LAKi (aka Lakshmi Sarah)
@lakitalki
Occasional transnational commuter. Ceramic Artist. Independent Journalist. Writer. Audio Producer. Author. Lecturer, UC Berkeley Geography. Sometimes freelancing for KQED & Oaklandside.
I'm teaching a Summer Session course for @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social's Geography department It's all about visual storytelling! "Short Form Video for Place Based Storytelling" (Geo 128) Jul 06, 2026 - Aug 14 📣 Tell your people.
Dublin Teachers are set to strike Monday: www.kqed.org/news/1207559...
So nice to worship at the church of @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for the evening… as part of her book launch for “The Beginning Comes After the End” “I want to give people back this map of how we got here.” “I think the simplest answer is stories, stories make us strong.”
A mixed array of signs from yesterday’s march: *“Back to brunch”, “Bring back the guillotine”, “Proud of California innovation”, “Let them eat cake”, “Larry and Sergei made my 401k go up”, “I bought this election on prime overnight.” *My personal favorite
Best part of the day was checking out the Ortega library in San Francisco, what a beautiful spot. Also, here’s @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov speaking on #ghostguns
"Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it." — Salvador Dali … "Blue very profoundly develops the the element of calm." — Vasily Kandinsky Artistic words of wisdom from SmetanaQ Cafe, Prague
From yesterday’s #NoKings protests in the Bay Area for @kqednews.kqed.org:
Just finished reading Alexis Pauline Gumbs' book "Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" and noticed it is Lorde's death anniversary today. So I share with you one of my favorite passages on a market in Grenada: