Issue 71 of Up the Staircase Quarterly is live! Cover art by Lauren Rinaldi.
Thanks so much to all of our contributors! You can read the issue at upthestaircase.org
My friend sent it to me last night!
Thank you to everyone who voted for me! Luigi Mangione and I would have made fantastic common pleas judges
A survey of more than 1,000 artists found that 56% of participants are mired in debt. What’s worse is that this number climbs to 59% for those with gallery representation and museum shows under their belt.
That works
You've heard of elf on the shelf, but have you heard of
Hello! It’s true! I am the artist who painted the big baby JD Vance mural 💁🏻♀️
I wrote about fascism, surrealism, organizing, & how art + activism can work hand in hand to make real political change. Thank you @fubarpac.bsky.social for allowing me to contribute!
My brilliant friend and @ward18dems.bsky.social leader @laurenrinaldi.bsky.social wrote about how art helps us organize, and why you should see the Surrealism exhibit @philamuseum.bsky.social fubarpac.substack.com/p/hello-i-am...
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They should put 50 Cent in charge of releasing the Epstein files
Thank you! 🙏
I’m not but thank you so much!
Haha thank you (that was my Twitter version)
... dang, now you'll have to get rid of your Noam Chomsky hat and your Noam Chomsky sneakers and your Noam Chomsky cologne and your Noam Chomsky watch and take down your Noam Chomsky flag and you'll have to delete your Noam Chomsky nft trading cards bsky.app/profile/laur...
Haha thank you! Either is fine!
New painting!
Stay🐈⬛tion, oil on panel
refuse to whitewash a legacy of division+cruelty+violence
What we should mourn are the lives damaged and endangered by the movement he built. I will not make a rest in peace post about someone who wouldn’t allow others to exist in peace.
This is perfect. ❤️
Well said, and I would add that this whole horrible situation gets into an omnipresent conservative anxiety: that you should be allowed to live a life of utter cruelty and unkindness and mercilessness and still be afforded sympathy, respect and fealty by everyone around you
You’re not obligated to manufacture compassion for someone who showed none in his lifetime. It’s not celebrating, it’s refusing to whitewash a legacy of division & cruelty. You don’t have to mourn an architect of violence. We can grieve the world he helped create without grieving him.
Thank you!
✨Exciting news✨ I’m honored to serve on the selection committee for Creative Philadelphia’s new Idea CoLABs and the deadline for sharing your creative ideas and winning a prize has been extended to Monday, 9/15.
More information and the link to apply: www.creativephl.org/shapephilly/
This was a lot funnier when it was @laurenrinaldi.bsky.social's:
bsky.app/profile/laur...
We're holding a celebration of public transit/benefit show & looking for SEPTA employees who also have a fun skill they'd like to show off. Do you know a bus driver who can play a musical instrument? Do you know a rail machinist who can juggle? Send em my way! gettingbare.eventbrite.com
✅ New Philadelphia achievement unlocked
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Not the Bill Clinton Croc charms! 😭
Oh no - what will this do to my Bored Clinton Apes investments!?
Philly rules, yo.
