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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Before the storm ((and after a lot of weathering other people’s “stormy” feelings - folks were certainly in their personalities this week)) 🌝🧿🙏❤️🧙‍♂️~ Sylvan

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“oracle of the dark moon” by Michael Sylvan Robinson fiber art sculpture in my oracle series 15” x 6” x 10” (2023) exhibited in Artist/Fabricator @umass_museum_umca @umassfac in 2025 Curator: Kristina L. Durocher, Director of Visual Arts Fine Arts Center 🌚🗝️🧿🪡🧵🙏🧙🏻‍♂️~ Sylvan

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

You reminded me that I was in a bad high school production of the play version 🤣

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

From our visit to Naples and Pompeii in 2022 for today’s start to Chiron retrograde in Taurus, then Aries until 1/6/27 Chiron teaching a young Achilles how to play the lyre. 4th-style Pompeian fresco on painted plaster 65–79 A.D recovered from Herculaneum National Archaeological Museum of Naples

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

🫀🌈🪩🙏❤️ heart detail for wearable art piece I’m making to wear to the Ali Forney Center event this week! Hand sequined and embroidered textile collage detail 🪡🧵🧙‍♂️~ Sylvan #michaelsylvanrobinson #wearableart #studioview #textilecollage

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CA Rev Books @carevbooks.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Killing Spree by Jorie Graham Review by Laura Mullen "Don’t be afraid to read quickly, however: speed is part of the book’s form (note those right-justified lines rushing toward the page’s edge), as well as its content:" calirb.com/killing-spre...

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Killing Spree by Jorie Graham

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Review by Laura Mullen “Then the rain came and we thought it / might clean us. / It did not clean us.” In his Theses on History, Walter Benjamin described a painting by P…

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The sculptural garments and wearable art pieces from my #urbanfey series are created as interventions of healing and activism amidst the challenging times in which we are living right now. 🪡🧵🧿❤️⭐️👏 ~ Sylvan

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

doll-sized 16” × 16” × 6” sculptural garment with textile collage, machine and hand-stitching, sequins, beading, and buttons on fabric.

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

“Cassandra’s Daughter” by Michael Sylvan Robinson (2026) just showed at Future Fair NYC with The CAMP Gallery and is available on artsy

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

“Questions for myself: What can I learn from the destruction that targets me, what can I learn from my own destructive impact, what can I learn as who I thought I was becomes debris? …What systems can we replace with our living, our repeated questioning, and our continual care?” Alexis Pauline Gumbs

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

‘I must transform myself into resilience,’ he said, knowing it was easier said than done. ‘It’s too bad we can’t just snap our fingers and the transformation occurs.’

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

“Audre believed in the healing power of the erotic, in her own power as a healer, and in the possibility of being healed by touch.” “Audre’s love for Essex was something she mentioned to many people, but the two of them never sat and talked…”

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Gumbs shares a distinct voice as a wonderful, engaged collaborator and steward, guiding the reader across history and varied landscapes of Lorde’s life. ‘I will never be gone,’ Lorde warned us. ‘I am a scar, a report from the front lines, a talisman, a resurrection.’

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Four months ago, I carried this book to the hospital when I underwent triple bypass surgery, I’ve read it steadily, slowly throughout my recovery. An extensive biography filled with Lorde’s writing, life challenges and legacies, woven within the framing vibrant poetic prose of the natural world.

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

“May this book, which centers Audre Lorde as a wonder of the world, increase your questioning active wonder. Read this book as a survival guide, a point of connection through Audre’s life to the most pressing questions about our own and collective relationship to our shifting ecosystem.”

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

An especially timely read considering the news of a politician’s husband’s dress-up proclivities and the hypocrisies of conservative masculinities, both objectifying and condemning hidden expressions and practices.

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Each of the included pieces left me contemplating the sharp plot twists, betrayals, and the vividly descriptive environments.

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The characters in transition, newly discovering or presenting their transgender bodies face hostility, both human and in some of the stories - supernatural forces, while struggling to claim their more embodied selves, clashing against the sexualized gaze of others within their male settings.

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Book recommendation: The short stories and central novel in Stag Dance by Torrey Peters, includes a mix of sci fi, gothic fiction, and navigates fetish, fantasy, and gender identity often within different landscapes of masculine socialized spaces and conflicted desires.

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Much gratitude for the many many volunteers marshaling, organizing, holding art activism opportunities, and for good people across the country showing up to support a better world

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Grateful to be more physically myself and to be joining friends for the No Kings March! NYers really showed up with signs that covered so many of the terribleness that demands protest, as well as the many causes and values that deserve protection and care!

