Nancy Day 8

We don't have to live like this.

the cutest thing about Tucson is that there are these hats with local wildlife embroidered. they are sold all over town. everywhere i go i see someone with their chosen animal hat on.

average payout per job and total jobs completed for 2025

Nancy Day 6 🐕✂️

Heyyyyy who would like to read an extremely good comic involving androids and space travel and religion; if that’s you then I think Testament by @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social would be your thing and you should snap up a copy www.bulgilhanpress.com/store/p/test...

Everyone wanting to write AND draw their own graphic novel needs to look at this, and plan your finances/side-gigs accordingly. The advance money reeeeally doesn't go as far as you think it does.

For the People Leftist Library enters its 4th year by reflecting on our goals and looking ahead. If you care about public library organizing, this January newsletter is for you: open.substack.com/pub/librarie... - I am really proud of the work we've all done so far.

friendly reminder for the new year

Greed is a poison rising in this land./ The soul of the people twisted in its command./ It moves like a virus seeking out everyone./ Greed never stops its work, is never ever done. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zlr...

New (used) camera. Have really only shot on an analog Olympus OM-2. Slow steps into the digital world.

From Forbes. Thinking from a fantasy land where climate disruption isn't even mentioned. www.forbes.com/sites/joelsh...

We're really close to $10,000 raised for Black Zine Fair. It's 50% of what we need to raise. gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...

@anniemcdonough.bsky.social: "Yellow cab driver Richard Chow was on hunger strike for medallion debt relief with Zohran Mamdani a little over four years ago. Today, he drove now Mayor Zohran Mamdani to City Hall for his inauguration in his taxi." Chow's brother killed himself over his debt.

checking in with a client from last year and getting all "i don't work here anymore" auto-replies...their grant funding ended

'The Fifth Street Building Takeover: Archival Activations 11' zine by @prisonculture.bsky.social. Copies of the zine are available for purchase here: www.printedmatter.org/catalog/69980 I love working on the archival activations series and I always learn a lot.

This past year, I worked on a few comics and zines I'm proud of :) Newest and most recently published in collaboration with @interruptcrim.bsky.social is a collection of stories by health care workers interrupting criminalization + harm Story 1: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...

I love working with @kruttika.bsky.social in general and on this series. They have collaborated with me on 3 zines in my Archival Activations series and hopefully more in the future!

Part 2: soundcloud.com/nia_audio/jo...

this would be a great time to listen to @prisonculture.bsky.social’s excellent podcast “Johnny Cash, prison reformer”. Part 1 (of 2) available here: soundcloud.com/nia_audio/jo...

Mamdani press conference happening now, announcing executive orders and the formation of the Office to Protect Tenants which will be led by Cea Weaver, the executive director of Housing Justice for All. @anniemcdonough.bsky.social on X. x.com/Annie_McDono...

I would totally love to make a series of these. Maybe postcards? Posters?

If you're an NYC organizer thinking "I want to be part of shaping the city agenda now more than ever," check out this guide to the city budget process from the Center for Urban Pedagogy. (now in Spanish!) I designed/illustrated it with CUP and Teachers Unite. store-welcometocup.org/shop/p/build...

Some projects i really enjoyed working on last year (that are published. a few lovely ones still to be released!):

reposting, as evidence of "do good work now. let it grow. help others do good work."

You just do *not* know what will come of the efforts you put in today, compounded over years alongside the work of others.

Promise not to post this screencap all the time, but I am posting it today.

lets paint more in 2026 🩵

7/86 sopranos episodes painted!! lol here are 4 of the better ones

My friends are helping me to raise funds so I can afford basic necessities and start building my life. If you can, consider donating. www.gofundme.com/f/support-st...

Oh, what a dream it would be to work on the same project for 2 days in a row…

A strange review hell-bent on overturning Foucault's "Discipline & Punishment" because of archaeological evidence that incarceration occurred in pre-Enlightenment societies. As if...that somehow morally justifies carceral systems... www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

SJP is seeking a Creative Marketing Intern. See the internship description here: bit.ly/48XtgQl - Applications are due 1/12/26.

It would be so incredible if at least 12 people wrote to @librariesftp.bsky.social about why they love their library :) 100 words! Take fifteen minutes this weekend to send us something?: forms.gle/oqTvmGJreEeU...

all shouting into thin air

thank u @bulgilhanpress.com @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

I loved reading this. I have found some of my best friends and closest comrades through zine-making. Zines shaped my politics and brought me into direct action.

Yours truly and @meganpiont.bsky.social are quoted waxing poetic about zines, lol. What's new? www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

@librariesftp.bsky.social is inviting folks to send a photo + 100 words about what your local library means to you and your community. We'll feature them every month in our newsletter. Submit: tinyurl.com/b44bfx23 I wrote about @slcpl.bsky.social for this month's newsletter! tinyurl.com/2rac688x

GOP Senators say their plan "would lower 2027 premiums by 11%" Ah, too bad my premiums are increasing by 60%! abcnews.go.com/Politics/rep...

Donate to support an inside-outside prison writing collective and help fund prison communications, books, and writing supplies. Anything donated will go directly toward support funds for incarcerated writers, as well as writers who come home. chuffed.org/project/1574...

I continue to believe that in the current context zines are an important modality for exchanging and distributing information.

If I want to stick with my same crappy ACA plan, it's going to cost me ("small business owner," unmarried) an extra $2k next year...

It's here. Applications are now open for exhibitors, workshops and volunteers for the 3rd annual Black Zine Fair taking place on 5/9/26. Applications are accepted until Feb 9. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Excited about this and we need to raise funds to make it successful. gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f... - any amount is welcome.

Wish we could move away from having to appeal to ppl on basis of migrant “contributions.” I don’t care whether or how much people “contribute” — we all need to eat, need healthcare, need a roof over our heads. Basic dignity shouldn’t hinge on a persons ability or willingness to “contribute”

This is a profoundly anti-Black country. Not just racist but ANTI-BLACK. It is foundational and everpresent.

if you're one person making a comic by yourself, don't treat yourself like you should function on the same level as comics that have multiple people working on them. your backgrounds can be squiggles and colors. allow yourself room to be abstract with details and give yourself some grace

I was able to spend some time with the Diego Rivera murals at the Detroit Institute of Art yesterday. My first time visiting.