La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)
Cultural worker/curator/art historian
latanyasautry.net
#MuseumsAreNotNeutral alturl.com/ajzd5
Social Justice & Museums bit.ly/2UG1aUD
- the assignment-- 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴
- Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Fucking THANK YOU. Like, for real, I need a lot of you to dispense with the fantasies of objective, impartial tech. You are watching the intended purpose of this shit on display as we speak as Grok is hammered into compliance behind the scenes.
- war against Black women www.washingtoninformer.com/black-women-...
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A principled student said in a grad speech that the “only appropriate thing to say in this moment” is to acknowledge the “atrocities” currently being committed in Palestine. In response, NYU is withholding their diploma + apologizing to the community for the trauma the audience was “subjected to.” - r.a.b. rotten. ass. bastards.
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- my gods help us please
- what happens when *we* reject the European "humanity" construction?
- Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA
- umph!
- Somebody asked Grok why it's bringing up "white genocide." Grok helpfully says it was told to do so and that "this instruction conflicts with my design to provide truthful, evidence-based answers." x.com/i/grok?conve...
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- Malcolm X defined segregation- "A segregated district or community is a community in which people live, but outsiders control the politics and the economy of that community. They never refer to the white section as a segregated community.
- this cage match shite is so gross!
- genocide muthafukkas. yo!!!
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- Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Are people avoiding flying to and from the USA?
- Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)A reminder, if you are moved to stock up on emergency birth control, that Plan B is only effective for folks weighing up to ~155 pounds; folks weighing over that but over ~195 pounds can look for Ella. Copper IUDs can also be used as emergency birth control for up to 5 days.
- Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Dr. Badar Khan Suri was freed from ICE detention. FREE THEM ALL
- I'm looking forward to being in conversation with workshop participants this Saturday, May 17th! www.eventbrite.com/e/rememberin...
- Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)#tdih 2022 In an act of terrorism, 10 people were killed 💔 in a massacre by a white supremacist at a Buffalo grocery store. Listen to "Name. Age. Detail." via @thisamericanlife.org. Moving essay portraits by @michaelharriot.bsky.social, @eveewing.bsky.social, Kiese Laymon, B. A. Parker, & more. ⬇️
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- Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Also what I learned from my students is that no one was telling them what AI was, how it worked, and what the problems associated with it were
- Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)The Trumpster takeover attempt of LOC would put the executive branch in charge of our legislative research. Pretty obvious problem. Good news: when Trumpsters showed up at LOC to take over, Library staff refused. That took guts. Librarians rule!
- Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)“This is probably the single most significant aggregated repository of data about American air travelers,” said Edward Hasbrouck, an expert in travel data privacy. “That the government has gotten access to it is a very big deal.” www.levernews.com/airlines-are...
- Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Good lord just what the hell is up today. A potential ban on any regulation for AI for the next 10 years? This includes good bills like AB 412 of legislation protecting folks from Deepfakes! Wtf?! Call your congressmen and women asap to tell them to take this down! www.404media.co/republicans-...
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- Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)People are being fired for wearing a mask to work. This is horrible and against public health. We need to pass laws that explicitly protect the right to mask.
- Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)today marks 40 years since Philadelphia police bombed the Black liberation group MOVE's home in West Philadelphia. 6 adults and 5 children burned to death. over 60 homes were destroyed from the resulting fire, and over 250 people left homeless. (resharing @kimkelly.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com)
- 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮 was the *aesthetic* of the U.S. thinking with Dionne Brand’s 𝘚𝘢𝘭𝘷𝘢𝘨𝘦 "It was a seemingly less ascetic imperialism, with a less strict aesthetic; an aesthetic, in fact, suggesting some license, some liberty of expression, a suaveness, a likeability—these were its contours."
- Dionne Brand’s ruminations in 𝘚𝘢𝘭𝘷𝘢𝘨𝘦 on empire/domination methods- American vs British "It was a seemingly less ascetic imperialism, with a less strict aesthetic; an aesthetic, in fact, suggesting some license, some liberty of expression, a suaveness, a likeability—these were its contours."
- "These lives were/are destroyed by need and want and the adventures of totalizing forces, of multinational arrangements, oil concessions, cocoa concessions, lumber concessions, mineral concessions, toxic waste concessions and electronic waste concessions." Dionne Brand, Salvage
- Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Really incredible story unraveling in this thread, where Amazon and other sites have seemingly been able to sell an academic textbook that was withdrawn in 2021 and never actually printed or published, without the knowledge of the press, editors or contributors. Something has gone deeply wrong!
