Rejin

@rejinl

Visual artist. Hyphenated American 🇭🇹 Header image is an installation of cast paper sculptures of my late father's tools. she/her

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Rejin@rejinl· 3d

Is this Melanie's "redacted Epstein files" Halloween costume?

Screenshot of a trump post:
"Two very different America's"
Side by side photos show trump in a tux with a facial expression that seems to indicate he is pooping his diaper, with his wife wearing a white dress with black bands like redaction marks on a classified document. The other photo is of Abdulrahman El-Sayed and his wife, sitting close together in a booth at a diner, smiling at the camera and looking like normal people.

Rejin@rejinl· 4d

Trump is so opposed to birthright citizenship, but seems to not understand how birth tourism works. How is he so stupid? 🤦🏽‍♀️

Post by @Acyn (on X)
Q: How many individuals take advantage of birth tourism?
Trump: I'll tell you right now, hundreds of thousands. You have one man came in with a family had said he had 56 children. Another one came in - they said they had 98 children.
Photo below is of trump, sitting behind a desk with his face looking extremely bloated and his left hand covering the back of his right hand. Someone in a dark suit stands behind him, their hand curled into a fist.
Post dated 8/6/26

Rejin@rejinl· 26d

I guess no one told him about all the wildfires that he's responsible for?

Map of North America showing quite a few wildfires scattered across the US, and a handful in Canada.

Rejin@rejinl· Jun 25

Do white Americans realize that they also have birthright citizenship? You’re American because of where you were born, not because of your blood or genes or because you eat hamburgers or whatever.

Screenshot of a post (user name redacted) that says “Seriously, answer me why a Chinese kid born to some birth tourist mom is just as American as me?” This is a [racist] reply to a post about today’s expected SCOTUS decision about birthright citizenship.

Rejin@rejinl· Jun 25

Jfc, he's added even more gewgaws. His temu budget must be higher than the gdp of the small nations he's threatening to invade.

Photo of a 2025 gathering in the Oval Office, where there are some pieces of flair on the fireplace and wall, but not the overwhelming amount we see in the boosted video

Rejin@rejinl· Jun 18

Compelling and very timely film about a student uprising in 1960s Montreal. Q & A with director Michèle Stephenson after several of the screenings. (At IFC in NYC) www.ifccenter.com/films/true-n...

Movie poster for "True North,"
June 17-23,2026
Tickets: https://www.ifccenter.com/films/true-north/
Q & A with Director Michele Stephenson (17th, 18th, 23rd)
(B&w photo shows a person in a grey (?) coat and black gloves being escorted by 2 uniformed cops)

Rejin@rejinl· Jun 16

Friends near #NewHaven: I have a print (from the @bookprintcollectiv.bsky.social "Hyphenated American" print portfolio) on display at the Haas Family Art Library at Yale, in an exhibit called "An Artist's America: Towards a More Perfect Union." If you get there let me know what you think.

Part of 2 relief prints shown side by side. On the left a dark blue, red, and brown woodcut by Daniel Minter reproduces parts of the US dollar in overlapping panels. On the right, my print shows a black rope connecting 3 small boats over light blue text. The text reads "There is no place in this country for hyphenated Americans"

Rejin@rejinl· Feb 23

Sand filled sauna sounds pretty good right about now 😭

A snow covered residential street with barely visible cars, some houses, and a yellow brick apartment building. A couple of sparrows perch in the tree on the right.

Rejin@rejinl· Jan 3

joycevance.substack.com/p/trump-stri...

Maduro and others were indicted in 2020 by the Southern District of New York when Bill Barr was Attorney General. This morning, Pam Bondi announced an indictment. It's not yet clear whether that is a new indictment or a related one. Since Maduro's wife was taken along with him, and she was not named in the original indictment, it's likely that at a minimum, the old indictment has been superseded (amended).

Rejin@rejinl· Jan 2

😭

Rejin@rejinl· Dec 2

Hegseth now saying he had better things to do than stick around and watch that boat strike to its conclusion?! We know the "commander in chief" is checked out, but shouldn't the Manly Man Head Honcho War Fighter put off having that beer until the murdering is over?

Elected and military officials (including President Obama, VP Biden, ans Sec of State (?) Hillary Clinton) and otgers in the Situation Room during the strike against Osama bin Laden

Rejin@rejinl· Nov 1

That park is where I cast a statue as part of my exhibition!

Soldiers and Sailors Memorial in Major Mark Park, Queens

Cast paper sculpture from the base of the monument

Rejin@rejinl· Oct 31

Its still Islamophobia if they suddenly now decide they don't want a religious mayor.

Comment to a Zohran Mamdani instagram post: We don't want a religious NYC. Won't be voting for you.
My reply: Adams claims "god" talks to him. Mamdani pledges he'll make NY affordable. Which one is tge religious one you don't want?

Rejin@rejinl· Oct 25

✊🏽

Rejin@rejinl· Oct 17

Two weeks left! Come to King Manor (the best historic house museum in NYC) to see my handmade paper reliefs that bring history to life.

