Delighted to see a new book review on ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ by Dr Mitja Stefancic just out in the 50th Anniversary issue of Network, the magazine of the British Sociological Association. Link to the full issue 
https://www.britsoc.co.uk/publications/network/network-current-issue/
#elites #class #ukpol @HenryTufnell m.p. ( #labour ?) #pembroke #haverfordwest Please take note.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/01/zero-self-awareness-second-home-owners-council-tax-england
Wrapped up all my commercial projects and final mirror world class, along with working on a new hanging chandelier sculpture with @alifeeney . The stick sculpture runs a #webcam server with GPIO controls so that anyone can view and interact with the sculpture from anywhere in the world.
It's website is down currently, as it's the sculpture is my minivan with me as I drive cross country. I visited some old friends in Corning last night, and am staying with an exceptional neon bender who bent a lot of work for Bruce Nauman in Chicago tonight.
My show, "Embracing Fallibility" opens along with my "Mind Benders" class at FOCI, in Minneapolis in a few days. Until then, I will be driving a bunch listening to radio drama's and chatting with students as a visiting artist at UW Madison.
Oh it's hectic, but it's nice to be on the road again - the voice an stories of Joe Frank keeping me company
“My childhood was full of it and being able to represent where I’m from is integral to me. Too often I’ll watch stuff and think they’re treating the working class like an art project. It’s very condescending. ‘Ooh, look at the poor!’ But I’m proud to be this mixed-race working-class kid from a block of flats.”
#lbm25 HEUTE im Forum Sachbuch, Halle 5 E700, auf der Buchmesse: unsere Autor:innen Bafta Sarbo und Vincent Streichhahn! Bafta stellt um 14:30 den marxistischen Historiker + Aktivisten Walter Rodney vor, Vincent um 15:00 seine Anthologie »Feministische Internationale«. Freut uns sehr, wenn ihr kommt
I made my Mirror World class some bling out of 6mm glass tubulation. We can all laugh and be shiny together now. I actually didn't make myself one though. I guess I can make it tomorrow. I bent it to my handwriting in cursive with a 6mm sharpie :) . lol happened to be an easy an fun 3 letter phrase that flows nicely.
I sure do love mirroring a bunch of little tubes simultaneously :)
I gotta get a few feet of bright colored silicone or latex tubing. They are meant to be necklaces. They may be fragile during hugs.
Its been nice to teach these classes with Kacie Lees in the evenings and decompress from the hectic week finishing up neon work things ahead of an upcoming midwest road trip! Class and show in Minneapolis and visiting artist 2 day at UW, Madison.
We mirrored so much. Its so fun seeing people get it- and run wild with it.
"The new sentencing guidelines are the latest demonstration of distorted thinking about social disadvantage, and of the invisibility of class in many discussions. The treatment of working-class people is an expression of “two-tier” justice so deeply embedded in our history and institutions that it is barely noticed"
Kenan Malik
#Justice #Law #UKLaw #Class #Discrimination
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/16/noise-uk-two-tier-justice-system-silence-class
Show coming up + commercial neon + 3 upcoming classes = oh dear I am busy.
I did make a crackle tube this week with Kacie Lees- such fun! We decided to make the upcoming crackle tube class on April 19th an 20th a Bring Your Own Glass - BYOG - to smash and put inside a tube :). The recycled aspect makes the final tube more interesting and its also just fun to smash glass every now an then. With a community of students and glass professionals- Urbanglass has some really interesting glass trash to smash.
I made a few gifs of the crackle tubes as photos can't really capture the frenetic nature of a tight fill. I also added a gif of Kacie attaching an electrode on the topo chico seltzer bottle krypton crackle tube I made. The topo bottles I smashed had enameled labels so they hold up to the heating needed to purify the glass.
"In Trump’s America, quality education will be the prerogative of people who are wealthy, people who are white, people who are neurotypical. If your kid needs service for English as a second language or special education, you’re going to be out of luck if the administration gets its way."
The word "federal" linked to "education" has stuck in the craw of Trump's white Southern base since the integration period.
#Trump #DepartmentofEducation #education #Project2025 #race #class #income
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Zeitlos in seiner Kritik an Zwang & Zwecklosigkeit der Arbeit: Friedrich Engels. Who dis: https://dietzberlin.de/friedrich-engels-oder-wie-ein-cotton-lord-den-marxismus-erfand-2
Howards End. By E.M. Forster.
You are a young, modestly rich ‘new money’ woman, at the turn of the prior century, orphaned with your younger siblings and modern (for the times) in ways that an old money English family can’t really comprehend; when your family becomes oddly entangled with them and a far less genteel family, cultures collide invisibly and with utter destruction (for some, guess who?).
5 of 5 library cats 
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The other day my friend Kacie Lees and I ran another one of our BYOG mirror parties at Urbanglass. I felt kinda bad sending Ari the registrar out for a last minute paper cup run for mixing chemicals, but my heart was warmed when she hung the glass chain we mirrored for her on her desk.
Speaking of Mirrors, you can catch, Your Magic Is Real at Urbanglass in downtown Brooklyn. It has lots of mirrors in it- and you will need to work with a friend and hold hands to activate it.
If you REALLY have FOMO, Kacie and I are teaching a more intense mirror and neon class in a few weeks. Mirror World will run in the evenings at Urbanglass- March 25th-29th and is a neon AND mirror class. I attached a photo of a rainbow celebration sculpture I made at a show Kacie curated on Governors Island back in 2019. I really gotta return to that silver rainbow body of work.
Teaching my first course at Hugo House, an 8-week playwriting class that is going to be *ridiculously* fun and cool.
In person in Seattle's Capitol Hill, masks required.
Partial scholarship applications open tomorrow.
https://hugohouse.org/product/breaking-from-realism-stories-for-the-stage/
"Boys will be boys"
Boys do physical things, girls do girly things, it really winds me up with this gender narrative.
I know he means well and 10+ years of Tory Education has wasted a generation but not every Working Class boy wants to watch the football and be a plumber, even though that's what we were born to do apparently.
Don't want to upset Toxic Masculinity now, do we?
Last day to register for my new class, Know Your Competition. Takes place TOMORROW, Thursday, March 6, from 7-9 p.m., on Zoom.
Find out more in today's newsletter.
https://mailchi.mp/02a06654647b/last-day-to-register-know-your-competition?e=03364c3b2e
Which type of fantasy character or class would you be? I want to say I'm a warrior, maybe a paladin, but honestly, I'd probably be a wizard... #fantasy #class #profession #scribblinquill #candles #handmade #quillcandlemagic #booknerd #wizard
Just a friendly reminder for anyone who needs to hear it.
If you use a #bank, instead of a #CreditUnion, you are an active supporter of the #capitalist #class.
Banks make money off your money.
Credit unions give it back to you.
So, please.
Go open an account at a credit union and tell the #banksters to go jump off a pier.
1/2 "Both the division of labor and the length of the working day make it impossible to think or learn anything new. Workers become intellectually dull and physically debauched. The division of labor makes workers able to perform one task only and leaves them incapable—or even worse—indifferent to doing anything else."
#capitalism #politicaltheory #labor #labour #class #inequality
https://open.substack.com/pub/branko2f7/p/poison-for-the-soul
