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@katparent.bsky.social
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multimedia artist, deep-dive nerd, swamp seedling 🌱

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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Screenprinting designs I drew based on convos with youth at OSLC and walks in their community garden. These were printed live at Our Saviour's community block party -- dm me if you'd like me to come print near you 🦝🌸🐝🦋🌿🧅🥖#communitygarden #minnesotaart #screenprinting
A burgundy line drawing of busy bees buzzing around groceries, crockpots and native plants, with "we keep us safe" in block letters. The design is screenprinted on a cream and pink dyed fabric background. A line drawing of local critters like a raccoon, possum, leopard frog and bumblebee near native plants like bee balm, elderberry, and dandelion. A smiling kid holds a maple leaf.  They're arranged in a wreath around the phrase "love your neighbors", and screenprinted in dark greem on a mint background.
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
something is stirring in the undergrowth... #swampling #skyspiders #electronicmusic
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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 06/05/2026
"push the lines forward / no kings, no bigots, no borders / bootlicker should've listened when they told ya: / one does not simply walk into minnesota..." Full performance video of our song at No Kings 3. Shot by @katparent.bsky.social, edited by @seemore.bsky.social. More: secretrivers.info
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Secret Rivers at No Kings 3 - March 2026
YouTube video by KTM aka GUANTE
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
lil sketch of the half moon we saw rising over a starry frozen lake this weekend. it looked like a beautiful celestial bean, or a golden potato. #sketchbook #moonrise #sketch
a colored pencil and digital sketch in blues and brown of a frozen lake by night. above the dark horizon glows a lopsided yellow half moon.
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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 06/03/2026
New music! SECRET RIVERS is me and @seemore.bsky.social, and 100% of the proceeds from this project go to the Neighbors Helping Neighbors Twin Cities ICE Relief Fund. It's also Bandcamp Friday, so the platform doesn't even take a cut if you get it today: secretrivers.bandcamp.com
A black and white photo of KTM/Guante (wearing a whistle and a “shut down ICE” shirt) and SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE (wearing a poncho, beads and sunglasses) plus the text “Secret Rivers”
an album cover: graffiti-style text: "spring is coming" by secret rivers, featuring hazy artwork of a warm sun rising over greenery, with ice melting into a puddle.
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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 04/03/2026
Releasing some NEW music friday, then a virtual performance saturday with me, @seemore.bsky.social and @katparent.bsky.social. All proceeds from both going to the Neighbors Helping Neighbors Twin Cities ICE Relief Fund. More info: guante.info/salt
A save the date graphic featuring photos of KTM, SMP, and Kat Parent, with text: saturday, 3/7/26 (7pm ct): a virtual live performance (1) for a moment in which we’re not all able to leave our homes to go to a show; (2) for an excuse to raise money for an important MN rent relief effort; (3) for an opportunity to share some new songs and poems! More info: guante.info/salt
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
After months of relentless rapid response in Minneapolis, members of Defend the 612 had a moment to breathe and reflect on the lessons they’ve learned, the grief they carry, and the citywide fellowship they hope will endure. The crisis is not over, and I’m grateful they made time to speak with me.
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“We Belong to Each Other Now”: Lessons from Minneapolis
“This extreme closeness, togetherness and intimacy — you cannot infiltrate your way into a space where you'll understand that," says May, a rapid responder in Minneapolis.
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
new patch for my grumpy abolitionist friends ♻️🧌💚 Had fun crumpling these up and splatter-dyeing them with different colors of "trash juice" (leftover fabric paint) #oscarthegrouch #scram #abolishprisons #abolishice #screenprint
a screenprinted patch on handdyed yellow fabric, depicting the grumpy trash-loving Sesame Street character Oscar popping out of his trash can to yell at passersby. Text around him reads "No one is disposable, and everyone can SCRAM!"
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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 17/02/2026
New! I got to "talk shop" with three of my favorite MN poets: @ollieschminkey.bsky.social, @seemore.bsky.social, and Isha Camara. We share poems, but *also* tools + tactics related to how language can be put to work as part of the struggle to abolish ICE and build a better world: guante.info/ICEOUT
A collage of four video chat screens featuring Kyle Tran Myhre, Isha Camara, Ollie Schminkey and SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE. In the center of the  image, text: "poetry against ICE: an asynchronous panel discussion: available now"
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
bella meow pt 2 #abolishICE #fuckICE #bellameow #bellaciao #zine
Two pages from a black and white zine. On the left page, the silhouette drawing of a cat hissing emphatically is filled with the words "bella meow", surrounded by typed meows and the text "meow a full verse [of Bella Ciao] here". On the right page, a cat hisses over the text "We HISS at fascists! and scratch their faces! Bella meow bella meow bella meow meow meow! We knock opressors off of high tables, because all cats are beautiful."
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I talked with my friend @shaneburley.bsky.social about Nick Fuentes' recent rant about putting women in gulags. How seriously should we take Fuentes, culturally and politically? And what does rhetoric like this reveal about the broader trajectory of the movement he’s trying to shape? We get into it.
