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Clarity Haynes

@clarityhaynes.bsky.social
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Queer feminist artist. My first monograph is available where books are sold. Represented by New Discretions. clarityhaynes.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Leading global experts just confirmed what we’ve long known: Gaza is in famine. At least half a million Palestinians are facing starvation, acute malnutrition and death. And it’s likely to spread. The U.S. government is not a bystander to this genocide. We can end it today.
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Gaza City officially in famine, says global hunger monitor
Gaza City and surrounding areas are officially suffering from famine, and it will likely spread, a global hunger monitor determined on Friday, an assessment that will escalate pressure on Israel to allow more aid into the Palestinian enclave.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
“Do not obey in advance.” “Prioritize joy.” “Take up space.” “Be in solidarity.” “Organize.” Fantastic piece on what FreeDC is teaching us with its immediate and potent resistance to the Trump attempt to take over that city.
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5 things Free DC is teaching us
In case you missed the news, Donald Trump has ordered the National Guard to head to our nation’s capital. Claiming emergency powers from the Home Rule charter due to crime, he’s taking control of the ...
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Exactly this. Thank you, @chrislhayes.bsky.social. Please contact your elected representatives and demand they do what they can to stop the mass starvation: 202-224-3121
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I’ve had nothing to do with that pedophile since he stole all of my teenage masseuses.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
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Epstein Is Only the Tip of the Iceberg: The Trump Protection Machine and the Epidemic of Violence Against Women
On July 2, the jury delivered a guilty verdict on some of the charges against music mogul Sean Combs for his decades of horrific sexual abuse of women with the help of his extensive staff and deep poc...
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 26/06/2025
This is NOT just cutting access to abortion. It’s limiting access to CANCER screening, birth control, screening for sexually transmitted infections. In a dissenting opinion, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote, “Today’s decision is likely to result in tangible harm to real people.”
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 25/06/2025
The permanence of the works in “RESISTERHOOD” at the Leslie-Lohman Museum contrasts with the realities of the transitioning body that Young Joon Kwak has cast, which, as the exhibition text notes, exists in “states of emergence and indeterminacy.”
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Young Joon Kwak’s Luminescent Bodies
The artist’s magnificent, rhinestone-encrusted cast sculptures tell multiple stories that look at contemporary queer and trans existence.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I wrote about Skrmetti. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The US supreme court just undermined gender equality | Moira Donegan
The Skrmetti decision upholding Tennessee’s ban on transition-related healthcare for minors deprives children and batters the 14th amendment
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Clarity Haynes @clarityhaynes.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-she-made...
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The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything
The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
For those not following the drama earlier, it's for sharing this piece advocating for nonviolence (but not being judgy about how targeted people respond either). And saying some things about governmental/ institutional violence.
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Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 31/05/2025
Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.
Heavily armed DHS HSI agents clad in full desert camo tactical gear including plate carriers and Kevlar helmets stand in the middle of the street like soldiersHeavily armed DHS HSI agents clad in full desert camo tactical gear including plate carriers and Kevlar helmets stand in the middle of the street like soldiers.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
This is happening right now. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
UN warns 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in next 48 hours without aid – Israel-Gaza war live
UN’s humanitarian chief says aid lorries, which contain baby food and nutrition, are technically in Gaza but have not reached civilians
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Carolyn Hinds @carriecnh12.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Be very aware that America is now a fascist state where political opposition and citizens are kidnapped and disappeared for exercising their human and constitutional rights. It is no longer business as usual no matter how much the media and people want to pretend otherwise.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I wrote about the Trump administration’s embrace of the pro-natalist movement, and the need to combat pro-natalist misogyny in cultural terms. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Clarity Haynes @clarityhaynes.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The River That Flows Both Ways. Opening this Friday May 2, 6-8 at RUTHANN in Catskill NY! Ever Baldwin, Erika DeVries, Clarity Haynes, Portia Munson.
