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Are you planning a visit to the MIT Museum?



Did you know that we offer introductory tours, led by knowledgeable guides. You will have the opportunity to look closely at objects from across the Museum’s collection each Wednesday and Saturday at 11 am.

Free with museum admission. No pre-registration available. Talks are limited to 20 people and are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Learn more via our website.

Have you ever wanted to be in the room when key questions about how institutions respond to issues of public trust is built?

Are you interested in joining the conversation around how emerging technologies like AI and synthetic biology are formulated?

Join us at the Existential Risk, Emerging Technology, and Democracy symposium, hosted by Ian Coss, creator of The Big Dig podcast for a day of conversation and reflection on how societies govern world-changing technologies.

📅 June 12
⏰ 9 am - 4:30 pm
🎟️ $10 for MIT affiliates and $20 for the general public, with lunch provided.
We have a limited number of free tickets available for full-time students with ID. Please reach out to museumregadmin@mit.edu.

This symposium was made possible through the generous contributions of MIT Museum supporters Phil and Ann Sharp and MIT’s Department of Science, Technology, and Society. This program is part of the MIT Museum’s year-long exploration of TIME, and is part of the Massachusetts 250 activities celebrating the many “firsts” and innovations created in our state through the last 250 years.

Learn more and register via the link in our bio.

Two years of research, collaboration, and creative vision are captured in a new mini documentary about Remembering the Future, Janet Echelman’s immersive installation commissioned by the MIT Museum.

The work translates Earth’s climate history—from the last ice age to the present—into a luminous, large-scale sculpture of braided and knotted rope, branching outward to envision multiple possible futures. It was developed during Echelman’s residency at MIT’s Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST), in collaboration with architect and MIT Associate Professor Caitlin Mueller, and guided by climate research from Professor Raffaele Ferrari and the MIT Lorenz Center.

🔗 Watch the full mini-doc (featured recently in @designboom) at the link in @artsatmit bio
🎬 Credit Trillium Studios

#artsatmit #thisismit #janetechelman #climateandart #artinstallation

Have you ever wondered what Kendall Square was like 50 years ago?

Find out at our June After Dark: Let’s Talk.

This evening will feature the opportunity to step back in time to the historic debate that helped to shape the most innovative square mile on the planet.

Featured activities include:

Science historian, Luis Campos unpacks the controversy around a 1976 recombinant DNA lab.

Embark upon an immersive soundscape featuring realtalk@Boston

Make your own ‘conversation kit’ filled with unexpected tools, from pause buttons to prompts, designed to improve everyday dialogue.

Stay fueled with bites and brews from Babci’s Pierogis and Arlington Brewing Company, available for purchase.

Presented in collaboration with realtalk@MIT .

📆June 11
⏲️6–9pm
🎫18+ only

Adult Advance Purchase Ticket - $20 (Non-Refundable)
Same Day Ticket - $25
MIT ID holders - $10
Group Ticket - $15 (Minimum 10, Non-Refundable)
Please note that backpacks and large bags are not permitted.

Ready for summer dreaming?

We welcome you to participate in a dream study exclusively available at the MIT Museum.
Join us for a 90 minute nap in Hotel Room #2: Communal Dreams, a collaboration by artist Carsten Höller, dream scientist Adam Haar and MIT Museum Studio Director Seth Riskin, the work makes the dream itself a site of artistic experience. Enjoy what VOGUE shared as the opportunity “for a few suspended moments, the line between wakefulness and dreaming blurs, reminding us that perception is pliable and that science, when dressed in light and sound, can feel like pure magic.”

Sign up via the link in our to book your availability and we will notify you once confirmed.

Learn more about the Lighten Up! On Biology and Time exhibition along with our thematic focus on TIME via the link in our bio.

Dream study sessions will occur each Tuesday from 2:30 – 4:40pm.

A showcase of final works from students in 21A.513 (Drawing Human Experience) is now on display in the @mit_museum_studio and Compton Gallery (10-150). The course is offered each spring by @mit_anthropology and is co-taught in the MIT Museum Studio.

Equal parts studio and seminar, the class introduces fundamental drawing techniques and their application as tools of anthropological inquiry. To learn more about the class, visit the link in our bio. @artsatmit

A showcase of final works from students in 21A.513 (Drawing Human Experience) is now on display in the @mit_museum_studio and Compton Gallery (10-150). The course is offered each spring by @mit_anthropology and is co-taught in the MIT Museum Studio.

Equal parts studio and seminar, the class introduces fundamental drawing techniques and their application as tools of anthropological inquiry. To learn more about the class, visit the link in our bio. @artsatmit

The MIT Museum has announced its inaugural MIT Future Fest, programmed between September 30–October 4 across MIT’s campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The five-day gathering will feature 2024 Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu, MoMA curator Paola Antonelli, and Venice Architecture Biennale curator Carlo Ratti, among many others.

Read more at the link in bio.

The MIT Museum has announced its inaugural MIT Future Fest, programmed between September 30–October 4 across MIT’s campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The five-day gathering will feature 2024 Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu, MoMA curator Paola Antonelli, and Venice Architecture Biennale curator Carlo Ratti, among many others.

Read more at the link in bio.

The MIT Museum has announced its inaugural MIT Future Fest, programmed between September 30–October 4 across MIT’s campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The five-day gathering will feature 2024 Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu, MoMA curator Paola Antonelli, and Venice Architecture Biennale curator Carlo Ratti, among many others.

Read more at the link in bio.

The MIT Museum has announced its inaugural MIT Future Fest, programmed between September 30–October 4 across MIT’s campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The five-day gathering will feature 2024 Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu, MoMA curator Paola Antonelli, and Venice Architecture Biennale curator Carlo Ratti, among many others.

Read more at the link in bio.

🌎 An astronaut who watched glaciers shrink from space.
🌿 An AI researcher helping save species we've barely discovered.
🙌 Students ready to lead the next wave of climate action.

The second annual Day of Climate packed the @MITMuseum with learners, educators, families, and big climate innovation ideas — from the view 250 miles up to the algorithms tracking life on Earth.

Led by the pK-12 Initiative at MIT Open Learning, Day of Climate is more than an event — it's a free, adaptable curriculum designed to bring climate education to learners and educators everywhere.

🔗 Read the full event recap and explore the curriculum at the link in our bio!

