making art

i really enjoy making artist's books

hahaha a friend of mine suggests we have a chicago call-in show

"Ask us A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G about C-P-S"

this would piss CPS off so much if we did this

someone filed a FOIA for my chicago public schools personnel file and i learned that it means cps keeps personnel files for 15+ years

i resigned on january 1, 2010 and kids, always resign on december 31 so you don't have to get another w2 for the next tax season

i wonder who i pissed off

in a city of Black women, this is damning

"the willful subject is under arrest...then to be judged willful is to become a killjoy of the future: the one who steals the possibility of happiness, the one who stops happiness from becoming actual, the one who gets in the way of a happiness assumed as in the way."

"the objects that surround her are objects of hope...

a picture of the time magazine Secretariat cover from June 11, 1973 fazlur khan archives, art institute of chicago

sometimes (always) you go to archives and find delightful unexpected things and you spend your afternoon in the summer of 1973

and it's still relevant because leftist programs have not dealt with misogyny at all, there is no principle to believe women

and there are so many men who stick together in chicago, it's really not great conditions for women organizers

i want better for us!

if a man's relevancy is created on the exclusion of women, it's not relevancy it's abuse

if it seems like there is only one group who knows about automated license plate readers and one press outlet running with their data, that is constructed not organic

it means others have been pushed out, not invited in - designed exclusion

standing on the shoulders of other feminists

it goes right along with this writing

i am reflecting on some things that have occurred over the last few years and what i have been a part of and it's time to bring back out an old piece of writing

naming our collective conditions

this is what I'm saying!!

a beautiful light lined city street in chicago with a pink and orange sunset

chicago sunset, go outside and look west!

as Aspira charters close down, kids are enrolling in area high schools and i'm getting notes about what's gone on with records

kids with disabilities fared poorly at Aspira

and it's possible Aspira was taking in funds for English Language Learners that it shouldn't have, there is a paper trail

plus all the datasharing that goes into grants

from another #FOIA lawsuit, it becomes even clearer that city officials have monthly meetings with federal officials

this is an agenda for police, fire, the fusion center (CPIC), OEMC, FBI, DHS, CDPH and the Loop Alliance

the chicago public/private taskforce, they meet monthly

for all of the yelling about welcoming city ordinances, not helping ICE or the Department of Homeland Security, i would really like people to understand that there are city officials who actively talk to DHS daily

i am not going to discuss the main points of this release online, it's harrowing

i don't think the city has gotten any better at managing itself based on more recent release of records

if we were confronted with a crush load of people who need shelter now, the city of chicago would still flounder

an email from the White House to officials in the City of Chicago to set meetings

the actions of yesterday impact tomorrow, data-sharing meetings scheduled between the City of Chicago, DHS, the State of Illinois, related to asylum seekers

November 11, 2023, post presidential election results

who.eop.gov is White House Office Executive Office of the President email extension

an email from a State of Illinois official on December 17, 2023 Thank you, Tina. As I shared last night, we're hoping to use the vacant strip of land adjacent to the LZ parking lot (attached). Is there a specific POC at AIS I can coordinate with? I will work with Bea and Danielle to schedule a co-design session for this week.

the State stepped in to make a medical intake tent that was heated...in December

LZ means landing zone in this email, and the intake was eventually set up at 800 S Des Plaines

again, only after shelter conditions killed a young boy

a city of chicago attorney quoting the Illinois FOIA statute as a way to avoid personally identifying information to federal government agencies

the ex-budget director, Annette Guzman, goes on to suggest that personally identifying information would be protected from release under FOIA

a city attorney offers a legal argument about avoiding release on FOIA which...

the feds are not submitting FOIAs to the City of Chicago

from a #FOIA lawsuit:

it's clear the City had no idea what it was doing and was not coordinating on very basic things like health intake for asylum seekers, leading to the death of a 5 year old

for grant money, the City shares everything with FEMA, a DHS agency

it has been data-sharing for years

these kinds of veiled sideways attacks are how abusers are; it wouldn't have mattered if you were extra special nice to the host, he would have still found something to make an outgroup of, trying for escaping detection

i gather information so i can write hyper specific insults that usually have an audience of 1 and it's so satisfying

The City We Became

by NK Jemisin

published in 2020

a drawing of a silly goose holding pink, green and blue balloons, repeated 11 times, a dozen silly geese!

we are starting to get documents via FOIA lawsuits

some documents are very hard to read because they document systemic state violence against young people and how the system protects itself at the expense of young people

to keep myself regulated, i take small art breaks

a gaggle of silly geese

arrested development for mayor brandon johnson

making a 'democracy zone' implies the existence of a 'non-democracy zone' everywhere else