visiting all the libraries
www.refusedetention.com
the FOIA bakery
disobedient and not respectable, research as an art discipline and sometimes actual art too
@alexhanna.bsky.social
Director of Research, DAIR Roller derby athlete https://alex-hanna.com Book: thecon.ai Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k 🇪🇬⚧ She/هي 📸 @willtoft.bsky.social Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
@tonia.thetriibe.com
Award-winning journalist. I'm passionate about elevating the voices of Black Chicagoans and showcasing their resilience and joy—systemic racism reporter at The TRiiBE.
@steelecat717.bsky.social
Author - Digital Black Feminism Associate Professor @UMD I wonder if I'll ever get to talk about my reality shows here 😔
@ihatecensorship.bsky.social
Writer. Penn State. Disabled. Brain injured. Cancer Survivor. Severe genetic osteoporosis- 15 fractures! I have dystonia so bad that it tears muscles and breaks bones. I keep having injuries and surgeries Don’t ask for $ I’m compassionate but poor. No DMs
@kristenthomasen.bsky.social
Law things, robots, space, privacy || feministing || #HamOnt kid in Windsor || she/her || skeets my own, unless they’re awful in which case ChatGPT wrote them (Profile pic from community art-making project in #YQG graffiti alley)
@propcazhpm.bsky.social
⛔️ Pls don't follow with no bio/profile🖼 or with 0️⃣ posts. Seriously. Beware 📌. Posts are impermanent. Posting and reading on various and sundry topics including tech, art, music, books, food, and language learning.
@effinbirds.com
Daily comic by Aaron Reynolds that keeps on winning awards despite being nothing more than birds and curse words. Books, calendars and merch at effinbirds.com
@dreanyc123.bsky.social
Black. Lesbian. Immigrant. Cofounder @interruptcrim.bsky.social Author #InvisibleNoMoreBook & #PracticingNewWorlds Co-author #NoMorePolice & Queer (In)Justice bit.ly/NoMorePolice bit.ly/PracticingNewWorlds InvisibleNoMoreBook.com andreajritchie.com
@rmartincole.bsky.social
Curator, Northwestern University Transportation Library. All scanned images are from NUTL’s collections, unless otherwise indicated. Banner photo is from a promotional packet for the L-1011.
@mrillinois.bsky.social
Expert in Illinois counties. Acting State Symbologist (self-appointed). Libraries, Lincoln, nature, architecture, transit. Book my library programs & get my newsletter at johnkokoris.com!
@aurabogado.bsky.social
Investigative reporter. Freddie Freeman fan. On Signal: https://tinyurl.com/mwjwj4zs
@ginerso.bsky.social
Terror that flaps in the night. Feminist killjoy, recreational Baba Yaga, “hostile woman,” caffeine dependent kitchen hag, #UglyDog cis she/her
@bibliogrrl.bsky.social
HOPE YOU LIKE RABBITS 🐇 a sentient pile of anhedonia and glitter. called alpha by a teenager. The spelling errors will continue until morale improves. Trans rights are human rights, duh
@adamchicago.bsky.social
historian, author, and tour guide. I talk about Bob Dylan, Chicago stuff, old time true crime, and cemetery stories. There's a canon Star Wars character named after me. He/him mysteriouschicago.com , patreon.com/adamchicago
@camrodriguez.bsky.social
meddling kid / journalist. map nerd, midwest defender, chicago fanatic. 🇲🇽 local investigations @nytimes.com tips? [email protected]. love letters? [email protected]
@leebey1.bsky.social
Architecture critic for Chicago Sun-Times and ABC7 Chicago. Author/photographer of Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side. I dig vintage TV/movies and 20th century funk, soul and jazz.
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social
Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears. Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame. “I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
@modernistwitch.bsky.social
yells in the band daddy’s boy // part of flaming hydra // member: tja, iww fju, opeiu l1010 // union YES // another world is possible if we can get it together
@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
librarian, archivist, historian, author, Ignyte award-winning & Hugo-nominated writer and critic, rat obsessive, hella queer words in reactormag.com, locusmag.com, npr, reader's digest, and elsewhere bookjockeyalex.com
@kdc.bsky.social
Born to be Synclaire, forced to be Maxine. Accessibility and disability justice by day, Zine stuff at @wildramppublishing.bsky.social by night. Random fangirling throughout. https://linktr.ee/KeidraC Profile ID: Black woman with red twists
@histoftech.bsky.social
Historian of technology and dad joke aficionado who lives with a tiny, spotlight-stealing rabbit. www.marhicks.com for writing & syllabi
@thetyrone.bsky.social
Your Friendly Neighborhood Social Worker. Leftist. Abolitionist. Occasional contributor at @southsidesox.bsky.social. Proud CTU Delegate. Not Proud White Sox fan. He/Him
@tudoraf.bsky.social
Considering becoming a Tartarian but just for half-timbered buildings.
