First substack of 2026: a real mashup for the times. Free if you are curious. Maybe see you in the Bay Area next week… faythelevine.substack.com/p/the-gap-is...

I like how the blizzard is seemingly prompting folks to check in. Or maybe it’s a Sunday / blizzard combo. I’ve had 4 unexpected lovely check in’s today that feel really good. Sharing to remind folks to check in on your people, for all extreme climate related purposes.

It’s all there!

Feel you, I made 2 soups Friday.

Picture of black cat Café in Seattle Washington a short black building with a striped fence. The sign reads. Black cat Café vegetarian collective. Text over photograph reads: new book project seeking contributions black cat Café, Seattle Washington 1990s were you there?

Picture of black cat Café in Seattle Washington a short black building with a striped fence. The sign reads Open Black cat Café vegetarian collective. The text over the photograph reads. memories wanted: stories is flyers, photos, volunteers collective members and organizers

Yellow background with black grid with a graphic of the black cat café logo vegetarian collective kitchen Seattle. Text reads please share and lists website www.faythelevine.com/BLACKCATCAFE

BLACK CAT CAFE // SEEKING SUBMISSIONS: announcing my new book project focusing on the history of the Black Cat Cafe (Seattle WA). This is where I learned about cooking as resistance, organizing, and mutual aid. Full details on my website please pass on www.faythelevine.com/blackcatcafe

The Protégé: A Shining Symbol of Gifted Youth Part 5 of 5: Time Is Running Out

“The Protégé: A Shining Symbol of Gifted Youth” is about my side obsession, Milwaukee artist Helen Hoppin (1899 -1923). It completes It’s the final of 5 essays the series that break down the booklet published on the occasion of my exhibition, Time is Running Out.

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The Metal Object: Devotion in a Two-inch Box Part 4 of 5: Time Is Running Out

New Substack: This is the forth part of a series of five chronological posts breaking down the booklet published on the occasion of my exhibition, Time is Running Out. The Metal Object is the shortest of the four essay’s, yet it still holds the most mystery.

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I spent 10 minutes trying to locate a specialty paper store that was reposted by an artist I follow. I deducted they were in Massachusetts, but couldn’t find any other information. There IG account had no website, no state, no hours.

Let us support you people…

The Sketchbook: Art as a Necessity Part 3 of 5: Time Is Running Out

Part 3, the second essay from my exhibition booklet, Time Is Running Out. The Sketchbook: Art as a Necessity
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The Fox Point Studio: A Space of Possibility Part 2 of 5: Time Is Running Out

Read part 2, the first essay from my recent exhibition booklet.

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Part 1 of 5: Introduction Time Is Running Out

As the year wraps up and my many years of working with one research topic potentially draws closer to an end, I’ve decided to reprint, in a series of 5 chronological posts, the booklet published on the occasion of my exhibition, Time is Running Out.

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My favorite type of productive procrastination

It’s gonna be a Wisconsin November.

My most recent substack casually connects Bar Dykes, a 1980S play by Merril Mushroom published in 2016 recently performed in rural TN to late night deep dives into the digitized 1960s Village Voice Bulletin Board section and the psychicdelic counterculture of the LES. tinyurl.com/3rbm5k8j

Hey - something tangible you can do is ask your postal clerks if they know when their next audit is (might be called a function four) and then GO TO THE POST OFFICE ON THOSE DAYS so they have better numbers!! That's how we keep postal jobs.

Fight Like Hell! The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) is the national labor union of city delivery letter carriers employed by the United States Postal Service.

If I can piggyback, the letter carriers union is having nationwide protests this Sunday www.nalc.org/news/fight-l...

A black postcard design with white text reading: TRUMP wants to KILL the US POSTAL SERVICE / Say NO to USPS PRIVATIZATION

The back of a postcard with text reading: The US Postal Service: Is not motivated by profit. Is mandated to provide service to every zip code including affordable service for rural areas. Is used for mail-in ballots. Is in the Constitution. (Read: ArtI.S8.C7.1 for historical background on postal power. Promotes Diversity and Inclusion: Employees are 21% African-American; 8% Hispanic; 8% Asian-American/Pacific Islander; .67% American Indian or Alaska Native. You can: Use USPS for shipping. Buy stamps and use them. Order from businesses that ship with USPS. Stop ordering from Amazon. Call your Representatives. Find your reps by using www.5calls.org. Tell postal workers you love them. Tell postal workers you have their backs.

The USPS is being threatened with massive layoffs and privatization. I made these postcards which—when mailed—will be seen by mail handlers, scanners, carriers and the recipient. I just printed 3,000 more. Order cheaply from halfletterpress.com or message me your email for the PDF to print them.

Finally made it to the New York Public Library picture room! I had an hour & looked at 2 folders: 1. Junk 2. Kisoks. I can’t wait to go back

Love to see a mask always 🙌🏻 #cathairforever

Sunday is for soup making + bonus veg shepherds pie). Due to my Mon-Fri day job I try to food prep on Sundays when I can. Chicken for me. Lentil for Erin.

Rogers Book Barn is my Saturday happy place 📚

Standing by 🤗

Just wrapping my brain around the NEA update today 🥀 art funding but make it nationalist

As Ever, Miriam A Conversation with Faythe Levine on Archives, Letters, Love and Her New Book

I did a very long-winded interview with Laura McLaws Helms about my interest in Charlotte & Miriam — and research for my new book “As Ever, Miriam” open.substack.com/pub/laurakit...

More and more Alice, but less and less Wonderland.

How I spent my Sunday: writing about the children’s books of Harlin Quist faythelevine.substack.com/p/more-and-m...

Seedy memories of the gloriously seedy Prospect Mall Discussed: that seedy movie theater, that seedy video store (with porn), that seedy record/book store (with porn), more (with porn).

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Hahahah. But the movie posters would be other level great since every sign painter would want to paint it.

Spent the morning going down a Prospect Mall memory wormhole thanks to this post on IG via mushroombooks (you on here?)

I couldn’t escape the sign painters if I tried at this point 😅 the next issue is going to have some great gems in it (been privy to a few articles).

Slogging through trying to figure out when I try to utilize them off IG why I have to resign in 🫠