Rad Mini Library

 A rad book has been added to the Rad Mini Library! Check out Damsel by Elana K. Arnold.

 The Rad Mini Library is restocked! Find zines, period products, masks, hand warmers, and Clif bars.

 Check out the free bin next to the Rad Mini Library, especially if you have a young person in your life. You'll find: sweatshirts, hoodies, pants sizes 6/7 or youth small; snow boots size 2; new games Study Birdy, Drop Shot; vintage Pic-up Stix.

 The Rad Mini Library has hand warmers! Pick some up for yourself or for neighbors or for outdoor workers.

 The Rad Mini Library has seeds! Take a packet or several and save them for sowing time!

A rad zine has been added to the Rad Mini Library! "A Self-defense Study Guide for Trans Women*" by TransFighters, Oakland. *And gender non-conforming / nonbinary AMAB folks. Also sharing this from the Black Visions Collective  https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/ : The 2023 'Trans Refuge' law has made Minneapolis a beacon for individuals looking for gender-affirming care, but how will we keep our trans siblings safe?! If you know a transgender person who is looking for a safe space to get resources and support, please recommend these groups. Tea Time Support Network Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project (BLMP) Sequeerity LLC Tigerrs: Trans Intersex Gender-Expansive Revolutionary Resources & Services  From Silver Sprocket: Published in coloration with  Transfighters / Traction Project ,   A Self-Defense Study Guide for Trans Women and Gender Non-Conforming / Nonbinary AMAB Folks  offers strategies based in lived experience, ranging from using body language and creating ...

 A rad zine has been recently added to the Rad Mini Library! It is a great little guide. Author Emily Nagoski said about the zine, "Essential information...written with kindness and inclusivity, no judgement, no medical jargon, just facts and respect."  https://www.silversprocket.net/2024/09/17/abortion-pill-zine-read-for-free/ From Silver Sprocket: In honor of the release of  Abortion Pill Zine: A Community Guide to Misoprostol and Mifepristone , Isabella Rotman, Sage Coffey & Marnie Galloway and Silver Sprocket are publishing their amazing reproductive justice comic online! This zine was made to run at an affordable cost, provide readers with accessible information about one option for medical abortion, and to provide that knowledge in an easy-to-understand guide as the abortion landscape worsens in the US. In that spirit, we want to make this zine accessible to everyone! So from now on, you can visit the Silver Sprocket website to read  Abortion Pill Zine...

 Just added to the Rad mini Library is a zine about the rad book "Undoing Border Imperialism" by Harsha Walia. It also includes a list of local groups who help people & families in our communities.

Blocks from the Rad Mini Library is the studio of the brilliant, legendary, amazing Ricardo Levins Morales. Find calendars, books, prints, and more at the studio and online: https://www.rlmartstudio.com/

Here is a rad book recommendation and inspiration - From Justseeds in Chicago: Introducing the SLOW COOKER, a collaborative cookbook by Justseeds Artists' Cooperative and friends. Twenty-one recipes featuring decadent baked goods, recipes to keep loved ones’ memories alive, foraged ingredients, and more to fuel the revolution! No crock pot, or "slow cooker" needed. https://justseeds.org/product/slow-cooker/ The editors Molly Fair, Sanya Hyland, andrea narno and Saiyare Refaei say: "This cookbook was ignited by a desire to build stronger movements, slowly and with intention. We realized how much food and cooking were embedded with ideas of reclaiming our time and rest, building community, defending and healing our bodies, fueling our work in activist spaces, a reclamation of culture and identity, pushing back against Empire, food insecurity and racism, and centering our elders' knowledge. Let's nourish each other!"   

Sharing a rad book and rad event! We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition, edited by Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson. From Haymarket Books: "As we await a second Trump presidency, it's easy to feel frozen -- as if any action we take can't possibly be enough, and may be futile. Now is a moment to bring in the stories of folks who are taking action to build a liberatory world every day, sometimes in ways that go completely unrecognized: caregivers. In this heavy time, it's important to recognize the centrality of care to movement work. In their new anthology, We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition, Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson have drawn together the insights of a wide range of authors and organizers, including Dorothy Roberts, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Mariame Kaba, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, Beth Richie, Harsha Walia, Dylan Rodriguez, Victoria Law, adrienne maree brown and Autumn Brown, and many more. Together, these essays illuminate the w...