#ClimateChange #ClimateAction #pk12 #STEM

🌎 An astronaut who watched glaciers shrink from space.
🌿 An AI researcher helping save species we've barely discovered.
🙌 Students ready to lead the next wave of climate action.

The second annual Day of Climate packed the @MITMuseum with learners, educators, families, and big climate innovation ideas — from the view 250 miles up to the algorithms tracking life on Earth.

Led by the pK-12 Initiative at MIT Open Learning, Day of Climate is more than an event — it's a free, adaptable curriculum designed to bring climate education to learners and educators everywhere.

🔗 Read the full event recap and explore the curriculum at the link in our bio!

#ClimateChange #ClimateAction #pk12 #STEM

🌎 An astronaut who watched glaciers shrink from space.
🌿 An AI researcher helping save species we've barely discovered.
🙌 Students ready to lead the next wave of climate action.

The second annual Day of Climate packed the @MITMuseum with learners, educators, families, and big climate innovation ideas — from the view 250 miles up to the algorithms tracking life on Earth.

Led by the pK-12 Initiative at MIT Open Learning, Day of Climate is more than an event — it's a free, adaptable curriculum designed to bring climate education to learners and educators everywhere.

🔗 Read the full event recap and explore the curriculum at the link in our bio!

#ClimateChange #ClimateAction #pk12 #STEM

🌎 An astronaut who watched glaciers shrink from space.
🌿 An AI researcher helping save species we've barely discovered.
🙌 Students ready to lead the next wave of climate action.

The second annual Day of Climate packed the @MITMuseum with learners, educators, families, and big climate innovation ideas — from the view 250 miles up to the algorithms tracking life on Earth.

Led by the pK-12 Initiative at MIT Open Learning, Day of Climate is more than an event — it's a free, adaptable curriculum designed to bring climate education to learners and educators everywhere.

🔗 Read the full event recap and explore the curriculum at the link in our bio!

#ClimateChange #ClimateAction #pk12 #STEM

🌎 An astronaut who watched glaciers shrink from space.
🌿 An AI researcher helping save species we've barely discovered.
🙌 Students ready to lead the next wave of climate action.

The second annual Day of Climate packed the @MITMuseum with learners, educators, families, and big climate innovation ideas — from the view 250 miles up to the algorithms tracking life on Earth.

Led by the pK-12 Initiative at MIT Open Learning, Day of Climate is more than an event — it's a free, adaptable curriculum designed to bring climate education to learners and educators everywhere.

🔗 Read the full event recap and explore the curriculum at the link in our bio!

#ClimateChange #ClimateAction #pk12 #STEM

Friday I defended my @mitdusp thesis titled Mountain Blues & Water Gospel: How Affrilachian Women Cultivate Worlds in the Afterlives of Coal Extraction. I can’t fully express how much this project means to me, and how grateful I am to have women in my family guiding me through this process. Through my own family lineage tracing, oral histories, and archival research I came to know more of the lives of Black women who created an overworld in 20th century southern West Virginia coalfields. The load balancing capacity Black women built through community care networks, community serving institutions,and good ol Affrilachian creative ingenuity gives us a historical reference in casting a vision for post-capitalist repair & production in these times of collapse.

My thesis exhibition is on view on the third floor of @mitmuseum until today at 5pm! So go check it out if you’re local to Boston.

During my month-long residency in WV, I found an LP of Rev. F.C. Barnes & Rev. Janice Brown’s Rough Side of the Mountain at an antique shop. That song was the land gospel that carried me through project but also a song that connected me with the stories of so many others. Thank you to the team who helped me reimagine and re-record this iconic gospel classic (to be released soon🤍)

Vocalist: @carlyharveymusic
Lead Producer: @austnf1
Bass/Piano/Organ/Drums: @thatguycsquared
Studio: @astro.studios

This whole process was a practice in using my free will: rejecting objectivity, following my intuition, seeking wholeness, and fully immersing myself in the counter archives of this place I inherited from my mother’s memory. I dedicate it to her Kim Caine, my Nana Ophelia, Great Grandmother Mary, Great Great Grandmother Gertrude🤍

Thank you to my collaborators & village: Council of Southern Mountains, Bluefield State Alumni Association, Poet & Historian L. Renee, and Judge Terri Jamison, my thesis advisor @karilyncrockett, my partner Andre Oshea💗 @artsatmit @intothemayaverse @kimcaine.realestate @torimackenziiie @fontessawoods @dr_tonya_speaks @_ecotonal @euphoriccdreams @kiki_leray @dylanrollo_roth @drecatur @niii.shy @l_merchie @bethanysmith4

Friday I defended my @mitdusp thesis titled Mountain Blues & Water Gospel: How Affrilachian Women Cultivate Worlds in the Afterlives of Coal Extraction. I can’t fully express how much this project means to me, and how grateful I am to have women in my family guiding me through this process. Through my own family lineage tracing, oral histories, and archival research I came to know more of the lives of Black women who created an overworld in 20th century southern West Virginia coalfields. The load balancing capacity Black women built through community care networks, community serving institutions,and good ol Affrilachian creative ingenuity gives us a historical reference in casting a vision for post-capitalist repair & production in these times of collapse.

My thesis exhibition is on view on the third floor of @mitmuseum until today at 5pm! So go check it out if you’re local to Boston.

During my month-long residency in WV, I found an LP of Rev. F.C. Barnes & Rev. Janice Brown’s Rough Side of the Mountain at an antique shop. That song was the land gospel that carried me through project but also a song that connected me with the stories of so many others. Thank you to the team who helped me reimagine and re-record this iconic gospel classic (to be released soon🤍)

Vocalist: @carlyharveymusic
Lead Producer: @austnf1
Bass/Piano/Organ/Drums: @thatguycsquared
Studio: @astro.studios

This whole process was a practice in using my free will: rejecting objectivity, following my intuition, seeking wholeness, and fully immersing myself in the counter archives of this place I inherited from my mother’s memory. I dedicate it to her Kim Caine, my Nana Ophelia, Great Grandmother Mary, Great Great Grandmother Gertrude🤍

Thank you to my collaborators & village: Council of Southern Mountains, Bluefield State Alumni Association, Poet & Historian L. Renee, and Judge Terri Jamison, my thesis advisor @karilyncrockett, my partner Andre Oshea💗 @artsatmit @intothemayaverse @kimcaine.realestate @torimackenziiie @fontessawoods @dr_tonya_speaks @_ecotonal @euphoriccdreams @kiki_leray @dylanrollo_roth @drecatur @niii.shy @l_merchie @bethanysmith4

Friday I defended my @mitdusp thesis titled Mountain Blues & Water Gospel: How Affrilachian Women Cultivate Worlds in the Afterlives of Coal Extraction. I can’t fully express how much this project means to me, and how grateful I am to have women in my family guiding me through this process. Through my own family lineage tracing, oral histories, and archival research I came to know more of the lives of Black women who created an overworld in 20th century southern West Virginia coalfields. The load balancing capacity Black women built through community care networks, community serving institutions,and good ol Affrilachian creative ingenuity gives us a historical reference in casting a vision for post-capitalist repair & production in these times of collapse.