Green grasses sway along a river. The text says: The River That Flows Both Ways, Ever Baldwin, Erika DeVries, Clarity Haynes, Portia Munson
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Philosopher @katemanne.bsky.social makes the case for a feminist anti-natalism. open.substack.com/pub/katemann...
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Don’t Have Children
A feminist anti-natalism
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 26/04/2025
International Crab Day is April 26, so there’s no better time to put some respect on the Crab Museum in Margate for its unwavering public support for trans rights after the UK Supreme Court ruled that a woman is defined by “biological sex” rather than gender identity.
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How a Tiny Crab Museum in the UK Stood Up For Trans Rights
Leaning on its expertise in biology, the museum said that “there are no binaries in nature” and called the recent anti-trans ruling “an abuse of science.”
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Clarity Haynes @clarityhaynes.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Who’s going to tell Trump that the Garden of Heroes already exists? It’s called a Wax Museum.
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Clarity Haynes @clarityhaynes.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Hey @svlocke.bsky.social just read your essay in @sharonlouden.bsky.social’s book Last Artist Standing. I so appreciated your clear honesty in telling your story. Thank you.
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Steve Locke (@svlocke.bsky.social)
I make paintings and I have a dog.
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Monika, NP @monikamaclean.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
NYC! It’s on today. 12 o’ clock. Bryant Park.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
The only way to interpret this is that the Trump administration is trying to close public schools. Which has been an open goal of conservatives for decades. They want to privatize education to resegregate on race and gender. And to ensure some people can’t access education at all.
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sherri cola ✺ @sherricola.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Paintings by artist AMY TALLUTO @talluchan.bsky.social Amy Talluto is a MacDowell Fellow of 2024 & host of the Pep Talks for Artists podcast. amytalluto.com peptalksforartists.com
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Karsen Heagle @karsenheagle.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Work in progress
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Kate Hawes @kvosh.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Woodstock, NY stands up.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Good morning. Listen, you have to just decide. They are not taking the Black Smithsonian. Resolve it in your spirit.
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Aruna D’Souza @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Terrifying. A must read. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...
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Opinion | We Underestimate the Manosphere at Our Peril (Gift Article)
We underestimate the manosphere at our peril.
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Clarity Haynes @clarityhaynes.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Here we go. This is not new - just worse and being said out loud.
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Clarity Haynes @clarityhaynes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
A fascinating read!
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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Non-citizens also have the right of free speech (and therefore protest). This is a flagrant and willfully unlawful use of state power. One that too many think is perfectly legitimate Say it again: we must not be divided by citizenship/immigrant status or we all lose www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...
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Columbia Student Hunted by ICE Sues to Prevent Deportation
Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident who has lived in the U.S. since she was 7, participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Immigration agents visited residences looking for her.
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 22/03/2025
In 1985, James Baldwin wrote that Beauford Delaney was “the first walking, living proof, for me, that a black man could be an artist.” Their relationship would transform them in the face of extreme racism and homophobia.
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The Artist Who Taught James Baldwin to Write Like a Painter
The essays in Speculative Light explore the many ways in which Beauford Delaney, another queer Black man, revolutionized Baldwin’s cultural perspective and imagination.
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 18/03/2025
Join us tomorrow to learn more about Hyperallergic and hear from Lise Ragbir and Ola Mobolade on the tenuous state of DEI in the art world.
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Hyperallergic Town Hall: As DEI Slowly Dies, What Comes Next?
At our virtual town hall meeting on March 19, Hyperallergic Members will hear from Lise Ragbir and Ola Mobolade on the tenuous state of DEI in the art world.
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Clarity Haynes @clarityhaynes.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This is a stellar episode. Artists who listen to podcasts in the studio like me, you’ll love this podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Mary Sabbatino: Galerie Lelong & Co., Championing Artists, & A Surprise Visit from Yoko Ono
Podcast Episode · The Art Career · 03/06/2025 · 1h 8m
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Clarity Haynes @clarityhaynes.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
In my dream I said to a man, like a chant at a protest, “your heroism is exhausting!”
