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Kruttika Susarla

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Kruttika Susarla @kruttika.bsky.social · 1h
From "What to Draw and How to Draw it" by EG Lutz. Absolutely adore the mouse drawing the cat
A page from "What to Draw and How to Draw it(1913)" by E.G. Lutz. The page shows how to draw a cat and in the bottom right corner is a mouse drawing a cat
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Anirvan Chatterjee @chatterjee.net · 26/09/2026
We just had a couple of last-minute spots open up for the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour this Sunday. Know anyone who might be interested? www.berkeleysouthasian.org
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Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour
Discover the secret histories of South Asian Americans in Berkeley and San Francisco, California. As seen in National Geographic and NPR.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What I want is a TV documentary channel entirely devoted to documentaries with no quick-cut montages of everything about to happen, which don't give a fuck about keeping my attention, presented by extremely knowledgeable people in a terrible mood who have no interest in trying to make me like them
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Kruttika Susarla @kruttika.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICYMI: @librariesftp.bsky.social shared a new resource! A snapshot of how 15 library systems across the US are funded + governed. This was led by Azani, @dylanflesch.bsky.social , and a few FTP volunteers + designed by me. You can download the zine here: www.librariesforthepeople.org/snapshots
Cover for FTP's new zine: Budgets are Values: How Public Libraries are funded in the US
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Dylan Flesch @dylanflesch.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Read the latest publication from @librariesftp.bsky.social. Fresh off the press, this project was led by my brilliant comrade Azani, designed by @kruttika.bsky.social, and helped by a handful of research volunteers. www.librariesforthepeople.org/snapshots
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City Snapshots — For The People
Did you know that Las Cruces, New Mexico spends 870 times more on policing than libraries? Our new publication, Budgets Are Values, gives an overview of how 15 public library systems are funded, gover...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Good morning, @librariesftp.bsky.social's September newsletter is out and it's a good one. It features information about a new report how public library systems are funded, governed, and used by communities.+ librariesforthepeople.substack.com/p/for-the-pe...
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For The People Newsletter Vol. XLIII
For everyone working to strengthen and expand public libraries
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Kruttika Susarla @kruttika.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
@archive.org has a great report out on exactly this that's so eye opening archive.org/details/vani...
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Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record (2026)
DOWNLOAD THE FREE EBOOK:PDFEPUBPURCHASE A PRINT COPY:Buy the book from Better World Books or any online bookstore.Order a copy through your local bookstore!LISTEN TO THE PODCAST (Release dates: July 1...
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Chris Dingwall @chrisdingwall.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
BLACK DESIGNERS IN CHICAGO is now out from @uchicagopress.bsky.social The book features a catalog of 100 full-color images, a historical chronicle of designers in twentieth-century Black Chicago, and critical essays by scholars and practitioners. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Black Designers in Chicago
A richly illustrated book focused on Black designers, how they shaped the history of modern design, and how their designs in turn influenced modern Black life.   In twentieth-century Chicago, generati...
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Pooja Saxena @matratype.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Futura®100 Indics coming to you very soon! It has been amazing to shepherd the expansion of an iconic design into nine scripts from India, and designing three of those myself — Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi. Always with help from the amazing team put together by @typetogether.bsky.social!
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Kruttika Susarla @kruttika.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It's #kidlitpostcardday! Hey art directors + editors, I'm an illustrator available to work on picture books, covers, graphic novels—love stories with absurd premises and lots of heart, stories where children figure out things without adults interference, and stories that heavily feature cats 🐅🐆🐈🐈‍⬛
Illustration of a tailor's studio. The tailor is sitting on the left on his machine and listened to a little kid sitting on the right on a red sofa. The little kid is telling him a story. There's a dog entering the studio in the background
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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Kuzhali Manickavel talks with Publishers Weekly about Tamil words for queerness and the feeling of not being able to figure out why you're existing www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Untranslatable: PW Talks with Kuzhali Manickavel
The debut novelist’s ‘A Compendium of Supernatural Entities Found in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School’ (Angry Robot, Oct.) infuses a subtle coming-of-age tale with the paranormal.