Тouch Јаmаіса
New paper relief sculptures
Bу Rejin Leys
Sept 6 to Oct 31, 2025
Opening: Sept 6, 1-4pm
King Мanor
150-03 Jamaica Avenue Jamaica, NY

Rejin@rejinl· Sep 29

NYC to Andrew Cuomo:

Screenshot of my replies to a fundraising text from mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo:
STOP HARASSING ME YOU FUCKING GROPER
YOU LOST, WHY CAN'T YOU TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER
5:51 PM
WHERE DID YOU GET MY NUMBER YOU FUCKING CREEP?
GO BACK TO TGE SUBURBS WHERE YOU BELONG. WE DON'T NEED A "WHITE FLIGHT" MAYOR
5:52 PM
YOU SHOULD HAVE ENDED YOUR CAMPAIGN WHEN YOU LOST THE PRIMARY. NYC SAID NO, DEAL WITH IT
5:54 PM
FUCK OFF

Rejin@rejinl· Sep 29

There are many valuable pointers secreted in the video though 😁

Rejin@rejinl· Sep 28

I wondered if the General Assembly was still going on, but this explains it. Why are they allowed to disturb people in three counties 😡

Scteenshot from flightradar showing a helicopter circling above "Bethpage Polo at the Park" and another one flying away northward

Rejin@rejinl· Sep 21

My exhibition "Touch Jamaica" continues through October 31. Regular hours are Tuesday through Saturday 12-4, but King Manor Museum is open today for the last day of a special exhibition of an original print of the Constitution. (Still relevant, but for how long?! 😭)

Cast paper wall hanging of the doors of an old elevator in a historic building. The elevator dial is in a dark greenish blue with yellowish spots, and the main panel, mostly in brighter blue, has a grid pattern.

Rejin@rejinl· Sep 1

Place tbd? May I make a suggestion:

Disgraced former mayor and trump stooge Rudy Giuliani holding a press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping

Rejin@rejinl· Jul 26

Samples I saved from a recent #papermaking visit with a friend.

Small, roughly circular samples of dried paper pulp in various colors (ochre, pink, magenta, off white, & brown). They also have bits of plant matter and shimmery pigment embedded in them.

Rejin@rejinl· Jun 24

So it's not just me? 😄

"You'll never be my mayor"
"Go back to Westchester where you belong"

"You have successfully unsubscribed"
etc

Rejin@rejinl· Jun 5

Everyone hates that paramilitaries are spreading through our communities and attacking our neighbors, and this is the mailer that serial groper Andrew Cuomo thinks will help get him elected 🙄🙄🙄

Two white me bump elbows. The one on the left wears camouflage military fatigues, the one on the right wears beige pants and a brown leather (?) jacket over a blue button down shirt. The background is ambiguous. Along the bottom, a message in blue, white, and red boxes reads "Cuomo for Mayor"

Rejin@rejinl· May 30

Hope I'll get to read what you're working on! (I came across an essay of yours while sorting books for HSI, and put that one aside to keep for myself)

Rejin@rejinl· May 23

Found a bunch more books to donate to Haitian Studies Institute tucked away here & there all over the apartment. So much has been written about Toussaint L'Ouverture!

A pamphlet titled "Toussaint L'Ouverture" by Marie Stuart. The cover in black and white, and a drawn portrait of Toussaint (facing left, wearing his general's uniform and a tricorner hat) fills the lower 3/4 of it.

Rejin@rejinl· May 22

The relief that I cast from an oak tree a few weeks ago needed a lot of curation and reinforcement (thanks gale force winds! 💨🥲) (This is part of my project to examine local history by using handmade paper to cast surfaces & structures in the neighborhood.)

Cast paper relief sculpture in patches of blue, off white and green. It is vaguely rectangular but with irregular edges, wrinkly, and has 4 or 5 vertical ridges correlating with the bark of the tree it was cast from.

Rejin@rejinl· Apr 27

Got a laugh while going through my late husband's papers. (I'm not sure who MJR is but I'd love to know why they think Lionel is a jerk.) Also found a fax cover letter addressed to my own cousin when she was a member of the Haitian student org in college. #Archives

Handwritten letter on light green paper that reads:
Señor Elizee,
Please bring in 1 dozen t-shirts (lge + x-lge) ASAP
Will be sold up-state N.Y.
And I need an x large.
MJR
9-9-91
Ask me why I think Lionel is a jerk.

Rejin@rejinl· Apr 22

#NYC friends: I’ll be in Brooklyn on Saturday making recycled paper with people at this Car Free #EarthDay event. Join me if you’re in the area & learn to make your own paper for writing, art, or craft projects.

Graphic for Car Free Earth Day event:
Come Make paper with me!
@DowntownBrooklyn
April 26, 2025
Downtown Brooklyn Car-Free Earth Day
Saturday 4/26, 11:00a - 3:30p
Albee Square + Albee Square West
(Includes pictures of people running, cycling, stretching, etc)

Rejin@rejinl· Apr 5

Tried to look up how many participation trophies he's given himself this quarter, but instead found this perfect headline from that *woke* news outlet: USA Today 😁

Screenshot from USA Today:
Golf
Trump declares himself winner of his own golf club championship - despite missing a round
The former president said he played a strong round two days before the tournament, and decided that would count

Tom D'Angelo
Palm Beach Post
Published 12:54 pmET January 24, 2023 Updated 8:26pm ET January 24, 2023

Rejin@rejinl· Mar 27

I'm doing this fun event next Tuesday where (weather permitting 🤞🏽) we'll be casting a Houston Conwill sculpture on the campus of CUNY/York College. If you're in SE Queens #NYC at lunch time you can join us, and (bonus!) see more work from their fabulous art collection.