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Kristen Kieffer

@kiefferceramics.bsky.social
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Socialist, studio potter, perennial lover. Traditional tattoos also & alliteration. She/her.📍MA 👉 KiefferCeramics.com/links ❤️ @TrevorToneyinColor.bsky.social

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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Help keep pottery, connection, & heritage going in Gaza by purchasing NEW @GazaMutualAidSolidarity apparel to raise funds for the Atallah Family Pottery, and wear your support! ❤️‍🩹 Link: bonfire.com/gaza-pottery.
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Support Palestinian Pottery Heritage | Bonfire
All profits go to the Atallah Family Pottery in Gaza, Design by Monica Eunji Kim. All profits go to the Atallah Family Pottery which represents THREE generations of family...
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
What are YOU doing for the 22 Americans -5 of which are U.S. military veterans- being illegally held hostage in Israeli prisons after being illegally kidnapped in international waters??? @warren.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov @repmcgovern.bsky.social
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
So. Much. Silence.
Activist with a sign at a pro-Palestine rally in the U.K.: Artists with a platform, where are you?
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
If people everywhere do not know you are against the genocide, then you are not against it enough.
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Aaaaand this is why I'm a Leftist.
I get physically ill when people say the Democrats are too far left. They are primarily a center-right party, with a handful of center-left members.My biggest problem with "reform the Dems from the inside" is that we now have very clear evidence they'll support a genocide for personal wealth and power, and I think it's unreasonable to believe such people would ever buck the insurance lobby to achieve universal healthcare.
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
*Love* when folks drop in my dms to tell me what they don't understand...
"There are no choices without consequences. When you elect Hamas and refuse offers to create your own state you suffer consequenxes. You need to understand that."

My response: The "consequences" of decades of ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and genocide by Zio Israelis in Palestine is Palestinian resistance to complete U.S.-backed annihilation. You need to understand that.
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Anyone STILL fucking silent is absolutely fucking complicit.
Via Aljazeera: Israel carrying out ‘live-streamed genocide’ in Gaza, Amesty says. 

There is basically a media blackout on this story about Amnesty’s annual repost. Nothing from all major Western news outlets.

If the largest human rights org in the world says Israel is carrying out a LIVE-STREAMED GENOCIDE isn’t newsworthy, what is??
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Anyone & everyone should call out fascists, racists, & homophobes, as well as genocide. 💥
I apparently need to apologize.

The rules of professionalism of owning a [ceramics studio] require that I keep my personal beliefs about fascists, racists and homophobes quiet if I am also going to share about [pottery & techniques that I] provide.

....according to some person on the internet.

I did some deep soul searching and decided that there is no fucking way that's going to happen and that I can both be a [studio potter] and tell fascists to eat shit.
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
THIS is how to use your platform. 💥 Via @mondoweiss.net
Irish rap trio Kneecap brought and showed up for Palestine at Coachella today: Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people.

From anti-colonial chants to pro-Palestine messages, they reminded the crowd that music is resistance.

Even if the livestream tried to silence them, the desert heard every word.Via band Kneecap at Coachella: 
Fuck Israel
Free Palestine

It is being enabled by the US government who arm and fund Israel despite their war crimes
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Via @caitoz.bsky.social 💥
When liberal Zionists want to support Israel's actions, they talk about Israel as a nation, e.g. "Israel has a right to defend itself". When liberal Zionists want to criticize Israel's actions, they make it all about Netanyahu, e.g. "Netanyahu's war machine." ... This is nothing other than the classic Obama-style tactic of using attractive progressivish language to advance the most destructive agendas of the US empire. In other words, it's Democrats being Democrats.
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Via Schuyler Bailar (pinkmantaray on IG) for Trans Day of Visibility 💥❤️🏳️‍⚧️
Trans Day of Visibility/ Everyone’s Day of Recognizing ‘Visibility’ Is Not the Goal; Liberation is.Trans Day of Visibility/ Cis Day of Using Your Privilege To Stand Ip for Trans Rights.
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
"If the Democrats can’t stand up against genocide, why should we believe they can stand up for democracy?"

- Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Via @leftistlawyer.com 💥
Via Sheryl Weikal (The Leftist Lawyer):
If you're still supporting Israel in this moment, I don't trust you one iota to fight for multiracial, pluralistic democracy in the United States. I don't trust you to fight for trans rights. I don't trust you to fight for disabled people. I don't trust you to fight for racialized people.

You can't defend an apartheid state doing a genocide and then tell me you can be trusted to defend marginalized people here. All that tells me is under the right circumstances, you'd support genocide here too.
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
If -like me- you want to understand the demonstrations in Gaza, here’s a read by a Gazan Political Analyst & Writer—> threadreaderapp.com/thread/19050...
Image of demonstrations in Gaza with text about them.
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Ornaments for everyday! These cuties & more are now available in my sh0p (link in bio): Home & Living —> Ornaments/ Wall Tiles. 🩷🧡💛
Handmade ceramic doxie ornament with rainbow stripesHandmade ceramic bunny ornament with geometric deco and bright colors.
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Email exchange of me thanking returning customer for their support of my work and studio, and her writing back excitement for the new cup, plus ‘Free Palestine!’
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Via @rosemontoya.bsky.social 💥
I don’t like the term TERFs because they’re not feminists. They’re transphobic misogynists. I prefer FARTs: Feminism Appropriating Reactionary Transphobes.
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Haven’t felt like posting ‘me’ here but am always down to share @TrevorToneyinColor.bsky.social ever-evolving, kick-ass artwork. I update his website w. new work available to purchase (ahem), & screenshot these from the last 15 months, a delight to behold. 💥 Happy 1st day of spring. Free Palest!ne.
Wall sculptures by Trevor Toney. Minimal, geometric abstractions on wood with hand-brushed acrylic paint.
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Western media claiming the ceasefire ‘has ended’ are lying that Isnotreal ever upheld it. And has now freely resumed full out genoc!de with continued U.S. support. Fuck “Isr@el”. Fuck Zi0nism.
“There is no moral difference between putting people in gas chambers and burning people in safe zones inside tents.

Every place in Gaza is under massive Israeli air strikes and the world is silent.”

“I hate that we always emphasize that half or most of the murdered were women and children as if our men do not count. They do count as much as our women and children.”
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
If apartheid was wrong in South Africa, it is wrong in Israel. If ethnic cleansing was wrong in Bosnia, it is wrong in Palestine. If genocide was wrong in Rwanda, it is wrong in Gaza. There is no principled way to support human rights in one context while excusing their violation in another.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 17/03/2025
Hey @bsky.app @support.bsky.team please stop suspending Palestinians. If Bluesky were around during the Shoah, would you also suspend accounts of my family members in Nazi concentration camps? There's no difference.
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Give Palestinian-owned, humanitarian brand Wear The Peace some love! 🇵🇸 @wearthepeace.bsky.social
Me wearing a black t-shirt w. white heart in Palestinian patterns and doves by Wear The Peace.
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
New mermaid by Kenley Darling, Worship Tattoo, Portsmouth, NH after flash by Rosie Camanga (circa 1930s-40s). ❤️
Mermaid tattoo
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I might just make patterned animal ornaments now. I thoroughly enjoyed making these birds & bun buns, and did so cuz I was feeling blue in Dec. I love when doing something out of melancholy can result in something so delightful. Also these allowed me to play with different inlay colors. 🩷🧡💛
Handmade ceramic bird and rabbit ornaments with colorful geometric patterns.
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
"Most of what is presented as anti-semitism is entirely bullshit; a result/product of the relentless business of zionism. Zionism (israeli settler colonial supremacism) is a refined anti-semitism, and it is zionism that endangers Jews more than anything, by design." ~ @kat-fischer.bksky.social 💥
In response to Justin Trudeau claiming, “No one should ever be afraid to call themselves Zionist. I am a Zionist.” Counterpoint: people should be afraid to call themselves zionists for the same reasons people are afraid to call themselves nazis.
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Via @mhdksafa.bsky.social 💥
When 12 people were killed in Charlie Hebdo attacks, World Leaders thronged to Paris for a Solidarity March.

