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Dr Sarah Feinstein

@1000plateaus.bsky.social
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used to work in museums, now works at School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds (she/her)

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OK Comics @okcomics.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
With everything going on in the UK (and the world) today... Events like this are needed more than ever. You should join @myfanwytristram.bsky.social and @rickardsisters.com at the @leedslitfest.bsky.social PLACARDS & PANELS event. Get your ticket here: www.leedslitfest.co.uk/events/placa...
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Leeds Lit Fest @leedslitfest.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Join us from 6–14 June for a city-wide celebration of words & imagination. Our biggest collaboration yet as we bring together more than 50 events across 16 venues. Lots of the city’s best writers joined together with friends from afar. LLF 2026 PROGRAMME 👇👇👇 www.leedslitfest.co.uk/events/
A graphic square in pinks, purples and reds with a Leeds Lit Fest 2026 logo in black outline in the top left. Underneath are the dates of the festival Sat 6th - Sun 14th June with the words in white block capitals FESTIVAL OF WORDS AND IMAGINATION. Beneath that is text that says  - Join us for 51 events across 16 venues as writers, poets and performers come together to celebrate the city's thriving literary scene. From though-provoking talks to hands-on workshops and live performances, Leeds Lit Fest is your invitation to discover, create and connect. Then the web address leedslitfest.co.uk.A graphic square in pinks, purples and blues with a Leeds Lit Fest 2026 logo in black outline in the top right next to words in white block capitals FESTIVAL OF WORDS AND IMAGINATION. Underneath is a list of more than 50 writers, poets and performers taking part in the programme. The web address is leedslitfest.co.uk
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La Tanya S. Autry (she/her) @artstuffmatters.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I'm looking forward to reading Leigh Raiford's new book When Home Is a Photograph: Blackness and Belonging in the World (also great 40% discount offer available via @dukepress.bsky.social) www.dukeupress.edu/when-home-is...
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When Home Is a Photograph: Blackness and Belonging in the World
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 08/05/2026
BREAKING: Second Ever Green Mayor Win 🎉 Liam Shrivastava has been elected Mayor of Lewisham – huge congratulations!
Graphic of Liam Shrivastava saying Welcoming Liam Shrivastava Mayor of Lewisham
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 08/05/2026
Workers at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City joined three dozen UAW Local 2110 organizers to picket the museum’s annual gala, demanding higher wages and better benefits.
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American Folk Art Museum Workers Picket Gala, Calling for Higher Wages
Staffers say they were forced to take action after negotiations for a new contract remained stalled for nearly two years.
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
On May 11, join Dean Spade, Autumn Brown, and R. Jessica Rosenberg for a virtual panel to celebrate the new edition of Mutual Aid, discuss how efforts have changed between 2019 and 2026, the repression of Stop Cop City activists, and much more. RSVP below! www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/m...
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Mutual Aid in 2026: How Minneapolis Fights Back
On May 11th at 6pm (EST), Verso will be joined by Dean Spade, Autumn Brown, and R. Jessica Rosenberg to celebrate the new edition of Mutual Aid, discuss how mutual aid efforts have changed between 201...
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 06/05/2026
A new biography of the Berlin-born philosopher Walter Benjamin emphasizes his combination of stubborn unworldliness and startling prescience. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/faPpUP
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What Walter Benjamin Knew
A new biography of the Berlin-born philosopher emphasizes his combination of stubborn unworldliness and startling prescience.
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Today marks the launch of our Theory Sale! Don't miss out on your chance to save 40% on a selection of key texts both old and new.
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Announcing: The Verso Books Theory Sale
"Theory becomes a material force as soon as it has gripped the masses." Our annual Theory Sale runs now through April 10th at 11:59pm. Don't miss out on your chance to save 40% on a selection of key t...
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Arts Professional @artsprofessional.co.uk · 02/04/2026
The UK's biggest conference for arts, culture and heritage marketers returns this summer, heading back to Leeds for three days of learning, connection and inspiration.
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AMA Conference 2026 - Together - Arts Professional
Arts Professional is proud to be Media Partner for the AMA Conference 2026.
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NPR @npr.org · 04/04/2026
Independent venue closures, social media algorithms and the rise of generative AI are all part of an ecosystem that artists say is becoming increasingly difficult for working musicians to weather.
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As the Live Nation trial continues, how do artists actually feel about touring?
Independent venue closures, social media algorithms and the rise of generative AI are all part of an ecosystem that artists say is becoming increasingly difficult for working musicians to weather.
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 04/03/2026
DePaul University’s decision to close its campus art museum has sparked outrage in Chicago, including an open letter that criticized the move as “short-sighted, wrong-headed, and grounded in some deeply disappointing principles of prioritization.”
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Plan to Close DePaul Art Museum Faces Community Backlash
Over 2,000 faculty and students have called on the Chicago school to reverse its decision, which came after budgetary concerns and layoffs in December.
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 04/03/2026
After 14 years, the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan will terminate its master of arts degree in curatorial practice when program founder and chair Steven Henry Madoff retires in May 2027.
