First substack of 2026: a real mashup for the times. Free if you are curious. Maybe see you in the Bay Area next week… faythelevine.substack.com/p/the-gap-is...

I like how the blizzard is seemingly prompting folks to check in. Or maybe it’s a Sunday / blizzard combo. I’ve had 4 unexpected lovely check in’s today that feel really good. Sharing to remind folks to check in on your people, for all extreme climate related purposes.

BLACK CAT CAFE // SEEKING SUBMISSIONS: announcing my new book project focusing on the history of the Black Cat Cafe (Seattle WA). This is where I learned about cooking as resistance, organizing, and mutual aid. Full details on my website please pass on www.faythelevine.com/blackcatcafe

“The Protégé: A Shining Symbol of Gifted Youth” is about my side obsession, Milwaukee artist Helen Hoppin (1899 -1923). It completes It’s the final of 5 essays the series that break down the booklet published on the occasion of my exhibition, Time is Running Out. open.substack.com/pub/faythele...

New Substack: This is the forth part of a series of five chronological posts breaking down the booklet published on the occasion of my exhibition, Time is Running Out. The Metal Object is the shortest of the four essay’s, yet it still holds the most mystery. open.substack.com/pub/faythele...

I spent 10 minutes trying to locate a specialty paper store that was reposted by an artist I follow. I deducted they were in Massachusetts, but couldn’t find any other information. There IG account had no website, no state, no hours. Let us support you people…

Part 3, the second essay from my exhibition booklet, Time Is Running Out. The Sketchbook: Art as a Necessity faythelevine.substack.com/p/the-sketch...

Read part 2, the first essay from my recent exhibition booklet. open.substack.com/pub/faythele...

As the year wraps up and my many years of working with one research topic potentially draws closer to an end, I’ve decided to reprint, in a series of 5 chronological posts, the booklet published on the occasion of my exhibition, Time is Running Out. open.substack.com/pub/faythele...

It’s gonna be a Wisconsin November.

My most recent substack casually connects Bar Dykes, a 1980S play by Merril Mushroom published in 2016 recently performed in rural TN to late night deep dives into the digitized 1960s Village Voice Bulletin Board section and the psychicdelic counterculture of the LES. tinyurl.com/3rbm5k8j

Hey - something tangible you can do is ask your postal clerks if they know when their next audit is (might be called a function four) and then GO TO THE POST OFFICE ON THOSE DAYS so they have better numbers!! That's how we keep postal jobs.

If I can piggyback, the letter carriers union is having nationwide protests this Sunday www.nalc.org/news/fight-l...

The USPS is being threatened with massive layoffs and privatization. I made these postcards which—when mailed—will be seen by mail handlers, scanners, carriers and the recipient. I just printed 3,000 more. Order cheaply from halfletterpress.com or message me your email for the PDF to print them.

Finally made it to the New York Public Library picture room! I had an hour & looked at 2 folders: 1. Junk 2. Kisoks. I can’t wait to go back

Sunday is for soup making + bonus veg shepherds pie). Due to my Mon-Fri day job I try to food prep on Sundays when I can. Chicken for me. Lentil for Erin.

Rogers Book Barn is my Saturday happy place 📚

Just wrapping my brain around the NEA update today 🥀 art funding but make it nationalist

I did a very long-winded interview with Laura McLaws Helms about my interest in Charlotte & Miriam — and research for my new book “As Ever, Miriam” open.substack.com/pub/laurakit...

How I spent my Sunday: writing about the children’s books of Harlin Quist faythelevine.substack.com/p/more-and-m...

Spent the morning going down a Prospect Mall memory wormhole thanks to this post on IG via mushroombooks (you on here?)

Congratulations May Day! I worked at May Day Cafe in the early 2000’s & love seeing this place live on as a worker owned coop! Now a part of deep radical coop legacy in the twin cities!

I’ve seen a few posts that round up accounts to follow here. I’m sorta struggling with people’s names & handles not matching. Are there any good resources for finding each other? 🥵

I sent a queer elder autodidact historian that I’ve been deeply inspired by an email of gratitude & offerer to send a copy of my new book, and he accepted. Reminder: reach out to folks who inspire you. We need each other more than ever 💖

I can't tell who's on here yet, so I'm not tagging people, but Xandar's substack rules. This was the Saturday night read I needed.

The administration took down the reproductive rights website that women need access to. So The Skimm bought a url and brought the content back. Pass this on! Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com

If your Southern university/institution holds LGBTQ and related archives and collections and they become at risk of inaccessibility, censorship, or destruction, please reach out to us. We have developed a long term loan program to keep the materials until it becomes safe to return them.

Thank you for the snail mail Lois Harada (I don’t think you’re on this platform yet) 🙌🏻

Always thinking about what we save. This folder label “faythe school 88-89” was salvaged from when I was helping my mom clean out her papers. I glued it to my current notebook & I love it.

With all the ramped up fear around DEI dissolution, seems like a good time to remind #librarians & #LibraryWorkers about the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social Merritt Fund. If you face joblessness due to discrimination, the Merritt fund is here to help financially. #library www.ala.org/aboutala/aff...

More details from the installation today of my Public Collectors exhibit "Publication Survey / Life Savings" at Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE), 1010 W 35th Street, Suite 697, Happening this Sat. and Sun., Jan. 25-26, 12-5 PM.

I drew a few of @faythelevine.bsky.social’s tiny chair collection this morning.

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Not sure if I can manage another app but starting this account to keep connected ♾️