Art by @seemore.bsky.social up at Caydence Records for Solidarity Street Gallery. Me, SEE, and @katparent.bsky.social will be playing music here, 6:30-9pm. Just outside on the porch, beautiful night.

Hi! @guante.info and I are in northeast and are interested in connecting. Also, if there are folks interested in working through this worksheet together, we'd be happy to facilitate/discuss with NE neighbors! organizingmythoughts.org/mapping-comm...

...and then on Sunday, it's the Freedom to Read Book Fair at @queermunitymn.bsky.social, where I'll have my mobile zine library set up. Promo code "FREETOREAD" for half-off admission:

More info: www.simpletix.com/e/school-boa...

one thing about me is that I really like Gritty.

I like the way he moves, his electric hips, his roving gaze.

The rumors are true: Boneshaker is headed to a new location! We need your help to dig up our bones and move on over to 26th and Lyndale. We're hoping to raise $15,000 total, $6k of that by 10/17. Learn more at bit.ly/boneshakermove and thank you for helping Boneshaker thrive!

A thread in my new asynchronous online class is trying to move beyond easy answers and maximalist positions. Both "art IS the revolution!" and "art is pointless!" sand the edges off a much more interesting conversation about the function(s) of art in a movement context: guante.info/meetingthemoment

Watch the videos of our people celebrating and fuel up on joy for the next phase of the fight for a Free Palestine. We will never stop until our people have the dignity of full lives on our land: self determination, freedom of movement, the right to return. In our lifetime.

I'll be sharing some poems and songs supporting @seemore.bsky.social and SkySpiders & The Imperceptible Web this Saturday in St. Paul. We're on 10/11/25, 6:30-9pm.

It's part of the Solidarity Street Gallery weekend of art and music:

"In times of crisis and fascism in politics at the national level, it becomes more and more important to engage with politics at the local level... local government is, at the very least, one piece of the puzzle when it comes to defending our communities and showing up for one another."

nobody likes fallon but this is incredible and I want to share this tiny drop of joy with others (hat-tip to @utranmyhre.bsky.social):

“Every story is an opportunity to revive Rama’s dream of writing & keep her alive between the lines.”

During the genocide, writing has become an ultimate form of resistance, allowing Eman Ghassan Abu Zayed to tell the stories of Gaza, ensuring their histories live on forever.

23-year-old journalist Plestia Alaqad, like many Gazans, lost her home in the first days after October 7. unable to reenter her homeland, stuck watching the horror continue, she’s publishing her diaries from reporting on the ground.

full interview @teenvogue.com www.teenvogue.com/story/plesti...

“We are writing from the event horizon of another world. And thus, the times are filled, terrifyingly, with possibility.”

- George Abraham and Noor Hindi, from the intro to “Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry” (@haymarketbooks.org)

Got to have a great conversation with Shannon TL Kearns about his new book: “No One Taught Me How to Be a Man: What a Trans Man’s Experience Reveals about Masculinity."

We also talked about masculinity discourse, and then of course masculinity discourse discourse, and more:

A private challenge over the years has been trying to convince people that "poetry workshops" can also be useful for people who don't think of themselves as poets.

This kind of work is about approaching the issues we care about with creativity and intentionality. Here's my new asynchronous class:

The regime's desire for authoritarianism is bottomless, but their capacity is not. Not even close.

They rely on bluster and memes to make up the difference. The threat is real, but less powerful than they say.

Freedom-loving Americans outnumber them by a lot. Communities can resist. Like this one:

Y’all @buttonpoetry.bsky.social added 10 more signed preorders of my book since the first 25 sold out!!! 🥹🥹🥹

buttonpoetry.com/product/good...

I have a full day today, but I woke up early to put this edition of my newsletter together because I need you all to have this rundown of what we've been up against this week in Chicago as the federal assault on our city continues. To ignore these developments would be a damning mistake for us all.

important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.

State police assisted ICE in the performative brutalization and arrest of protesters today. @govpritzker.illinois.gov must answer for this.

Plestia Alaqad’s new book features her diary entries reporting on the ground in Gaza for 45 days after October 7. after a hospital is bombed on day 10, she uses the word genocide.

2 years later—as the UN has finally called it one—she says, “turns out, that's only the beginning.” @teenvogue.com

...on a lyric-nerd level, this song is written without any end-rhyme until the very end: Build tension for 23 bars, and then release it on the 24th with that last rhyme. A fun creative writing challenge, but also mirrors movement work: it is possible to lose and lose and lose and then win.

"it's a marathon, not a sprint / it's 92 degrees in October, in Minnesota / they cancelled that marathon yesterday..."

Sharing partly because it is again too hot out, and partly because it's Bandcamp Friday, the best day to support underground music: guanteandbigcats.bandcamp.com/album/all-dr...

Very excited to announce this endorsement from Take Action MN! I have so much respect and appreciation for Take Action, this really means a lot to me.