 A rad new zine has been added to the Rad Mini Library! "How to Give a Good Apology: The Four Parts of Accountability" by Mia Mingus was originally published in 2020. This is needed, because we need each other!

Sharing a rad book! History was made this week when Sarah McBride became the first openly transgender person member of U.S. Congress. From https://www.meegpincus.com/door-by-door A nonfiction picture book about Delaware State Senator Sarah McBride, who dreamed of making a difference as a kid and grew up to become the highest-ranking openly transgender political official in America. As a kid, Sarah McBride dreamed of running for office so she could help people in her community. When her friends asked for bicycles for Christmas, Sarah asked for a podium. Her friends and family encouraged her to follow this path, but there was one problem: they saw Sarah as a boy, and Sarah knew she was a girl. Every night, she’d replay the day in her head, watching how it would have played out if she was able to live as the girl she knew herself to be. In college, she finally came out as Sarah, and in 2020 she won her election to become a Delaware State Senator, making her the highest-ranking trans p...

 The Rad Mini Library has a new zine and is restocked with popular zines. The Set Boundaries Workbook by Nedra Glover Tawwab may be helpful. Also find My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem, In It Together by Interrupting Criminalization, and Planning for a Disaster by Kelly Hayes.

 We live a block from our neighborhood's polling site, so I made signs for our porch windows. No matter what happens, we survive together. "We believe in caring for each other as a form of cultural rebellion." - Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba "We all do better when we all do better." - Senator Paul Wellstone "Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after." - Grace Lee Boggs "We sustain ourselves by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone." - bell hooks

 Two new zines have been added to the Rad Mini Library! We could all use Body and Breath Practices from the book My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem, especially during this anxious time. Excerpts from In It Together provide a helpful understanding of how we need to be in it together.

 Added to the Rad Mini Library is a new zine with excerpts from the rad book "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder. More copies of the zines "Planning for a Disaster" and "Relinquishing the Patriarchy" have also been added.

 A rad book was recently added to the Rad Mini Library - check it out! Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse by Shane Burley

The Rad Mini Library is restocked and a new zine has been added! The zine is excerpts from "Relinquishing from the Patriarchy" - a chapter from adrienne maree brown's newest book Loving Corrections. The masks have been restocked, and there are some special items like a cute cow stuffie and handy memo notebooks.

Two rad books have been added to the Rad Mini Library. Check them out! Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption by Walidah Imarisha. How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

It's Free Fresh Food Friday at the Rad Mini Library - the last of the season! Thank you to everyone who has enjoyed the produce! In the cooler: lemongrass, rainbow carrots, green beans, snap peas, red radishes, and red onions from the Hmong American Farmers Association. The scallop squash is from my garden.

Today is Free Fresh Food Friday! In the cooler: potatoes, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, and kale from the Hmong American Farmers Association; patty pan squash and green beans from my garden. Next week will be the last Free Fresh Food Friday for the season. Thanks to everyone who has taken food, left notes, stopped to say hi, and talked about the project with their neighbors.

 A new zine has been added to the Rad Mini Library! "Planning for a Disaster" is an episode from a Truthout podcast "Movement Memos" by Kelly Hayes. She led a mind mapping exercise for personal safety and helping in broader ways.

It's Free Fresh Food Friday at the Rad Mini Library! In the cooler: from the Hmong American Farmers Association - lemongrass, carrots, Japanese eggplant, cherry tomatoes, ground cherries, kale; from my garden - hot peppers, patty pan squash, green beans. Enjoy!

The Rad Mini Library is trying a new offering - zines! This summer, the library has been stocked with zines on taking care during COVID, and over the past year there have been various zines on caring for unhoused neighbors. Now zines on rad books are being added. These are excerpts from books that can be checked out from the library or purchased locally, and are books that were shared through the Rad Mini Library.

It's Free Fresh Food Friday! In the cooler today: so many green beans from my garden, and edamame, mustard greens, bell peppers, and cucumbers from the Hmong American Farmers Association. It was fun to meet a neighbor this morning at the cooler! They learned about the project from Longfellow Whatever. I love the connections!