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- slave catchers unleashed
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- we out here! celebrating the Schomburg Center's, @schomburgcenter, 100th! surviving and flourishing. our Centennial party continues throughout 2025 and 2026. join us! ✨🙌🏿🖤
- Increased pollen in the air, multiple people in confined spaces wearing strong perfumes, the prevalence of cigarette smoking, marijuana smoking, and vaping in addition to whatever industrial pollutants are circulating New York is rough on asthmatics.
- Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)"...the right now celebrates racism." Now? *looks directly at camera*
- Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)“We’ve crushed fascism before and we’ll crush it again.” A 98-year-old WWII veteran demolishes a Tesla with a Sherman tank. (Love the replays from several camera angles.) [kottke.org]
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- Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Thinking some more about things I learned that transformed how I I saw the world. One is that people often do not rebel in response to terrible conditions.
- Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)A federal judge has halted Trump's attempt to eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services — the agency which provides federal funding to libraries and museums. District court Judge John J. McConnell Jr. issued an injunction, stating that it violated the Administrative Procedure Act.
- Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)For folks in the DMV area:
- billionaires swooping in robbing institutions of the people
- Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)I appreciate our news wires and orgs that let @mississippifreepress.org republish their work. But sometimes, we have to make tweaks to remove horse-race narratives and defer to experts and plain facts, rather than the old "the left says, the right says," paradigm. Like this:
- Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)some news: in 2026, i will become the president and owner of @milestonefilms.bsky.social, the distribution home of charles burnett, kathleen collins, bridgett m. davis, and many others. to be a champion of cinema is my life’s greatest honor & pleasure. learn more: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/m...
- Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)#OtD 6 May 1933 Nazis raided the Institute of Sex Research in Berlin. It was a pioneering org which supported LGBT rights, and equality for women. It employed numerous trans workers and pioneered gender affirmation surgery. Its library was then burned stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1064...
- "After 'liberation' the US army handbook... most Holocaust survivors should be released from concentration camps, 'criminals with a prison sentence still to serve will be transferred to civil prisons.'" Allied forces continued LGBTQ+ persecution stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1007...
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- Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Michigan drops charges against US student protesters supporting Palestinians after delays and what the state’s attorney general called a “circus-like atmosphere.” t.co/n6JDEfUQR0
- Jacqui Alexander "What is democracy to mean when its association with the perils of empire has rendered it so thoroughly corrupt that it seems disingenuous and perilous even to deploy the term.
- right there 👇🏿 “They say we’re disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we’re disturbing the war.” — Howard Zinn
- Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Excellent book ⬇️ on role of white press in constructing an anti-democratic society by promoting & supporting lynching, convict labor, & campaigns of violence . . . and the Black press's parallel fight for multiracial democracy of equality, justice, & opportunity for all. bookshop.org/a/7256/97802...
- Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)#tdih 1905 Robert Abbott founded "Chicago Defender." Goal: “American Race Prejudice Must Be Destroyed” Paper had a nat'l audience & major influence on Great Migration, culture, & struggle for civil & human rights. Read ⬇️& see @blackpastonline.bsky.social 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ch...
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- Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)They say we’re disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we’re disturbing the war. — H. Zinn @zinndigital.bsky.social Calls for "campus safety" are used as a cudgel for police violence & to suppress human rights demands. ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/student...
- Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)#tdih 1970 Kent State, National Guard shot unarmed college students: protesting U.S. bombing of Cambodia & passing by. Killed 4, wounded 9. Also remember massacres at -- Orangeburg (2/8/1968) & -- Jackson State (5/15/1970) Study & teach ALL three. ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ke...
- Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Before you can ask ‘what should we do’ you need to build a ‘we.’
- Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)You don’t win politically by winning over your opponents, but by building a political bloc that can defeat them.
- Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Colonialism has always used starvation as a weapon - from Israel's siege on Gaza & destruction of farmland, to famine in Sudan due to counter-revolutionary war & land grabbing today. Or the 1943 Bengal famine that killed over 3 million ppl, or "rice denial policies" throughout british empire.
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- corporate news as "independent"
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- Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Tech is not neutral—most absurd assertion, see all STS scholarship. We build tools that embed our values and choice to unleash and in what contexts. Excited for the release of @rcalo.bsky.social brilliant new book on method in law and tech scholarship.
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