Rad Mini Library

  The Rad Mini Library is restocked! Oatmeal cups, herbal tea, trail mix, hand warmers, toothpaste and toothbrushes, kids and adult KN95s, rad and banned books! Let's take care of each other!

The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha From AK Press https://www.akpress.org/the-future-is-disabled.html In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled—and what if that's not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom are crucial to creating a future in which it's possible to survive fascism, climate change, and pandemics and to bring about liberation? Building on the work of their game-changing book Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Piepzna-Samarasinha writes about disability justice at the end of the world, documenting the many ways disabled people kept and are keeping each other—and the rest of the world—alive during Trump, fascism, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Other subjects include crip interdependence, care and mutual aid in real life, disabled community building, and disab...

The Rad Mini Library is again stocked with oatmeal cups, snacks, hand warmers, kid face masks, tooth brushes & tooth paste. Newly added are herbal teas! There are a few rad books, too. To make room, I removed some recently added books - let's say that they don't fit with the themes of justice & liberation. Banned books are totally welcome, but books like the autobiography of my pillow creep will go into the trash. :-) Let's take care of us the best we can. It's cold, so many people have COVID, everyone else is sick with not - COVID, and really, no one is ok.

It feels like -25 degrees in Minneapolis, where more and more people are experiencing houselessness (and the situation is worsening across the U.S). Indigenous Action offers a printable guide on how to support unsheltered community members in extreme cold. https://itsgoingdown.org/autonomous-winter-support-mobilization-street-patrol-basic-guide/ "According to the National Coalition for the Homeless, approximately seven hundred people experiencing or at risk of homelessness are killed from hypothermia annually in the so-called United States. Absolutely no one should be left to sleep outside during cold weather yet a range of factors may force people to sleep in the cold; from discriminatory shelters kicking people out, being kicked out of a house during a storm, being forced to flee an abuser, simply being unprepared, etc. Raids sweeps and anti-homeless laws, such as anti-camping ordinances push people to camp in hidden and dispersed areas which puts them more at risk." Print...