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Skunk Cabbage Books
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An indie bookstore and community workshop space in Chicago focused on building our connections to the natural world.

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Skunk Cabbage Books @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social · Jul 10
idk that this ever got shared here, but the last few years we've made some little zines in honor of a certain day named for a number indivisible by other numbers. tbh I did not have the bandwidth to update it this year, but these two remain relevant. Check out our website for citations.
"What Amazon is doing to us. a digital zine from Skunk Cabbage Books." We all know by now that Amazon is bad for small businesses, especially indie bookstores like us. Amazon's model, on the surface, looks like this - Amazon sells books at the lowest possible prices because they're willing to sell them at a loss to get their consumers into higher margin products like Kindles, Alexa devices, Ring cameras, and Prime accounts. We know Amazon doesn't really need to sell books. We want to dig deeper into why they bother and how Amazon hurts not just small businesses, but our entire communities. On the surface, Amazon's model looks like selling cheap books at a loss to lure people into higher margin tech, like Kindle, Alexa, Audible, Prime, and Ring. But the higher margin items still aren't the product - you are. The consumer Amazon cares about isn't us, it's the companies that will buy all the data Amazon is collecting about you. Our privacy is the most profitable product. Amazon relies on our government's disinterest in protecting our privacy and surveillance devices like Ring cameras and Alexa devices to farm your data. The data is the part that's really profitable, especially when Amazon sells it to agencies like law enforcement. On the smaller scale, Amazon has sold data from people's Ring cameras to local police without any notification or permission from the camera owners. On the large scale, Amazon's tech and data models power models that allow governments to enact mass surveillance and policing. Tech contracts make up a huge portion of ICE's budget and Amazon is using their tech and your data to help ICE surveil, track, and deport our neighbors. ICE's surveillance system pays Amazon approximately $600,000 a month to power their tech.
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defector.com
Unearthing the hidden history of a singular trans punk zine: defector.com/unearthing-t...
By 2013, I had accepted that I was not hot and did need to hang out with other trans people, but I didn’t feel good about it. Except, when I read Gendertrash, I did. I felt like, fuck yeah transsexuals! I felt like maybe transsexuals are hot. I also remember thinking, what if I had read this in 2000 or 2001? My life would have been totally different. And even now in 2025, looking at this zine again, knowing it thoroughly after all the work I put into reprinting it as a book, I still feel this way. I feel my life being changed, yet again. Maybe you will feel this too.
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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leguinbot.bsky.social
You are like a lantern swathed and covered, hidden away in a dark place. Yet the light shines; they could not put out the light. They could not hide you.
November 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social
Prepping for our final events and subscription boxes of 2025 and the line up is so good. 📚

@thenewpress.bsky.social
@amandagoldblatt.bsky.social
@princetonupress.bsky.social
Tall stacks of books with their spines facing the camera. Included titles are The Employees by Olga Ravn, The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Tsing, Hardmouth by Amanda Goldblatt, Crocosmia by Miranda Mellis, and Dealing with the Dead by Alain Mabanckou.
November 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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curtainlecture.bsky.social
Thank you and hell yes to local independent bookstores for supporting our communities and neighbors! From Squeezebox Books, @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social, & @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social
An image of several resources, including information on calling the Family Support Hotline (855-435-7693), on knowing our rights, on whistle protocol, a pink sticker with figures on it that says Always Carry a Book, and two whistles.
November 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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DELUXE PACK PRE-ORDER | Persona by Aoife Josie Clements (Paperback) — LittlePuss Press
A trans woman discovers pornography of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil. “The year’s great work of literary horror.” —Gretchen Felker-Mar...
www.littlepuss.net
October 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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mulchy.bsky.social
new: at least 26 unhoused chicagoans have been abducted since the start of "operation midway blitz."

the full scope of people disappeared is likely much larger but is obscured by heavy criminalization, social stigma, and fewer eyes and phones around to bear witness.

via @katieprout.bsky.social
Many unhoused Chicagoans uncounted among the disappeared - Chicago Reader
The Latino Union of Chicago, via its Adopt a Corner initiative, organizes patrols to watch for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agents at intersections and landmarks wh...
chicagoreader.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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tuck.bsky.social
Happy pub day to my beautiful daughter!!!!!! she is so smart and funny and weird and thoughtful and I am so excited for you to meet her!!!!
Tuck holding up a copy of sex change and the city, which features an illustration of Carrie Bradshaw with an irreversible damage hole
November 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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catfitzpatrick.net
I wrote an essay on @defector.com about my archival misadventures putting together the book that is Gendertrash From Hell. Many thanks to @laurentheisen.bsky.social it was really nice to *get* edited for once. Lauren u rule!
Unearthing The Hidden History Of A Singular Trans Punk Zine | Defector
I wasn't ready for how much it loved trans people.
defector.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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ezrez.bsky.social
Zohran says you’re trans now
November 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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normative.bsky.social
Apparently all you needed to do to predict the NYC election results was read that one N.K. Jemisin novel.
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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kgd26.bsky.social
shout out chicago.
a large road sign with the text fuck ICE located on a corner of an intersection in chicago
November 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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littlepuss.net
SAY IT WITH US:

GENDER!

