i feel very very very strongly that the most precarious among us get to have nice things, this includes art

instead of getting government records from FOIA, I'm screenprinting my own triplicate paperwork

the city of chicago and CTA are having the hardest time telling us where the bathrooms are i sent in 2 attorney general letters, submitted a new FOIA to CTA citing the Illinois Restroom Access Act and Equitable Restrooms Act about to learn all about how we stock toilet paper in chicago bathrooms 🧻

when all of the city's agencies tell me they don't know where their bathrooms are, i've really enjoyed asking them what their toilet paper replenishing looks like fun with foia

By the way, We'll be giving out at least two more disability zine microgrants this June-July. US only (sorry) and more info soon.

this particular zine is actually a set of four, which is in production and i cannot wait to spend more time in studio this week working on them it will be one larger zine that keeps three inside it, nesting zines 🪿

Ruby Silvious, contemporary artist who utilises the teabag as her canvas #womensart #May

i am still working on this writing project, often working on different parts in different ways #FOIA lawsuit number one was filed in 2022 fast forward to four years later, today i will work on #FOIA lawsuit number 39

the only news that matters, i really love the amount of fishing that happens in chicago

YOU CAN'T FIGHT IN HERE, IT'S THE WAR ROOM

Do I need to start posting maps of sundown towns and restrictive covenants north of the Mason Dixon line? Because this site is trying real hard to blame the rural racism in their states on the modern South, as if their ancestors weren't racist as hell all on their own.

mather high school opened in 1959, designed by Loebl Schlossman & Bennett the architecture firm is also known for water tower place, two prudential plaza, and dearborn homes as one of the architects noted, "the most exciting thing about the world is that it can change."

school tripper routes ran in chicago via CTA and then never again after the 1977-1978 school year school tripper routes related to Washington High School are interesting because one reason it stays a neighborhood high school with in attendance enrollment is because it's transit locked

the school tripper rule and the transit acts from 1974 worked to stop integration in cities that used public transit to move students routes like what are listed below would not be eligible for federal reimbursements and without those, school districts could not run the charter services

back on my bullshit, #foia fridays sewing zines for a workshop today 🖤

a temporary reprieve from a harmful technology that elicits the response of accumulated capital and leads to a sharpening of surveillance is not a win it's cause and effect

one of the best things about social media, for me, is meeting cool mutuals in real life

it's one of those days where the press on CPS related to budgeting, enrollment and staffing is just irritating and it highlights how much people are just not committed to serving young people or employing women, actually they are committed to the opposite

i am working on a few CPS projects today and one thing that is really wrong in the narrative in chicago about the budget is this the overall budget is not very dependent on enrollment in the district, it's more dependent upon local property tax revenue

i am told this is not lunch of champions not i feel like a champion

this #disability zine comes with cute little inserts with the direct contact information of chicago public schools top officials and a way to collect the entire CPS email directory 🪿

some days i start my day and some days my day is started for me notes are coming in from around the city about who is or will be running for CPS Board President it feels like I'm watching a Michigan State versus Ohio State football game, I want everyone to lose

Recommendations for supportive groups in Chicago/north suburbs, for shy autistic trans Muslim youth?

i am currently trying to convince my friends who are teachers that we can do so many field trips this summer and i can already see them falling asleep on the bus on the way home

the west wing is less realistic than battlestar galactica NEXT QUESTION

"COMFORT STATION: CLOSED FOR THE SEASON" could be the park district motto. Montrose Beach, like all of Chicago's parks, should have 24/7 all gender public bathrooms. #EverybodyPoops

a friend of mine just asked me if i would ride the bus with her and go to the obama center and yes, obviously but also i realized we can all go dig around in Arne Duncan bullshit in those archives

she's still there, Park District view

today is the CPS agenda review committee and sure enough, on the agenda "Authorize the First Renewal Agreement with Various Vendors for Roofing Consulting Services" if Sendhil Revuluri were on the board now, we'd be hearing all about how many roofs he does not want to take care anymore

already i am hearing school closure discussion at CPS as a person who is not rigidly tied to a current real estate portfolio, i don't think we should jump to school closings i have spent quite a bit of time in turnaround schools and schools that are phasing out and i think chicago can be creative

i am up late because that's just the way it is today, reviewing some records from #FOIA related to the lead pipe replacement program to daycares in the city of chicago and preparing for a #FOIA workshop that we're giving on Friday we will have an actual #FOIAFriday this week 🖤

literally one of the demands the coalition makes is to have more human oversight, more officers to avoid technology surveillance i mean, this would not be my demand and i don't think it's a progressive demand in the slightest

"It doesn’t necessarily make a whole lot of sense to spend taxpayer money on speculative technology, in particular when there are real civil rights and liberties at stake,” Ragan said." taxpayer arguments are reactionary and this is why in this instance

the patriarchy kills in so many different ways

i had a really nice conversation with a clerk at a local bookshop today one of the things we talked about included bathroom access at park buildings and then she went on to tell me how bad bathroom access is at the libraries chicago, we're ready to change all that

This is so fucking infuriating

this entire ordeal (male doctors and patriarchy health system) led to at least 25 years of pain for me, cancer monitoring and very very very delayed surgery so they could preserve my ability to have children listen to people experiencing pain!

"Getting To Yes" always struck me as a sinister title that sounds coercive not consensual.

There HAS to be a form of political organising that recognises that some of us fucking HATE being in crowded rooms or WhatsApp groups or Slack chats or shared docs. Stop wasting my time and emotional energy on your extraversion! Give me a task that needs doing & let me get on with it.

we are gathering information about bathroom access in chicago @anthonymoser.com, @aoife.bsky.social, @supremenothing.myatproto.social, me and a whole bunch of other people think there should be readily available all-gender bathrooms across chicago a #FOIA on the situation at CPS reveals...

sometimes i end up with interesting information about chicago notables for example, Ben Joravsky preferred that local school councils vote to keep or remove police officers in schools rather than the correct principled decision to remove them be made through executive power and in the process of

btw mayor johnson promised to release this oig report if elected, then never did. we only know what it said bc @joefergchicago.bsky.social did the right thing and leaked it It's worth a read bit.ly/HilcoOIG

"Cook County Jail is home to nearly 6,000 people. 117 insiders are currently classified as disabled and/or use mobility aids. But the CCSO employs only one ADA compliance officer who is responsible for ensuring that the jail is compliant with the law."

anyways if you want the story on how Tom Dart came to power, and how the Cook County sheriff office came to operate the way it does now, I wrote a book for you www.pennpress.org/978151282349...

unfortunately for me, today has to be a computer day because i have insurance bills to process for reimbursement this will serve as my running monday thread of what i'm looking at and my avoidance of doing non-preferred tasks

"I learnt from sharing stories of complaint that the point can be to find other people."

as an example, cps principals have their budgets for next year and local school councils will not receive budgets until next week this jams local communities and notably, budgets are set by the district this has the impact of taking power away from local communities

i always crack up when i see in press "says who"

The real solution to helping historians do research is actually pretty simple: give archives more money. Money for conservation, preservation, storage (physical an digital), climate controlled facilities, and staff (paid at a living wage). You don't need LLMs, you need money.

i once thought i could listen to a podcast while doing bookkeeping for a project i was running sending reading materials into jails and prisons adhd me needs to hyperfocus and i still wouldn't want to watch a podcast, that's just a tv show on natgeo