Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h“I asked Chatterjee whether images from the smart glasses could be obtained with a warrant; he said he wasn’t sure. A spokesperson later followed up to confirm that yes, they could.” 🤷🏿♂️ 310424
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which. 142465853
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Good morning. Thinking of Professor Sharpe’s words and thankful for them. 2102
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Boggs on Baldwin's transversal political sensibility: "It was all connected, he was realizing, & to be an artist, for him, was to be a truth-teller about everything-race, sex, politics, love-& it was also to be, in a word he would use with increasing frequency in the years to come, a witness." 161
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026James Baldwin in an interview with Sedat Pekay in Istanbu in 1970l: "Someone once said to me that all love is abnormal. I really think at bottom that the homosexual terror, to put it that way, masks another terror, & that's the terror of life itself." 053
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 28/09/2026But I mean this politically as well: vast influxes of cash into media & politics, lawfare, demand failure (give us ur data or no healthcare / pay). There is NO consent anywhere -- bc we have never addressed society being built on enslavement & genocide. 0144
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026ICE just spent $16.7 million on electric shock gloves that human rights organizations like Amnesty International warn “could be readily misused for torture.” When parents in Omaha, Nebraska, learned that school resource officers had these same devices, they decided to fight back. WATCH: 50874517
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026At Cornell, one person— Christina Liang — handles every disciplinary case, including the Cornell Seven’s and the suspensions of over 40 protestors. Liang wrote in 2025 that “2024 was one of the most challenging years of my career…and it helped me learn that caring less is okay.” 10825159
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A single story that can tell you pretty much everything you need to know about US politics and culture 05513
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 27/09/2026To increase civic engagement, people need to know about these hearings with more advance notice. Additionally, you cannot have these hearings at 11 am on a Monday. That might work to attract retirees but almost no one else can attend. 0397
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 27/09/2026There's a city council hearing tomorrow (Monday) at 11 am at the Schomburg focused on the city's research libraries. I only heard about this on Friday so cannot attend. I think the public can submit written testimony: www.eventbrite.com/e/show-your-...eventbrite.comShow Your Support for NYPL's Research LibrariesJoin Schomburg and NYPL colleagues at a special hearing of the New York City Council. See government in action. Open to the public. 14119
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"Forging Ahead: Recent Acquisitions of Black Women Artists" asserts importance of Black women artists, shares more expansive dimensions of Black culture. Curated by La Tanya S. Autry, Assoc. Curator, Photographs & Prints @artstuffmatters.bsky.social, and Tammi Lawson, Curator, Art & Artifacts.blackstarnews.comSchomburg Center’s Newest Exhibition Features Its Largest Show Of Contemporary Black Women’s Art - Black Star NewsBy Black PR Wire 1116
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The Schomburg Center Unveils Its Biggest Contemporary Black Women’s Art Exhibition www.essence.com/culture/scho...essence.comThe Schomburg Center Unveils Its Biggest Contemporary Black Women’s Art Exhibition - EssenceThe "Forging Ahead" exhibit showcases works from established and emerging artists, making it the most expansive celebration of Black women's creativity at the Harlem museum. 02711
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Albumism @albumism.com · 25/09/2026Chaka Khan released ‘Funk This’ 19 years ago on September 25, 2007 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/CKhanFT 0175
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This conversation is a decade old today. Honored to be there❤️ 22511
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Breaking News: the word Capitalism has been reported missing. (If you find it please return it to the conversation.) 073
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 12/09/2026#tdih 1958, Gov. Orval Faubus closed all Little Rock, Ark. public high schools for one year rather than allow integration to continue. He ordered HS football games to go on. Teachers were fired for NAACP membership. More ⬇️including documentary. #Reparations www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/li...zinnedproject.orgSept. 12, 1958: Little Rock Public Schools ClosedGovernor Orval Faubus closed all Little Rock, Arkansas public schools for one year rather than allow integration. 03927
La Tanya S. Autry (she/her) @artstuffmatters.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"if that's true..." tennis talk apply this liberally 011
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Chaos and authoritarianism at UT Austin. Faculty have just days to show how their courses meet vague requirements of breadth and foundationalism. Proposals will be reviewed by an unspecified entity. No guarantee at all that those who review the proposals have expertise in the field. 15537
