Jennifer Doyle

@fromaleftwing.bsky.social

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Sports crank, art writer, teacher. Author of Campus Sex/Campus Security, Sex Objects, Hold It Against Me. ACFC fan.

Text slide: Just as monstrous and mutant algae invade the lagoon of Venice, so our television screens are populated, saturated, by 'degenerate' images & statements. In the field of social ecology, men like Donald Trump are permitted to proliferate h freely, like another species of algae, taking over entire districts of New York & Atlantic City; he 'redevelops' by raising rents, thereby driving out tens of thousands of poor families, most of whom are condemned to homelessness, becoming the equivalent of the dead fish of environmental ecology.
Bernie is a tiny dot in a sea of people who turned out to unite against fascism.
Installation view of Panteha Abareshi's "A Familiar Violation": a sculpture of two hands. One in blue a latex glove, touching the palm of another, as if feeling for a pulse. A medical tube spirals out of the ungloved hand.
Cauleen smith banner Black Pearl (2024) appears in top left, hanging from ceiling above Knife, Scalpel, Blade, a print by P Staff (a photogram of a knife with a curved blade). To the right is a deep blue wall with small white light boxes containing very tiny figurines — an installation (Homoerotic Historiography) by Carlos Motta.
A sculpture by artist King Cobra/Doreen Garner. A very gross looking sandwich of an enormous pile of mayo (5 or 8 inches?) between mottled bread. Sitting on what looks like astroturf.
Blurry old digital photo of award ceremony on the field at the 2007 WWC final in China: Brazil players are carrying a sign that says "We need support."