and Jeremy Dutton this afternoon.

Difficult, uneasy times call for compassion.

Especially moved by their performance of "The Kite," composed in memory of the slain poet Refaat Alareer.
A copy of the program pamphlet distributed on November 26, 2024 at the Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport, Massachusetts. Today's performance featured the Vijay Iyer Trio.
November 25, 2024 at 3:58 AM
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Yes! We spoke on a panel sponsored by the Adult Reading Round Table in June 2017. @tuphlos.bsky.social was also there (via Skype, I think). Afterwards, we ate lunch at a nearby restaurant.

It's so good to see you on here.

Event poster as a refresher:
An event flyer advertising a panel presented sponsored by the Adult Reading Round Table in June 2017. It is titled "Dealing in Diversity: Proactively Serving Communities Through Authentic Representation." Panelists included Robin Bradford, Mikki Kendall, Annabelle Mortensen, and Mimosa Shah.
November 23, 2024 at 2:34 AM
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Today was the perfect day to see "Ulises: Assembly" at the SMFA at Tufts Galleries. The motto, the anthem:
A signboard outside SMFA at Tufts Galleries advertising the exhibit "Ulises: Assembly," which celebrates the Philadelphia-based bookshop and project space dedicated to artists' books. A large poster featuring black text flush against a left margin on cream colored paper. It's first few lines of text state: "No to racists/ No to fascists/ No to taxes funding racists and fascists" An assemblage of photos featuring Black women from the 1960s and 1970s in various fashions and hairstyle celebrating Afrocentric style. A coaster with a prose poem printed with letterpress by the artist Rujuta Rao
November 9, 2024 at 10:25 PM
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A few photos from yesterday:
Opening slide projected onto a screen. The title of the talk, "The Quest for the Plant Script," is accompanied by a photo of an open book with colorful illustrations of flowers as well as a profile photo of the speaker, Sumana Roy. Projected slide of representations of plant emotions through drawn characters. Close-up of an inscription inside a book by the author Sumana Roy. The inscription reads "In The Hope That We Meet Again," plus another small inscription in Bangla below it.
September 25, 2024 at 12:57 PM
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I caught on a little bit later.
But I'm here!
Celebrating Bluesky's 10 million years BH marking spot as 238,383.
September 17, 2024 at 2:18 AM
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For folks in New England: visit "As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic" at the Peabody Essex. Excellent show, beautifully paced and staged.

www.pem.org/exhibitions/...
A trio of photos with a Black person's hands in varied poses. Photographer Samuel Fosso seated in a dazzling array of patterns in his studio, posed like a prancing dandy man. The legs and hips of two women featured prominently, like mannequins, wearing similar length skirts and heels in varied patterns, color, and textures, while the shadow of the photographer is visible at the bottom left. A Black woman standing in a bright pink dress against a building with a transposed image of a young Black woman in a similar bright pink dress standing next to her.
November 11, 2023 at 8:23 PM
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"'Cause nobody lovessss meeeeee...."
Album cover for "Dummy" by Portishead, featuring a woman sitting in a chair in blue light
November 8, 2023 at 2:24 AM
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Got a tour of the Carpenter Center yesterday and felt the slightest twinge of nostalgia for the Brutalist architecture of my undergraduate years.

(Just the slightest.)
View from the roof of the Carpenter Center looking on to studios on top floor, featuring a sectioned concrete, shelf-like set of windows and primary color boards. Circular skylight with red accent color against white. A view of the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts and Culture from the outside with full green trees and an angled ramp. There is a view of glass block walls on the bottom level flanked by columns. A studio inside the Center with yellow, red, and green painter walls, concrete columns, and metal cabinets.
August 26, 2023 at 7:46 PM
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Revisited the Simone Leigh exhibit at the ICA Boston with a curator colleague today.

I'm still transfixed.
Sculptures by Simone Leigh. A yellow bust with a closely coiled locks is in the foreground, while a sculpture of a bare torso with an exaggerated floor length raffia skirt and arms outstretched is in the background. Close up of the rosettes that made up the coiffure of a sculpted head. A cowrie shell, mottled and stipple, is positioned vertically atop of a metal circular grate reminiscent of a hoop skirt. Closer look at a torso and head of a dark stone sculpture with a jug handle coming out of the skirt.
August 19, 2023 at 11:33 PM
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Yes it's A Thing, and I hope they stocked up on hot sauce packets.
Advertisement for a garba next to Taco Bell on July 29th in Hanover Park, IL.
July 29, 2023 at 10:36 PM
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Coming back to this gift made my day.
A freshly opened package with toiletries and a note card featuring a letterpress print of a trolley car in reference to San Francisco.
July 7, 2023 at 2:01 AM
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Hello 👋🏽

Big thanks to @noethematt.bsky.social for the invite.

Still feeling my way through this space. So I'm going to go back to 2013 weird Twitter and share a few snippets of my day.
A row of sneakers worn by famous NBA players on display in a glass case at the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA.
July 4, 2023 at 2:39 AM