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making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 8d

connect with that powerhouse neighbor who seems to know everyone, the other mamas who chat with everyone on the playground

they know who needs help right now

collect food, distro food, people will share where they need to

we are but one option

bit.ly/distributefoodchicago

support mutual aid in chicago

we are fielding requests from families who are staying home during ICE raids in chicago, new moms, families and elderly folks are asking for shelf-stable food and hygiene supplies

bit.ly/distributefoodchicago

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making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 1h

good morning lake michigan

a picture of an orange, pink and pale blue sky with the navy pier ferris wheel in view overlooking lake michigan in chicago

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 18h

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making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 10h

this will be translated into other languages soon ❤️ thank you to the lovely people doing the language labor 🏵️

making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 3d

a pocket phone book zine — one way to record phone numbers you need in your pocket

12 spots to record phone numbers for different types of people you might need like people who will provide safe harbor, people who have technical expertise and people who will pour into you

we need each other 🏵️

a full page design of a 10 pointed star design based on a Muslim design combined with a henna design and gold ink

a 12 square sheet of paper that reads

Pocket Phone Book
Shelter
a person to stay short term
a person to stay medium term
a person to stay long term

Food
a person who can feed you
a person to have fun with
a person who pours into you

Technical
a person with tools
a person for medical // dental care
a lawyer

Care
someone to travel with
someone you're responsible for
someone to help care for children // elders

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making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 11h

it's so funny when people think they're so quick on the wit and then have to dirty delete

making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 11h

he's not like that with men

making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 14h

chicago shows off

some awesome tags (zwon oriented horizontally) on unused infrastructure in chicago

making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 18h

it's been there for awhile, i saw it this morning while sorting seeds at the garden too

i had gotten a message about ICE in west ridge so then thought better of going over to check in at my favorite spot and instead just went to safety :(

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making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 19h

any press that is not honest about this position is centering their own urgency, another tentacle of white supremacy

meanwhile, survival depends on growing seasons, harvesting seasons, resting seasons, making sure our roots are healthy

curly kale, grown in a community garden in chicago

when we think about who is meant to consume a story or a food, it makes it clear what labor and whose labor goes into the creation of it

garlic snapes, lavendar and other green plants grown in a community garden in chicago

often, the part we need to consume is hidden under layers and is based on the labor of Black and brown women who are in whisper networks because public narratives is terrain where our power is not found - after all, public narrative is a white patriarchal construct

making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 19h

it's silly to think that press would be first to know or experience anything, at best it is a palimpsest of others' experiences

those with lived experience are sent through a wood chipper for an audience, used to prove the value of press

but we can keep our own archives, we can save our own seeds

greens, grown in a community garden in chicago

recently a white press person named Jennifer Bamberg, tried to convince a group of us that unraveled press, peoples fabric and shawn mulcahy were the leftist's press - that they are keeping our stories

women have not needed to rely on public narrative for eons in order to keep our archives, our whisper networks are far more valuable to us

to rely on press to keep ourselves is to release control to spaces mediated by whiteness

swiss chard, grown in a community garden in chicago

years ago, lauren fitzpatrick at the suntimes approached me to work on a story related to how CPS Legal and CPS Office of Inspector General were interacting

the Office of Inspector General had an ongoing investigation into CPS Legal Chief Counsel and when I shared information with the SunTimes' Lauren Fitzpatrick, a curious thing occurred afterward

there was retaliation from CPS Legal onto my 6 year old daughter in school and this is when I learned that some of the source material that could only be attributed to me had been shared by the reporter back to CPS Legal

there was no cover, no consideration for our safety and when I approached the reporter about this, she redefined the story she was working on

I learned later that CPS Legal was high on the source list for many reporters in Chicago who report on education, for some CPS Legal is the number one source

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making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 19h

one critique i have about press is their fixation on being first — first to the scene, first to get the scoop, first to print, claiming to be first to know things

urgency is a white supremacy construct bringing exploitation and violence along in the process, making erasure for Black and brown women

a picture of a brussels sprouts stalk with marigolds in the background, grown in a community garden in chicago

a useful question in anything is who is the audience - who is meant to consume this

a picture of a squash, grown in a community garden in chicago

i don't respect press that continually works for the scoop, that yells FIRST - so much of the spectacle of press and sometimes the grievance of indie press is that they go unrecognized for being their first, they are reaching to be called Cassandras

but for whom is that for, who is actually the one with the foresight

i have noticed in chicago that indie press like unraveled, people's fabric and the chicago reader are calling attention to use of force by the State which is not a new condition for many of us and they want credit for being first - who is that for? who is meant to consume that?

