Black Cat Book Fair
@blackcatbookfair.bsky.social
Maine's 1st radical book fair 🐈⬛ 📚 🏴
📍 Belfast, Maine/Wabanakik
🛰️ https://blackcatbookfair.noblogs.org/
💌 blackcatbookfair@riseup.net
Stay tuned for 2026!
📍 Belfast, Maine/Wabanakik
🛰️ https://blackcatbookfair.noblogs.org/
💌 blackcatbookfair@riseup.net
Stay tuned for 2026!
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Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.
It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.
Thank you for your consideration.
It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.
Thank you for your consideration.
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October 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.
It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.
Thank you for your consideration.
It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.
Thank you for your consideration.
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NLG lawyer Moira Meltzer-Cohen speaks about legal implications of the Trump administrations declarations on "antifa", plus a little chat about mutual aid in Gaza
thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/09...
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September 28, 2025 at 1:04 PM
NLG lawyer Moira Meltzer-Cohen speaks about legal implications of the Trump administrations declarations on "antifa", plus a little chat about mutual aid in Gaza
thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/09...
thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/09...
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Anarchist organizing actually has a history in Maine. The successful 1904 anarchist IWW strike at Marston's Mills in Skowhegan was national news and a model for later IWW textile strikes in MA. The 1912 rallying cry in Lawrence, "Bread & Roses", still seems like a good goal in life to me.
March 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Anarchist organizing actually has a history in Maine. The successful 1904 anarchist IWW strike at Marston's Mills in Skowhegan was national news and a model for later IWW textile strikes in MA. The 1912 rallying cry in Lawrence, "Bread & Roses", still seems like a good goal in life to me.
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We're at Maine's first radical book fair and I've had to step out to just cry a little. It's so nice to be here with the folks doing the work and making art and being in community and we've made so many glorious connections. It's so invigorating.
August 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We're at Maine's first radical book fair and I've had to step out to just cry a little. It's so nice to be here with the folks doing the work and making art and being in community and we've made so many glorious connections. It's so invigorating.
All of us book fair organizers are a very happy tired from the fair this weekend.
Thank you to everyone who made the space, volunteers, vendors, speakers, attendees, chefs! The enthusiasm and goodwill was absolutely palpable and we were blown away by the response. ❤️🔥
Until next year! 🐈⬛
Thank you to everyone who made the space, volunteers, vendors, speakers, attendees, chefs! The enthusiasm and goodwill was absolutely palpable and we were blown away by the response. ❤️🔥
Until next year! 🐈⬛
August 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
All of us book fair organizers are a very happy tired from the fair this weekend.
Thank you to everyone who made the space, volunteers, vendors, speakers, attendees, chefs! The enthusiasm and goodwill was absolutely palpable and we were blown away by the response. ❤️🔥
Until next year! 🐈⬛
Thank you to everyone who made the space, volunteers, vendors, speakers, attendees, chefs! The enthusiasm and goodwill was absolutely palpable and we were blown away by the response. ❤️🔥
Until next year! 🐈⬛
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Incredibly cool experience to meet @margaret.bsky.social and hear her speak in person! Big thanks to @blackcatbookfair.bsky.social for organizing a wonderful event today.
August 24, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Incredibly cool experience to meet @margaret.bsky.social and hear her speak in person! Big thanks to @blackcatbookfair.bsky.social for organizing a wonderful event today.
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Come find us at the @blackcatbookfair.bsky.social !
August 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Come find us at the @blackcatbookfair.bsky.social !
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Setting up today for the super awesome @blackcatbookfair.bsky.social in #BelfastMaine. What a blast…a great group of exhibitors and best convos with the attendees!
August 24, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Setting up today for the super awesome @blackcatbookfair.bsky.social in #BelfastMaine. What a blast…a great group of exhibitors and best convos with the attendees!
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So pleased to participate in the @blackcatbookfair.bsky.social in Belfast, Maine yesterday. Appreciate all the engaged participats in my workshop on workers' inquiry and enjoyed local venders and publishers in attendance. Here is to the next one!
August 25, 2025 at 1:26 AM
So pleased to participate in the @blackcatbookfair.bsky.social in Belfast, Maine yesterday. Appreciate all the engaged participats in my workshop on workers' inquiry and enjoyed local venders and publishers in attendance. Here is to the next one!
The day after is the MOONBAT SKILLSHARE in Swanville, ME, just outside Belfast. 🛠️🦇
Sunday August 24, 8am-6pm
PRE-REGISTRATION is required.
Sliding scale entry fee.
Catering from Finocchi included and on-site childcare available.
Find more or sign up 👉
cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
Sunday August 24, 8am-6pm
PRE-REGISTRATION is required.
Sliding scale entry fee.
Catering from Finocchi included and on-site childcare available.
Find more or sign up 👉
cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
August 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The day after is the MOONBAT SKILLSHARE in Swanville, ME, just outside Belfast. 🛠️🦇
Sunday August 24, 8am-6pm
PRE-REGISTRATION is required.
Sliding scale entry fee.
Catering from Finocchi included and on-site childcare available.
Find more or sign up 👉
cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
Sunday August 24, 8am-6pm
PRE-REGISTRATION is required.
Sliding scale entry fee.
Catering from Finocchi included and on-site childcare available.
Find more or sign up 👉
cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
📣TOMORROW is it! 📣
The first Black Cat Book Fair! 🐈⬛📚 Books, art, print media!! Talks, workshops, author readings!!
Aug 23, 11am to 6pm.
📍First Church Belfast (8 Court Street)
Everything you could need to know at blackcatbookfair.noblogs.org
Masks required indoors. 😷
Tell your friends! 🤩🥳
The first Black Cat Book Fair! 🐈⬛📚 Books, art, print media!! Talks, workshops, author readings!!
Aug 23, 11am to 6pm.
📍First Church Belfast (8 Court Street)
Everything you could need to know at blackcatbookfair.noblogs.org
Masks required indoors. 😷
Tell your friends! 🤩🥳
August 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
📣TOMORROW is it! 📣
The first Black Cat Book Fair! 🐈⬛📚 Books, art, print media!! Talks, workshops, author readings!!
Aug 23, 11am to 6pm.
📍First Church Belfast (8 Court Street)
Everything you could need to know at blackcatbookfair.noblogs.org
Masks required indoors. 😷
Tell your friends! 🤩🥳
The first Black Cat Book Fair! 🐈⬛📚 Books, art, print media!! Talks, workshops, author readings!!
Aug 23, 11am to 6pm.
📍First Church Belfast (8 Court Street)
Everything you could need to know at blackcatbookfair.noblogs.org
Masks required indoors. 😷
Tell your friends! 🤩🥳
UPDATE: MASKS WILL NOW BE REQUIRED AT THE BOOK FAIR. 🐈⬛😷
New data shows a COVID spike. Because we're striving to make this event as accessible as possible as well as safer for ourselves & the wider community, we've changed our mask policy from masks strongly recommended to masks required.
New data shows a COVID spike. Because we're striving to make this event as accessible as possible as well as safer for ourselves & the wider community, we've changed our mask policy from masks strongly recommended to masks required.
August 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
UPDATE: MASKS WILL NOW BE REQUIRED AT THE BOOK FAIR. 🐈⬛😷
New data shows a COVID spike. Because we're striving to make this event as accessible as possible as well as safer for ourselves & the wider community, we've changed our mask policy from masks strongly recommended to masks required.
New data shows a COVID spike. Because we're striving to make this event as accessible as possible as well as safer for ourselves & the wider community, we've changed our mask policy from masks strongly recommended to masks required.
We'll also have Samara Cole Doyon reading in our Children's Space her book NEXT LEVEL: A HYMN IN GRATITUDE FOR NEURODIVERSITY. Bring your little ones by this Saturday, Aug 23 at 11:15. 💫
August 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
We'll also have Samara Cole Doyon reading in our Children's Space her book NEXT LEVEL: A HYMN IN GRATITUDE FOR NEURODIVERSITY. Bring your little ones by this Saturday, Aug 23 at 11:15. 💫
We are SUPER GOSH DARN LUCKY (and pinching ourselves!) that these two fierce writers and inspiring movement thinkers, @margaret.bsky.social and Madeline ffitch, will be joining us THIS SATURDAY Aug 23, 4:30-6:00pm, to talk about the anarchist potential of fiction. ✨📣🌲
August 20, 2025 at 2:56 AM
We are SUPER GOSH DARN LUCKY (and pinching ourselves!) that these two fierce writers and inspiring movement thinkers, @margaret.bsky.social and Madeline ffitch, will be joining us THIS SATURDAY Aug 23, 4:30-6:00pm, to talk about the anarchist potential of fiction. ✨📣🌲
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Madeline ffitch on direct action and survival work in the face of fascism.
A Way of Living: On Direct Action and Survival Work in the Face of American Fascism
The morning after Trump was elected for the first time, Quaker elders, radical Black youth, anarchists, parents and toddlers circled around my woodstove to continue planning our solidarity action a…
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January 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Madeline ffitch on direct action and survival work in the face of fascism.
"We handful of organizers include writers, poets, farmers, booksellers, two kinds of mill workers (woolen and saw), artists, arborists, editors, boatbuilders, activists, musicians and one arts administrator — all avid readers — living in Waldo County." Read us in the @midcoastvillager.bsky.social 🐈⬛📚
August 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"We handful of organizers include writers, poets, farmers, booksellers, two kinds of mill workers (woolen and saw), artists, arborists, editors, boatbuilders, activists, musicians and one arts administrator — all avid readers — living in Waldo County." Read us in the @midcoastvillager.bsky.social 🐈⬛📚
On Sunday, August 24, you can join our sister event, the Moonbat Skillshare, in Swanville, ME. 🦇🛠️
To register and for event location 👉 cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
To register and for event location 👉 cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
August 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
On Sunday, August 24, you can join our sister event, the Moonbat Skillshare, in Swanville, ME. 🦇🛠️
To register and for event location 👉 cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
To register and for event location 👉 cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
📣 Our 2025 schedule is live!! We'll have talks featuring @hannahmatthews.bsky.social, @margaret.bsky.social, @americanwork47.bsky.social, @bytheseed.bsky.social, @aobrien2024.bsky.social, and more!!
More program details at: blackcatbookfair.noblogs.org/schedule/
Aug 23, 11a-6p 🐈⬛📚
More program details at: blackcatbookfair.noblogs.org/schedule/
Aug 23, 11a-6p 🐈⬛📚
August 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
📣 Our 2025 schedule is live!! We'll have talks featuring @hannahmatthews.bsky.social, @margaret.bsky.social, @americanwork47.bsky.social, @bytheseed.bsky.social, @aobrien2024.bsky.social, and more!!
More program details at: blackcatbookfair.noblogs.org/schedule/
Aug 23, 11a-6p 🐈⬛📚
More program details at: blackcatbookfair.noblogs.org/schedule/
Aug 23, 11a-6p 🐈⬛📚
Shirts are here! We can't get over how good the colors look!
If you pre-ordered, we'll be in touch!
If you didn't, there will be a limited number available at the Black Cat Book Fair on Saturday, Aug 23. 🐈⬛
If you pre-ordered, we'll be in touch!
If you didn't, there will be a limited number available at the Black Cat Book Fair on Saturday, Aug 23. 🐈⬛
August 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Shirts are here! We can't get over how good the colors look!
If you pre-ordered, we'll be in touch!
If you didn't, there will be a limited number available at the Black Cat Book Fair on Saturday, Aug 23. 🐈⬛
If you pre-ordered, we'll be in touch!
If you didn't, there will be a limited number available at the Black Cat Book Fair on Saturday, Aug 23. 🐈⬛
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Increasing property values have some people worrying that they won’t be able to keep their homes if their taxes jump. www.bangordailynews.com/2025/08/13/m...
Property values are spiking in once-industrial towns on Maine’s coast
Places once known for smelling bad have become attractive to tourists and new residents.
www.bangordailynews.com
August 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Increasing property values have some people worrying that they won’t be able to keep their homes if their taxes jump. www.bangordailynews.com/2025/08/13/m...
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Excited to participate in the first @blackcatbookfair.bsky.social in Belfast, Maine, on August 23-24, 2025 with a workshop on Workers' Inquiry. Good peops with @akpress.org, @commonnotions.bsky.social, @pmpress.bsky.social and others will be attending too!
August 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Excited to participate in the first @blackcatbookfair.bsky.social in Belfast, Maine, on August 23-24, 2025 with a workshop on Workers' Inquiry. Good peops with @akpress.org, @commonnotions.bsky.social, @pmpress.bsky.social and others will be attending too!
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We're heading north! 📚
📣 ANNOUNCING the very fab folks you can find at the biggest little rural radical book fair in Maine! 🐈⬛📚
@akpress.org @commonnotions.bsky.social @sipunculist.bsky.social @hellohellobooks.bsky.social @llabc24.bsky.social
@akpress.org @commonnotions.bsky.social @sipunculist.bsky.social @hellohellobooks.bsky.social @llabc24.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
We're heading north! 📚
Local blueberries, local bookstore, local Black Cat Book Fair. 🐈⬛📚🫐
Patches $5 at @boxcarbooks.bsky.social in Thorndike and Selkie's Pearl in Belfast. (And maybe if you ask real nice, we might even send you one by mail! 📬)
📣 📆 August 23 (11a-6p) is only a few weeks away!
Patches $5 at @boxcarbooks.bsky.social in Thorndike and Selkie's Pearl in Belfast. (And maybe if you ask real nice, we might even send you one by mail! 📬)
📣 📆 August 23 (11a-6p) is only a few weeks away!
August 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Local blueberries, local bookstore, local Black Cat Book Fair. 🐈⬛📚🫐
Patches $5 at @boxcarbooks.bsky.social in Thorndike and Selkie's Pearl in Belfast. (And maybe if you ask real nice, we might even send you one by mail! 📬)
📣 📆 August 23 (11a-6p) is only a few weeks away!
Patches $5 at @boxcarbooks.bsky.social in Thorndike and Selkie's Pearl in Belfast. (And maybe if you ask real nice, we might even send you one by mail! 📬)
📣 📆 August 23 (11a-6p) is only a few weeks away!