TRASH!

FROM!

HELL!

you already know if you will like this book
littlepuss.net LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 7d
Today is the LAUNCH DAY for
‼️GENDERTRASH FROM HELL ‼️
The zine that redefined transsexual culture forever

THAT'S RIGHT: GENDERTRASH IS NOW LEGALLY AVAILABLE WITHOUT AGE RESTRICTIONS

Get it from our website, or from all good bookstores. You can even ask your library to order it!

💥📕💏🫦💥
Gendertrash From Hell - ALL-NEW — LittlePuss Press
Long-lost and all-new zines revealing the secret history of contemporary transgender culture
www.littlepuss.net
November 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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royalpratt.bsky.social
Hospitals have pulled back on gender-affirming care for kids under Trump, leaving families with shrinking options. A really interesting read from Lisa Schencker @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/h...
Hospitals have pulled back on gender-affirming care for kids under Trump, leaving families with shrinking options
The shrinking options are leading to lapses in care and delays in time-sensitive treatments. “It’s basically an abandonment of these kids,” one mother said.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social
i know what i'm doing for dinner tomorrow
lyndab08.bsky.social Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 12d
If you’re in Logan Square go support local vendors tomorrow.
Support local vendors October 30th We will be selling local vendors tamales, elotes, empanadas, drinks and more From 6-9pm Outside 2866 n Milwaukee
October 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social
Airplane Mode, our subscription club for books in translation, is back in November. 🌍
More information on how to join available at skunkcabbagebooks.com.
Two books displayed on a wooden table top against a dark green wall with a pride flag hanging on it. On the left is Alain Mabanckou's Dealing with the Dead. On the right is Olga Ravn's The Employees.
October 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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kellygarcia.bsky.social
In Illinois, juvenile detention centers are exempt from FOIA meaning the public can't access employee disciplinary records, confinement data, and policy manuals.

As my editor @jonahshai.bsky.social once put it, it's much harder to get information about the youth jail than it is about the adult jail
October 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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katamaridumassy.bsky.social
Gary Larson dropping Cow Tools in 1982
Marty McFly in Back to the Future tells a crowd “I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet but your kids are gonna love it.”
October 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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leastactionhero.bsky.social
Dominos meme White Sox fan forced to accept Cubs jersey Assyrian bishops refuse to condemn Nestorius's 431 challenge to the use of the title Theotokos ('Bearer of God'") for Mary.
October 28, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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annakornbluh.bsky.social
Chicago! Weds! UIC English+the Inter Chicago Circle for Experimental Critical Theory welcome genius novelist Kashana Cauley+genius organizer Prof Jason Wozniak of @debtcollective.bsky.social to a special convo

WHAT'S FUNNY ABOUT STUDENT DEBT?!
@kashana.blacksky.app
interccect.com/2025/09/26/w...
What’s Funny About Student Debt?
For only the second time in our fourteen years, InterCcECT hosts an event centered on the novel’s unique faculty for theorizing capitalism. The Payback is a comic critique of contemporary lif…
interccect.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social
I'm reading this this week and all the lil fungus freaks are gonna LOVE IT.
sonyabonczek.bsky.social Sonya Bonczek @sonyabonczek.bsky.social · Jul 10
One of the best and most original things I have read in a long time.
🍄‍🟫 🐜 💀 🍃 🍄
Advance Readers Copy of: Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival by Maria Pinto, publishing October 28, 2025, from UNC Press.
October 26, 2025 at 9:28 PM
skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social
Things your bookseller will judge you for requesting:
- The Fountainhead

Things your bookseller will never judge you for requesting:
- Horny romance
October 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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tamaranopper.bsky.social
As June Jordan said, “We are not powerless. We are indispensable despite all atrocities of state and corporate policy to the contrary... At a minimum we have the power to stop cooperating with our enemies. We have the power to stop the courtesies and to let the feelings be real.”
October 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social
We're excited to welcome Miranda Mellis in conversation with Amanda Goldblatt to discuss her new novel, Crocosmia, a speculative fable that begins at the end of climate catastrophe and charts a future after The Great Turning when people begin to rebuild a new, more alive world together.
A vintage map of Lake Michigan off of Chicago. Over top are two white text boxes, which read, "November 15th, 6:30 pm. Crocosmia with Miranda Mellis and Amanda Goldblatt." In the bottom left corner is an inset photo of the book's cover. In the top right are headshots of both Miranda and Amanda.
October 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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littlepuss.net
⭐New Starred Review ⭐ from @publisherswkly.bsky.social for @ravineangel.bsky.social's upcoming Persona!

Full review here (spoiler warning): www.publishersweekly.com/9781964322063

Standard preorder: www.littlepuss.net/shop/p/perso...

DELUXE preorder: www.littlepuss.net/shop/p/perso...
October 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM