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Eva Hesse, “Right After,” 1969, Latex over rope, string and wire, Post Minimalism

This was one of two of Eva Hesse’s pieces hung from the ceiling. It was a collaboration with Doug John. At the time, Hesse was very ill with a brain tumor. She dipped one to two hundred feet lengths of fiberglass cord into buckets of latex and hung it on S-shaped hooks cut from ordinary clothes hangers. Hesse suspended the piece in the air from the ceiling to dry. At the time, She was one of few artist that experimented with latex and was not sure what would happen. The latex would either drip off the piece or dry and stick to it.

Right After caught everyone’s attention. It was completely hand made and used materials from everyday life, which was very different from Minimalism. A characteristic, many Post-Minimalist artists did. From afar, Right After has a weightless and droopy effect. Right After was moved from gallery to gallery which disturbed Hesse because she wasn’t sure what the exact changes would be during each transition. When she was made the piece, she believed her studio was part of her art and putting Right After into a gallery would only change people’s perspective. Hesse didn’t like how galleries used dramatic lighting effects. These lighting effects would unfortunately take away the shadows she would see in her studio.

Hesse Eva. Eva Hesse. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. Print.

Sussman, Elisabeth, and Fred Wasserman. Eva Hesse: Sculpture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Print.

WhitneyFocus. “Singular Visions: Eva Hesse, No Title, 1970.” YouTube. Web. 6 May. 2013. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= LklUuaUxX4k>

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Happy honeybee snuggling up to some crimson clover

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We’ve had a lot of small monarch caterpillars on our milkweed plants this summer, but so far none of them seem to be surviving to pupate. They’re supposed to be gross and poisonous, but I don’t think the birds have gotten the memo yet. I just went out and collected as many as I could find—I count eleven caterpillars and one unhatched egg. We’ll take care of them until they’re ready to pupate, and then we’ll set them out on the porch to emerge as butterflies.

A mother butterfly followed me around from plant to plant, laying eggs on one leaf while I plucked a caterpillar from another. Best wishes, ma’am!

nerdy-chocobo

It might be wasps parasiting on them rather than birds eating them so be careful!

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I have seen a lot more paper wasps this year than usual—it used to be mainly mud daubbers, which are comparatively docile and have less painful stings. I also suspect ants could be killing them. We seem to have fewer assassin bugs these days than when I was a kid, but we have a lot more birds thanks to working with a rehabber, too.

I’ll probably collect another round of caterpillars next week if I can find them. The wasps and birds have had plenty this season, and I’m currently mad at the wasps for eating my orb weaver.

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Makes me think of the time I was in a school garden teaching kindergarten kiddos and a wasp flew over, picked up a monarch caterpillar, flew high above the garden and then dropped it to the ground where it exploded on impact. Then the wasp came down and nommed on the caterpillar while all the children screamed and cried.

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This 4th of July, celebrate the world you want to live in. Help reunite families by freeing imprisoned migrants held on bond.

On any given day in the U.S., there are over 55,000 people in immigration detention including children. Every day, community bond funds raise money to free our friends and neighbors from immigration detention and make sure they are able to work on their case from a place of freedom.

Your contribution to the 2019 Freedom Day Fund at the Community Justice Exchange will be distributed across the immigration bond funds of the National Bail Fund Network to help post bond for individuals in immigration detention.

For more information about the immigration bond funds of the National Bail Fund Network, go to bit.ly/localbailfunds.

National: Freedom for Immigrants, Haitian Immigrant Bond Assistance Project, LGBTQ Freedom Fund, RAICES Bond Fund

Arizona: Pima Monthly Meeting Immigration Bond Fund

California: Al Otro Lado - Vida Libre Bond Fund, Bay Area Immigration Bond Fund, Immigrant Families Defense Fund, Orange County Justice Fund, Borderlands Get Free Fund

Colorado: Immigrant Freedom Fund of Colorado

Connecticut: Immigrant Bail Fund

Iowa: Eastern Iowa Community Bond Project

Massachusetts: Beyond Bail & Legal Defense Fund

Michigan: Kent County I-BOND Fund

Minnesota: Minnesota Freedom Fund

New Hampshire: NH Conference UCC Immigrant & Refugee Support Group

New York: LIFE Bond Fund, New York Immigrant Freedom Fund

Ohio (and Northern Kentucky): 3R Fund for Immigrants

Texas: Fronterizo Fianza Fund, Hutto Community Deportation Defense & Bond Fund, RAICES Texas Bond Fund

Vermont: Vermont Freedom Bail Fund

Virginia: Cville Immigrant Fond Fund

Washington: Fair Fight Immigrant Bond Fund

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again, tumblr’s having issues with displaying my GIF! you can view it in its full glory on twitter.

