Faythe Levine

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.

Fight Like Hell! The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) is the national labor union of city delivery letter carriers employed by the United States Postal Service.

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

A black postcard design with white text reading: TRUMP wants to KILL the US POSTAL SERVICE / Say NO to USPS PRIVATIZATION

The back of a postcard with text reading: The US Postal Service: Is not motivated by profit. Is mandated to provide service to every zip code including affordable service for rural areas. Is used for mail-in ballots. Is in the Constitution. (Read: ArtI.S8.C7.1 for historical background on postal power. Promotes Diversity and Inclusion: Employees are 21% African-American; 8% Hispanic; 8% Asian-American/Pacific Islander; .67% American Indian or Alaska Native. You can: Use USPS for shipping. Buy stamps and use them. Order from businesses that ship with USPS. Stop ordering from Amazon. Call your Representatives. Find your reps by using www.5calls.org. Tell postal workers you love them. Tell postal workers you have their backs.

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

Love to see a mask always 🙌🏻 #cathairforever

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 📚

Standing by 🤗

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

As Ever, Miriam A Conversation with Faythe Levine on Archives, Letters, Love and Her New Book

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...

More and more Alice, but less and less Wonderland.

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

Seedy memories of the gloriously seedy Prospect Mall Discussed: that seedy movie theater, that seedy video store (with porn), that seedy record/book store (with porn), more (with porn).

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Hahahah. But the movie posters would be other level great since every sign painter would want to paint it.

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

I couldn’t escape the sign painters if I tried at this point 😅 the next issue is going to have some great gems in it (been privy to a few articles).

Slogging through trying to figure out when I try to utilize them off IG why I have to resign in 🫠

Sam the editor of BLAG is great, he’s doing some incredible work in the sign painting world (and hosted the Sign Painter movie 10 year anniversary online screening where people came from over a dozen countries!)

There are still flavors from that job I can recall super easily! I loved working for Mala & seeing Dan work on puppets across the street #612

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 worked here in the early 00’s love to see this!!

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 💖

A PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER IN PROVIDENCE and the case of the mysteriously disappearing student cooperatives I started working on this piece before the inauguration and the ensuing shitstorm of executive orders, which are so clearly an onramp to fascism that it is hard to psychically think outside of them.

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.

ReproductiveRights.Gov Vanished, So We Brought It Back theSkimm makes it easier to live smarter. You're welcome. Get all the info you need from AM to PM, wherever you are.

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

We Keep Our Histories Safe. Emergency Response Network: Help Save Southern LGBTQ Histories

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.

White hand holding out a cream color letter pressed poster that says resilience in an arch over the year 2025 in large all capital block letters printed in solid black

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.

LeRoy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund The LeRoy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund was established in 1970 as a special trust in memory of Dr. LeRoy C. Merritt. It is devoted to the support, maintenance, medical care, and welfare of librarians ...

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

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Thanks for this, still getting my footing here. Following now!