La Tanya S. Autry (she/her) @artstuffmatters.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I often recall the silence of my fellow undergraduate students, 300 of us in a lecture hall, when our professor, a Rhodes scholar, told us he could kill one of us and still keep his job. all kinds of weird and wrong here. the thing that especially stung was knowing that he was probably correct. 071
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026This is why most faculty cannot make sense of the 'woke' University trope. Our lived experiences bear little resemblance to it. This is far closer to the norm. 231669435
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 04/09/2026#OtD 4 Sep 2005, the Danziger Bridge shootings took place, when several New Orleans police officers opened fire with assault weapons on an unarmed African-American family. One man was shot five times in the back and a teenage girl was shot four times stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1048... 112346
La Tanya S. Autry (she/her) @artstuffmatters.bsky.social · 04/09/2026grosser and grosser. the bad jokes write themselves. 020
La Tanya S. Autry (she/her) @artstuffmatters.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I remember learning about her CIA activities awhile back. hrnews1.substack.com/p/feminist-i...hrnews1.substack.comFeminist Icon Gloria Steinem Was An Anti-Communist CIA Operative who Kept Feminism From Discussing ClassDeclassified Cold War Ties Show How U.S. Intelligence Shaped Feminism’s Focus On Gender Over Class. 070
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Anyway, remember that things are inevitable right up til the moment they’re not. “Inevitable” describes potential, not reality. It is a nightmare of the future coming to bully those who are asleep—not a description of some kind of logical or pragmatic reality, as some would have us believe. 219347
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/09/2026They’ll keep telling us it’s inevitable but NYC and other large school systems are starting to say no to AI, recognizing it’s not a legitimate tool for k-12 learning. Even some universities are putting their foot down, like U Chicago (and some law schools) www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...nyc.govMayor Mamdani and Chancellor Samuels Put Students First with Nation’s Broadest Generative AI Moratorium in Schools 261168310
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 02/09/2026"That the university is under attack and that the university is complicit with the very terms of engagement that place it under attack should not be seen as a contradiction. It is the way of the university.” Always read Walcott 0117
La Tanya S. Autry (she/her) @artstuffmatters.bsky.social · 29/08/2026“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.” —bell hooks every. damn. day. 0153
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Health Justice Commons @hjcommons.bsky.social · 14/08/2026To honor and celebrate Black August, we are choosing to uplift the lives and legacies of Black disabled radicals. We are focusing on the ways disability has been a feature of — and not a side note to — the multidimensional lives of numerous Black leaders and visionaries. We begin with Paul Robeson. 174
La Tanya S. Autry (she/her) @artstuffmatters.bsky.social · 25/08/2026"Belief Initiates and guides action— Or it does nothing." —Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower 061
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Roy DeCarava, Mississippi Freedom Marcher, Washington, D.C., 1963 17311
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Roy DeCarava should be as well known as Ansel Adams. 810823
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)New York Amsterdam News @nyamnews.bsky.social · 16/08/2026HARLEM DAY honors Maxwell and 30 years of "Urban Hang Suite" today. 1–7 p.m. on West 135th St. Read more: bit.ly/4gbOLAG #HarlemWeek2026 #Maxwell #HarlemDay 031
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 16/08/2026You don't have to engage every vile comment. 0386
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 15/08/2026there are so many grifters and violent men in positions of power in the academy who are committing serious crimes, sexually harassing students, producing false research for fascists, and aiding and funding genocide. they feel no shame, they face no consequence, and no one is hounding them to death. 221268
La Tanya S. Autry (she/her) @artstuffmatters.bsky.social · 15/08/2026the actual high-tech lynching(s). 1145
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/08/2026 606252747142
La Tanya S. Autry (she/her) @artstuffmatters.bsky.social · 13/08/2026"...can speak but cannot be heard." —Calvin Warren 000
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Baruch History Department @baruchhistory.bsky.social · 01/08/2026With great sadness we report that @baruch.cuny.edu @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @historygc.bsky.social Prof. Johanna Fernández passed away on July 30, 2026. We mourn her loss and celebrate her achievements and legacy: blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/history/?p=447 217551
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Folks seeking to divest from Canvas - are you going completely old school (paper only syllabus, assignments, etc) or have you worked out a hybrid plan? Can anyone point me to resources that will surveil me and my students less? 135816
Reposted by La Tanya S. Autry (she/her)Commenting on insanity @farmingforjustice2.bsky.social · 10/08/2026www.tastingtable.com/2230005/groc...tastingtable.com7 Grocery Store Brand Lettuces That Reportedly Come From Taylor Farms - Tasting TableFrom Target's Good & Gather to Walmart's Marketside, Whole Food's 365, and more, there are several store-brand lettuces for you to be wary of. 065
La Tanya S. Autry (she/her) @artstuffmatters.bsky.social · 10/08/2026what happens when you help kill the planet, the ancestor? daily wonders. 021