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This is fruit entirely from Raspberry One, the thorny patch of red raspberry canes that fruit first. I pick what comes off the canes easily, if a berry is still hanging on, it gets left for another day.

At this pace, I can enjoy a lot of the fruit fresh, allocating myself a cup of whatever-was-just-picked for breakfast each day. By making a measurement, it works to even out the variances in what actually gets picked, and each day’s eating is selected starting with whatever is ripest.

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Respectful pacing ♡

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Some of the principle actors of the stonewall rebellion

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Ok so Dallas, Texas now has a Trans Pride Mural dedicated to Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera and I’m living for it

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So apparently last year the National Park Service in the US dropped an over 1200 page study of LGBTQ American History as part of their Who We Are program which includes studies on African-American history, Latino history, and Indigenous history.

Like. This is awesome. But also it feels very surreal that maybe one of the most comprehensive examinations of LGBTQ history in America (it covers sports! art! race! historical sites! health! cities!) was just casually done by the parks service.

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This is really great??

Chapter 1: Prologue: Why LGBTQ Historic Sites Matter by Mark Meinke

Chapter 2: Introduction to the LGBTQ Heritage Initiative Theme Study by Megan E. Springate

Chapter 3: Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History in the United States by Leisa Meyer and Helis Sikk

Chapter 4: The History of Queer History: One Hundred Years of the Search for Shared Heritage by Gerard Koskovich

Chapter 5: The Preservation of LGBTQ Heritage by Gail Dubrow

Chapter 6: LGBTQ Archeological Context by Megan E. Springate

Chapter 7: A Note about Intersectionality by Megan E. Springate

Chapter 8: Making Bisexuals Visible by Loraine Hutchins

Chapter 9: Sexual and Gender Diversity in Native America and the Pacific Islands by Will Roscoe

Chapter 10: Transgender History in the US and the Places that Matter by Susan Stryker

Chapter 11: Breathing Fire: Remembering Asian Pacific American Activism in Queer History by Amy Sueyoshi

Chapter 12: Latina/o Gender and Sexuality by Deena J. González and Ellie D. Hernandez

Chapter 13: “Where We Could Be Ourselves”: African American LGBTQ Historic Places and Why They Matter by Jeffrey A. Harris

Chapter 14: LGBTQ Spaces and Places by Jen Jack Gieseking

Chapter 15: Making Community: The Places and Spaces of LGBTQ Collective Identity Formation by Christina B. Hanhardt

Chapter 16: LGBTQ Business and Commerce by David K. Johnson

Chapter 17: Sex, Love, and Relationships by Tracy Baim

Chapter 18: LGBTQ Civil Rights in America by Megan E. Springate

Chapter 19: Historical Landmarks and Landscapes of LGBTQ Law by Marc Stein

Chapter 20: LGBTQ Military Service by Steve Estes

Chapter 21: Struggles in Body and Spirit: Religion and LGBTQ People in US History by Drew Bourn

Chapter 22: LGBTQ and Health by Katie Batza

Chapter 23: LGBTQ Art and Artists by Tara Burk

Chapter 24: LGBTQ Sport and Leisure by Katherine Schweighofer

Chapter 25: San Francisco: Placing LGBTQ Histories in the City by the Bay by Donna J. Graves and Shayne E. Watson

Chapter 26: Preservation of LGBTQ Historic & Cultural Sites – A New York City Perspective by Jay Shockley

Chapter 27: Locating Miami’s Queer History by Julio Capó, Jr.

Chapter 28: Queerest Little City in the World: LGBTQ Reno by John Jeffrey Auer IV

Chapter 29: Chicago: Queer Histories at the Crossroads of America by Jessica Herczeg-Konecny

Chapter 30: Nominating LGBTQ Places to the National Register of Historic Places and as National Historic Landmarks: An Introduction by Megan E. Springate and Caridad de la Vega

Chapter 31: Interpreting LGBTQ Historic Sites by Susan Ferentinos

Chapter 32: Teaching LGBTQ History and Heritage by Leila J. Rupp

granniekid

We used it in my LGBT history class and it’s SO WONDERFUL I LOVE it PLEASE READ at least some chapters. It has photos and sources and goes into detail in footnotes when it doesn’t have time for a tangent.

violetcarpenterbee

!!!!!!!!!!!!!