HEY Bsky! We snoozed and failed to let you all in on the happenings over here as we gear up for our August book fair! 🐈‍⬛📚 First, this year's art by the famed @mossspiglet.bsky.social featuring flora native to our area up here in the midcoast. ☘️

📣📋 VENDOR APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN! 🐈‍⬛📚 This year has 2 days of tabling, Aug 22 and 23rd. Deadline is May 31. We prioritize publishers & artists emphasizing liberationary, autonomous, community-based politics. Application and further info at tinyurl.com/BCBFVendors We're excited to hear from you! 🤓🏴

📣 🗓️ AUGUST 22-23, 2026 is the 2nd annual Black Cat Book Fair, the biggest little rural radical book fair, held on Penobscot Land / Belfast, ME. 🐈‍⬛📚🏴 We've expanded to 2 days of tabling, with talks on Sat & gathering time on Sun (TBA!) Celebrating print media & the radical imagination. 🐈‍⬛

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TODAY!!! ART SALE for Community Relief Fund for immigration-impacted families! 🎨 2-6p @ The Commons in Belfast. Art from $2-$500 & delicious treats donated by @belfastcoop.bsky.social, Marsh River Co-Op, Downshift Coffee & Pulling Corks! 🍷☕🧑 Mainers know how to drive away the ICE and snow. ☃️❤️‍🔥🧊

Last call!!! Want to send us art or make food for our fundraiser for ICE-related mutual aid? Get in touch!

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W the help of many hands, we’re throwing together this rush fundraiser! 🙌🎨 ARTISTS interested in donating art, fill out this form by Feb 9 & bring or mail art to us by Feb 12: forms.gle/py4VgHYNdDFe... PURVEYORS OF FOOD OR DRINK interested in participating, email us at blackcatbookfair @ proton.me

BLACK CAT BOOK FAIR ART FUNDRAISER 🐈‍⬛🎨 Feb 14 2-6p The Commons 15 Main St Belfast Nothing's more romantic than mutual aid! 🩷 Bring yr sweeties to raise $ for Community Relief Fund to support ppl impacted by ICE. Music, food & drink. Come schmooze, buy art & drive the midwinter ICE & cold away. ❤️‍🔥🧊❤️‍🔥

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.

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...

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.

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! 🐈‍⬛

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.

Come find us at the @blackcatbookfair.bsky.social !

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!

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...

📣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! 🤩🥳

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.

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. ✨📣🌲

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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"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...

📣 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 🐈‍⬛📚

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Maine's First Radical Book Fair Is Coming to Belfast

Across the world in cities big and small, groups of likeminded organizers join forces to throw radical book fairs. But to our knowledge, the new Black Cat Book Fair, taking

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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. 🐈‍⬛

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.

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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!