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Kruttika Susarla @kruttika.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
jumpscare sadhguru on today's npr ☠️
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Kruttika Susarla @kruttika.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
🎪 I have a new riso dust-jacket edition of 🤡 Alexander's Curse 🤡 Expertly printed in Sunflower and Riso Blue by J.T. Yost and Robyn Chapman at SVA Riso Lab. I have a few copies in my store if you're in the U.S. and interested in getting a copy: ko-fi.com/s/b1aa8e05f6 #comics
Front cover of the riso printed dust jacket for "Alexander's Curse"Back cover of the riso printed dust jacket for "Alexander's Curse". 
Photograph of my comic, "Alexander's Curse" showing front and back cover on grass. There are two daffodil flowers below the comics.Detail from inside flap of the dust jacket.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I am launching a Black Collectors in the 21st Century Zine Series. Here is the call for submissions. Deadline is January 31, 2027 - app.smore.com/n/8vry4
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Black Collecting: A Zine Series
Black Collecting: A Zine Series
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Amba Azaad @ambaazaad.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Heads up! Dr Sylvia Karpagam, who has been battling savarna vegetarian trolls for years on twitter, has a book out published by Harper Collins - The Meat of the Matter: How the Politics of Food Shapes Our Health An excellent look at casteism affecting food politics. www.amazon.in/Meat-Matter-...
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Buy The Meat of The Matter: How the Politics of Food Shapes Our Health Book Online at Low Prices in India | The Meat of The Matter: How the Politics of Food Shapes Our Health Reviews & Ratings - Amazo...
Amazon.in - Buy The Meat of The Matter: How the Politics of Food Shapes Our Health book online at best prices in India on Amazon.in. Read The Meat of The Matter: How the Politics of Food Shapes Our He...
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 16/07/2026
For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚
A drawing of Elizabeth Bennet, a lovely young woman with her long hair tied up nearly under a ribbon and wearing what is most likely a neo-classically inspired dress, looking pensive, two letters in her hand. Meanwhile Darcy, a handsome but stern-looking fellow, looks longingly at her. Also there is me, a little gremlin in big round glasses, skulking about in the background and hoping that they kiss. 

The accompanying text reads “Trung reads Pride and Prejudice for the first time, somehow.”
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Kruttika Susarla @kruttika.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
yesterday, I went to my local library & learnt how to use a sewing machine! I broke a needle in the process but the librarians were very kind and helped me understand how to use the machine better. I love my public library. Tell @librariesftp.bsky.social why you love yours: forms.gle/wVp2oAnP8pUU...
Image of people holding a library against a green background. Below the image are the words, "Tell us why you love your local public library!"
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kuzhali manickavel/குழலி மாணிக்கவேல் @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
last day for this comrades, think of the children
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Kruttika Susarla @kruttika.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Last month, I worked on a mural showing universal birds at the Hogle Zoo! It was a really good time and my neighbour was a 47 year old southern white rhino named Princess :)
Picture of a mural showing a Great Egret, Barn Swallows, an Osprey, a Mallard duck, and a Peregrine Falcon. In the foreground are two Mongolian horsesPicture of a mural showing a Great Egret, Barn Swallows, an Osprey, a Mallard duck, and a Peregrine Falcon
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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Last month two library workers reached out to Public Collectors to ask about making a booklet version of Fobazi Ettarh's essay "Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves" for a Celebration of Life event. We did, and it is now available for all: halfletterpress.com/vocational-a...
This booklet is a standalone print publication of Fobazi Ettarh’s essay, in which she defined vocational awe as the ideas, values, and assumptions librarians have about themselves and the profession that result in notions that libraries are inherently good and sacred, and therefore beyond critique. Fobazi first presented on vocational awe at the Identity, Agency, and Culture in Academic Libraries Conference in 2017. Later on, she fleshed out the idea into this essay, which first appeared in the journal In the Library with the Lead Pipe on January 10, 2018. It sparked immediate rippling conversations about dynamics of systemic underresourcing, undercompensation, job creep, and exploitation across the library profession. It was cited more than 500 times in her lifetime, and she presented dozens of invited presentations and keynotes on it. In 2020, she was named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker; true to her own values, she voluntarily revoked the award to protest Library Journal’s awarding of a Library of the Year that had been widely protested for hosting an event with a virulently anti-trans organization earlier in the year. In this time, public scholars and intellectuals in fields such as social work, teaching, nursing, and technology began to engage with vocational awe, including Cory Doctorow in Enshittification, Anne Helen Petersen in Culture Study, Simone Stolzoff in The Good Enough Job, and more. At the time of her passing in January 2026, Fobazi was a PhD student at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, furthering her research on vocational awe across domains, with a specific focus on tech work. May her memory politicize us all.