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Nick Fuentes Wants Women in “Gulags.” Here’s Why That Matters.
"Gender has always been an important throughline of fascist politics," says Shane Burley.
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
ICE OUT won't be over until we abolish ICE #bellameow #bellaciao #zine #abolishICE
A spread of two pages from a zine. On page one, a drawing of a cat yawns as it awakens + text “oh one fine morning I was awakened / Bella meow, Bella meow, Bella meow meow meow! / Oh one fine morning I was awakened to find the fascists at my door…” On page two, the cat stares sternly ahead, plus the text “abolish ICE.”
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Wrote a cat version of Bella Ciao and illustrated a zine with the lyrics that anyone can print and meow at home 🐈‍⬛💖🐈‍⬛💖🐈‍⬛💖 all models are angry local cats #bellameow #bellaciao #standwithMinnesota #fuckICE #abolishIcE #zine
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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 29/01/2026
With so much info flying around, just want to uplift this link to specific calls-to-action from a coalition of *Minnesota* immigrant rights orgs: iceoutnowmn.com (resharing without the image; that's a longer conversation but the link is still worth amplifying)
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Hosted a watercolor free-paint art space while Good Trouble held a community sing and vigil in Minneapolis this weekend.
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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
A simple illustration of a sun against cold bright sky, above a snowy hill with bare trees. A combination of words at bottom in black, yellow and blue reads both Happy Solstice, and using the last three letters in solstice, "Fuck ICE."
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
hat magic 🪄 made a silly witch hat by slowly squishing a damp thrifted felt hat over a makeshift pointy hat block (funnel + water jug) #diy #costume #upcycled #witchhat #hatmaking #mending #witchy
a black felt hat with a slightly wonky chocolate kiss-shaped pointy crown floats above a patch of yellow and brown fall ferns
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
trying a lockstitch sewing awl on the busted seam of my favorite work boots, from a box of vintage leatherworking tools my aunts gave me. It's easier than I expected, and if this repair holds up I'll definitely be using it on more household mending! #awl #repair #leatherwork #mending #shoerepair
a hand holding a lockstitch awl tool poised over a worn black leather work boot with a zigzag repair seam across the top
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
@seemore.bsky.social edited me into this picture of one of my green dye bath experiments like a Victorian ghost photo and I feel so seen 👻💚🧟‍♀️ #dyeing #prociondye #swampling #swampthing #green #spookyart #horrorart #textileart #goblincore #moss
A ghostly image of a person covered in moss, superimposed on a photo of a rumpled quilt soaking in a deep green dye bath
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
making a moss hat #embroidery #upcycling #moss #goblincore #mending #slowfashion
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
My giant summer project is up at Our Saviour's on Chicago! a canvas map mural surrounded by local children's dreams for the world. It's designed to be taken down regularly and knelt around/on for peace and solidarity prayers. More permanent hanging system to come 🌍 #kidsart #mural #communityart
A 10 ft by 10 ft painted canvas mural of the world with stylized continents, surrounded by stars and a vibrant border of children's paintings of flowers, animals, rainbows and other dreams for the world.
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Made #liveart this weekend to my friend Kenny's piano improvisations, and tested my supplies in extra heat and humidity 😅 Inspirations: maple buds amid hazy spring storms, grief and the Malvina Reynolds tune "The World's Gone Beautiful [because it's asking not to die]" #acrylicpainting #mixedmedia
a large mixed media painting of green and pink maple buds against a rain-streaked, smoky sky with ghostly hands reaching from the trees and clouds
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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 16/07/2025
for twin cities friends: we're playing a free, outdoors, all-ages show on wednesday, july 23 at silverwood park. 6:30-8pm. secret rivers is me on vocals and @seemore.bsky.social on the MPC and loop station 505 - guante.info/SecretRivers
a photo of three handbills, each promoting secret rivers at silverwood on stage: july 23, 2025: secret rivers is ktm on poems, and see more perspective on the mpc and loop station 505. free, all ages. more: guante.info/secretrivers
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Linocut proof of joyous lil guy, Gimbal Jen. What a man! #linocut #wip #blockprint #cat #catart #meow
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
A truly wondrous week making stuffies with grades K-4 as a teaching artist at S Mpls Day Camp! Such a treat to watch students develop their projects over 5 sessions ✨💖✨ #kidsart #stuffie #plushie #textileart #artteacher #artproject
a student's magnificent cat stuffie painted with vibrant stripes and spots of red, green, blue, orange and purple
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
It's hammock weather + I'm surrounded by tree tassels and trilliums with my old friends the Bolt Weevils sweet tunes in my head. They're having a rare reunion show and I'll be playing a set of original tunes (Fri bonus set: @too.oldcat!) 💖🌿🌸 come enjoy fab songwriting, queer joy and spring magic
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Happy May Day parade! upcycled a tablecloth into this Snufkin hat in honor of spring #moomin #snufkin #mumrik #maydayparade
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
A little art quilt about grief and precarity...I had this idea for a tiny soft quilted moving box full of deep purple scrap quilt sky and stars. #artquilt #softsculpture #griefquilt #scrapquilt #textileart #movingbox
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
2012 painting of a nesting swan I met in Norway #painting #acrylicpainting #coloredpencil #mixedmedia #swan #nesting
a painting of a swan on three blue eggs, gently arranging them with its beak surrounded by a colorful nest of brown twigs
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
#painting #acrylicpainting #mixedmedia #surrealistart #dreamscape #mystical
a painting of glowing two hands palm to palm with a tiny plant seedling between them against a dark blue background with lightning-like diagonal streaks
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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:
Chart showing double the number of protests in 2025 than occurred during the same time period in 2017.
