🥰😷Great opportunity to contribute to Chicago Mask Bloc! This fundraiser supports mutual aid via mask and test distribution in the Chicago area 😷🥰 givebutter.com/masks4chi

The hit Netflix series Wayward appears to be partly inspired by CEDU, a notorious chain of powerful, tightly controlled "therapeutic" residential programs. I sat down with @thr.com to talk about real-life connections and turning my favorite Kid in the Hall into a ranting man in the cabin.

Forbidden Newberry Returns! My favorite annual event is coming up on October 24th! We're all spooky all the time this year, so look forward to facing your mortality! 💀 In the most fun possible way! 💃💀💃☠️💀💃💀☠️💃💀💃 I'll post some sneak peeks soon... www.newberry.org/calendar/for...

Hi, friends! If you're around tomorrow (Wednesday October 15), please join the Northwestern English department for this Colombian Writers Symposium, with Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Gloria Susana Esquivel, and Julian Delgado Lopera.

Open 11-7 today, Indigenous Peoples’ Day

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

Love my neighborhood. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/12/4...

Hey, a reminder that I’m looking for work. I’m an award winning writer and editor serving the community. My book Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction just won an Ignyte award! I’m looking for clients, and would love to work in narrative games. Get in touch with me!

This is a GoFundMe supporting the tamale lady taken by ICE on 21st Place and Damen in Pilsen yesterday. “Now she’s being forced to start over in Mexico with nothing — no home, no job, and no access to the medical care she desperately needs.”

If you have a moment, please consider donating to ICIRR, who are working hard to protect those most impacted by federal oversight and the ICE occupation in Chicago, and beyond. www.icirr.org

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.

TODAY in Rogers Park, let’s build community. ICE out of Chicago

This and other books are available from @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social. All proceeds from the following titles go to The Sameer Project: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/...

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know. findmeatherapist.org

Psychiatrists/NPs/therapists who could provide off-the-books, no-fee, Zoom-based care for individuals in crisis in ICE-targeted Chicago communities, please email me: [email protected]. Include whether you can prescribe, speak Spanish (or other languages), and available hours per week/month.

We are looking for volunteers who are interested in writing 300-350 words, (about 1-2 paragraphs) on how disability is portrayed in horror movies. Deadline 24th October 2025 Contact Richardamm(at)gmail.com Find our free disability zines: linktr.ee/disabilityark

Mapping Outside the Lines is open! Explore how maps work with classics like portolan charts and Antonio García Cubas and contemporary artists like Tonika Johnson, Ed Fairburn, and Ibrahim Miranda Ramos. Marvel at a fold-out river and listen to our rendition of a John Cage score.

We have know your rights and Migra Watch literature in English and Spanish at the store 7 days a week. We’re open M-F 11am-7pm, Sat 11am-6pm, Sun 11am-5pm and have water, a public restroom, and climate control.

Just donated here. Gotta support our street vendors while their own government terrorizes them. www.gofundme.com/f/chicago-st...

A ROSE SHOULDERS UP Don't ever be surprised to see a rose shoulder up among the ruins of the house: This is how we survived. by Mosab Abu Toha

Check out this new teaching resource/essay I worked on that’s finally published! www.analulopez.com/exploring-th...

A floral palate cleanser. My designs for Field Notes’ fall flowers edition, inspired by publishers bindings. Thanks, librarians!

marching in front of the Newberry Library, shamelessly hospitable to people who really love genealogical research and Renaissance partbooks & like there's a park across the street that people just hang out in and the El is super scary b/c like everyone takes it www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/28/i...

Third World Press Foundation and the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection build upon the legacy of Chicago’s south side as “a hub of Black creativity, scholarship, and political imagination.” https://bit.ly/3Kulyol

Chicago! I'll be at Roman Susan at 1224 W. Loyola Ave this Sunday, 9/28 from 1-5 PM with a full table of Public Collectors publications for sale. Others will join me in presenting their publications too. It should be a wonderful day. Hope to see you!

