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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
📌 good docs
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 08/11/2025
A new cookbook honors the overlooked home chefs who nourish their communities, including a south Minneapolis artist carrying on their grandfather’s immigrant legacy by grilling his beloved “Drunk Chicken” and reflecting on heritage, activism and belonging.
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From Budweiser to kimchi, a new book tells the stories behind immigrant and community recipes
A new cookbook honors the overlooked home chefs who nourish their communities, including a south Minneapolis artist carrying on their grandfather’s immigrant legacy by grilling his beloved “Drunk Chic...
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Ali Elabbady @egyptoknuckles.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Ryan & Diana talk about “Back of House” with @mprnews.org & showcases a recipe for Drunk Chicken, which is in the book! Check it out here: www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1... “Back of House” by @ryanstopera.bsky.social & Diana Albrecht is available to order now: www.ryanstopera.com/shop/p/back-...
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From Budweiser to kimchi, a new book tells the stories behind immigrant and community recipes
A new cookbook honors the overlooked home chefs who nourish their communities, including a south Minneapolis artist carrying on their grandfather’s immigrant legacy by grilling his beloved “Drunk Chic...
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Ali Elabbady @egyptoknuckles.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
“Back of House” for @mspmag.bsky.social (cc: @ryanstopera.bsky.social): mspmag.com/eat-and-drin... “Back of House” by Ryan Stopera & Diana Albrecht is available to order now (I wrote the foreword): www.ryanstopera.com/shop/p/back-...
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New Cookbook ‘Back of House’ Illuminates the Recipes—and Stories—of Minnesotan Immigrant Chefs
Local artists Diana Albrecht and Ryan Stopera collaborated on the project, one of Minnesota's standout cookbooks of the year.
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em cassel @biketrouble.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
this interview made me feel nice
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In MN Cookbook 'Back of House,' Immigrants and Community Caretakers Share Family Recipes, Traditions - Racket
A new collection of ancestral recipes celebrates working and at-home chefs—the folks who 'don’t get their flowers,' as one co-author explains.
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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Same needed that. Thank you, Em.
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Ali Elabbady @egyptoknuckles.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Alongside co-author Ryan, we talked about “Back of House” with @biketrouble.bsky.social for @racketmn.com today: racketmn.com/back-of-hous... “Back of House” by @ryanstopera.bsky.social & Diana Albrecht is available to preorder now (I wrote the foreword): www.ryanstopera.com/shop/p/back-...
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In MN Cookbook 'Back of House,' Immigrants and Community Caretakers Share Family Recipes, Traditions - Racket
A new collection of ancestral recipes celebrates working and at-home chefs—the folks who 'don’t get their flowers,' as one co-author explains.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.
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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Appreciate you Ali!
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Ali Elabbady @egyptoknuckles.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Spent part of the summer penning a foreword for Back of House, a cookbook written by @ryanstopera.bsky.social & Diana Albrecht, featuring recipes from those who aren’t necessarily deemed chefs, but caretakers of their community. Available for preorder today: www.ryanstopera.com/shop/p/back-...
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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Come celebrate our official book release November 8 at Bar Brava! It's going to be a great party with delicious food from Jook Sing, an amazing list of natural wines, a DJ and we'll be signing books all night. You can pre-order Back of House from the link below www.ryanstopera.com/shop/p/back-...
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ms. maas @msmaas.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Ghouls already using this tragedy—our city’s 4th shooting in 24 hours—to stoke hate and violence against our trans loves. Please minimize your social media use for the rest of today . . . go outside, love on as many people as you can, and come to Lynnhurst for the 8 pm vigil if you’re able
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
NEW: In 40 cities across Australia, an estimated one million people have been on the streets calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza. These were the scenes in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.
Tens of thousands seen on the Victoria Bridge in Brisbane. A banner at the front reads “March for Palestine”. Photo credit to Getty images.Tens of thousands are seen filling the streets of Melbourne. Photo credit to Getty images.1000s are seen filling the streets of Perth in Western Australia. Photo taken on a balcony looking down to the street. Photo credit to Getty images.
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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
😍
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be
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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
“Comics were the first ones to punch Nazis before movies. They are inherently political. One thing they want to do is erase the past, but that’s one thing that this museum celebrates.” Guillermo del Toro at San Diego Comi-con on the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Reading this powerful book in front of half dome is giving me life @rlmartstudio.bsky.social
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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Most people haven’t seen The Strange Thing About the Johnsons, but if they have it makes sense why Ari Aster is so bad at writing anything about race or creating characters of color with any depth
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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Thank you for blessing the book, Ali. Appreciate you!
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Ali Elabbady @egyptoknuckles.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The big news in three photos: I wrote the foreword for @ryanstopera.bsky.social & Diana Albrecht’s cookbook “Back of House” coming out in November 2025. A community meal & celebration is taking place as they send the book off to print. Details below.
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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Thank you for an essential conversation as we approach what’s going to be an intense summer @bullycreative.bsky.social Nadia Shaawari Lorenzo Suerna Sadie Luetmer
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Clarkisha Kent @clarkishakent.blacksky.app · 03/05/2025
If you were curious about how Ryan Coogler and his team constructed that musical sequence in Sinners, here’s a clip of him explaining it. (Via The NY Times 😒)
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Update! Over 1750 people have signed up for the Resistance Summer School pilot course! This is the seed to a new movement and parallel education structure. It won't put participants in lifelong student debt. Or be subject to attacks on diversity. karenattiah.substack.com/p/columbia-c...
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Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway.
This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.
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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Nice seats homie
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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Timeline cleanse Public Functionary and Cinefilmu are hosting Open Screen: The Forum, a three-week gathering of filmmakers, photographers, and artists who see image-making as a means for connection and resistance. All screenings, workshops and panels are FREE publicfunctionary.org/openscreenfo...
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Open Screen: The Forum — Public Functionary
Open Screen: The Forum is a three-week gathering of filmmakers, photographers, and artists who see image-making as a means for connection, resistance, and cultural storytelling at Public Functionary ...
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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Thank you so much, Allegra. Appreciate you
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Allegra Lockstadt (she/her) @alockstadt.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
MPLS/STP pals! If you are in a spot to support a project: I'd appreciate it if you could lend a few dollars to support @ryanstopera.bsky.social and Diana Albrecht's Back of House book project:
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Back of House — Diana Albrecht
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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival kicks off tonight with a screening of Free Leonard Peltier. Next Wednesday The People’s Way premieres. There are so many great films this year @mspiff.bsky.social
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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
No idea it’s the most obscure campaign messaging I’ve seen in awhile
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tru @thetrudz.photo · 09/03/2025
Toni Morrison:
“No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear: In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.” by Toni Morrison; excerpt reads: 