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Another big quilt project complete this month: this starry night quilt for my partner's mom, made entirely of the brightest and darkest pieces from my scrap box. #scrapquilt #quilt #stardustshinequilt #modernquilt #textileart #griefquilt
a modern scrap quilt on a fence with a deep purple and blue background and a scattering of bright orange and pink geometric stars in different sizes
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Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 18/03/2025
Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
"Premonition", painting of a scene/vibe from my favorite Nosferatu remake (Herzog, 1979). Acrylic and colored pencil on wood. #painting #horrorart #plagueart #nosferatu #existentialdread #insomnia
A dark blue and purple painting of a pale woman lying in bed with incredibly long black hair spilling over her pillow, looking with deep quiet dread toward a light source.
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Memory quilt for my sister, full of childhood scraps. Includes scraps of school uniforms, dresses our mom sewed us, and lace from the princess dress-up we wore to play board games / throw dice at eachother. Pattern is Felix, a variation of Cats Cradle #memoryquilt #scrapquilt #upcycled #modernquilt
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"God bless the grass that grows through the crack..." 2021 painting inspired by a Malvina Reynolds resistance song, for a downtown church. It's never felt quite done...
A painting of a surreal city street with wooden pews for buildings and a bright blue sky and skyline in the distance. In the foreground, growing out of the dark purple street are purslane, wild violets, plantain and big bluestem prairie grasses, attended by goldfinches.
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Memory quilt for my mom made of scraps saved from special old garments and clothes she sewed for us. #quilting #scrapquilting #memoryquilt #textileart #griefart #entropyquilt
A square quilt sits on sunlit grass with a rainbow of different fabric triangles arranged in a geometric pattern on a cream background
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Spending time learning about the decomposers that creep me out (worms, fungi, scavengers, microbes) and how lifegiving they are in our ecosystems. Endings and change can bring abundant new life. 2022, pen and watercolor drawing #ecohorror #inkdrawing #horrorart #spookyart #swampling
An ink and watercolor drawing of a skeleton full of colorful leaves, flowers, mushrooms and a bullsnake next to mossy bubble letters spelling "Decompose Whiteness"
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
older painting inspired by one of my childhood favorite picture books, Caretakers of Wonder, which illustrates imaginary magical teams of stagehands and custodians of the earth and sky going about their daily care tasks. #surreal #painting #dreamscape #wonder #carework #laborart
A colorful, surreal acrylic painting of a glowing orange sunset sky over a purple-shadowed lake and trees, with two huge pairs of hands hovering over the surface folding blue and green cloth--one pair very old, one pair very young.
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
live painting from 8 years ago: "Roots Call to the Lonely Moon" #surreal #acrylicpainting #paintmarker #livepainting #moonart #dreamart #ecohorror
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
acrylic and colored pencil on wood, 2022 #painting #dreamart #mixedmedia #illustration #surreal
a painting of glowing tan hands against a midnight blue backdrop, palm to palm, with a tiny plant seedling floating in the narrow space between them
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Magic cat illustration for my aunt who writes stories 💚😺 #cat #illustration #moss #fantasyart
an illustration of a fluffy cat with green eyes sitting on a mossy stump in a sunlit forest, holding a sparkling medallion
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
accurate sketchbook representation of my current dreams #haunted #nightmares #ghosts #spookyart
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
watching unsuspecting friends happily apply for PhD programs feels a little like watching someone make a bargain with the fey after I just escaped 7 years under the hill talking them out of the allure feels futile but also DON'T GIVE THEM YOUR NAME DON'T EAT THE BERRIES
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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 28/01/2025
How might we promote our projects, events, campaigns, art, values, etc *beyond* social media? There's no one magic key, but some friends and I did some brainstorming and skill-sharing. Hope it can useful to artists, musicians, organizers, small business owners, and beyond:
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Promoting Our Projects, Events, and Values BEYOND Social Media
A guiding question for artists, activists, and community-builders: If social media did not exist, how would you share your art, promote your work, and/or communicate your values?
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Legwarmers! can be so helpful as an extra layer in subzero cold--my knees are constantly getting cold while driving to work, so I made giant ones this week. Cut off the arms of a big thrifted sweater and sew/hem the cut edge so it doesn't unravel. Add elastic if you want. Done!
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Kat @katparent.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
my cat put their paw on my hand yesterday like, there there #badtimes
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