My thesis exhibition is on view on the third floor of @mitmuseum until today at 5pm! So go check it out if you’re local to Boston.

During my month-long residency in WV, I found an LP of Rev. F.C. Barnes & Rev. Janice Brown’s Rough Side of the Mountain at an antique shop. That song was the land gospel that carried me through project but also a song that connected me with the stories of so many others. Thank you to the team who helped me reimagine and re-record this iconic gospel classic (to be released soon🤍)

Vocalist: @carlyharveymusic
Lead Producer: @austnf1
Bass/Piano/Organ/Drums: @thatguycsquared
Studio: @astro.studios

This whole process was a practice in using my free will: rejecting objectivity, following my intuition, seeking wholeness, and fully immersing myself in the counter archives of this place I inherited from my mother’s memory. I dedicate it to her Kim Caine, my Nana Ophelia, Great Grandmother Mary, Great Great Grandmother Gertrude🤍

Thank you to my collaborators & village: Council of Southern Mountains, Bluefield State Alumni Association, Poet & Historian L. Renee, and Judge Terri Jamison, my thesis advisor @karilyncrockett, my partner Andre Oshea💗 @artsatmit @intothemayaverse @kimcaine.realestate @torimackenziiie @fontessawoods @dr_tonya_speaks @_ecotonal @euphoriccdreams @kiki_leray @dylanrollo_roth @drecatur @niii.shy @l_merchie @bethanysmith4

Friday I defended my @mitdusp thesis titled Mountain Blues & Water Gospel: How Affrilachian Women Cultivate Worlds in the Afterlives of Coal Extraction. I can’t fully express how much this project means to me, and how grateful I am to have women in my family guiding me through this process. Through my own family lineage tracing, oral histories, and archival research I came to know more of the lives of Black women who created an overworld in 20th century southern West Virginia coalfields. The load balancing capacity Black women built through community care networks, community serving institutions,and good ol Affrilachian creative ingenuity gives us a historical reference in casting a vision for post-capitalist repair & production in these times of collapse.

My thesis exhibition is on view on the third floor of @mitmuseum until today at 5pm! So go check it out if you’re local to Boston.

During my month-long residency in WV, I found an LP of Rev. F.C. Barnes & Rev. Janice Brown’s Rough Side of the Mountain at an antique shop. That song was the land gospel that carried me through project but also a song that connected me with the stories of so many others. Thank you to the team who helped me reimagine and re-record this iconic gospel classic (to be released soon🤍)

Vocalist: @carlyharveymusic
Lead Producer: @austnf1
Bass/Piano/Organ/Drums: @thatguycsquared
Studio: @astro.studios

This whole process was a practice in using my free will: rejecting objectivity, following my intuition, seeking wholeness, and fully immersing myself in the counter archives of this place I inherited from my mother’s memory. I dedicate it to her Kim Caine, my Nana Ophelia, Great Grandmother Mary, Great Great Grandmother Gertrude🤍

Thank you to my collaborators & village: Council of Southern Mountains, Bluefield State Alumni Association, Poet & Historian L. Renee, and Judge Terri Jamison, my thesis advisor @karilyncrockett, my partner Andre Oshea💗 @artsatmit @intothemayaverse @kimcaine.realestate @torimackenziiie @fontessawoods @dr_tonya_speaks @_ecotonal @euphoriccdreams @kiki_leray @dylanrollo_roth @drecatur @niii.shy @l_merchie @bethanysmith4

Friday I defended my @mitdusp thesis titled Mountain Blues & Water Gospel: How Affrilachian Women Cultivate Worlds in the Afterlives of Coal Extraction. I can’t fully express how much this project means to me, and how grateful I am to have women in my family guiding me through this process. Through my own family lineage tracing, oral histories, and archival research I came to know more of the lives of Black women who created an overworld in 20th century southern West Virginia coalfields. The load balancing capacity Black women built through community care networks, community serving institutions,and good ol Affrilachian creative ingenuity gives us a historical reference in casting a vision for post-capitalist repair & production in these times of collapse.

My thesis exhibition is on view on the third floor of @mitmuseum until today at 5pm! So go check it out if you’re local to Boston.

During my month-long residency in WV, I found an LP of Rev. F.C. Barnes & Rev. Janice Brown’s Rough Side of the Mountain at an antique shop. That song was the land gospel that carried me through project but also a song that connected me with the stories of so many others. Thank you to the team who helped me reimagine and re-record this iconic gospel classic (to be released soon🤍)

Vocalist: @carlyharveymusic
Lead Producer: @austnf1
Bass/Piano/Organ/Drums: @thatguycsquared
Studio: @astro.studios

This whole process was a practice in using my free will: rejecting objectivity, following my intuition, seeking wholeness, and fully immersing myself in the counter archives of this place I inherited from my mother’s memory. I dedicate it to her Kim Caine, my Nana Ophelia, Great Grandmother Mary, Great Great Grandmother Gertrude🤍

Thank you to my collaborators & village: Council of Southern Mountains, Bluefield State Alumni Association, Poet & Historian L. Renee, and Judge Terri Jamison, my thesis advisor @karilyncrockett, my partner Andre Oshea💗 @artsatmit @intothemayaverse @kimcaine.realestate @torimackenziiie @fontessawoods @dr_tonya_speaks @_ecotonal @euphoriccdreams @kiki_leray @dylanrollo_roth @drecatur @niii.shy @l_merchie @bethanysmith4

Friday I defended my @mitdusp thesis titled Mountain Blues & Water Gospel: How Affrilachian Women Cultivate Worlds in the Afterlives of Coal Extraction. I can’t fully express how much this project means to me, and how grateful I am to have women in my family guiding me through this process. Through my own family lineage tracing, oral histories, and archival research I came to know more of the lives of Black women who created an overworld in 20th century southern West Virginia coalfields. The load balancing capacity Black women built through community care networks, community serving institutions,and good ol Affrilachian creative ingenuity gives us a historical reference in casting a vision for post-capitalist repair & production in these times of collapse.