“Dictators and tyrants routinely begin their reigns and sustain their power with the deliberate and calculated destruction of art: the censorship and book-burning of unpoliced prose, the harassment and detention of painters, journalists, poets, playwrights, novelists, essayists. This is the first step of a despot whose instinctive acts of malevolence are not simply mindless or evil; they are also perceptive. Such despots know very well that their strategy of repression will allow the real tools of oppressive power to flourish. Their plan is simple:

1. Select a useful enemy—an “Other”—to convert rage into conflict, even war.

2. Limit or erase the imagination that art provides, as well as the critical thinking of scholars and journalists.

3. Distract with toys, dreams of loot, and themes of superior religion or defiant national pride that enshrine past hurts and humiliations.”
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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Please see Mickey 17 in a theater. For some reason Warner Bros is doing a terrible job at promoting this film. We need more political satire in all forms of art right now. Anti capitalist/colonialist sentiments while still maintaining some levity is how we just might get through the next four years.
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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
The poorest families receive an average of $26,000 a year from the government whereas the top richest families get $36,000 a year from the government. Collecting unpaid federal income taxes from the top 1% would bring in some $175 billion a year. - Matthew Desmond youtu.be/KoLN0YoErK0?...
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Matthew Desmond - “Poverty, by America” & What It Takes to Close the Poverty Gap | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
"No Other Land," the Palestinian-Israeli made film showing the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers, just won the Oscar for Best Documentary. It can't get a distributor in the US. Which tells you everything about censorship in the US.
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Jaida Grey Eagle @jaidagreyeagle.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
On February 14th, 2025, hundreds of community members marched to raise awareness on missing and murdered Indigenous relatives. This yearly event has been happening for 10 years in the Twin Cities Indigenous community. For @mprnews
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Protesters outside the Tesla service center near Minneapolis. “Unplug Mad King Musk,” “This Car Runs on Fascism,” “Who Buys Cars from a Nazi?” “Say No to Doge,” and “Don’t Buy Swasticars – BAD DOGE!” ( 📷 @daviss.bsky.social ) #3E #EndOligarchy #TeslaTakeover #TeslaProtests
Protesters holding signs against Tesla trucks outside a Tesla dealership in snowy weather, with a Tesla Cybertruck in the foreground.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 15/02/2025
Need a white guy to walk confidently into a federal building and delete all the student loans files
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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
it really doesn't get any more disgusting than this. sick
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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS Public Functionary invites emerging visual artists to submit a body of work for an exhibition responding to the theme of “return.” Public Functionary will exhibit two selected projects concurrently in the main gallery in 2025 publicfunctionary.org/open-call-ex...
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JonBowzerBauman.bsky.social @jonbowzerbauman.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Stop using Amazon!!! The ease is not worth it!
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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
It was beautiful. There was a powerful moment with a zoom call with artists inside and everyone in the gallery
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D.A. Bullock @bullycreative.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Join us for the opening day of the Weisman Art Museum's spring exhibition, SEEN - the work of artists inside the carceral system, in partnership with artists on the outside. All events and activities are free and open to the public. wam.umn.edu/seen-opening...
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SEEN: Opening Day | Weisman Art Museum
Join us for the opening day of the Weisman Art Museum's spring exhibition, SEEN, presented in collaboration with We Are All Criminals. This exhibition highlights the work of artists inside the carcera...
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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Wild. So the Biden admin pushed Declaration of Independence art? Hopefully artists can adapt and grow during this time.
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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
So, the National Endowment for the Arts announced today that they are reworking the guidelines for all 2026 grants and will be prioritizing projects that center the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It's now just a propaganda fund. www.arts.gov/news/press-r...
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Updates on National Endowment for the Arts FY 2026 Grant Opportunities
The National Endowment for the Arts is updating its FY 2026 grant guidelines, with deadlines in March and July 2025. These changes impact organizations applying in the Grants for Arts Projects or Chal...
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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
If coops sold random stuff like batteries they’d get all my money haha
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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Leslie and I went right before inauguration and we didn’t want to leave. The people are so sweet, the food is delicious, the access to nature is everywhere. It’s a truly beautiful place I printed my last book with Minuteman, Black owned local shop. I printed this one with Smartpress. Both are great!
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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
When instagram collapses I’ll still have all these books
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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Printing photo books is expensive but I just keep doing it. Feels good to share these memories in something you can hold
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Ryan Stopera @ryanstopera.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Athena (2022) with its 11 minute oner is impressive
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 01/02/2025
For #BlackHistoryMonth we're offering 40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation
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40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation
Black History Month is not only a celebration of the rich history of Black life, politics, culture, and struggle. It is also a reminder to engage every day with that history as we ...
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