This rad book was recently added to the Rad Mini Library - "Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story about Racial Injustice" is a children's book by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins and Ann Hazzard; illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin. Interestingly, our local Children's Theater Company produced a play based on the book, while a Minnesotan petitioned to ban the book. It was the 6th most banned and challenged book in 2018.  We like banned books at the Rad Mini Library 😉

 https://www.longfellowwhatever.com/farm-to-sidewalk-35th-aves-little-free-produce-library Longfellow Whatever 🥬 Farm to sidewalk: 35th Ave's little free produce library Becky Franklin's family can only eat so much asparagus and bok choy. So, every Friday morning after picking up her CSA produce haul, she plucks out what she thinks they'll use and leaves the rest in a cooler outside her house on the 3400 block of 35th Avenue, augmented by the harvests of her own garden. By the time she brings it in for the evening, it's usually almost all spoken for.

It's Free Fresh Food Friday at the Rad Mini Library! In the cooler: apples, plums, cucumbers, carrots, peppers, and from my garden are green beans.  Enjoy!

This is a Rad Book Feature! "This Land" is a wonderful picture book written by Ashley Fairbanks and illustrated by Bridget George. Check out the interview with Ashley https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2024/09/05/anishinaabe-author-ashley-fairbanks-new-book-this-land A signed copy of this rad book is in the Rad Mini Library today!

This kind note was left in the Rad Mini Library! ❤️❤️❤️

The Rad Mini Library is stocked! Find large KN95s, small KN95s, period products, personal wipes, snacks, and of course, rad books.

It's Free Fresh Food Friday at the Rad Mini Library! All of the food in the cooler is from the Hmong American Farmers Association. Today you will find: green beans, dragon tongue beans, bok choy, broccoli, leeks, lemongrass, onion, and jalapeño peppers.  Enjoy!

What's new in the Rad Mini Library? A few school supplies, a cool science kit from the Bell Museum, a copy of Emergent Strategy, and a graphic adaptation of Anne Frank's Diary (it's also a banned book :-) )

It's warm out, like excessive-heat-warning type warm. If you're outside or delivery driving, grab a bottle of free cool water at the Rad Mini Library!

A rad book was recently added to the Rad Mini Library, and this is one I really like. Set Fear on Fire by LASTESIS is part poetry, part manifesto, part call to action by a brilliant artist group in Chile.  Want to know how feminists in North America should fight? Look at what they're doing South & Central America.

It's Free Fresh Food Friday at the Rad Mini Library. In the cooler today is: cabbage, carrots, hot peppers, bell pepper all from the Hmong American Farmers Association, green beans from our garden, squash from a neighbor.  Enjoy!

A rad book has been recently added to the Rad Mini Library -- Kids on the March by Michael G Long is great for any person who wants some inspiration!  And the library is restocked with small and large masks, personal wipes, period products, snacks and water, and rad books and zines.

This rad book was recently added to the Rad Mini Library. "Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)" by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is insightful and describes with real examples how we can resist elite capture, by way of constructive politics.

It's Free Fresh Food Friday at the Rad Mini Library! In the cooler: Hmong American Farmers Association veggies - kale, mustard greens, sweet corn, smaller soft corn for stews, chili peppers, broccoli. Green beans from our garden. We're located two blocks west from Longfellow Park in South Mpls. Enjoy!

It's Free Fresh Food Friday at the Rad Mini Library! In the cooler:  Carrots, torpedo onions, hot banana peppers, white Chinese peppers, and little cucumbers all from the Hmong American Farmers Association, as well as several bags of green beans from my garden. We also have more rad books from neighbors!  Enjoy!

It's Free Fresh Food Friday at the Rad Mini Library! In the cooler: Kale, green onions, a beautiful Hmong cucumber, Chinese long beans - all from the Hmong American Farmers Association - and green beans from our garden. And water, because it's going to be hot today! We're located two blocks west from Longfellow Park in South Mpls. Enjoy!

It's Water Wednesday at The Rad Mini Library! In the cooler is water and Gatorade. Stay cool, neighbors! We're located two blocks west from Longfellow Park in South Mpls.