We are featured in MIT Tech Review's latest issue including a feature article on Chicago's surveillance panopticon. It's a long read but we hope you enjoy it.
www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/23/1...
Celebrate Women’s History Month with these Reader-recommended events from our March Reader Radar and beyond: chicagoreader.com/city-life/wo...
Tomorrow, 3/11 @ 6:30 PM: Ask an Astrophysicist! @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social
HER AGAIN?
A hand holds three light yellow seed packets up against a quilt. The seeds are labeled with three varieties for a Three Sisters planting - Seminole pumpkin, Potawatomi pole bean, and popcorn.
A hand holds three light yellow seed packets up against a quilt. They include za'atar, Palestinian kusa squash, and bamyeh okra.
A hand holds three light yellow seed packets up against a quilt. They include Chicago callaloo, cempaxochitl marigolds, and calendula.
Truelove Seeds are back in stock for spring! Truelove works with small growers who are committed to community food sovereignty and sustainable agriculture to offer culturally significant, open pollinated vegetable, flower, and herb seeds.
The fed govt has approved an energy megaproject on a site sacred 2 Yakama Nation near the Columbia River. It’s been used by the Yakama people for centuries in ceremonies and for fishing and root gathering–rights the Yakama Nation were promised in treaties.
A great run down of a thing about non-fiction publishing that is often misunderstood from a writer we love!
And in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.
A hand holds a stack of books against a dark green wall. The stack includes Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert, Heap Earth Upon it by Chloe Michelle Howarth, When Trees Testify by Beronda L. Montgomery, The Sisters by Jonas Hassen Khemiri, and Bury our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab.
A lil sampling of what our team has been reading lately.
+ Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
+ Heap Earth Upon It by Chloe Michelle Howarth
+ When Trees Testify by Beronda L. Montgomery
+ The Sisters by Jonas Hassen Khemiri
+ Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E Schwab
flyer with text reading "Save the date, Chicago Zine Fest, 10-10-2026. Back in the Winter Garden! More zinesters! More programming! New organizers orientation Wednesday March 18."
CZF will be back on Saturday October 10th!! We're thrilled to be returning to the Winter Garden in the Harold Washington Library Center, thanks to the generous partnership of @chipublib.bsky.social!
A digital flyer in the style of a 90s web pop up in shades of bright green and blue. A small pop up window reads, "Dump Big Tech Workshop. 3/31 @ 6:30 pm". A larger window reads, "It's time to dump big tech. Learn about your alternatives with a digital privacy pro. Details linked in bio."
Big Tech is killing our planet and using your data to kidnap your neighbors and wage war abroad. It's time to dump em!
Join us March 31st at 6:30 to learn about the alternatives available to us and their pros and cons. This workshop will be facilitated by a digital privacy professional.
Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix
Tickets for Monday and Saturday dates now available online
Plz contribute to my GoFundMe, which is dedicated to ordering 75 Waymos to the mayor's house every night at 3 am. 😊
A photo of skunk cabbages emerging through the leaf litter. A maroon text box reads, "New Date Added!"
A photo of a skunk cabbage rising up through the snow. A white text box reads in black font, "Melting ICE. A fundraiser field trip to benefit Midwest Immigration Bond Fund. Monday, March 16th @ 10:00 am."
A photo of skunk cabbage spathes in the spring. A white text box reads, "Join us for a walk in the woods to see skunk cabbages emerging for spring and learn about winter adaptations in plants. Tickets on sale 2/25 @ noon. 100% of ticket sales benefit Midwest Immigration Bond Fund." A cut out illustration of a skunk cabbage from a vintage field guide overlays the image in the corner.
We're adding a additional date to our skunk cabbage walk! We work weekends too so we know it's a bummer when you miss out on all the Saturday morning events. We'll be taking a second hike on Monday, March 16th.
Tickets for both events on sale 2/25 @ noon on our website.
After months of relentless rapid response in Minneapolis, members of Defend the 612 had a moment to breathe and reflect on the lessons they’ve learned, the grief they carry, and the citywide fellowship they hope will endure. The crisis is not over, and I’m grateful they made time to speak with me.
Airplane Mode is our bimonthly subscription for books in translation. Members get two books originally published in a language other than English at 15% every other month. Sign up on our website to get this month's picks.
Simpatía by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, translated from Spanish by Noel Hernández González and Daniel Hahn, is set in Maduro's Caracas. Ulises, our protagonist, is surprised when his ex-father-in-law wills him the family estate on the condition that he transform it into a sanctuary for abandoned dogs.
Set during Hong Kong's 2019 uprisings, Everyday Movement by Gigi L. Leung, translated from Chinese by Jennifer Feely, follows a cast of young people trying to make sense of how to continue showing up for their day to day obligations, romances, and relationships while also mobilizing in the streets.
In March, Airplane Mode is visiting Hong Kong and Venezuela with stories about normal people trying to make sense of the mundane amid political violence and turmoil.
Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!
CHICAGO!
Heat the Ground up
Join us for a discussion on how the historic @sbworkersunited.org strikes were organized. With @inthesetimes.com and @labornotes.bsky.social.
Live from @haymarkethouse.bsky.social and streaming on Youtube.
Friday, February 27th at 7 PM CT
RSVP:
Midwest Immigration Bond Fund is a revolving immigration bond fund that frees individuals from ICE custody and gathers community to advocate for the abolition of immigration detention and surveillance. Their work is critical across the Midwest, including in Illinois and Minnesota.
Tickets are $10.00 and will be on sale at noon on 2/25. Specific meeting location information will be emailed to ticket holders prior to our hike but you can find general location and access information in the event listing on our website.
A photo of a skunk cabbage rising up through the snow. A white text box reads in black font, "Melting ICE. A fundraiser field trip to benefit Midwest Immigration Bond Fund. Saturday, March 14th @ 10:00 am."
A photo of skunk cabbage spathes in the spring. A white text box reads, "Join us for a walk in the woods to see skunk cabbages emerging for spring and learn about winter adaptations in plants. Tickets on sale 2/25 @ noon. 100% of ticket sales benefit Midwest Immigration Bond Fund." A cut out illustration of a skunk cabbage from a vintage field guide overlays the image in the corner.
Did you know that skunk cabbages are thermogenic - they generate their own heat to melt frozen, icy ground and prepare the soil for new growth in the spring?
Join us for a hike in the woods to see skunk cabbages emerging for the spring and raise money for Midwest Immigration Bond Fund.
Illinois Audubon Society Commits $384,000 to Windy City Bird Lab
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Happy publication day to Lauren J. Joseph's LEAN CAT, SAVAGE CAT! 🐈⬛
✨ "A salacious romp of breathtaking self-invention and spectacular self-destruction." —Service95
✨ "A strange and wild ride in the best way." — @autostraddle.bsky.social
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Dr. Galaudage will be here to answer your questions on March 11th at 6:30. Tickets go on sale at noon on 3/3.
A warped grid fills the background of a digital flyer. In the center a white text box reads, "Ask A Scientist night. You BYOB. We bring a scientist. They tell us why their work is cool. You ask them questions." Cut out images of Illinois native plants, birds, and insects decorate the image.
The background is filled with an illustration of a black hole courtesy of NASA/JPL - Caltech. A white text box reads, "In March, Ask an Astrophysicist! Black holes, neutron stars, and gravity. March 11th @ 6:30. Tickets on sale at noon on 3/3."
In March, we'll be joined by Dr. Shanika Galaudage, an astrophysicist working at Northwestern and the Adler Planetarium! She studies pairs of the most extreme objects in the universe (black holes and neutron stars) using gravitational waves to understand how these systems form, live and die.