My thesis exhibition is on view on the third floor of @mitmuseum until today at 5pm! So go check it out if you’re local to Boston.

During my month-long residency in WV, I found an LP of Rev. F.C. Barnes & Rev. Janice Brown’s Rough Side of the Mountain at an antique shop. That song was the land gospel that carried me through project but also a song that connected me with the stories of so many others. Thank you to the team who helped me reimagine and re-record this iconic gospel classic (to be released soon🤍)

Vocalist: @carlyharveymusic
Lead Producer: @austnf1
Bass/Piano/Organ/Drums: @thatguycsquared
Studio: @astro.studios

This whole process was a practice in using my free will: rejecting objectivity, following my intuition, seeking wholeness, and fully immersing myself in the counter archives of this place I inherited from my mother’s memory. I dedicate it to her Kim Caine, my Nana Ophelia, Great Grandmother Mary, Great Great Grandmother Gertrude🤍

Thank you to my collaborators & village: Council of Southern Mountains, Bluefield State Alumni Association, Poet & Historian L. Renee, and Judge Terri Jamison, my thesis advisor @karilyncrockett, my partner Andre Oshea💗 @artsatmit @intothemayaverse @kimcaine.realestate @torimackenziiie @fontessawoods @dr_tonya_speaks @_ecotonal @euphoriccdreams @kiki_leray @dylanrollo_roth @drecatur @niii.shy @l_merchie @bethanysmith4

Friday I defended my @mitdusp thesis titled Mountain Blues & Water Gospel: How Affrilachian Women Cultivate Worlds in the Afterlives of Coal Extraction. I can’t fully express how much this project means to me, and how grateful I am to have women in my family guiding me through this process. Through my own family lineage tracing, oral histories, and archival research I came to know more of the lives of Black women who created an overworld in 20th century southern West Virginia coalfields. The load balancing capacity Black women built through community care networks, community serving institutions,and good ol Affrilachian creative ingenuity gives us a historical reference in casting a vision for post-capitalist repair & production in these times of collapse.

My thesis exhibition is on view on the third floor of @mitmuseum until today at 5pm! So go check it out if you’re local to Boston.

During my month-long residency in WV, I found an LP of Rev. F.C. Barnes & Rev. Janice Brown’s Rough Side of the Mountain at an antique shop. That song was the land gospel that carried me through project but also a song that connected me with the stories of so many others. Thank you to the team who helped me reimagine and re-record this iconic gospel classic (to be released soon🤍)

Vocalist: @carlyharveymusic
Lead Producer: @austnf1
Bass/Piano/Organ/Drums: @thatguycsquared
Studio: @astro.studios

This whole process was a practice in using my free will: rejecting objectivity, following my intuition, seeking wholeness, and fully immersing myself in the counter archives of this place I inherited from my mother’s memory. I dedicate it to her Kim Caine, my Nana Ophelia, Great Grandmother Mary, Great Great Grandmother Gertrude🤍

Thank you to my collaborators & village: Council of Southern Mountains, Bluefield State Alumni Association, Poet & Historian L. Renee, and Judge Terri Jamison, my thesis advisor @karilyncrockett, my partner Andre Oshea💗 @artsatmit @intothemayaverse @kimcaine.realestate @torimackenziiie @fontessawoods @dr_tonya_speaks @_ecotonal @euphoriccdreams @kiki_leray @dylanrollo_roth @drecatur @niii.shy @l_merchie @bethanysmith4

Friday I defended my @mitdusp thesis titled Mountain Blues & Water Gospel: How Affrilachian Women Cultivate Worlds in the Afterlives of Coal Extraction. I can’t fully express how much this project means to me, and how grateful I am to have women in my family guiding me through this process. Through my own family lineage tracing, oral histories, and archival research I came to know more of the lives of Black women who created an overworld in 20th century southern West Virginia coalfields. The load balancing capacity Black women built through community care networks, community serving institutions,and good ol Affrilachian creative ingenuity gives us a historical reference in casting a vision for post-capitalist repair & production in these times of collapse.

My thesis exhibition is on view on the third floor of @mitmuseum until today at 5pm! So go check it out if you’re local to Boston.

During my month-long residency in WV, I found an LP of Rev. F.C. Barnes & Rev. Janice Brown’s Rough Side of the Mountain at an antique shop. That song was the land gospel that carried me through project but also a song that connected me with the stories of so many others. Thank you to the team who helped me reimagine and re-record this iconic gospel classic (to be released soon🤍)

Vocalist: @carlyharveymusic
Lead Producer: @austnf1
Bass/Piano/Organ/Drums: @thatguycsquared
Studio: @astro.studios

This whole process was a practice in using my free will: rejecting objectivity, following my intuition, seeking wholeness, and fully immersing myself in the counter archives of this place I inherited from my mother’s memory. I dedicate it to her Kim Caine, my Nana Ophelia, Great Grandmother Mary, Great Great Grandmother Gertrude🤍

Thank you to my collaborators & village: Council of Southern Mountains, Bluefield State Alumni Association, Poet & Historian L. Renee, and Judge Terri Jamison, my thesis advisor @karilyncrockett, my partner Andre Oshea💗 @artsatmit @intothemayaverse @kimcaine.realestate @torimackenziiie @fontessawoods @dr_tonya_speaks @_ecotonal @euphoriccdreams @kiki_leray @dylanrollo_roth @drecatur @niii.shy @l_merchie @bethanysmith4

Friday I defended my @mitdusp thesis titled Mountain Blues & Water Gospel: How Affrilachian Women Cultivate Worlds in the Afterlives of Coal Extraction. I can’t fully express how much this project means to me, and how grateful I am to have women in my family guiding me through this process. Through my own family lineage tracing, oral histories, and archival research I came to know more of the lives of Black women who created an overworld in 20th century southern West Virginia coalfields. The load balancing capacity Black women built through community care networks, community serving institutions,and good ol Affrilachian creative ingenuity gives us a historical reference in casting a vision for post-capitalist repair & production in these times of collapse.

