Dr Karen Di Franco
Senior Lecturer, MA Curating & Collections | Programme Curator, Chelsea Space | Chelsea College of Arts, UAL 🍩 Archives, Reproduction (artists' publishing), Feminisms, Writing 📐 Personal account 📎
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- Reposted by Dr Karen Di FrancoThis is the court case used to justify proscribing them as a terrorist group on par with Isis and Al Qaeda.
- BBC News - Palestine Action group cleared of Elbit burglary www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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- Reposted by Dr Karen Di FrancoToday, Israeli airstrikes killed 27 Palestinians in Gaza. The genocide never ended — and we will never stop campaigning until there is a free and independent Palestine.
- Can't begin to explain the constant fear of this situation. Terrifying.
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- Reposted by Dr Karen Di FrancoCatherine O’Hara wardrobe polaroids from Second City, 1983. RIP an absolute legend & icon💔
- So many ways to prevent the CCA closing, feel devasted for those working there and the community.
- Marking another year of significant loss, I’ve written an obituary for Alison Knowles in the latest issue of Art Monthly.
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- Reposted by Dr Karen Di FrancoICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
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- Netflix has added the whole Poirot Collection which is both a blessing and a curse.
- Listening and looking for the birds today as part of this RSPB birdwatch thing. Not audible but visible — 2 pigeons grooming each other and a Great Spotted Woodpecker.
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- A time for barricades.
- With Nancy Perloff — a scholar at the Getty and also daughter of Marjorie Perloff!!
- Can’t stop thinking about Veronica.
- Please help me identify this word — it's in relation to a sound installation: dichonic? dictonic?
- Who’s this guy? Small dark spots on the front feathers
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- Strong font game from the opening credits to The Edge of Darkness.
- Around this time last year I started the process of buying the flat I now live in. So grateful to be here.
- Reposted by Dr Karen Di FrancoLast year's arrest of Mahmoud Khalil was more than just a chilling act of political repression, it was an attack on all of our constitutional rights. Now, as the crackdown on pro-Palestinian free speech continues, Mahmoud is being threatened with rearrest. Mahmoud is free—and must remain free.
- Reposted by Dr Karen Di FrancoI am writing from Gaza with a heart that can no longer endure this pain. My child is slowly fading from hunger Every day is fear, every night is tears We have no food only desperation Please I am begging anyone who can hear me even the smallest donation can keep my child alive Please don’t turn away
- Are we at peak Peter Hujar yet?
- Anyone ever had any dealings with Mousse publishing ? I have a sense of something a few years ago — let me know if you have any intel.
- Raven Row has a Christine Kozlov show coming up!!!! 💜👀💯
- Foggy Eyes.
- Reposted by Dr Karen Di FrancoHeba Muraisi is in critical condition on day 72 of her hunger strike. She struggling to breathe and suffering uncontrollable muscle spasms. Kamran Ahmed is on day 65. He is experiencing shrinkage to the muscle of his heart and has been diagnosed with bradycardia.
- Reposted by Dr Karen Di FrancoThis is a stunning resource, beautifully presented - congratulations to Ros Smith Kathy Acheson and their team emwmlibrary.com
- Birds in the tree today include: 2 Jays (one with a fuzzy mohican of new feathers), numerous Nuthatches and loads of Blue and Great Tits. Plus the usual Woodpigeons, Magpies. Not seen the Woodpeckers for a few days.
- Idk perhaps news outlets such as the BBC and the Guardian should focus less on Trump’s announcements about suppression in Iran and focus more on the violent suppression and abduction taking place in the US?
- I have a new bed -- now I need a new mattress...
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- Who has written a 'good' (well researched, not western biased) history of espionage?
- Peak wild bird feeding time on the balcony. There's a new bunch of parakeets lurking around.
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- Did aaaaargh.fail ever come back?
- Was going to cancel Netflix but there’s a new season of Korean culinary class wars.
- Bought this cute but pointless mini-photo printer as a 'research aid' and having a lot of fun printing photos of other people's photos of marginalia.
- Wolf moon 🌕 tadig ba ghormeh sabzi 🌕