— Anastasia Chiu 

The proposal to publish this text as a booklet came from library workers Mimosa Shah and Jorge López-McKnight. With the cooperation of Fobazi’s widow Elena Maris, Public Collectors has designed, printed and published this essay for that celebration, as well as more widespread readership.
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kuzhali manickavel/குழலி மாணிக்கவேல் @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
this is the cover for the indian edition of my novel and i love it so much. Illustration by Saurav a.k.a. Drawnk please pre-order at www.blaft.com/collections/...
a girl holding a small person wrapped in a handkerchief. the girl is wearing a half sari and her face is split open. flowers and frogs are coming out of her head. text says a compendium of supernatural entities found in the government girls higher secondary school by kuzhali manickavel
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Kruttika Susarla @kruttika.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Last month, I worked on a mural showing universal birds at the Hogle Zoo! It was a really good time and my neighbour was a 47 year old southern white rhino named Princess :)
Picture of a mural showing a Great Egret, Barn Swallows, an Osprey, a Mallard duck, and a Peregrine Falcon. In the foreground are two Mongolian horsesPicture of a mural showing a Great Egret, Barn Swallows, an Osprey, a Mallard duck, and a Peregrine Falcon
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Kruttika Susarla @kruttika.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I have a new 3 colour Demoiselle crane riso print in my store. It's 6.5" x 5.25" and was printed by the wonderful folks at Risogeist. These eurosiberian cranes are the weirdest, most beautiful birds that visit northern India in the winters: ko-fi.com/s/4930510267
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Demoiselle Cranes: 3 colour riso print - kruttika's Ko-fi Shop
Print size: 6.5" x 5.25". A three colour riso print of Demoiselle cranes. I saw these Eurosiberian cranes for the first time in 2015. They migrate to ...
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Kruttika Susarla @kruttika.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I have a new 3 colour Demoiselle crane riso print in my store. It's 6.5" x 5.25" and was printed by the wonderful folks at Risogeist. These eurosiberian cranes are the weirdest, most beautiful birds that visit northern India in the winters: ko-fi.com/s/4930510267
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Demoiselle Cranes: 3 colour riso print - kruttika's Ko-fi Shop
Print size: 6.5" x 5.25". A three colour riso print of Demoiselle cranes. I saw these Eurosiberian cranes for the first time in 2015. They migrate to ...
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Kruttika Susarla @kruttika.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
🎪 I have a new riso dust-jacket edition of 🤡 Alexander's Curse 🤡 Expertly printed in Sunflower and Riso Blue by J.T. Yost and Robyn Chapman at SVA Riso Lab. I have a few copies in my store if you're in the U.S. and interested in getting a copy: ko-fi.com/s/b1aa8e05f6 #comics
Front cover of the riso printed dust jacket for "Alexander's Curse"Back cover of the riso printed dust jacket for "Alexander's Curse". 
Photograph of my comic, "Alexander's Curse" showing front and back cover on grass. There are two daffodil flowers below the comics.Detail from inside flap of the dust jacket.
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Kruttika Susarla @kruttika.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
watching a second berger documentary this week and there really isn't enough discourse about how much he was into 🏍️🏍️motorbikes🏍️🏍️
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Kruttika Susarla @kruttika.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I'm tabling at MoCCA arts fest in nyc this weekend. I'll have my new comic, "Albo!", a brand new (bird) riso print and some older comics as well!! 11am to 6pm at the Metropolitan Pavilion
Image of a pigeon flying over NYC with a person (me) in its claws. Text says, "MoCCA Arts Fest. March 28–29. Table 84"
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Kruttika Susarla @kruttika.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
omg. one of my fav writers has her debut novel out! pre-order her book here: angryrobotbooks.my.canva.site/compendium-o... already know it's going to be extremely clever and super funny :)
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Supernatural Compendium Links
All the links you need to pre-order Night Swimming by Al Mennie.
