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Study For A Protest Sign Part 2:“We Ready To — Walk The Road Naked Like Buddha, ‘Cause When Them Want A King We Stuck Wi...
03/28/2026

Study For A Protest Sign Part 2:

“We Ready To — Walk The Road Naked Like Buddha, ‘Cause When Them Want A King We Stuck With A Ruler’ (This interpolates the dancehall reggae artist Anthony B’s excellent protest song of over 20 years ago, State Of Mind— what he actually says is We Ready To Walk The Road Barefoot Like Muta — IE Mutabaruka, the consistently anti-colonial Rastafarian radio host beloved of Jamaica who in fact eschews shoes — Because Mi Want A Benz But Stuck With A Scooter…but my version, from the first interregnum of the Trump Regime, attempts to convey the escalation of the stakes 20 years later by saying now we need to be ready to Walk The Road Naked Like BUDDHA, Cause WHEN THEM WANT A KING WE STUCK WITH A RULER lol)

And the at the bottom it says, “Just thinking on my feet about slogans for the glorious, peaceful, nonviolent revelation we need in this country and this world. In the immortal words of Aaliyah: “Am I Supposed To Change, Are You Supposed To Change?…¡¡WE NEED A REVOLUTION!!’ (Because that’s the kind of Glorious Peaceful Nonviolent Revelation we need — GPN is the truthful disclaimer/clarification Judith Malina would always add when she spoke of The Revolution, because she knew The Streets Is Watching, and the Feds…a ‘Revolation’ in which we can not only still enjoy our favorite songs, but find strength in them, the strength of joy and pain personified in us and all our relations!)

Let me know if you want to talk about our visions for the world to come, thank you to all Making The World By Walking, and until we meet again, I’ll leave you with the traditional blessing of my people:

World Without End, Amen!

Study For A Protest Sign: I’m terrible at getting out of the house for protests, but I did really want to participate in...
03/28/2026

Study For A Protest Sign: I’m terrible at getting out of the house for protests, but I did really want to participate in this No Kings Day. I think we’re at a crucial point where it has come into focus what the self-made crisis is that will end the second sway of a Trump Regime, so to me it makes more and more sense for me to try to touch road to rise the tide of revelation if I can. But I couldn’t, alas.

The factor that ensured that I would miss the protest bodily was working on a sign, of course, so I share this with hope that it inspires and at the very least expresses where my head is at.

I constantly want to apply the tools of culture to the problem of communicating with our fellow people of the universe as we try to find a way to extricate ourselves from the control of a system that doesn’t work and in particular work to repudiate the authority of the human figureheads of that system.

Therefore I always think of lines from literature and in particular popular music lyrics that can convey a dual meaning in the political, existential context in which we are immiserated, ideally with a lot of humor as well as pluck because You Gotta Laugh To Keep From Crying. So the sign says:

The Game Is A Foot:

(with a picture of a foot on the side, a segment of one of my life-size n**e portraits from my studio)

“Shankle Mi Nankle,
Fascism Get Trample” (an adaptation of a line from Elephant Man’s song about the aftermath of 9/11)

“Keep On Walkin’ I Ain’t Talkin’ To Ya” (a reference to the CeCe Pen*ston anthem addressed both defiantly to the regime and affectionately to the actual protestors on the march out there making the road by walking)

“We Ready To — Walk The Road Naked Like Buddha, ‘Cause When Them Want A King We Stuck With A Ruler’ (This interpolates the dancehall reggae artist Anthony B’s excellent protest song of over 20 years ago, State Of Mind— what he actually says is We Ready To Walk The Road Barefoot Like Muta — IE Mutabaruka, the consistently anti-colonial Rastafarian radio host beloved of Jamaica who in fact eschews shoes — Because Mi Want A Benz But Stuck With A Scooter…but my version, from the first interregnum of the Trump Regime, attempts to…

BRING ME A HIGHER LOVE — Today is the first day of my new semester at Hunter, an art history season focused on the print...
08/29/2024

BRING ME A HIGHER LOVE — Today is the first day of my new semester at Hunter, an art history season focused on the printmakers of the Mexican Revolution. Maybe a perfect time to share my little Labor Day Sermon, from a chat I was having with a ‘dour old anarchist’ mentor?!:

‘Maria Montessori said, as I often think about, that Play Is The Work — or labor — Of Children. And yet, isn’t our capacity for lifelong play — Homo Ludens — what really makes us special as a species? Along with our sweet ability to make things — Homo Faber — another function that is too often, in its purest form, relegated to childhood, even though it is the essence of the activity that we so solemnize as ‘labor’ all too invariably, except on this day when we pay its true essence, our true essence, homage by resting and playing in its honor — Labor Day!’

To me, the world is not a farm, the world is not a factory, but it is a school…and everyone you meet is a teacher. Everything you encounter is a lesson. Learn with me — as I love learning with you.

Today from 1-4/5pm, I’m making live portraits at the Freaky Flea by at .nyc at 1329 Willoughby Avenue. Come through, le...
08/17/2024

Today from 1-4/5pm, I’m making live portraits at the Freaky Flea by at .nyc at 1329 Willoughby Avenue. Come through, let me trace the contours of your soul!