My thesis exhibition is on view on the third floor of @mitmuseum until today at 5pm! So go check it out if you’re local to Boston.

During my month-long residency in WV, I found an LP of Rev. F.C. Barnes & Rev. Janice Brown’s Rough Side of the Mountain at an antique shop. That song was the land gospel that carried me through project but also a song that connected me with the stories of so many others. Thank you to the team who helped me reimagine and re-record this iconic gospel classic (to be released soon🤍)

Vocalist: @carlyharveymusic
Lead Producer: @austnf1
Bass/Piano/Organ/Drums: @thatguycsquared
Studio: @astro.studios

This whole process was a practice in using my free will: rejecting objectivity, following my intuition, seeking wholeness, and fully immersing myself in the counter archives of this place I inherited from my mother’s memory. I dedicate it to her Kim Caine, my Nana Ophelia, Great Grandmother Mary, Great Great Grandmother Gertrude🤍

Thank you to my collaborators & village: Council of Southern Mountains, Bluefield State Alumni Association, Poet & Historian L. Renee, and Judge Terri Jamison, my thesis advisor @karilyncrockett, my partner Andre Oshea💗 @artsatmit @intothemayaverse @kimcaine.realestate @torimackenziiie @fontessawoods @dr_tonya_speaks @_ecotonal @euphoriccdreams @kiki_leray @dylanrollo_roth @drecatur @niii.shy @l_merchie @bethanysmith4

Friday I defended my @mitdusp thesis titled Mountain Blues & Water Gospel: How Affrilachian Women Cultivate Worlds in the Afterlives of Coal Extraction. I can’t fully express how much this project means to me, and how grateful I am to have women in my family guiding me through this process. Through my own family lineage tracing, oral histories, and archival research I came to know more of the lives of Black women who created an overworld in 20th century southern West Virginia coalfields. The load balancing capacity Black women built through community care networks, community serving institutions,and good ol Affrilachian creative ingenuity gives us a historical reference in casting a vision for post-capitalist repair & production in these times of collapse.

My thesis exhibition is on view on the third floor of @mitmuseum until today at 5pm! So go check it out if you’re local to Boston.

During my month-long residency in WV, I found an LP of Rev. F.C. Barnes & Rev. Janice Brown’s Rough Side of the Mountain at an antique shop. That song was the land gospel that carried me through project but also a song that connected me with the stories of so many others. Thank you to the team who helped me reimagine and re-record this iconic gospel classic (to be released soon🤍)

Vocalist: @carlyharveymusic
Lead Producer: @austnf1
Bass/Piano/Organ/Drums: @thatguycsquared
Studio: @astro.studios

This whole process was a practice in using my free will: rejecting objectivity, following my intuition, seeking wholeness, and fully immersing myself in the counter archives of this place I inherited from my mother’s memory. I dedicate it to her Kim Caine, my Nana Ophelia, Great Grandmother Mary, Great Great Grandmother Gertrude🤍

Thank you to my collaborators & village: Council of Southern Mountains, Bluefield State Alumni Association, Poet & Historian L. Renee, and Judge Terri Jamison, my thesis advisor @karilyncrockett, my partner Andre Oshea💗 @artsatmit @intothemayaverse @kimcaine.realestate @torimackenziiie @fontessawoods @dr_tonya_speaks @_ecotonal @euphoriccdreams @kiki_leray @dylanrollo_roth @drecatur @niii.shy @l_merchie @bethanysmith4

Friday I defended my @mitdusp thesis titled Mountain Blues & Water Gospel: How Affrilachian Women Cultivate Worlds in the Afterlives of Coal Extraction. I can’t fully express how much this project means to me, and how grateful I am to have women in my family guiding me through this process. Through my own family lineage tracing, oral histories, and archival research I came to know more of the lives of Black women who created an overworld in 20th century southern West Virginia coalfields. The load balancing capacity Black women built through community care networks, community serving institutions,and good ol Affrilachian creative ingenuity gives us a historical reference in casting a vision for post-capitalist repair & production in these times of collapse.

My thesis exhibition is on view on the third floor of @mitmuseum until today at 5pm! So go check it out if you’re local to Boston.

During my month-long residency in WV, I found an LP of Rev. F.C. Barnes & Rev. Janice Brown’s Rough Side of the Mountain at an antique shop. That song was the land gospel that carried me through project but also a song that connected me with the stories of so many others. Thank you to the team who helped me reimagine and re-record this iconic gospel classic (to be released soon🤍)

Vocalist: @carlyharveymusic
Lead Producer: @austnf1
Bass/Piano/Organ/Drums: @thatguycsquared
Studio: @astro.studios

This whole process was a practice in using my free will: rejecting objectivity, following my intuition, seeking wholeness, and fully immersing myself in the counter archives of this place I inherited from my mother’s memory. I dedicate it to her Kim Caine, my Nana Ophelia, Great Grandmother Mary, Great Great Grandmother Gertrude🤍

Thank you to my collaborators & village: Council of Southern Mountains, Bluefield State Alumni Association, Poet & Historian L. Renee, and Judge Terri Jamison, my thesis advisor @karilyncrockett, my partner Andre Oshea💗 @artsatmit @intothemayaverse @kimcaine.realestate @torimackenziiie @fontessawoods @dr_tonya_speaks @_ecotonal @euphoriccdreams @kiki_leray @dylanrollo_roth @drecatur @niii.shy @l_merchie @bethanysmith4

Friday I defended my @mitdusp thesis titled Mountain Blues & Water Gospel: How Affrilachian Women Cultivate Worlds in the Afterlives of Coal Extraction. I can’t fully express how much this project means to me, and how grateful I am to have women in my family guiding me through this process. Through my own family lineage tracing, oral histories, and archival research I came to know more of the lives of Black women who created an overworld in 20th century southern West Virginia coalfields. The load balancing capacity Black women built through community care networks, community serving institutions,and good ol Affrilachian creative ingenuity gives us a historical reference in casting a vision for post-capitalist repair & production in these times of collapse.

My thesis exhibition is on view on the third floor of @mitmuseum until today at 5pm! So go check it out if you’re local to Boston.

