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barbara-artivista.bsky.social
Artist, climate/social justice. Early worker in the alchemy of climate emotions. We will not save what we do not love. Portland, Oregon and the central coast. www.confluence-arts.net substack.com/pub/barbaraford
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It’s not “going to happen”. It is happening.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

submitted 18 days ago • 1766 comments

Y’all remember that all of these actions by TFG are all planned, written, and executed by the Federalist Society, right? He’s just their sock puppet in power until he’s no longer useful. Watch for that moment, it may be sooner than we imagine. #Project2025

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

poem by Wendell Berry The Real Work It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Leonard Peltier pardoned.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Hey there. My favorite local Portland climate justice organization is now on BlueSky! Also, art fundraiser, including one of my limited edition prints (the kingfisher) Come join us on the 18th!

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Art show wisdom. A neighboring artist at the art show I’m in today. I appreciate the clarity of communication.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Today I’m headed to the Wild Arts Festival in Hillsboro, Oregon. Just turned 68, this is my first big show and I’m feeling so happy to be included into a wonderful group of nature-inspired artists. #wildartsfestival2024 #emergingartist

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments

Good News! Oregon rocked our state and local elections! oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/11/27/d...

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

One of the job of artists in times of fascism is to remind us of the persistent beauty of the world, as it is and as it can be. We will not save what we do not love. We cannot create what we cannot envision.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

I make art in a process that honors the interconnection of life and spirit. Lots of birds, lots of hidden layers of the living planet. vimeo.com/1021323297

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

@sarahmyhre.bsky.social glad to find you after I left the bad place a couple of years ago. Hope you are still making art. I am.

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

@enjohnston.bsky.social hey there, glad to find you after leaving twitter a couple of years ago.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Uncertainty can bring us into our creativity and power. This, from my beloved teacher and friend Joanna Macy. youtu.be/KcH4Byo7snU?...

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Do not read this. It offends the trolls. (Read this. It offends the trolls and will make you laugh)

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

I’ll be co-facilitating this important and nourishing conversation here in Portland next week.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

A victory (for now) for climate justice! Climate justice activists have worked for years to stop the dangerous Zenith Energy plant from operating illegally in the city of Portland. Finally the state DEQ is taking it up, and thanking activists for their efforts. www.opb.org/article/2024...

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

I'm thinking I should probably figure out how to hold a once monthly Helpers Cool Down Circle for all the helpers, advisors and therapists I know whose hair is on fire while they are trying to put out their clients' flaming hair.

submitted 102 days ago • 7 comments

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submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

Eric Swallwell went there. youtu.be/wiyGScJ7iWQ?...

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

I love action photos! #birds #GBH

submitted 128 days ago • 1 comment

These guys think AI is more important than life on earth. The worst dissociative disorder of all is dissociation from our only home.

submitted 128 days ago • 7 comments

Apparently I didn’t do a good enough job sh!t-stirring on threads, I wasn’t penalized by mosseri like other people there I admire. Gotta do better. PS. Never Going Back! PPS. Zephyr, below, is also anti-fascist, but all the fierceness is covered in floof.

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve fallen in love with the western grebe. Elegant, sweet, and curious. This one has been hanging around for a few days on the river here on the Oregon coast. #birds

submitted 137 days ago • 1 comment