Christopher Wilde
@chrisqzap.bsky.social
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Co-Founder of The Queer Zine Archive Project; Sexuality Educator at Tool Shed Toys; Grinnell College alumni. Historian, archivist, zine maker. he/they 🤘🏼🌈🤘🏼
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quimbysbookstore.bsky.social
Quimby’s is doing a banned books week fundraiser with Midwest Books to Prisoners!

Come in buy and donate a book to a prisoner and the Hull Family Foundation will match the funds in a donation to Midwest Books to Prisoners so they can continue their mission!

Quimby’s is open 6-12 everyday!
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allisonanne.com
check out the fantastic array of workshops being offered this month during the Midwest Queer + Trans Zine Fest and Conference!

you can register for my collage zine workshop at wipmpls.com/workshops — free + in-person in the MCBA Bindery! materials are provided! space limited to 10 participants!
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mzqtf
midwest queer trans zine fest + conference 

free public workshops held during the zine fest at Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1011 Washington Ave S #100, Minneapolis, MN 55415

Saturday Oct 18 at 12 noon
Mapping the Interior: Abstract One-Sheet Collage
Zines with allison anne
Register at www.wipmpls.com/workshops

Saturday Oct 18 at 2pm
Communal Collage: Creating a Collective
Chapbook with Peter Guy Witzig
Register at www.wipmpls.com/workshops

Saturday Oct 18 at 4pm
Cut and Pace: Comix with Val Thomas
No advance registration required, just show up! 15 seats.

Sunday Oct 19 at 1pm
Let's Make Some Zines! With Xiomar Luna
No advance registration required, just show up! 15 seats

Sunday Oct 19 at 3pm
intuitive journaling with folasade
No advance registration required, just show up! 15 seats
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inthesetimes.com
Today would’ve been Fannie Lou Hamer’s birthday. In 1964, she asked a question that still echoes:

“Is this America… where our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings?”

inthesetimes.com/article/i-qu...
Fannie Lou Hamer addressing the Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey, August 1964. (United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division)
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ginamurrell1.bsky.social
FRI, OCT 10 @ 11 AM ET: "The Digital Yard: An Exploration of the HBCU Digital Library Trust," a virtual open house on "preserving, digitizing, and sharing the rich cultural and academic legacy held by historically Black colleges and universities." RSVP: tinyurl.com/hbcutrust #HigherEd #BlackHistory
Promo graphic for free, virtual event "The Digital Yard: An Exploration of the HBCU Digital Library Trust," featuring archival images of Black life, from cheerleaders to class photos to an elder Black man and woman standing together in formal dress. October 10, 2024, 11:00AM ET / 10:AM CT. www.thehbcutrust.org.
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
Libraries worldwide have been impacted by Trump's tariffs. Books that are on loan from US libraries to international libraries are getting tariffed on their way back in, getting books from international libraries has turned into an expensive nightmare, etc:

www.404media.co/libraries-ca...
Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs
Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’
www.404media.co
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bergisjules.bsky.social
Applications open soon for the second Web Archiving School co-hort. Our fellowship aims to create a new generation of web archiving practitioners dedicated to documenting the Black experience. Sign up today to receive reminders and updates on the application: bit.ly/warc-2026-si...
A digital poster with information and a link (bit.ly/warc-2026-signup) about signing up to receive reminders and updates for release of the 2026 web archiving school application.
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mychal3ts.bsky.social
There have been two hosts in the history of Reading Rainbow. The Legend of Literacy, LeVar Burton! And... me, Mychal Threets, a librarian 🥹🤯