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Kruttika Susarla @kruttika.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
saw a lot of red rocks this past week. #sketchbook
Drawing of "Fiery furnace" at the Arches National Park. Blue sky, Neon pinkish red rocks in the middle ground and yellow + white rocks in the foregroundBlack and white drawing of "fiery furnce" rocks at the Arches National ParkBlack and white drawing of view from the pass in the Hidden Valley Trail in Moab, Utah.Black and white drawing on grey paper of Millcreek north waterfall trail in Moab, Utah
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Richie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The Store is finally live. Comics, zines, prints, and stickers (and more on the way). Everything made by me richiepope.com/store special thanks to @nicole-ham.bsky.social for a majority of the product photo editing
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Aindri • ᴬ • @aindrizzle.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Made this on the aardman stopmotion app whilst listening to Charanjit Singh's acid jazz
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Bodega Pop @bodegapop.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Found a sealed copy of this mind-blowing legendary TB-303-powered proto-acid house super-grail today: Charanjit Singh, Synthesizing: Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat (Bombay Connection, 2010 RE of 1982 HMV OG). I've heard MP3s, but never vinyl and it's outstanding. youtu.be/sB4RYBpwV0A?...
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SLICE - St. Louis Independent Comics Expo @slicexpo.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
SLICE is assembling our 2026 dream team! We're kicking off a new season of programming and expo planning, and we want YOU 🫵 SLICE Summit 2026, Feb. 15, 1:30-3:30 p.m. at SLPL Schlafly Library Branch Auditorium RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/slice-summ...
Pink text graphic with SLICE logo motif and Mr. Slice enthusiastically chopping the air with an Xacto knife. Text reads "Summit 2026, Sunday, February 15, 1:30-3:30 p.m., SLPL Schlafly Library Branch Auditorium." See post text for details.
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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Mid century Italian pencils. www.instagram.com/p/DTfjTIEDK4... Sold now, but please enjoy the packaging
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Sloane @sloanesloane.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Perhaps consider nominating our AWARD WINNING anthology Death in the Mouth vol 2? bsky.app/profile/sloa...
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Kruttika Susarla @kruttika.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I spent most of last year working on this mural for a new theatre space at the Children's Museum. The theatre is also a meeting space for a hawk-watching group so the mural features local hawks, birds, and plants. The flowers on the pillars separating the walls are the state flower, Sego Lily.
main mural wall featuring hawks flying over native plants. against a backdrop of mountains and clouds.Second section of the wall featuring a hawk putting on a play. On another section of the wall, two seagulls are putting on a romeo and juliet playMural detailMural detail
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Kruttika Susarla @kruttika.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I spent most of last year working on this mural for a new theatre space at the Children's Museum. The theatre is also a meeting space for a hawk-watching group so the mural features local hawks, birds, and plants. The flowers on the pillars separating the walls are the state flower, Sego Lily.
main mural wall featuring hawks flying over native plants. against a backdrop of mountains and clouds.Second section of the wall featuring a hawk putting on a play. On another section of the wall, two seagulls are putting on a romeo and juliet playMural detailMural detail
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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Maximum corvid. Corvus corax - the Common Raven #birds 🌿
A huge black bird with iridescent feathers stands in profile, with head turned slightly to look at the viewer.
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Kruttika Susarla @kruttika.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
This past year, I worked on a few comics and zines I'm proud of :) Newest and most recently published in collaboration with @interruptcrim.bsky.social is a collection of stories by health care workers interrupting criminalization + harm Story 1: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...
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BDNH Storytelling Project: Restorative Justice as an Alternative to Firing a Patient — Interrupting Criminalization
In this zine and audio story, a physician in Massachusetts prevents a patient from being dismissed from his practice by implementing a restorative justice process. This story is part of the Beyond Do ...
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