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Clarity Haynes @clarityhaynes.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Gorgeous reflection www.culturedmag.com/article/2025...
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After the Eaton Fire: An Artist Reflects on Joseph Beuys Through the Lens of Loss
The Altadena artist, musician, and writer Ross Simonini considers a lost personal archive, oak trees, and Joseph Beuys’s exhibition at the Broad.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 14/03/2025
@clintsmithiii.bsky.social visited DC’s Black Lives Matter Plaza, the day after construction crews began removing its mural. “Symbols are not just symbols,” he writes. This is “part of a movement that is removing Black people” from power.
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Republicans Tear Down a Black Lives Matter Mural
Symbols aren’t just symbols.
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Clarity Haynes @clarityhaynes.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The Daily Reid: What's the point of power (this substack is so good- since I no longer watch msnbc and I miss Joy Reid - I highly recommend subscribing! open.substack.com/pub/joyannre...
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The Daily Reid: What's the point of power
...if you're not willing to use it?
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 11/03/2025
An upcoming exhibition at The Met identifies how Chinoiserie grew in parallel with European women’s buying power and contributed to the exoticizing objectification of Asian women and cultures.
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Chinoiserie Through a Feminist Lens
Met Museum curator Iris Moon dismantles misconceptions of vanity and frivolity within the porcelain craft in the upcoming exhibition Monstrous Beauty.
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 10/03/2025
Daisy Patton’s photo-based works from the past decade, which have dealt with family, identity, and mortality, have all been rooted in her quest to bridge the personal and the universal.
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Daisy Patton Paints Wedding Photos Back to Life
The artist resurrects moments of celebration in Before These Witnesses, whose subjects look back at us across time and offer themselves to be seen.
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Clarity Haynes @clarityhaynes.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Thinking of lgbtqia+ folks in red states today, especially young people. As I haven’t heard back about the show at the museum that I imagine is probably canceled, I googled the university there & 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ & found that the lgbt center/meeting space on campus was closed in NOVEMBER.
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Clarity Haynes @clarityhaynes.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I was asked to be in a museum show in the US south recently which was supposed to be a historical re-writing of portraiture with contemporary artists added in to expand the mix and content
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Clarity Haynes @clarityhaynes.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
State of the People is still going strong. It’s a 24 hour marathon response to our unfree media. TRUTH in discourse. Tune in here: stateofthepeople.piksel.plus/media/state-...
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State of the People
State of the People: The Voice We Trust, The Power We Build Tired of traditional news and media that overlook Black voices, ignore Black issues, and...
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 01/03/2025
Haven’t we each felt like cowering in a corner when all eyes are on us and a plague of butterflies invades our stomachs?
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The Monstrous Empathy of Amaryllis R. Flowers
In her art, Flowers thinks about monster mythology and autonomy as they relate to the all-too-human experience of feeling unwanted and out of place.
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Carolyn Chernoff @carolynchernoff.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Important thread! Take notes if you can.
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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Will another DC venue step up to put on this show prematurely abandoned by AMoA?
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Clarity Haynes @clarityhaynes.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
This. hyperallergic.com/992452/its-t...
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It’s Time for Museums to Step Up for Queer and Trans People
Amid ceaseless attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, art institutions have a responsibility to center and support their queer and trans staff and visitors.
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Deborah Kass @debkass.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/br...
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Bring Back Joy Reid!
Joy Reid made history as cable television’s first Black woman primetime anchor. A vocal critic of Trump and Republicans, Reid often went viral for her scathing commentary and analysis. “The ReidOut” h...
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Karen Leader @proftinkerbell.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Friday. Don't buy stuff. Share, post. Local businesses only, pay cash.
Cartoon of a red rabbit with words don't buy stuff, Friday, February 28, we have the power. Al Sharpton's DEI Boycott plan. 24 hour economic blackout.
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