During my month-long residency in WV, I found an LP of Rev. F.C. Barnes & Rev. Janice Brown’s Rough Side of the Mountain at an antique shop. That song was the land gospel that carried me through project but also a song that connected me with the stories of so many others. Thank you to the team who helped me reimagine and re-record this iconic gospel classic (to be released soon🤍)

Vocalist: @carlyharveymusic
Lead Producer: @austnf1
Bass/Piano/Organ/Drums: @thatguycsquared
Studio: @astro.studios

This whole process was a practice in using my free will: rejecting objectivity, following my intuition, seeking wholeness, and fully immersing myself in the counter archives of this place I inherited from my mother’s memory. I dedicate it to her Kim Caine, my Nana Ophelia, Great Grandmother Mary, Great Great Grandmother Gertrude🤍

Thank you to my collaborators & village: Council of Southern Mountains, Bluefield State Alumni Association, Poet & Historian L. Renee, and Judge Terri Jamison, my thesis advisor @karilyncrockett, my partner Andre Oshea💗 @artsatmit @intothemayaverse @kimcaine.realestate @torimackenziiie @fontessawoods @dr_tonya_speaks @_ecotonal @euphoriccdreams @kiki_leray @dylanrollo_roth @drecatur @niii.shy @l_merchie @bethanysmith4

Friday I defended my @mitdusp thesis titled Mountain Blues & Water Gospel: How Affrilachian Women Cultivate Worlds in the Afterlives of Coal Extraction. I can’t fully express how much this project means to me, and how grateful I am to have women in my family guiding me through this process. Through my own family lineage tracing, oral histories, and archival research I came to know more of the lives of Black women who created an overworld in 20th century southern West Virginia coalfields. The load balancing capacity Black women built through community care networks, community serving institutions,and good ol Affrilachian creative ingenuity gives us a historical reference in casting a vision for post-capitalist repair & production in these times of collapse.

My thesis exhibition is on view on the third floor of @mitmuseum until today at 5pm! So go check it out if you’re local to Boston.

During my month-long residency in WV, I found an LP of Rev. F.C. Barnes & Rev. Janice Brown’s Rough Side of the Mountain at an antique shop. That song was the land gospel that carried me through project but also a song that connected me with the stories of so many others. Thank you to the team who helped me reimagine and re-record this iconic gospel classic (to be released soon🤍)

Vocalist: @carlyharveymusic
Lead Producer: @austnf1
Bass/Piano/Organ/Drums: @thatguycsquared
Studio: @astro.studios

This whole process was a practice in using my free will: rejecting objectivity, following my intuition, seeking wholeness, and fully immersing myself in the counter archives of this place I inherited from my mother’s memory. I dedicate it to her Kim Caine, my Nana Ophelia, Great Grandmother Mary, Great Great Grandmother Gertrude🤍

Thank you to my collaborators & village: Council of Southern Mountains, Bluefield State Alumni Association, Poet & Historian L. Renee, and Judge Terri Jamison, my thesis advisor @karilyncrockett, my partner Andre Oshea💗 @artsatmit @intothemayaverse @kimcaine.realestate @torimackenziiie @fontessawoods @dr_tonya_speaks @_ecotonal @euphoriccdreams @kiki_leray @dylanrollo_roth @drecatur @niii.shy @l_merchie @bethanysmith4

Friday I defended my @mitdusp thesis titled Mountain Blues & Water Gospel: How Affrilachian Women Cultivate Worlds in the Afterlives of Coal Extraction. I can’t fully express how much this project means to me, and how grateful I am to have women in my family guiding me through this process. Through my own family lineage tracing, oral histories, and archival research I came to know more of the lives of Black women who created an overworld in 20th century southern West Virginia coalfields. The load balancing capacity Black women built through community care networks, community serving institutions,and good ol Affrilachian creative ingenuity gives us a historical reference in casting a vision for post-capitalist repair & production in these times of collapse.

My thesis exhibition is on view on the third floor of @mitmuseum until today at 5pm! So go check it out if you’re local to Boston.

During my month-long residency in WV, I found an LP of Rev. F.C. Barnes & Rev. Janice Brown’s Rough Side of the Mountain at an antique shop. That song was the land gospel that carried me through project but also a song that connected me with the stories of so many others. Thank you to the team who helped me reimagine and re-record this iconic gospel classic (to be released soon🤍)

Vocalist: @carlyharveymusic
Lead Producer: @austnf1
Bass/Piano/Organ/Drums: @thatguycsquared
Studio: @astro.studios

This whole process was a practice in using my free will: rejecting objectivity, following my intuition, seeking wholeness, and fully immersing myself in the counter archives of this place I inherited from my mother’s memory. I dedicate it to her Kim Caine, my Nana Ophelia, Great Grandmother Mary, Great Great Grandmother Gertrude🤍

Thank you to my collaborators & village: Council of Southern Mountains, Bluefield State Alumni Association, Poet & Historian L. Renee, and Judge Terri Jamison, my thesis advisor @karilyncrockett, my partner Andre Oshea💗 @artsatmit @intothemayaverse @kimcaine.realestate @torimackenziiie @fontessawoods @dr_tonya_speaks @_ecotonal @euphoriccdreams @kiki_leray @dylanrollo_roth @drecatur @niii.shy @l_merchie @bethanysmith4

Friday I defended my @mitdusp thesis titled Mountain Blues & Water Gospel: How Affrilachian Women Cultivate Worlds in the Afterlives of Coal Extraction. I can’t fully express how much this project means to me, and how grateful I am to have women in my family guiding me through this process. Through my own family lineage tracing, oral histories, and archival research I came to know more of the lives of Black women who created an overworld in 20th century southern West Virginia coalfields. The load balancing capacity Black women built through community care networks, community serving institutions,and good ol Affrilachian creative ingenuity gives us a historical reference in casting a vision for post-capitalist repair & production in these times of collapse.

My thesis exhibition is on view on the third floor of @mitmuseum until today at 5pm! So go check it out if you’re local to Boston.