I am a reader, a librarian because LeVar Burton and Reading Rainbow made us believe and see we belong in books, we belong everywhere ✨

youtu.be/e7es7qdWVnU
Smiling Mychal with hands raised wears an outer space shirt in a library. It is a still from an episode of Reading Rainbow. LeVar Burton smiles with hands behind his head as he lies down on a colorful pile of books. ENEMY PIE book rests on his chest.
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propublica.org
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chrisqzap.bsky.social
My copy of this album was routinely borrowed by my pop punk housemates to be played on the living room stereo. It’s that good!
chrisqzap.bsky.social
My copy arrived today with a generous amount of buttons too!! 🥰
littlepuss.net
We mean this in the least threatening way possible...but SOME OF YOU BITCHES HAVE A MAILBOX TO CHECK NEXT WEEK
Finished copy of Gendertrash From Hell Our publisher smoking a cigarette in front of a wall of book boxes
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mychal3ts.bsky.social
🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow
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ginamurrell1.bsky.social
SATURDAY, SEPT 27: Lower East Side volunteer-run arts organization ABC No Rio is having its inaugural #zine fair in Bushwick, #Brooklyn, at Mayday Space, 176 St. Nicholas Ave. FREE! With "stacked schedule," 12 noon to 10PM. Masks required first 2 hours. www.abcnorio.org/events/abc-n... #zines #NYC
Screenshot of an Instagram post by ABC No Rio about its ABC No Rio Zine Fair, Sept 27th: "Here's what's going on! Workshops. Discussions. Tattoos. Screen printing. Food Not Bombs. Puppets."
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wastedinkdistro.bsky.social
Dear trans folks: please publish your personal stories in zines.

Let us help you do it
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equitableforall.com
Today is publication day for BELL HOOKS'S RADICAL PEDAGOGY: NEW VISIONS OF FEMINISM, JUSTICE, LOVE, & RESISTANCE IN THE CLASSROOM! Following in hooks' path, Jo Davis-McElligatt, Maia Butler, & Megan Feifer intend for it to be a guide for instructors at all levels: www.bloomsbury.com/us/bell-hook...
bell hooks’s Radical Pedagogy
Throughout hooks' powerful life she envisioned, described, and enacted a radical, engaged pedagogy and praxis rooted in love, rather than power, while simultane…
www.bloomsbury.com
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milesperhoward.bsky.social
A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.

This is Kirk's legacy.

You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
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mostlyskate.bsky.social
Frida helping edit this week’s Mostly Skateboarding Podcast, an interview with Natalie Porter about her book, Girl Gangs, Zines, and Powerslides: A History of Badass Women Skateboarders.
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miloblue.bsky.social
NEVER FORGET!!!
On this day in 1973 the Arch Cafe in Springfield, MA was firebombed and destroyed.
Cover of Gay Community News from September 22, 1973 with an article about the bombing of the Arch Cafe in Springfield, Massachusetts on September 11th. Early Tuesday morning (Sept. 11) at 5AM, one of Springfield’s gay “hangouts”, the Arch Cafe was completely demolished by a bomb explosion. Owner Louis Lake had received an unusual number of obscene phone calls, as many as “12 to 15 daily prior to today’s mishap. Lake said, “You’ve got to expect a certain number of calls, mostly from straight people who object (to homosexuality.)

Lake estimated damages at between eighty and ninety thousand dollars, and said that his insurance would “in no way” cover losses.

State police bomb squads are said to be investigating the source of the explosion and witnesses reported the smell of flammable fuel permeating the rubble in one section of the bar. Firemen suspected bombing after they combed through the debris and found the gas main and meter servicing the building intact. A fire inspector, when asked if the blast was the work of an explosives ex-pert, said “if it wasn’t, it sure as hell was a good amateur”.

Several residents of the neighboring Charles Hotel, mostly elderly people, were knocked from their beds by the blast. Authorities said that some of the occupants were shaken but there were no injuries. The bar was unoccupied at the time.

GCN contacted Rep. James Boller (D., Springfield) at the State House. He remarked upon viewing the wreckage Wednesday morning, that the former Arch Cafe was “completely demolished”, and that both adjacent buildings had also experienced damage. When questioned on the perpetrator of this act and his possible exper-tise, he remarked that a pro
“could not have done such a good job’. He labeled it a “fool-ish’ act done by some “wierd” person whose motivation “could have been anything, an argument or something”

Boller added that they “knew what they were doing” , implying that the bomber was taking deliberate action against the gay com-munity.
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