Nicole Əntēbī @antwithacapitala.bsky.social · 08/06/2025www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...wired.comThe US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal DatabaseCustoms and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future. 010
Reposted by Nicole Əntēbīashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 08/06/2025you think folks would have learned after press in minneapolis were intentionally targeted and several were permanently injured or blinded that cops do not give a fuck about press 8390132
Reposted by Nicole ƏntēbīGremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Excellent, well-reported piece about members of a small upstate town that showed more courage and clarity under pressure than law firms and universities 213134
Reposted by Nicole ƏntēbīJoe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 07/05/2025TWO REMINDERS: 1. Mother's Day is Sunday. Do something nice for your mom (or for yourself if your mom isn't worth celebrating). 2. It's time for @nationalbailout.bsky.social's annual #FreeBlackMamas fundraiser to get Black women too poor to defend themselves out of jail and home with the kids.secure.actblue.comDonate to #FreeBlackMamasWith your generous support we are able to continue to bail out community members, provide life-changing supportive services and resource groups who are organizing to transform the criminal justice sys... 1279157
Reposted by Nicole ƏntēbīThe Border Chronicle @theborderchronicle.bsky.social · 06/05/2025New in The Border Chronicle 🦂🦅 in collaboration w/ @highcountrynews.org by @cetracey.bsky.social The grasslands of Sonora, Mexico, haven’t seen bird counts in 15 years. Now, ranchers and biologists are teaming up to assess, and protect, North America's avian diversity.theborderchronicle.comSearching for Sparrows in the Sky IslandsThe grasslands of Sonora, Mexico, haven’t seen bird counts in 15 years. Now, ranchers and biologists are teaming up to assess, and protect, North America's avian diversity. 084
Reposted by Nicole ƏntēbīCaroline Tracey @cetracey.bsky.social · 11/02/2025For @theborderchronicle.bsky.social, I wrote about photographer David Taylor’s exhibition COMPLEX and what it can teach us about keeping watch on border surveillance: www.theborderchronicle.com/p/americas-g...theborderchronicle.comAmerica's GulagIn COMPLEX, artist David Taylor documents border surveillance and the “most significant architectural legacy we have created in the last 20 years.” 01910
Nicole Əntēbī @antwithacapitala.bsky.social · 07/02/2025The best news this week: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...theguardian.comAsteroid’s chances of hitting Earth in 2032 just got higher – but don’t panicSpace rock now has 2.3% risk of collision – up from 1.3% in December – but danger is likely to fall with more data 020
Nicole Əntēbī @antwithacapitala.bsky.social · 26/01/2025this country is about to find out all the ways in which immigrant labor from the farms to high end restaurants (and everything in between) keep USians fed. 010
Nicole Əntēbī @antwithacapitala.bsky.social · 23/01/2025I WAS JUST LOOKING UP H-1B VISA REQUIREMENTS FOR A COLLEAGUE HB1, AND HERE I FIND THE EXCEPTION FOR MELANIA MY EYES ARE BLEEDING 021
Reposted by Nicole ƏntēbīMatt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Worth resharing this today, WIRED’s guide to protecting yourself from government surveillancewired.comThe WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government SurveillanceDonald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to ev... 8333201
Nicole Əntēbī @antwithacapitala.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Here I weigh two cow skulls (one found in Sonora, one in Arizona) using Border Monument no.133 as a fulcrum. Can you tell which is which? 010
Nicole Əntēbī @antwithacapitala.bsky.social · 10/01/2025I’m holding this scene from Hero frontal in my mind. It’s the scene in the calligraphy school when the class is targeted with a barrage of arrows. The teacher keeps teaching, the learners keep learning. This is my promise to my profession no matter what happens from here on. 000
Nicole Əntēbī @antwithacapitala.bsky.social · 23/12/2024I contain multitudes of conflicting truths. 010
Nicole Əntēbī @antwithacapitala.bsky.social · 20/11/2024THROUGH A SERIES OF EMBODIED GESTURES EXPLORING CONFLICT, DESIRE, AND THE DELIMITATIONS OF FRIENDSHIP WHILE TRYING TO POSSESS A GLASS OF WATER, LEYVA AND ANTEBI WILL QUOTE DIRECTLY FROM NORMAN MCLAREN'S CONTROVERSIAL ANIMATED FILM TITLED "NEIGHBOURS" (1952) AN ALLEGORY FOR THE KOREAN WAR. 1/3 110
Nicole Əntēbī @antwithacapitala.bsky.social · 12/11/2024History is a relentless ghost haunting us with the injustices our ancestors endured and wrought 020
Reposted by Nicole ƏntēbīÉireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 25/10/2024Oops it's the Rio Grande/Río Bravo, but this map comes up in the essay: www.bloomberg.com/news/article... (cc @vickyveritas.bsky.social and @antwithacapitala.bsky.social)bloomberg.comHow I Mapped the Fluid Border Between El Paso and JuárezIn El Paso, we call it the Rio Grande; our neighbors in Juárez know it as Río Bravo. It’s supposed to be a national border, but the river had its own ideas. 022
Reposted by Nicole ƏntēbīÉireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 25/10/2024Look for @antwithacapitala.bsky.social's animated version of this map! It's amazing 131
Nicole Əntēbī @antwithacapitala.bsky.social · 16/10/2024Adding “How not to be a robot “ to the title of my classes. 110
Reposted by Nicole ƏntēbīEileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 14/10/2024@leximcmenamin.bsky.social puts today's New York Stock Exchange anti war protest in context and explains the historic reference to an ACT-UP protest in 1987 for @teenvogue.bsky.socialteenvogue.comJewish Protesters Target Wall Street Over U.S. Funding Israel's War on Gaza“As Gaza is bombed, Wall Street booms,” "Bottoms" director Emma Seligman told Teen Vogue from the action. 05730