certainly not a Black or brown woman

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making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 19h

survival is a slow and steadily paced use of energy and resources

it doesn't matter who gets there first, who finishes first, who knew it first — it matters that we all finish

a group of deep orange petaled marigolds in a bunch growing in a community garden in chicago

we stay safe in numbers, together

a picture of a jalapeño, a red bell pepper, a handful of red tomatoes, a deadheaded sunflower, deadheaded marigolds and a piece of cardboard with marigold seeds, nasturtium seeds, sunflower seeds and broccoli seed pods laying on an iron table in a community garden in chicago

we can do our own labor, tell our own stories and share our resources with each other without responding to the dreadscape that press makes things, never celebrating our resiliency and usually trying to extract for their own benefit

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making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 22h

it finally feels like fall in chicago

the Howard Street El bridge in Rogers Park, Chicago

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making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 15d

i am mad at the environment in chicago that enables white women to call brown women dangerous and i think chicago should be smarter, sharper and stop protecting men who are abusive

it's not too much to ask and i'm not going to demand less

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making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 15d

chicago's local version of the electronic frontier foundation is lucy parsons labs

and this whole thread applies to them

i learned that talking about my experiences with them and critiquing men in power will bring in press like current darling unraveled press to call me dangerous

ridiculous

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15d

4/ Borsook divided the tech ”libertarians” into two main types: the Ravers and the Gilders.

The Ravers are the ones who go to Burning Man and project countercultural ideas. The Gilders are the Peter Thiel types, more overtly focused on money and power.

But they are birds of a feather.

From Cyberselfish: Emblem of the ravers is former Grateful Dead lyricist and Electronic Frontier Foundation* cofounder John Perry Barlow. Barlow
wrote the notorious "Declaration of Independence of Cyber-
space," which, in language longing to evoke Henry David Thoreau
in "Civil Disobedience" and the Jefferson Airplane's late '60s revo-
lutionary call-to-arms, "Volunteers of America," cries out that you
are old and sick and tired and tyrannical and we are beautiful and
free and loving and of the future. Posted Net-wide, his "Declara-
tion" is perhaps the best-known expression of this kind of techno-
libertarianism. It's no coincidence that the last fad that Timothy
Leary embraced before his death was the Net and that he was
taken on as a kind of Jove figure by Barlow and other cyberhippie
Utopians.

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making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 1d

her: it said, if you get in by 8am, early bird savings motherfucker

me: what

her: it was just on the jiffy lube scrolling text thing

me: show me

{{we sit and watch}}

her: see! if you get in by 8am, early bird savings M-F

making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 1d

I am open to this conversation when we both have more brain space ❤️❤️

making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 1d

i am similarly tired of seeing the "immigrants make america great" line

people shouldn't need to have a qualifier in order to exist in space and time

what if i don't make the cut on great, does that mean it's ok to disappear me

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making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 1d

also he traffics in fatphobia, it's an overall trash segment

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making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 1d

i am noticing that many people lack the range to discuss immigrant communities and our needs or even humanize us

so i am seeing a lot of, please help and i hope that guy doesn't get picked up, his tamales are great

we are more than the services we provide you

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making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 1d

hahahahaha i found out someone who yells about policing and surveillance online has a ring camera hahahaha hahahaha hahahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha hahahaha hahaha hahaha hahahahahaha hahahahaha hahahahahaha hahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahaha hahahahahaha hahahahahaha

making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 1d

Only do this if you’re dead

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making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 1d

this is an interesting line to draw about skilled organizers, i'm not sure i agree

it can really depend on what the outcome is meant to be and who is meant to feel it

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making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 1d

if we hurry we can make McDonald's breakfast, so we're out

thanks for following along this edition of the Chicago Park District Does Fascism Actually

making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 1d

there is a woman talking about how the Board of Commissioners gives lip service even after a Park District employee shot and killed a kid in the Park

an SEIU park employee is here to make demands about healthcare, Parks relies on exploited hourly workers to operate

that's a wrap on public comment

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making art @marigoldmimsy.bsky.social · 1d

there are other requests in public comment related to fixing the lighting at sporting facilities across the city, programming at South Shore, support for drumming circles, and to drop Riot Fest because it imposes on infrastructure in the neighborhood