Engineer's Daughter

reading list 08.31.18

Above: Marie Van Elder, whose work is currently on display at The Fourth Wall Gallery in Oakland

 

Today's reads:

• I Got Kicked Out Of A YMCA Locker Room — Twice — Because I’m Trans (Buzzfeed News)
• I Helped Create Insider Political Journalism. Now It's Time For It To Go Away. (Buzzfeed News)
• Alan Rusbridger: who broke the news? (The Guardian)
• Poll: 60 percent disapprove of Trump, while clear majorities back Mueller and Sessions (Washington Post)
• The Village Voice Is Officially Dead (Gothamist)
• Don’t Count On Susan Collins To Save Roe v. Wade (Huffington Post)

reading list 08.29.18

Above: Rachelle Bussières, whose work is currently featured in a show with Courtney Sennish at Johansson Projects

 

Today's reads:

• The School Shootings That Weren't (NPR)
• New U.S. Sexual Misconduct Rules Bolster Rights of Accused and Protect Colleges (New York Times)
• Louis C.K. and Men Who Think Justice Takes as Long as They Want It To (New York Times)
• When is a Movie Theater More Than Just a Movie Theater? (KQED Arts)

reading list 08.27.18

Above: Wioleta Kaminska, from a group exhibition currently featured on F-Stop

 

Work has been kicking my butt for the last week solid but I finally have a chance to take a breath and share some recent points of interest:

• The self-driving car that will never arrive (The Outline)
• Georgia County Can't Back Up Its Excuse For Plan To Disenfranchise Black Voters (Huffington Post)
• It's Time To Decriminalize Immigration, Say Top Texas Dems (Huffington Post)
• The Conspiracy Memo Aimed at Obama Aides that Circulated in the Trump White House (New Yorker)
• Glenn Close Doesn't Want Your Sympathy, But She Wouldn't Say No to an Oscar (KQED Arts)
• David Foster Wallace on John McCain: 'The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys and the Shrub' (Rolling Stone)
• Trump rejected plans for a White House statement praising McCain (Washington Post)
• The Incredible, Rage-Inducing Inside Story of America's Student Debt Machine (Mother Jones)
• The free-speech days on social platforms might finally be over (The Outline)
• Secret message board drives 'pizzagate'-style harassment campaigns against small business (NBC News)

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here and there 08.21.18

Above: Dohee Lee, a recent National Dance Project awardee from the New England Foundation for the Arts

 

Zuckerberg needs to get his shit together or close up shop:
Facebook Fueled Anti-Refugee Attacks in Germany, New Research Suggests

 

And then there's the racism right here, in the White House:
Trump adviser Larry Kudlow hosted publisher of white nationalists at his home

 

But Kelly Marie Tran is your unicorn chaser:
Kelly Marie Tran: I Won't Be Marginalized by Online Harassment

here and there 08.20.18

Above: Julie Mehretu, whose work is currently on display at OCAD University in Toronto, Ontario, as part of the group show Diagrams of Power

 

Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan's profile in the Post of Jimmy Carter and his quiet Georgia life is balm for the soul during these wretched times. A better man:
The un-celebrity president

 

And speaking of these wretched times, I'm following every twist and turn of this story with great interest. I don't dare hope:
White House Counsel, Don McGahn, Has Cooperated Extensively in Mueller Inquiry

 

I already listen to so many podcasts that adding another one to my queue is sheer folly and yet I'm adding Sarah Leonard's new podcast to my queue. I mean in the first episode alone she has Rashida Tlaib and Kate Aronoff talking socialism and the Democrats:
What's Left? by BuzzFeed News Opinion

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here and there 08.17.18

Above: Ann Hamilton, whose work is currently installed in Portland as part of the Converge 45 festival

 

Yesterday was all about mourning Aretha. Currently musing about which tracks to play on my show on Sunday:
'Queen of Soul' Aretha Franklin Dies at 76

 

And Sam Lefebvre is here to remind us about Ms Franklin's political activism. Such an inspiration:
How Aretha Franklin Supported Angela Davis and the Black Panthers

 

This is literally the best news I've had all week, as Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow are my lodestars during these trying times. Huge congrats to them!

Some news: @aminatou and I are writing a book! It's a memoir-manifesto called @Big_Friendship, and @simonschuster is publishing it. pic.twitter.com/lxsBoMKEmi

— ann friedman (@annfriedman) August 17, 2018

 

Poor poor little rich man:
Elon Musk Details 'Excruciating' Personal Toll of Tesla Turmoil

 

Snack time!

World's oldest cheese found in Egyptian tomb — but it may be filled with a deadly disease https://t.co/c7EuWavjgE pic.twitter.com/h89codLGXC

— ABC News (@abcnews) August 17, 2018

 

The Bay Brilliant series highlighting local boundary-pushing creatives on KQED Arts has been giving me life this week, and Gabe Meline's installment today on Oakland hip-hoppers SOL Development is the perfect way to wrap up a Friday. Looking forward to more Bay brilliance next week!
Bay Brilliant: SOL Development

here and there 08.15.18

Above: Willie Little, whose work is currently on display at Froelick Gallery in Portland, Oregon.

 

Nauseating news out of Pennsylvania detailing systemic abuse in the Catholic Church, and prosecution is unlikely at best:
More than 300 accused priests listed in Pennsylvania report on Catholic Church sex abuse

 

Meanwhile El Chapo is snarling traffic in New York every time he has to appear in court:
Gridlock on the Brooklyn Bridge? Blame El Chapo

 

David Marchese has been turning in interview after interview for Vulture that are must-reads, including the one with Kathleen Turner that everyone was quoting from last week. He talks technique on the Longform podcast:
#306: David Marchese

here and there 08.13.18

Above: Farid Matuk's book of poems The Real Horse, published earlier this year

 

For the record, this blog is for hire anytime you want to launch a Hollywood bidding war:

Remember the McDonalds Monopoly article that launched a Hollywood bidding war? Turns out it was planted at the Daily Beast by a movie producer who'd commissioned it to goose his project: https://t.co/SuAHt5FOUT pic.twitter.com/GlipBsyIxP

— Kyle Buchanan (@kylebuchanan) August 10, 2018

 

Sam Lefebvre (who is now writing for KQED Arts yay!) covers the current contract negotiations over at SFMOMA, where the union is trying to get workers paid enough that they can afford to live in the Bay Area. I wholeheartedly support the union:
SFMOMA Union Talks Drag Over Cost-of-Living Raise Proposal

 

Standing ovation for David S. Glosser, aka Stephen Miller's uncle, though I fear he is appealing to a conscience Miller does not posess:
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I'm His Uncle.

 

Kiese Laymon's mom wrote him a letter in response to his memoir Heavy and it will break your heart wide open even if you haven't read the book:
These Are Your Memories