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I wrote the latest Going Pop over Mother’s Day weekend, reflecting on how we are all rocket ships, shedding our parts, searching for a celestial body that resembles home. 🔗GOINGPOP.CO [Pictured: Enrique Martínez Celaya, The Sextant @ Wende Museum]

On the latest episode of Going Pop: My 3yo tags along for a studio visit of Mojdeh Rezaeipour‘s artwork about Iranian student uprisings, I wander around Frieze frozen, and I soft-announce a major life change. 🔗 goingpop.substack.com

Nov/Dec in Japan photo dump📍 Hoping to get the time in Jan to organize, process, and WRITE about everything. I do not have all the words yet because it was so overwhelmingly hard and beautiful and revealing at once. Thank you to the absolute best people @drzzl @s.mhuar @desbriann @frislysoberanis and ofc dear Sunny Dooley for believing and contributing to @waysofknowingfilm . It is not easy to trust one another to have one, big international adventure! And to all of our old/new friends in Hiroshima/Nagasaki/Tokyo — @erikakobayashiek Matsunaga-sensei Watanave-sensei Tomozawa-sensei Yamaguchi-sensei Kanade-san Hibiki-san…so so so many people who made this possible. Thank you for giving us such great memories and beingpart of our lives. Cheers to many more!

It has long been a dream of ours to bring Ways of Knowing to Japan, as a bridge for global communities who have experienced nuclear history firsthand. 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the WW2 atomic bombings, and we are humbled and honored to screen to audiences in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Tokyo - including hibakusha (atom bomb survivors) and their descendants. We’re grateful to our friends here who have thrown their support behind this feat - especially Kyoko Matsunaga, professor at Hiroshima University who translated the film into Japanese, and @erikakobayashiek who opened her community to us to make these screenings possible. Thanks also to @weareagog and @savingplaces for generously supporting this tour!

What a day with Ways of Knowing looks like. Nuclear research work looks very different here than DC, Vienna, and elsewhere. Thank you friends @rockt922022 and @shawna.be for welcoming us and just seeing where the day would lead. More soon! #history #nuclear #nature #roadtrip #film #research #nonproliferation #disarmament

Ways of Knowing returns to the American Southwest ⛰️✨ We’ll be premiering the fulldome version of @waysofknowingfilm at @instituteofamericanindianarts Digital Dome in Santa Fe 10/24-25. Limited slots available, RSVP at waysofknowing.us Ultrawide screenings in Farmington, Gallup & Albuquerque Special screenings as part of @uraniumfilmfestival in Window Rock & Las Vegas

We’re thrilled that this week @waysofknowingfilm makes its international premiere at Northern Italy’s @pordenonedocsfest ! Catch us as part of the DocsXR program running through April 6 ⛰️

We premiered a film at SXSW ✨✨✨✨ thank you to all the community that showed up for @waysofknowingfilm ’s World Premiere! Especially grateful for the crews from other Indigenous-led films @remainingnative @tigerteefilm & The Beguiling for new inspiration and friendships. Much more to come 🌟 Ways of Knowing Directed by Kayla Briët @kaylabriet Presented by @bombshelltoe Executive Producer: Sunny Dooley Producers: Lovely Umayam & Adriel Luis Associate Producer: @frislysoberanis Exhibition crew: Molly Hurley @smollyhurley & Destiny White @desbriann Production Assistant: Carmille Dudeck @mrsdudeck Starring Sunny Dooley, Tina Garnanez @blue.bird.flour , Dr. Tommy Rock @rockt922022 , Janene Yazzie @janeneyazzie , Bobby Leonard Mason @blmason89 Music by Renata Yazzie @nata_yazhi , Kino Benally @djbeeso , Alan Nakagawa @nakagawa2015 , Christopher Marianetti @nopiano

🌎 So excited for @WAYSOFKNOWINGFILM World Premiere this weekend at @sxsw 🌎 Fairmont Austin March 9-11, 2025 11am-6pm Directed by @kaylabriet From Executive Producer #SunnyDooley Presented by @bombshelltoe 👁️ Thanks to @nata_yazhi @djbeeso @nakagawa2015 @nopiano for the incredible score ✨ waysofknowing.us

Taking a moment to amplify the community calls to support Bobby Leonard Mason, a protector of Navajoland who I befriended years ago when we started filming “Ways of Knowing,” a short film about Diné response to the history of uranium mining. Bobby was arrested and remains detained in Flagstaff, AZ since last week after an incident involving his actions against the renewed hauling of uranium ore across Navajo territory, despite community concerns. The media has been casting a negative light on Bobby, but we who know him know that he is a gentle, generous person who loves his land and his community. We learned about Bobby thanks to his friends who saw our posts last week about Ways of Knowing’s upcoming premiere at SXSW, and as a team we are thinking about how to best show up for him and the continuing efforts to protect Indigenous communities from the harms of uranium mining and the nuclear industrial complex. In the meantime, we are asking our network to stay tuned to @dinecare88 @haul_no & @keinfoshop for more info about this issue that has deep effects on all of us. If you would like to support Bobby, please consider donating to his commissary: /ui#/deposit_type Inmate Number 202501018 He is Booked in Coconino County, AZ Photos at Shiprock by @mrsdudeck #FreeBobbyMason

Processing Bombshelltoe Japan trip (Hiroshima) November 2024. Beginning where it feels best: a reflection on the self, and some photos my child took during our trip (little zine created by @drzzl )