Our movement partner, Kinfolk, was featured in @newyorkermag about their Signature Monument Exhibition.

“We’re trying to find a way to put Black, brown, and queer voices out in public spaces so they can be celebrated.” - iblss

Learn more: newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

If you're in the NYC area check out Kinfolk's Signature Series, a group of digital monuments that highlight Black culture and identity throughout New York by artists Derrick Adams, Hank Willis Thomas, Pamela Council, and Tourmaline.
surfacemag.com/articles/kinfo…

for whom the bell tolls by john donne is our #kinfolkpoemoftheweek !

today marks 54 years since fred hampton and mark clark were drugged and assassinated by the fbi and the chicago police!

Read more about the project:
‼️The New Yorker: newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
‼️Surface Magazine: surfacemag.com/articles/kinfo…
‼️The Art Newspaper: theartnewspaper.com/2023/11/29/kin…

Kinfolk app now has geolocated experiences in NYC from DUMBO to Harlem! Check out the 4 new monuments by Derrick Adams (@derrickadamsny), Hank Willis Thomas, Pamela Council (@LifeOfPammi), & Tourmaline (@tourmaliiine).

Thanks to Mellon Foundation & Niantic Lightship for the support!

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- Kinfolk launched a 4-artist show available to view at select sites through their app.
- Christie's Next Wave: The Miami Edit will feature works

I made an augmented reality monument with Kinfolk of the iconic Mary Jones who was living loudly as a Black trans outlaw in the 1830s in New York! Honored to be augmenting reality alongside Hank Willis Thomas, Pamela Council and Derrick Adams.
newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

for this trans day of remembrance, here’s a poem by raquel salas rivera

#kinfolkpoemoftheweek

the sharp revolutionary-intellectual kwame ture transitioned into an ancestor on this day 25 years ago

fred moten, on gathering and shared identity

nat turner was executed on november 11, 1831. here’s angela davis discussing how “nat turner and john brown were political prisoners in their time.”

advice - langston hughes

#kinfolkpoemoftheweek

poem by palestinian poet khaled juma

a word from toni morrison about the need to write during these times

On this day, October 16, 1859, we remember the raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia) a two-day attempt to initiate an armed revolt against the institution and economy of chattel slavery in Southern states by taking over the U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry.

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james baldwin, on intellectuals:

“it has always seemed to me that ideas were somewhat more real to them than people[…]”

edward said, on the white supremacist and orientalist depictions (and understandings) of arabs/muslims in the west through popular media

the red nation, on the indigenous question, land back, and environmental justice. happy indigenous peoples day!