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A quote from Lucy Parsons' Introduction: "The Eleventh of November has become a day of international importance, cherished in the hearts of all true lovers of liberty as a day of martyrdom. On this day was offered upon the cruel gallows tree, martyrs as true to their high ideals as were ever sacrificed in any age."

An illustration of the Haymarket Martyrs Memorial by Dante Aguilera Benitez

On the anniversary of the Haymarket martyrs' execution, we're adding a new title to our Working Classics series. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘨𝘰 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴, back in print for the first time in decades, preserves the chilling, defiant words of the accused. www.akpress.org/famous-speec...

Come out for a meet up, nature show and tell, and seed swap with your neighbors. Bring along photos or finds you've come across in the natural world. We'll also be swapping seeds and thinking about spring planting.

November 20th at 6:30.

An antique map of the Calumet region. Over top are two blue text bubbles. The smaller one reads, "Thursday November 20th @ 6:30". The larger reads, "Foraging Friends nature show & tell and seed swap".

Foraging Friends is back in November. Foraging Friends is a monthly meet up for anyone who likes growing their own food, foraging for wild snacks, and generally looking for little treasures in the natural world.

By 2013, I had accepted that I was not hot and did need to hang out with other trans people, but I didn’t feel good about it. Except, when I read Gendertrash, I did. I felt like, fuck yeah transsexuals! I felt like maybe transsexuals are hot. I also remember thinking, what if I had read this in 2000 or 2001? My life would have been totally different. And even now in 2025, looking at this zine again, knowing it thoroughly after all the work I put into reprinting it as a book, I still feel this way. I feel my life being changed, yet again. Maybe you will feel this too.

Unearthing the hidden history of a singular trans punk zine: defector.com/unearthing-t...

You are like a lantern swathed and covered, hidden away in a dark place. Yet the light shines; they could not put out the light. They could not hide you.

In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together "Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.

My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."

Tall stacks of books with their spines facing the camera. Included titles are The Employees by Olga Ravn, The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Tsing, Hardmouth by Amanda Goldblatt, Crocosmia by Miranda Mellis, and Dealing with the Dead by Alain Mabanckou.

Prepping for our final events and subscription boxes of 2025 and the line up is so good. 📚

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Thank you and hell yes to local independent bookstores for supporting our communities and neighbors! From Squeezebox Books, @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social, & @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social

DELUXE PACK PRE-ORDER | Persona by Aoife Josie Clements (Paperback) — LittlePuss Press A trans woman discovers pornography of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil. “The year’s great work of literary horror.” —Gretchen Felker-Mar...

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Many unhoused Chicagoans uncounted among the disappeared - Chicago Reader The Latino Union of Chicago, via its Adopt a Corner initiative, organizes patrols to watch for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agents at intersections and landmarks wh...

new: at least 26 unhoused chicagoans have been abducted since the start of "operation midway blitz."

the full scope of people disappeared is likely much larger but is obscured by heavy criminalization, social stigma, and fewer eyes and phones around to bear witness.

via @katieprout.bsky.social

Happy pub day to my beautiful daughter!!!!!! she is so smart and funny and weird and thoughtful and I am so excited for you to meet her!!!!

Unearthing The Hidden History Of A Singular Trans Punk Zine | Defector I wasn't ready for how much it loved trans people.

I wrote an essay on @defector.com about my archival misadventures putting together the book that is Gendertrash From Hell. Many thanks to @laurentheisen.bsky.social it was really nice to *get* edited for once. Lauren u rule!

Zohran says you’re trans now

Apparently all you needed to do to predict the NYC election results was read that one N.K. Jemisin novel.

a large road sign with the text fuck ICE located on a corner of an intersection in chicago

shout out chicago.

SAY IT WITH US:

GENDER!

TRASH!

FROM!

HELL!

you already know if you will like this book

Hospitals have pulled back on gender-affirming care for kids under Trump, leaving families with shrinking options The shrinking options are leading to lapses in care and delays in time-sensitive treatments. “It’s basically an abandonment of these kids,” one mother said.

Hospitals have pulled back on gender-affirming care for kids under Trump, leaving families with shrinking options. A really interesting read from Lisa Schencker @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/h...

We’ll go easy on you!

i know what i'm doing for dinner tomorrow

Olga Ravn's The Employees, translated from Danish, is a workplace novel of the 22nd century. Told in the form of staff reports and memos from the crew of a spaceship, the records detail the ship's acquisition of a strange object and the crew's mounting conflict as they head towards mutiny.

Alain Mabanckou's Dealing With The Dead, translated from French, is a satire of political corruption and Congolese history. Liwa wakes up in his own grave, where he meets his new neighbors in the cemetery before ignoring all of their advice and setting out to figure out just how he died.

Two books displayed on a wooden table top against a dark green wall with a pride flag hanging on it. On the left is Alain Mabanckou's Dealing with the Dead. On the right is Olga Ravn's The Employees.

Airplane Mode, our subscription club for books in translation, is back in November. 🌍
More information on how to join available at skunkcabbagebooks.com.

In Illinois, juvenile detention centers are exempt from FOIA meaning the public can't access employee disciplinary records, confinement data, and policy manuals.

As my editor @jonahshai.bsky.social once put it, it's much harder to get information about the youth jail than it is about the adult jail

Gary Larson dropping Cow Tools in 1982

What’s Funny About Student Debt? For only the second time in our fourteen years, InterCcECT hosts an event centered on the novel’s unique faculty for theorizing capitalism. The Payback is a comic critique of contemporary lif…

Chicago! Weds! UIC English+the Inter Chicago Circle for Experimental Critical Theory welcome genius novelist Kashana Cauley+genius organizer Prof Jason Wozniak of @debtcollective.bsky.social to a special convo

WHAT'S FUNNY ABOUT STUDENT DEBT?!
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interccect.com/2025/09/26/w...

I'm reading this this week and all the lil fungus freaks are gonna LOVE IT.

Things your bookseller will judge you for requesting:
- The Fountainhead

Things your bookseller will never judge you for requesting:
- Horny romance

As June Jordan said, “We are not powerless. We are indispensable despite all atrocities of state and corporate policy to the contrary... At a minimum we have the power to stop cooperating with our enemies. We have the power to stop the courtesies and to let the feelings be real.”

A vintage map of Lake Michigan off of Chicago. Over top are two white text boxes, which read, "November 15th, 6:30 pm. Crocosmia with Miranda Mellis and Amanda Goldblatt." In the bottom left corner is an inset photo of the book's cover. In the top right are headshots of both Miranda and Amanda.

We're excited to welcome Miranda Mellis in conversation with Amanda Goldblatt to discuss her new novel, Crocosmia, a speculative fable that begins at the end of climate catastrophe and charts a future after The Great Turning when people begin to rebuild a new, more alive world together.