Nicole Əntēbī @antwithacapitala.bsky.social · 13/10/2024My animated essay for The Texas Observer: 055
Nicole Əntēbī @antwithacapitala.bsky.social · 13/10/2024I have used the a.i. Forgive me there were data sets so cumbersome and so unintelligible 010
Nicole Əntēbī @antwithacapitala.bsky.social · 10/10/2024My illustration students want you to protect their future by voting. 020
Nicole Əntēbī @antwithacapitala.bsky.social · 08/10/2024I wrote and animated this essay for The Texas Observer, a news outlet that resists reportage with a shallow expiration date. Grateful for the platform to explore these ideas and for the friends featured in this piece. www.texasobserver.org/reclaiming-f...texasobserver.orgReclaiming ‘Friendship’ Across BordersIn reading U.S.-Mexico treaties, I trip over the word “friendship.” Ostensibly, it's like saying, “We are friends, so I’m taking your land.” 021
Reposted by Nicole ƏntēbīÉireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 06/10/2024next summer (yes, so far away) I am going to be teaching a weeklong class on #ObservationalPractice for writers and artists (I think this would honestly be very useful for *nonpractitioner* academics, i.e., people who do exclusively or primarily scholarly work) in Maine. details here in Nov/Dec:mainemedia.eduMaine Media Workshops + College filmmaking and photography schoolMaine Media offers workshops and certificate programs for media artists in the areas of photography, filmmaking, creative writing and design, and a low-residency MFA degree. Our week-long and multi-we... 154
Nicole Əntēbī @antwithacapitala.bsky.social · 06/10/2024Every generation needs to, among other things, be unshackled from the rigidity of mimetic representation. DEATHTOTHEDEMONA.I.! 010
Reposted by Nicole ƏntēbīÉireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 06/10/2024(I should say, this album is pay-what-you-like. So you can have your very own solstice concert if you want.) 021
Nicole Əntēbī @antwithacapitala.bsky.social · 06/10/2024All these xenophobic dudes in power married to immigrants. 120
Nicole Əntēbī @antwithacapitala.bsky.social · 16/09/2024Animation for me is both the mirror and the looking glass 000
Nicole Əntēbī @antwithacapitala.bsky.social · 10/08/2024“When I explain Juan Gabriel to American friends, I tell them to imagine an artist as revolutionary, innovative & singular as Prince and as peacockish, prolific and canonized as Elton John. Someone once told me no one has made Latin Americans cry, laugh & dance more.” www.nytimes.com/2024/08/10/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Juan Gabriel, My Mother and MeHe showed us a different way to exist, even if the world didn’t seem ready for it. 010
Reposted by Nicole ƏntēbīDuke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 09/08/2024In "Learning to Lead," Jennifer R. Nájera explores the intersections of education and activism among undocumented college students. Read the introduction for free on our website now. ow.ly/4Q9c50SSTXM 053
Reposted by Nicole ƏntēbīColin Dickey @colindickey.com · 09/08/2024Here it is, at the New Republic: newrepublic.com/article/1846...newrepublic.comVoters Have a Right to Know What Kevin Roberts’s Disturbing Book SaysJ.D. Vance wrote the foreword to “Dawn’s Early Light.” The rest of the book outlines an even more troubling vision. 37930450
Nicole Əntēbī @antwithacapitala.bsky.social · 10/08/2024David Dorado Romo, who I adore, wrote (maybe the first) Borderlands history textbook for grade school students and I'm thrilled for young people to know and see themselves in this history: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/709716...penguinrandomhouse.comBorderlands and the Mexican American Story by David Dorado Romo: 9780593567753 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksUntil now, you've only heard one side of the story, about migrants crossing borders, drawn to the promise of a better life. In reality, Mexicans were on this land long before any borders existed.... 020
Nicole Əntēbī @antwithacapitala.bsky.social · 08/08/2024I'm convinced that a finger wag emoji could help reinforce the social contract. 010
Reposted by Nicole ƏntēbīDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 08/08/2024This, from The Atlantic and on @lisafdavis.bsky.social: The Voynich is “not imaginary,” Davis said. “It’s an actual object, it exists in space and time, it has a history, it has physical characteristics, and because of that, it has a true story. We just don’t know what that true story is yet.”"theatlantic.comAn Intoxicating 500-Year-Old MysteryThe Voynich Manuscript has long baffled scholars—and attracted cranks and conspiracy theorists. Now a prominent medievalist is taking a new approach to unlocking its secrets. 1624567
Nicole Əntēbī @antwithacapitala.bsky.social · 07/08/2024We are wrapping production on this short doc directed by Celina Galicia. A courageous portrait of Isabel Cabanillas de la Torre and Esmeralda Castillo Rincón whose family and friends sparked a movement in Juárez demanding justice in their names. I contributed the animated sequences. 110
Reposted by Nicole ƏntēbīTexas Observer @texasobserver.org · 06/08/2024Featured story: This moving photo essay shares the faces, and stories of the women struggling for reproductive rights after Roe v. Wade.buff.lyPhoto Essay: Their Laws. Our Bodies.Two years after the constitutional right to abortion was eliminated, what’s left of Texans’ reproductive rights is ambiguous. 0165
Nicole Əntēbī @antwithacapitala.bsky.social · 03/08/2024“There can be no friendship where there is cruelty, where there is disloyalty, where there is injustice.” -Étienne de La Boétie (1552) 000
Nicole Əntēbī @antwithacapitala.bsky.social · 02/08/2024Shapeshifting republican elite helicopters into the borderlands, buys a plaid shirt and is ✨poof✨ an expert on this region. 110