During my month-long residency in WV, I found an LP of Rev. F.C. Barnes & Rev. Janice Brown’s Rough Side of the Mountain at an antique shop. That song was the land gospel that carried me through project but also a song that connected me with the stories of so many others. Thank you to the team who helped me reimagine and re-record this iconic gospel classic (to be released soon🤍)

Vocalist: @carlyharveymusic
Lead Producer: @austnf1
Bass/Piano/Organ/Drums: @thatguycsquared
Studio: @astro.studios

This whole process was a practice in using my free will: rejecting objectivity, following my intuition, seeking wholeness, and fully immersing myself in the counter archives of this place I inherited from my mother’s memory. I dedicate it to her Kim Caine, my Nana Ophelia, Great Grandmother Mary, Great Great Grandmother Gertrude🤍

Thank you to my collaborators & village: Council of Southern Mountains, Bluefield State Alumni Association, Poet & Historian L. Renee, and Judge Terri Jamison, my thesis advisor @karilyncrockett, my partner Andre Oshea💗 @artsatmit @intothemayaverse @kimcaine.realestate @torimackenziiie @fontessawoods @dr_tonya_speaks @_ecotonal @euphoriccdreams @kiki_leray @dylanrollo_roth @drecatur @niii.shy @l_merchie @bethanysmith4

Friday I defended my @mitdusp thesis titled Mountain Blues & Water Gospel: How Affrilachian Women Cultivate Worlds in the Afterlives of Coal Extraction. I can’t fully express how much this project means to me, and how grateful I am to have women in my family guiding me through this process. Through my own family lineage tracing, oral histories, and archival research I came to know more of the lives of Black women who created an overworld in 20th century southern West Virginia coalfields. The load balancing capacity Black women built through community care networks, community serving institutions,and good ol Affrilachian creative ingenuity gives us a historical reference in casting a vision for post-capitalist repair & production in these times of collapse.

My thesis exhibition is on view on the third floor of @mitmuseum until today at 5pm! So go check it out if you’re local to Boston.

During my month-long residency in WV, I found an LP of Rev. F.C. Barnes & Rev. Janice Brown’s Rough Side of the Mountain at an antique shop. That song was the land gospel that carried me through project but also a song that connected me with the stories of so many others. Thank you to the team who helped me reimagine and re-record this iconic gospel classic (to be released soon🤍)

Vocalist: @carlyharveymusic
Lead Producer: @austnf1
Bass/Piano/Organ/Drums: @thatguycsquared
Studio: @astro.studios

This whole process was a practice in using my free will: rejecting objectivity, following my intuition, seeking wholeness, and fully immersing myself in the counter archives of this place I inherited from my mother’s memory. I dedicate it to her Kim Caine, my Nana Ophelia, Great Grandmother Mary, Great Great Grandmother Gertrude🤍

Thank you to my collaborators & village: Council of Southern Mountains, Bluefield State Alumni Association, Poet & Historian L. Renee, and Judge Terri Jamison, my thesis advisor @karilyncrockett, my partner Andre Oshea💗 @artsatmit @intothemayaverse @kimcaine.realestate @torimackenziiie @fontessawoods @dr_tonya_speaks @_ecotonal @euphoriccdreams @kiki_leray @dylanrollo_roth @drecatur @niii.shy @l_merchie @bethanysmith4

Friday I defended my @mitdusp thesis titled Mountain Blues & Water Gospel: How Affrilachian Women Cultivate Worlds in the Afterlives of Coal Extraction. I can’t fully express how much this project means to me, and how grateful I am to have women in my family guiding me through this process. Through my own family lineage tracing, oral histories, and archival research I came to know more of the lives of Black women who created an overworld in 20th century southern West Virginia coalfields. The load balancing capacity Black women built through community care networks, community serving institutions,and good ol Affrilachian creative ingenuity gives us a historical reference in casting a vision for post-capitalist repair & production in these times of collapse.

My thesis exhibition is on view on the third floor of @mitmuseum until today at 5pm! So go check it out if you’re local to Boston.

During my month-long residency in WV, I found an LP of Rev. F.C. Barnes & Rev. Janice Brown’s Rough Side of the Mountain at an antique shop. That song was the land gospel that carried me through project but also a song that connected me with the stories of so many others. Thank you to the team who helped me reimagine and re-record this iconic gospel classic (to be released soon🤍)

Vocalist: @carlyharveymusic
Lead Producer: @austnf1
Bass/Piano/Organ/Drums: @thatguycsquared
Studio: @astro.studios

This whole process was a practice in using my free will: rejecting objectivity, following my intuition, seeking wholeness, and fully immersing myself in the counter archives of this place I inherited from my mother’s memory. I dedicate it to her Kim Caine, my Nana Ophelia, Great Grandmother Mary, Great Great Grandmother Gertrude🤍

Thank you to my collaborators & village: Council of Southern Mountains, Bluefield State Alumni Association, Poet & Historian L. Renee, and Judge Terri Jamison, my thesis advisor @karilyncrockett, my partner Andre Oshea💗 @artsatmit @intothemayaverse @kimcaine.realestate @torimackenziiie @fontessawoods @dr_tonya_speaks @_ecotonal @euphoriccdreams @kiki_leray @dylanrollo_roth @drecatur @niii.shy @l_merchie @bethanysmith4

Friday I defended my @mitdusp thesis titled Mountain Blues & Water Gospel: How Affrilachian Women Cultivate Worlds in the Afterlives of Coal Extraction. I can’t fully express how much this project means to me, and how grateful I am to have women in my family guiding me through this process. Through my own family lineage tracing, oral histories, and archival research I came to know more of the lives of Black women who created an overworld in 20th century southern West Virginia coalfields. The load balancing capacity Black women built through community care networks, community serving institutions,and good ol Affrilachian creative ingenuity gives us a historical reference in casting a vision for post-capitalist repair & production in these times of collapse.

My thesis exhibition is on view on the third floor of @mitmuseum until today at 5pm! So go check it out if you’re local to Boston.