@artcraftdesign.bsky.social
Experimental maker, tea drinker, cat lover, mutual aid organizer, gallerist of @TheBeautifulCat.bsky.social, art materials and processes developer, disabled, Eurasian Toisanese AisCisD.com https://www.TheBCat.Gallery patreon.com/LiberatoryLoveNotes
@nbedera.bsky.social
Sociologist studying how our social structures make sexual violence more likely to occur. Author of ON THE WRONG SIDE. Co-founder of Beyond Compliance Consulting. PhD UMich.
@hjcommons.bsky.social
HJC is a movement-building project with a deep commitment to Disability justice and an abolitionist approach to the Medical Industrial Complex.
@jmckeever.bsky.social
Baseball! Sports generally, art, music, local government (VA/Chicago, specifically), sober, civil practice attorney, pop culture, Cubs fan, politico, foodie. “Keen sense of outrage” Not legal advice. Typo queen
@elienyc.bsky.social
Justice Correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law. Class: PLD. Alignment: Neutral Good Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort
@profchander.bsky.social
@marisakabas.bsky.social
journalist / founder @ thehandbasket.co email: [email protected] signal: https://signal.me/#eu/VssgH88q6WQu7MtH5wF-08JdgWh4iAPWD13eXiOcXQNGdZUXijJBZInD-UtLJKFG venmo: venmo.com/u/Marisa-Kabas ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/marisakabas
@dianaparker.bsky.social
(She/They) ED of Midwest Access Coalition Co-founder of Apiary for Practical Support Founding Treasurer of Elevated Access Former board member of Chicago Community Bond Fund Opinions belong to me, DEI, and pettiness
@food-not-bombs-rp.bsky.social
We are an autonomous, collective engaged in distro’n rescued food and harm reduction. SUNDAY: 6900 Glenwood Ave Chicago, IL. WEDNESDAY: Touhy Park. Get involved, send us an Email: RogersParkFNB@gmail Contribute: opencollective.com/rogers-park-fnb
@wawog.bsky.social
Building a cultural front for a free Palestine. https://www.writersagainstthewarongaza.com
@booklearning.bsky.social
Sometimes historian, evaluator, writer, researcher. Always about disability justice and lying down. Exhortations for slowness, process, practice.🥄 laurenpiko.com
@anarchobara.bsky.social
He/him, anarchist, in favor of good things and against bad things
@lynzotheheartthrob.bsky.social
Nightlife Icon. Stream HIPS. Look at my tits 💕 They/Them✨ DAZED Mag write-up. Chicago Reader write-ups. Lifestyle + Beauty Influencer. DJ. Sex Worker Rights Advocate☂️. CHI-LA-LONDON. EP coming 2025✨
@bankuei.bsky.social
Oppression unpunished becomes the norm. AI doesn't work, all it successfully does is give oppressors access to surveillance data while destroying our fragile ecosystem. He/Him. bankuei.wordpress.com
@mosababutoha.bsky.social
Palestinian poet from Gaza. Author of Forest of Noise & Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear.
@starshapedpress.bsky.social
Celebrating 25 years of metal & wood type letterpress work. Love to share the process, forms and printing adventures. Jen & Jo. Starshaped.com
@equitableforall.com
Equity Practitioner, Educator, Artist, Writing Coach, etc., Committed to Anti-Oppressive Practice Past Therapist, Child Development Counsellor, University Instructor, & Accessibility Advisor, who offers equity services here: www.EquitableForAll.com
@north0fnorth.tgirl.gay
idle vaporings of a mind diseased🏳️⚧️ she/it // Chicago, IL
@prisonculture.bsky.social
co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, etc...
@oldsquida.bsky.social
elder immigrant from soviet bloc. your world requires a radical response, at every level. we are is less important than what we want and we want everything, for everyone. @[email protected]
@vimiller.bsky.social
reporter @chicago.suntimes.com union member @cstguild.bsky.social drummer, giant lizard enthusiast prev: Daily Herald, Loyola Phoenix she/her 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
@melanatedmagus.bsky.social
36. Chicago. Sociology Master’s Student interested in how Nerd Culture and also Queer Culture works, but also their intersection. Also other stuff. Not angry enough to be a socialist, too 🫳🏾 to be a liberal. Gender is a scam.