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Apr 17 • 5 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Which artists (any medium!) are making thought-provoking art about the reality of the pandemic right now? Who is really engaging on this subject and making art that grapples with it? Tell me who is doing interesting work, I want to follow them
@dirrhope is making provocative stuff!
I'm tagging several artists in this thread also:
#CovidIsNotOver #COVID19 #ActUp #CovidisAirborne #LongCovid #KeepMasksinHealthcare #DisabilityJustice #DisabledArt

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Apr 17
Y’ALL. People are *much* more receptive & reachable than you might think when it comes to learning about bad indoor air. Just had my first "air quality activism in public” conversation and it WENT GREAT.
🧵 A light-skinned hand holds ...
I recently bought an Aranet when they went on sale & justified the expense by promising myself I would carry it everywhere & log readings on RavenApp. Mostly, I’m staying home right now (sick!). But today, I had to bring my dog to the vet.
My vet's office is very small & it’s never crowded. My dogs LOVE this vet office, & the people who work there have always been extremely friendly. They’ve said my dogs are some of their favorite clients (my dogs are very sweet!!). I can't switch vets. But they dropped masks.
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Apr 17
There is nothing radical about self-obsession. There is nothing radical about self-worship. There is nothing radical about bowing down at the altar of YOURSELF. Love yourself. Love your community. But we are HUMAN.
There is this genre of "radical" self-help / activism nonsense that is distorting the work of Black radical activists by saying we need to LITERALLY *worship* ourselves, and that healing the self alone will heal the world. But self-love without community love is violence.
It's also a fascist idea. The Nazis loved yoga, because they believed in the purification of the body. We cannot let these New Age bullshit beliefs creep into movement spaces. We've gotta shut this shit down ASAP. It's not revolutionary. It's capitalism.
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Apr 17
If we're going to build a movement like ACT UP, we need artists! I'm going to try to boost artists who are making interesting / provocative / inspiring art about the pandemic. Starting with this artist! As they put it, "art is sorcery." I absolutely agree.
@yesallcrops made an incredible zine recently that moved me to tears
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Apr 16
Art school taught me so much and I'll never regret getting my MFA. Maybe the most important lesson I learned is that "do I like it or not?" is the least interesting question to ask about any work of art. A lot of people don't know how to move past this question!
Binary thinking will really ruin your life and your art. I know this so deeply through being an artist. Disliking a person or a thing doesn't mean I should look away. It actually often means the opposite. A lot of people reflexively disengage with anything they deem "bad."
No, I don't owe just anyone or anything my undivided attention. But I'm trying to fight the impulse to look away from things I've been socialized to see as bad. My whole artistic process centers on sitting with discomfort & confronting my own fears. And trying not to flinch.
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Apr 16
When people ask me why I'm not more "successful" as a writer & why I got so disillusioned with the lit world, I think about one former "successful" grad school classmate, who's writing a novel about ISRAELI SOLDIERS and publishing propaganda in The Atlantic. Literary success. LOL
According to her website, she has been a Fiction Contributor to the Sewanee Writer’s Conference & the Tin House Writers Workshop. She's been published in Longreads and Narrative. She teaches at the U.S. Marine Corps University. Our former MFA program has her on the site. Success!
I wonder why Narrative and Longreads have never published anything I've sent them? Probably, this woman is more talented than me (despite our shared teachers praising our work equally). Anyway the American art world is doing great & mainstream literary fiction is Smart & Serious.
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The screws I have in my spine (surgically placed in 2013) were not FDA approved / reclassified as safe until *2016*.

This is how medicine works. You cannot know if something is *safe* for our bodies to live with until it's been around for several years. ryortho.com/breaking/fda-r…
I took a huge risk with my body. I agreed to have these non-FDA approved screws drilled into my upper spine so I could have shot at a better life (1 in 500 risk of paralysis or death). And I'm part of the medical study that helped this hardware get approved.
I risked my life.
I did this because I wanted a liveable future (for myself and others with this rare disease). And after ALL OF THAT pain & trauma, I'm watching the future I suffered SO MUCH to protect become less & less possible as we let Covid run through the population. I want to fucking live.
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