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Finished our two signs for tomorrow: mine is “protect trans lives, liberty, happiness” and Joseph’s is “immigrants welcome here” with the Statue of Liberty as protest marcher with signs #nokings #artactivism

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Karin Schall @karinschall.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Today’s chalking. Tomorrow we show up For our community For democracy For decency Why are YOU showing up? #NoKings @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

“This Tender Spring” by Michael Sylvan Robinson (2026) - in studio, a front view of this doll-sized sculptural garment h: 18” x w: 16” x 6” sculptural garment with textile collage, stenciled text with machine and hand-stitching, sequins and beading, semi-precious stones on fabric 🪡🧵🧿🙏❤️ ~ Sylvan

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Such a terrible representative- we’re eager for change here in the Bay Ridge part of the current district

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

ViewFromHere: Bay Ridge Brooklyn blizzard 2026 so far ❄️🙏🧙‍♂️

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Highly recommend the deeply researched, evocative and epic historical fiction trilogy by Madison Smartt Bell - exquisite writing and haunting exploration of characters across the landscape of Haiti’s revolution

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I'm not one for false optimism. But what I witnessed today in Minneapolis was tremendous, both in scale and exuberance. It was a stunning answer to the federal assault on Minnesota, a show of solidarity that gives us something to hold on to during times that are unforgiving.

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“Everybody Showed Up”: Stunning Crowds at Minnesota Day of Strike and Shutdown Against ICE

Extreme cold didn't stop the shutdown on Friday as some 100 faith leaders were arrested, residents stayed home from work, and an estimated 50,000 or more marched through downtown Minneapolis.

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Karin Schall @karinschall.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

We don’t want Greenland. We want healthcare.

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

“…that bracing for the worst did not make the inevitable any less painful. In the future, historians will struggle to describe that feeling, particular to this Trump era, of being prepared for the bad, crazy, and disruptive things that he would do, and yet also totally, utterly shocked by them.”

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

“No matter how low one’s expectations were for 2025, the most striking thing about the year when Donald Trump became President again is how much worse it turned out to be.”

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

A great (and timely) lengthy exploration of all things emperor (including downfalls) in Emperor of Rome. Discussed not chronological but in chapters grouped by different categories very effectively - with Beard’s trademark wit and abundance of historical narratives it is fascinating read!

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

How to ADHD by Jessica McCabe, brings her experience, research, and strategies towards living with ADHD strengths and challenges. This book was sooooo helpful; I saw my own struggles, avoidance patterns, and attention behaviors illuminated in her shared anecdotes and easy to read formatting.

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Hocking’s A Field Guide to the Subterranean travels great distances as he wrestles with a secretive past, the trauma and panic attacks, and later integration. Hocking is careful and caring in his recounting of sexual abuse and the unfolding healing and recovery of self again.

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Schulman’s Let the Record Show is filled with familiar figures and friends, vivid memories of those pivotal, transformative years. So many different experiences are highlighted, honored, and provide such inspiring histories for facing the challenges of this very present.

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I found such deep connection and resonance with the beautiful, haunting journey across the sites of Scotland that Allyson Shaw writes about with such reverence in Ashes and Stone: A Journey Through Scotland in Search of Women Hunted as Witches

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

In Tendler’s Men Have Called Her Crazy the unsparing examinations of her own struggles are so compelling, both specific to her own history but also common with other women in recovery - the men in her life and the impact of those relationships both trauma and addiction.

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Claire Dederer’s Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma revisits the work of artists after we’ve learned about the terribleness of them personally.

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

ViewFromHere: major snowstorm, very cold, bringing a lot of snow our way. We’re staying cosy, fire in the fireplace, wondering how much snow we’ll wake to tomorrow morning 🌬️❄️🙏🧙‍♂️

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

“Cassandras are not reasoning on the basis of fear; rather, their reasoning has led to a conclusion that is frightening… being a clear, critical thinker is the first of the things that make someone more likely to have ‘got it’ early—and it’s how Cassandras often understand themselves.”

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The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned

Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Love this winter wonderland hike with you 🙏❤️

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Marking 13 years 💔 December 14, 2012

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

She hears regularly from this constituent - calls to the office and at protests in front of her local office. She’s just so terrible, worst representative I’ve ever had

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Thank you, glad to hear his experience 🙏❤️

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Michael Sylvan Robinson @sylvanart.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I’m healing, resting, regaining strength - so grateful for the messages, calls, and caring support Joseph and I have received during this challenging experience 🫀🙏❤️ ~ Sylvan

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