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Sommer @sommerb.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

This was fun. Thank you! I got it in three, too.

Sommer @sommerb.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Precious Rubbish is Kayla E’s new intense, stark graphic novel about a harrowing childhood boldly illustrated in a kind of 50s era Aw Shucks style. I wrote about her & her book talk tomorrow at VCU. www.styleweekly.com/panelling-pa...

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Panelling Pain

Kayla E. comes to VCU with her new graphic novel featuring an unflinching narrative about a young girl's abusive childhood.

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Sommer @sommerb.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

"As someone who works with the body, there’s this clear awareness that bodies are not just neutral instruments that we use to [move].” I had great conversation w Alicia Díaz, a dancer & professor here in Richmond. Dancers know things in deep, earthly ways. I hope everyone has dancers in their life.

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Ways of Listening

Alicia Díaz on dance, the body’s knowledge, and co-creating change with “Arts for Climate Justice for Puerto Rico.”

Sommer @sommerb.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

My record player begins to skip about 13 minutes in but it doesn’t matter when you listen to Steve Reich.

Sommer @sommerb.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Death Hippies!!! hahhahaa great term

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Sommer @sommerb.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Makes me miss LA even more than I already do. Good interview. I don’t know much about his work, I’ll look it up.

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Sommer @sommerb.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I’m so sorry, Roxane. Sending peace to you and your family. Sometimes I think moms are perpetually preparing for Let’s Make a Deal. Remember when Monty Hall would ask the audience who has 14 bobby pins and a bouncy ball? And they’d get $100 or something?

Sommer @sommerb.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

American Weather is a beautiful, hyper-local artist book about something very terrible, gun violence in the USA. I interviewed poet Mary Margaret Alvarado, publisher Aaron Cohick, and ceramicist Corie J. Cole about how they made it. It’s over at The Brooklyn Rail. @newlightspress.bsky.social

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MARY MARGARET ALVARADO, CORIE J. COLE, & AARON COHICK with Sommer Browning | The Brooklyn Rail

Poet, artist, and publisher discuss the making of the collaborative artist book American Weather. Originally published as an essay in 2016, the artist book is about gun violence in the USA, as well as...

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Sommer @sommerb.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Goldfish is a great comic by Rae Whitlock. I got to talk with her and write about her work. www.styleweekly.com/exploring-co...

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Exploring Connections

Rae Whitlock on making comics and grasping ideas from the ether.

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I'll have what she's having but she's having trouble listening to your excuses.

I'll have what she's having but she's having a nightmare with that flailing bald guy again.

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I'll have what she's having but she's having sextuplets and just got furloughed.

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I'll have what she's having but she's having a warrant served on your mom.

I'll have what she's having but she's having a grand mal seizure.

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I'll have what she's having but she's having a moons over my hammy.

Sommer @sommerb.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I am have-to-do-math-in-my-head years old.

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Sommer @sommerb.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

When people say someone is their rock I only picture a pee rock that you put in a litter box so your rat will pee in the right place.

Sommer @sommerb.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Can't some expensive subscription gummies fix this?

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Sommer @sommerb.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

If you are a glass half empty person you are being mean to air. Also if you are a glass half full person.

Sommer @sommerb.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

A lot of people on teevee have veins popping out of their heads when they smile or are being dramatic or are just looking off into the distance and I think it's because they are unhealthy, maybe malnourished.

Sommer @sommerb.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I am developmentally editing a novel right now, and have recently written wall text for a painter’s new show & edited a YA novel in verse. I love doing this work. Let me know if you need any help.

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Sommer @sommerb.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I don’t know what that is. But it is funny.

Sommer @sommerb.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Each spam number I block leads me one step closer to my life goal of blocking every possible phone number in the universe.

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Sommer @sommerb.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

What a wonderful thing it was to talk with IBé Bulinda Crawley about her incredible artist books (each one a kind of compassionate & fierce time machine) and her process of hand crafting them. Thank you, @burnaway.org. burnaway.org/magazine/a-r...

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The Artist Books of IBé Bulinda Crawley

Sommer Browning interviews IBé Bulinda Crawley on her artist books and her founding of the IBé Arts Institute in Hopewell, Virginia.

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Sommer @sommerb.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The times are SO precedented now.

Sommer @sommerb.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I forgot I stopped eating wheat and bought 300 pierogis at Costco.

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Sometimes I just randomly say BuxTONNN like how PeeWee did.

Saw the Glenn Ligon backwards through the windows of the VMFA late last night and shit that was intense.

I feel better in public.

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You had me at "A corpse is discovered in a scrap yard...