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School of Visual Arts Shutters Its Curatorial Practice MA Program
The 14-year-old program is no longer accepting applicants, the school said.
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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Before In the Wake, there was Monstrous Intimacies. A major work.
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 25/02/2026
Join us on March 2 for an exclusive conversation with artist and Hyperallergic contributor Damien Davis, whose distinctive voice challenges the power structures and inequities of the contemporary art world.
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Keeping a Critical Eye on the Art World With Damien Davis
Join us on March 2 for a virtual conversation with artist and Hyperallergic contributor Damien Davis.
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Emily Mark-FitzGerald @emilymfg.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Very pleased to share details of a new permanent academic job opportunity in Creative & Cultural Industries at University College Dublin. We are seeking candidates with a PhD whose work engages with the commercial creative industries. Deadline: 6 March 2026 universityvacancies.com/university-c....
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 07/02/2026
If art institutions want to stand with people whose lives have been upended by detention and deportation, their solidarity has to show up as time, protection, and material support that outlasts a social media post.
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After the Strike, Will Art Galleries Be Allies?
If deleting the social media post tomorrow would change nothing about how artists are paid or how resources are allocated, the gallery’s allyship is disposable.
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Brighton & Hove Green Party @bhgreens.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
15 days to go to Bold Politics Live! Get your ticket at: Bhgp.link/bold-politics
15 days to go, pictures of Zack Polanski and Caroline Lucas,
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Film Hub North @filmhubnorth.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Next mixer alert: join us at City Screen Picturehouse York on 18 February with pals York Filmmakers! This is your chance to meet potential collaborators and share ideas. Attendance is free, but you’ll need to sign up in advance: bit.ly/fhn-mixer #Filmmaking #YorkEvents #FilmNetworking
Text reads: ‘BFI NETWORK Filmmaker Mixer. York; 18 February, City Screen Picturehouse’. Three colourful cinema tickets below read ‘writer’, ‘producer’, and ‘director’. Background is a blurred orange circle with a blue diagonal stripe. Film Hub North logo to top right.
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Film Hub North @filmhubnorth.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The BFI Film Audience Network conference is coming to Newcastle in September 2026! Join us to connect with colleagues, learn from peers behind some of the most innovative BFI FAN projects, and discover fresh ideas for reaching and engaging audiences. Registration coming soon rb.gy/dnw3bu ⏳
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 30/01/2026
Cultural organizations across the US closed today in solidarity with immigrants. Public gestures of support are unfolding in NYC, where two weeks ago, a group of Tribeca galleries met to address an influx of street vendors in the area, many of whom are immigrants under threat.
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Tribeca Galleries Discuss Reporting Street Vendors, Drawing Criticism
A group of galleries met to address the “increasing number of vendors” on and near Broadway, many of whom are immigrants under threat.
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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
On a trend us film professors have seen. Free link to “The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films” from THE ATLANTIC yesterday. archive.ph/GFWzW
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Yasmin Gunaratnam @anilsghost.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A gem of a conversation on persistence in organisaing @deathpanel.bsky.social Crips for eSims for Gaza w/ Jane Shi & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
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Crips for eSims for Gaza w/ Jane Shi & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (01/22/26)
Podcast Episode · Death Panel · 22/01/2026 · 1h 1m
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 24/01/2026
Philadelphia is suing the Department of the Interior and the National Park Service after officials removed artwork and panels about the history of slavery from Independence National Historical Park on Thursday.
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Philadelphia Sues Trump Administration Over Removal of Slavery Exhibits
The city is pursuing legal action after artwork and panels about the history of slavery were removed from a historic park.
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NPR @npr.org · 04/12/2025
Panahi's latest film, It Was Just an Accident, won three Gotham Awards on Monday. The filmmaker has been imprisoned in Iran before — but continues to make movies. n.pr/4oAZ5o5
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Filmmaker Jafar Panahi is sentenced again in Iran as Hollywood's awards season starts
Panahi's latest film, It Was Just an Accident, won three Gotham Awards on Monday. The filmmaker has been imprisoned in Iran before — but continues to make movies.
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Dr Sarah Feinstein @1000plateaus.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Antonia is an amazing photographer and this project is fierce. Please consider backing it. www.kickstarter.com/projects/reb...
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BE MY REBEL
Protest Photographs through art, music, action, and essays by Antonia Tricarico
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 23/11/2025
Ruth Asawa—a child of immigrants persecuted for their national origin—forged an art of connection that expressed a determination to be, and to make others feel, at home in the world. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/wdv39J
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Ruth Asawa’s Art of Defiant Hospitality
A retrospective at MOMA puts forth a persuasive case for an artist who saw making her work and living with others as inextricably entwined.
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Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
A stunning response (i.e., more than just a review) of GHOSTING, by Tyran Grillo. If you don't have the time or inclination to read the book, this serves as an excellent bluffer's guide to something we all deal with, at some point.