But no world leader has organised a march to protest killing more than 40,000 civilians, 20,000 children, 207 UN aid workers, and 171 journalists in Gaza.
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Imani Barbarin @imanibarbarin.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Tbh you all should have gleened how this country feels about disabled people from the fact that anytime yall are nice to one of us it goes viral. Like that’s extra ordinary behavior.
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Yod of Nobunaga @yoda-nobunaga.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
We simply do not have to sacrifice the rights of trans people to save rights elsewhere and anybody that tells you otherwise is a fascist
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Hail, Congressman Al Green! ALL Dems should have stood with him & then followed him the fuck outta there!
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
“There is no equivalence between the oppressor and the oppressed. … Liberal Zionism is merely a refuge for oppressors who want to pretend they are righteous.” ~ @ecomarxi.bsky.social
I wish Y. Abraham didn’t take over the speech and equate the Israeli hostage sitch to the lived experiences of his Palestinian colleagues. Any two state solution/ normalization is icky and regressive to the Palestinian struggle.BREAKING: Israel angry people are learning about its crimes / upset about Oscar’s for ‘No Other Land’
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Nerdeen Kiswani is a CUNY Law School graduate & Palestinian American activist. 1 of 2 from Twitter (not on Bluesky).
People need to stop forcing comparisons between Ukraine and Palestine. They are not the same struggle, not the same history, and not the same reality. These false parallels only distort the truth and erase the unique brutality of zionist settler colonialism.
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mïku smeets🥯🦝🚈 @mikusmeets.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
still waiting for ppl with ukrainian flags to post Palestinian flags or at least retract their "i stand with israel" posts from 2023
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.
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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The 28th is one day. You can make it many. This can be a practice.
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Via @eyeonpalestine.bsky.social 🔥
UN human rights rapporteur Francesca Albanese: "I look forward to the day when Western media will be put on trial for participating in this genocide...because they adhere to the Israeli narrative."
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
No one lollygags anymore and I'm sick of that shit. Get your asses out there and lollygag. Lollygag like the wind!
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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
oh. she literally says this.
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Artists don’t sit on the sidelines. 💥
Artists matter
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Recent IG DM back & forth (I'm blue, obvi). It's clear some people don't realize they are just plain ethnocentric & racist. Since I consistently receive thank you messages from clay folks in the Palestinian diaspora for continuing to pushback on Zi0s, I'm sharing this lovely exchange. 🇵🇸
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I've been seeing these pix of solidarity all over Twitter and it's awesome. 💥
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“When Hamas Visits My Family”: A Viral Trend That Exposes Israeli Propaganda - Quds News Network
Here’s how “When Hamas visits my family” became a symbol of solidarity with the Palestinian people and defiance.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 23/02/2025
There are over three decades of evidence that Israeli doctors harvest Palestinian organs in direct violation of international law. These stolen body parts were not just used for transplantation and research but for sale and profit.
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A brief history of Israel’s theft and trafficking of Palestinian organs
There are over three decades of evidence that Israeli doctors harvest Palestinian organs in direct violation of international law. These stolen body parts were not just used for transplantation and…
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Glaze-mixing day, in the unheated part of my basement studio. With the weird balance of progressive glasses perched atop the respirator. Top 3 least fave clay chores: glaze-mixing, photography, and packing lotsa pots. 🤓
Me wearing a respirator, glasses, hat, and carhardt vest.
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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
It's not okay to be a grown adult in the year 2025 and still believe unevidenced allegations made by the state of Israel.
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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The thing I love most about Rage Against the Machine is how relevant their music is. But the thing I hate most about Rage Against the Machine is how relevant their music is.
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Working on decolonizing everyday, inside & out. ❤️
Decolonizing mind quote
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Sharing my "Workshop Logistics: Contract Norms & Honorarium Realities" article here cuz it will ALWAYS be relevant. 💪💥
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Workshop Logistics Article for CM
Read ALL about it! My novel* article for Ceramics Monthly highlighting actual contract standards for workshops with a spotlight on honorarium rates and inconsistencies by citing real numbers is HER…
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
“If you can’t stand up against genocide, why should I believe you can stand up for democracy.” ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates 💥
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Kristen Kieffer @kiefferceramics.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
“Israel” needs to end.
Graph illustrating Israel has dropped more bombs on Palestine during 2023-24 than those combined dropped during WW II.
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