🚨 Funding Alert! 🚨 Are you passionate about book history, bibliography, or book arts? Check out this funding opportunity to support events in your community! 📖✨ 📅 Deadline: 3 November – Don’t miss your chance to apply! Learn more & apply today 👉 bibsocamer.org/events/funding-opportunities

The devaluing of infrastructural labor all kinds, the ceding of the ground of human truth to machines, its definitely part of it.

Happy pub day ENEMY OF THE SUN, the reissue of the iconic 1970 collection of Palestinian poetry originally published by Drum & Spear (the publishing arm of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee). Great work, @sevenstories.bsky.social! www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/item/kJGRmM40Tbc2Acap_id6Nw

I've said it before but people in the future are going to have a better understanding of the 17th-19th centuries than the 20th-21st centuries. Why? PAPER [the most durable technology invented by humans]

📚 Registration for Fall adult education classes at the Newberry Library is open! So many rad classes to choose from. Many are virtual! 📚 www.newberry.org/learn/adult-...

I attended a talk from a museum professional last night who praised librarians for their organized systems of mentorship for new members of the profession. RBMS is in need of new mentors! THAT MEANS YOU. Invest the time to make that praise true! 📜 rbms.info/committees/m...

Raise your ✋ if you believe libraries are for everyone!

SO EXCITED TO SHARE THIS! Announcing the Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize: two juried mini-grants of $250.00 each to support emerging artists l for the creation of a new minicomic that engages with medieval culture. More details available here: www.newberry.org/calendar/new...

Are you a journalist, podcaster, producer or someone else who covers books? Would you like an advance copy of my book on the Jewish labor Bund Email your address and a bit about what you do to [email protected]

If you're protesting ICE in Chicago, let me know at [email protected] if you need free legal training or legal support. If you're arrested protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

Reporters from across newsrooms in Chicago are collaborating to collect visual evidence of federal agents detaining people & using force in Chicago. Send videos to tinyurl.com/chicagojournalists, or get in touch via email [email protected].

There Are Trans People Here by H. Melt @haymarketbooks.org #poetry #transpoetry

The RCAH Center for Poetry at MSU is BACK! With old friends and new laureates, mathematicians and performance artists, we are here to demand, to insist, that poetry is a living thing! (See the following posts for a complete rundown of events)

Today is Sextidi the 16th of Fructidor in the year 233. Fructidor is the month of fruitfulness. Today we celebrate lemons.#JacobinDay More information on lemons

The musical that kinda almost was.

Vegetables woodblock print by Japanese artist Utagawa Shigenobu, 1866.

This and other books are available from @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social. All proceeds from the following titles go to The Sameer Project: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/...

With health agencies collapsing, it's never been more important for all of us to play active roles in protecting each other's health. A couple of easy things you can do: 1️⃣ Wear a well-fitting mask and distribute them to others 2️⃣ Spread word about updated vaccines and help others make appointments

Chicago! I'll be repping Temporary Services / Half Letter Press at ZineMercado on Sunday, August 31st, 2025, 11 AM - 6 PM at Hairpin Arts Center, 2810 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60618. I'll have recent Public Collectors publications too, including a brand new set of Morning Walks booklets. Come!

I'm happy to teach Writing Contemporary Fairy Tales for The Newberry Library this fall. Class runs Tuesday evenings, 9/30-10/21 and registration is open: www.newberry.org/calendar/wri...

Imagine the complicated and precious genius of the girl who made this embroidery sampler in 1811 The Solar System, sampler, unknown maker, 1811, England. Museum no. T.92-1939. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

#ICYMI free "Queer Book History" zine is out! Built on the great new LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography (led by @bibliowingate.bsky.social), by me + Alex, @nicolekeller.bsky.social @caitcoker.bsky.social +rest of the LGBTQIA+ #BookHist Bib team. A free, printable 32-page research+teaching resource:+

welcome home, we here press ❤️‍🔥 we're honored that our inaugural project will be to publish @dorothyjberry.bsky.social's ***the house archives built & other thoughts on black archival possibilities*** coming october 2025 www.weherepress.org

Resharing my A.I. statement for the fall semester—I’ll be amending “hallucinatory” because hallucinations are actually interesting and original.

My 10.5 x 8" copper wire portrait of Grace Jones