During my month-long residency in WV, I found an LP of Rev. F.C. Barnes & Rev. Janice Brown’s Rough Side of the Mountain at an antique shop. That song was the land gospel that carried me through project but also a song that connected me with the stories of so many others. Thank you to the team who helped me reimagine and re-record this iconic gospel classic (to be released soon🤍)

Vocalist: @carlyharveymusic
Lead Producer: @austnf1
Bass/Piano/Organ/Drums: @thatguycsquared
Studio: @astro.studios

This whole process was a practice in using my free will: rejecting objectivity, following my intuition, seeking wholeness, and fully immersing myself in the counter archives of this place I inherited from my mother’s memory. I dedicate it to her Kim Caine, my Nana Ophelia, Great Grandmother Mary, Great Great Grandmother Gertrude🤍

Thank you to my collaborators & village: Council of Southern Mountains, Bluefield State Alumni Association, Poet & Historian L. Renee, and Judge Terri Jamison, my thesis advisor @karilyncrockett, my partner Andre Oshea💗 @artsatmit @intothemayaverse @kimcaine.realestate @torimackenziiie @fontessawoods @dr_tonya_speaks @_ecotonal @euphoriccdreams @kiki_leray @dylanrollo_roth @drecatur @niii.shy @l_merchie @bethanysmith4

Friday I defended my @mitdusp thesis titled Mountain Blues & Water Gospel: How Affrilachian Women Cultivate Worlds in the Afterlives of Coal Extraction. I can’t fully express how much this project means to me, and how grateful I am to have women in my family guiding me through this process. Through my own family lineage tracing, oral histories, and archival research I came to know more of the lives of Black women who created an overworld in 20th century southern West Virginia coalfields. The load balancing capacity Black women built through community care networks, community serving institutions,and good ol Affrilachian creative ingenuity gives us a historical reference in casting a vision for post-capitalist repair & production in these times of collapse.

My thesis exhibition is on view on the third floor of @mitmuseum until today at 5pm! So go check it out if you’re local to Boston.

During my month-long residency in WV, I found an LP of Rev. F.C. Barnes & Rev. Janice Brown’s Rough Side of the Mountain at an antique shop. That song was the land gospel that carried me through project but also a song that connected me with the stories of so many others. Thank you to the team who helped me reimagine and re-record this iconic gospel classic (to be released soon🤍)

Vocalist: @carlyharveymusic
Lead Producer: @austnf1
Bass/Piano/Organ/Drums: @thatguycsquared
Studio: @astro.studios

This whole process was a practice in using my free will: rejecting objectivity, following my intuition, seeking wholeness, and fully immersing myself in the counter archives of this place I inherited from my mother’s memory. I dedicate it to her Kim Caine, my Nana Ophelia, Great Grandmother Mary, Great Great Grandmother Gertrude🤍

Thank you to my collaborators & village: Council of Southern Mountains, Bluefield State Alumni Association, Poet & Historian L. Renee, and Judge Terri Jamison, my thesis advisor @karilyncrockett, my partner Andre Oshea💗 @artsatmit @intothemayaverse @kimcaine.realestate @torimackenziiie @fontessawoods @dr_tonya_speaks @_ecotonal @euphoriccdreams @kiki_leray @dylanrollo_roth @drecatur @niii.shy @l_merchie @bethanysmith4

Friday I defended my @mitdusp thesis titled Mountain Blues & Water Gospel: How Affrilachian Women Cultivate Worlds in the Afterlives of Coal Extraction. I can’t fully express how much this project means to me, and how grateful I am to have women in my family guiding me through this process. Through my own family lineage tracing, oral histories, and archival research I came to know more of the lives of Black women who created an overworld in 20th century southern West Virginia coalfields. The load balancing capacity Black women built through community care networks, community serving institutions,and good ol Affrilachian creative ingenuity gives us a historical reference in casting a vision for post-capitalist repair & production in these times of collapse.

My thesis exhibition is on view on the third floor of @mitmuseum until today at 5pm! So go check it out if you’re local to Boston.

During my month-long residency in WV, I found an LP of Rev. F.C. Barnes & Rev. Janice Brown’s Rough Side of the Mountain at an antique shop. That song was the land gospel that carried me through project but also a song that connected me with the stories of so many others. Thank you to the team who helped me reimagine and re-record this iconic gospel classic (to be released soon🤍)

Vocalist: @carlyharveymusic
Lead Producer: @austnf1
Bass/Piano/Organ/Drums: @thatguycsquared
Studio: @astro.studios

This whole process was a practice in using my free will: rejecting objectivity, following my intuition, seeking wholeness, and fully immersing myself in the counter archives of this place I inherited from my mother’s memory. I dedicate it to her Kim Caine, my Nana Ophelia, Great Grandmother Mary, Great Great Grandmother Gertrude🤍

Thank you to my collaborators & village: Council of Southern Mountains, Bluefield State Alumni Association, Poet & Historian L. Renee, and Judge Terri Jamison, my thesis advisor @karilyncrockett, my partner Andre Oshea💗 @artsatmit @intothemayaverse @kimcaine.realestate @torimackenziiie @fontessawoods @dr_tonya_speaks @_ecotonal @euphoriccdreams @kiki_leray @dylanrollo_roth @drecatur @niii.shy @l_merchie @bethanysmith4

Central Square Theater and the MIT Museum present the debut of: NO RECOMBINATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION

The Cambridge City Council faced a decision that would echo across the globe. At the center of it all stood a new biohazard lab designed for groundbreaking recombinant DNA research—celebrated by some as the future of science, feared by others as the birthplace of “Frankenstein bacteria.” Nobel Prize–winning scientists, passionate citizens, politicians, and the global press all converged on Cambridge to confront one explosive question: Who gets to decide the boundaries of scientific discovery?

This performance is a partnership between the MIT Museum, Central Square Theater and the City of Cambridge, inspired by the continued relevance of these debates as the occasion reached its semicentennial.

Performances will occur at Sullivan Chamber in Cambridge City Hall on the following days and times:
Saturday, June 13: 2:00pm and 7:00pm
Sunday, June 14: 2:00pm and 7:00pm
Sunday, June 21: 2:00pm and 7:00pm
All shows are free and open to the public with registration.

Learn more via the link in our bio

Announcing MIT Future Fest: a new five-day festival this Fall, opening MIT’s doors to the world, inviting you to participate in the next era of science, technology, and human understanding, September 30–October 4, 2026, on MIT’s campus in Cambridge, MA.

Presented by the MIT Museum with @technologyreview and @mitdesignacademy, the inaugural edition brings together MIT President Sally Kornbluth, Paola Antonelli (@paolantonelli), Carlo Ratti (@carlorattiassociati), Hugh Herr (@hugh.herr), Skylar Tibbits (@skylartibbits), Danielle Wood (@space.enabled), Daniel Sundlin (@danielsundlin), Behnaz Farahi (@behnazfarahi), Ana Rajčević (@anarajcevic_studio), and more — closing with the beloved Cambridge Science Carnival (@cambridgesciencecarnival).

Tickets go live in June. Sign up now at MITFutureFest.org to be first in line and unlock an early-access discount. Link in bio.