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Dominic Pettman: Ghosting (Book Review)
Ghosting: On Disappearance is a treatise of nonbeing—or, perhaps more precisely, of unbeing. It is not merely about disappearance but about the existential tremors that ripple outwar…
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Film Hub North @filmhubnorth.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
We’re teaming up with @balticgateshead.bsky.social for Uncommon Voices, a special evening of short films exploring how working-class filmmakers are capturing class experiences in Britain today. 4 December | BALTIC, Gateshead Book your ticket: bit.ly/3JDO336 🎟
Still from Ffasiwn, The Film features four unsmiling children dressed in elaborate pink clothes – one is standing, whilst the other three are seated on a concrete ledge. Text reads: “Baltic Cinema: Uncommon Voices. A special programme of short films exploring class – with a filmmaker discussion and mixer. Thursday 4 December. BALTIC  | 18:30 | £6/£4”.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I fear that many more of us will find ourselves asking the same question unless we can end this nightmare soon.
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Dr Sarah Feinstein @1000plateaus.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago Faced with Major Staff Cutbacks
The school’s Video Data Bank has seen its team shrink by more than half, in a move described by alumna and artist Suzie Silver as ‘sad and distressing’.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 15/11/2025
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures
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Leeds University Library Galleries @lulgalleries.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Challenge your expectations in this landmark group exhibition Coming next in The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery... 💛 [uz], [uz], [uz]: Artists from Working-Class Backgrounds 💛 Featuring over thirty modern and contemporary artists who were born in or have significant connections to Yorkshire.
White text on a bright yellow background reads "[uz], [uz], [uz]: Artists from Working-Class Backgrounds 19 Nov 2025 - 6 June 2026"
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
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In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
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Sascha Stollhans @saschastollhans.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Truly awful news. Ruthless, short-sighted and ill-informed. I remember working at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social about a decade ago and the University taking great pride in being one of the biggest languages departments in the country… Where’s that pride gone?! www.bbc.com/news/article...?
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Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is "proposing to reduce its nursing offer".
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Scott Palmer @drscottpalmer.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Published today ! @methuendrama.bsky.social a timely contribution and a great addition to our Performance + Design series #XR
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Media and Communication @ University of Leeds @leedsunimedia.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Celebrating the publication of our very own @sophiebishop.bsky.social's first book, 'Influencer Creep'! 🎉 We are hosting a book launch on the 19th November (followed by a drinks reception), and everyone is welcome: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/media/events... 📚 Order the book: www.ucpress.edu/books/influe...
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Dr Sarah Feinstein @1000plateaus.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
'Burger explained. “I think that’s exciting, because if your employees are thriving, then the museum is really going to be thriving.”' hyperallergic.com/1055754/detr...
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Detroit Institute of Arts Workers Push to Unionize
“The people at the 'bottom' are also very important and all deserve to be getting a living wage,” said one of the workers.
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Dr Sarah Feinstein @1000plateaus.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Lecturer in Literatures and Cultures of the Black Atlantic - fixed term contract - #AcademicJob www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG344/l...
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Lecturer in Literatures and Cultures of the Black Atlantic at King's College London
An opportunity for an academic position as a Lecturer in Literatures and Cultures of the Black Atlantic is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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Dr Sarah Feinstein @1000plateaus.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Lecturer in Media and Film deadline 7 November #AcademicJobs www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPE715/l...
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Lecturer in Media & Film at York St John University
Apply now for the Lecturer in Media & Film role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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Leeds University Library Galleries @lulgalleries.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
We're delighted to be hosting... In Conversation: ‘Notions Of Care’ – A Response to Turner Prize 2025 Thursday 27 November 17:30 - 19:30 Treasures of the Brotherton library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...
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In Conversation: ‘Notions Of Care’ – A Response to Turner Prize 2025
The theme of care in art is explored by a panel of artists, curators and academics, with reference to this year’s Turner Prize and artists connected to West Yorkshire.
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Film Hub North @filmhubnorth.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Final call for exhibitors in the North! 🚨 Want to bring bold, brilliant cinema to your community? Our Film Exhibition Fund closes Monday 3 November – get up to £10k per project, per year to support programming, marketing, staffing, accessibility and more. Apply now: bit.ly/fhn-fef
Photograph from FACT Liverpool Cinema in the City features people seated on a rooftop watching projection screen, with fairy lights to left. Text reads: ‘Film Exhibition Fund open: Apply by 3 November’.
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 31/10/2025
Authors Catriona Ward, Michael Cisco, Greg F. Gifune & Leila Taylor join tQ writers Sean Kitching and Mat Colgate to bring you what they consider to be the best novels, short stories and graphic novels in the genre The 25 best pieces of #Horror Fiction of the 21st century so far… buff.ly/C4B49ZM
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 04/11/2025
as my fellow Teen Voguers come over here I’ll be sharing their accounts, throw them a follow, offer them work, and we’ll be launching a gofundme/something similar soon!
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Dr Sarah Feinstein @1000plateaus.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Check out BE MY REBEL by Antonia Tricarico on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/reb...
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BE MY REBEL
Protest Photographs through art, music, action, and essays by Antonia Tricarico
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