I VOTED — but I am also on the ballot today. I’m running for my second term on the Kings County Democratic Party Committ...
06/25/2024

I VOTED — but I am also on the ballot today. I’m running for my second term on the Kings County Democratic Party Committee, a rather little-known deliberative body that in my opinion has the potential to become a grassroots interface for Democratic voters to influence the direction of policy in the party that dominates elected office and therefore government in our borough.

My run for this term and last was potentiated by a movement called Rep Your Block, which has sought to elect progressives to the County Committee, which has been kept moribund for years, decades really, since its primary power is to approve candidates for local judicial positions as well as candidates for special elections, and both powers are crucial for allowing the Democratic machine to retain power over the party as a whole, but also temporal power over the county itself. Especially when it comes to the realest of estates in this town: real estate.

In our first two terms as a movement, we’ve been stymied by the Democratic machine, which still controls the committee as a whole via machine-loyalist members who comply with a proxy vote system that gives all the power to the party’s anointed leaders, Still: let’s see what tomorrow brings!

I’m leading this post with a photo of me for the ‘rithm, but really its purpose is to share the event poster for my Rep Your Block County Committee running mate Edwards’ Prospect-Lefferts Gardens Neighborhood Association’s screening – with filmmaker talkback – of The Sun Rises In The East, Tayo Giwa and Cynthia Gordy Giwa’s documentary about The East, an Afrocentric community/center that thrived on the border of Bed Stuy and Crown Heights from 1970-1986. RSVP at the link in bio, and hope to see you at The Church Of The Evangel on the corner of Hawthorne Street and Bedford Avenue this Thursday at 6pm for this crucial vision of hope for the future in the careful archiving of the past as we pay homage and contemplate possibilities in a spirit of Sankofa. This is what I do politics for — they might say it’s Pie In The Sky, but I say we need more Sky In The Pie! It may be that All We Got Is Us, but if that’s the case, what we have is a lot!

- JHS

Going live in 7 minutes on , it’s our first .audio of 2024 — celebrating and with a live in-gallery interview and ass...
01/27/2024

Going live in 7 minutes on , it’s our first .audio of 2024 — celebrating and with a live in-gallery interview and assessing the vibes with me, Edwin, and Ricky in song and speech!

I have a new project. I’m making a newsletter/blog — at Substack currently — about art as a spiritual practice. And s*x....
01/05/2024

I have a new project. I’m making a newsletter/blog — at Substack currently — about art as a spiritual practice. And s*x. This first post, an interview with artist , is also an invite to come draw with us and model .ed for Q***r Drink and Draw at on Tuesday, January 9 at 8pm.

Link to the full interview in my bio.

Today from 1-3pm on , .audio interviews of — Fall Is In The Air I Can Feel It!!!!!: From our inception into audio bro...
09/16/2023

Today from 1-3pm on , .audio interviews of — Fall Is In The Air I Can Feel It!!!!!:

From our inception into audio broadcasting we’ve interviewed many interesting and groundbreaking creatives who have gone on to do great things.. one of them has been our good friend Editor in Chief at Paper Magazine, Justin Moran. We have the great pleasure of welcoming Justin back on our show in its new era for an in-depth Q+A. So lock your digital dials to RIGHTNOW AUDIO this Saturday for Justin Moran plus DJ sets by Ricky and Edwin and news analysis by Johnny Sagan aka Snowy Wilderness.

Today at 1pm me and and are going live on with Episode 46 of .audio — broadcasting from their new studio in Chinatown...
09/02/2023

Today at 1pm me and and are going live on with Episode 46 of .audio — broadcasting from their new studio in Chinatown!!!!! First pic is me and my beloved cousin Lisa. Much Love.

Okay I’m Back — Cheeseman: I am back in the streets now because I am six days negative now from my infection and rebound...
08/31/2023

Okay I’m Back — Cheeseman: I am back in the streets now because I am six days negative now from my infection and rebound infection with Covid-19. I guess the nightmare scenario I’m going to be a lil’ vigilant for is getting Covid AGAIN in short order. If that happens, all bets are off and I will endorse the view that we’re in trouble unless we start purifying the air of our indoor spaces. If I now have some sort of immunity, and I get the new booster and the incidence of getting Covid sans mask remains at about once a year (what it’s been for my more mixy friends during the pandemic) I might be willing to accept this as the new normal. It’s tough because I feel for the vulnerable and I mourn for the dead, and I actually loved what for me was the splendid isolation of the quarantine period, as well as the new way of connecting that was learning and teaching (as adults!) on Zoom. I loved the return to Hanging On The Telephone with friends and loved ones. But I also saw people’s massive discomfort with these hopefully once in a lifetime quarantine measures in 2020. Especially because by no means could everyone isolate because coordinated relief efforts and mutual aid were THIN on the ground. In the future that is forever upon us, let’s remember to be vigilant and flexible and realistic and idealistic enough to know that we can solve all kinds of problems — any kind of problem, really — if we have the courage and imagination to cooperate. Holler At Yer Bear.

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