Rad Mini Library

 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.