Red Emma’s
@redemmas.org
Worker-owned radical bookstore and cafe in Baltimore, the greatest city in America
It’s alway neat to see new faces & voices, in addition to ones now another year older. And former campers now instructors! @writersinbmore.bsky.social ‘s summer camp Studio showcase never disappoints. The camaraderie is as impressive as the stories they tell.
Horrible news: the brilliant historian and anticarceral organizer Johanna Fernandez has passed. Her talk on her incredible book on the Young Lords is one of the all time best things we’ve had the honor to host: youtu.be/5820rfHv7Zo?...
Johanna Fernández presents "The Young Lords: A Radical History"
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Some days running a radical space is just unnecessarily hard. Help us keep it going by becoming a monthly sustainer: donorbox.org/red-emmas-2026
Just saw @communitybooksga.bsky.social is being forced to close because a neoconfederate airbnb developer bought their building and is kicking them out: www.patreon.com/CommunityBoo... (This is definitely why we bought our buildings on Greenmount, even though it was and still is really hard!)
Fuck Landlords - Store closing - we need your support! | Community Books of Stone Mountain
Dear Readers, This is a difficult email to write. Last week, the building that houses Community Books was bought by Elisabeth Richmond, a lo
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If the temu red scare has got you down we have a new sticker for you
Major thanks to BCP Digital, an amazing Baltimore printer with deep roots in the Black liberation struggle, for putting up with us as we figure out the tempo of publishing!
Red Emma’s@redemmas.org · last wk.We just picked up the second printing (!) of Ben Egerman’s “a gay little history of maryland” from the printers. Wholesale & retail orders will be shipping this week, and it’s back in stock at the store. Wildly we’re already preemptively doing a third printing as well. redemmas.org/titles/51654...
On the second night of our Baltimore Book Festival preview weekend, we are bringing @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social to the Parkway Theatre to talk about "End Times Fascism." Get your (free!) tickets now and preorder a copy: withfriends.co/event/287590...
9/13 - Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor present "End Times Fascism" by Red Emma's
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The Baltimore Book Festival returns to Waverly on 9/19 & 20 — but we decided to be extra this year and add a preview weekend with some very special author events. First, on 9/12: CLAUDIA RANKINE in conversation with Dr. Kaye! Free, but rsvp now to reserve a spot. withfriends.co/event/287592...
9/12 - Claudia Rankine presents "Triage" in conversation with Kaye Wise Whitehead by Red Emma's
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Fab stuff, great the book's going into a 3rd printing. I picked up the zines in this collection at one of Ben's excellent queer history talks at Club Car. The zine about drag ballroom culture in 1930s Baltimore/DC is particularly wonderful but they're all fascinating glimpses into MD queer history.
Red Emma’s@redemmas.org · last wk.We just picked up the second printing (!) of Ben Egerman’s “a gay little history of maryland” from the printers. Wholesale & retail orders will be shipping this week, and it’s back in stock at the store. Wildly we’re already preemptively doing a third printing as well. redemmas.org/titles/51654...
We just picked up the second printing (!) of Ben Egerman’s “a gay little history of maryland” from the printers. Wholesale & retail orders will be shipping this week, and it’s back in stock at the store. Wildly we’re already preemptively doing a third printing as well. redemmas.org/titles/51654...
A Gay Little History of Maryland: Volume 1
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Happening tonight @redemmas.org in Baltimore! Join us!!
Graphic Medicine International Collective (#GraphMed2026)@graphicmedicine.bsky.social · 2w agoJoin us after the #GraphMed2026 closing session at @redemmas.org for New Books in Graphic Medicine: Comics and Healthcare! RSVP: withfriends.co/event/286165...
We're gearing up for a great last day of conference! Find the full schedule here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yZp9... And don't forget to join us at @redemmas.org tonight at 7 pm! #GraphMed2026
GM Conference Program - Current.pdf
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Graphic Medicine International Collective (#GraphMed2026)@graphicmedicine.bsky.social · 2w agoJoin us after the #GraphMed2026 closing session at @redemmas.org for New Books in Graphic Medicine: Comics and Healthcare! RSVP: withfriends.co/event/286165...
I'll be speaking at Red Emma's bookstore @redemmas.org in Baltimore at 7pm on July 25 with other graphic medicine authors! Come say hello!
Graphic Medicine International Collective (#GraphMed2026)@graphicmedicine.bsky.social · 2w agoJoin us after the #GraphMed2026 closing session at @redemmas.org for New Books in Graphic Medicine: Comics and Healthcare! RSVP: withfriends.co/event/286165...
Here's the flyer for the New Books in Graphic Medicine: Comics & Healthcare event @redemmas.org!! So glad to have Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine featured among such a stellar lineup. If you're in Baltimore this Saturday 7/25, please join us!
Join @chrismarnone.bsky.social at Red Emma's Bookstore on Thursday, July 23rd at 7:00PM for a discussion of "My Name Was Baby: An Intersex Memoir." Learn more about "My Name Was Baby": https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700643523/ #Intersex #LGBTQIA #AuthorTalk #UPKansas
We launched Ben's book less than a month ago and we already need to do a second printing (!!)
Red Emma’s@redemmas.org · 2mo agoJust in time for Pride—it's the book collecting the first six (and a half) issues of Ben Egerman's gay little history zines, published by us and printed here in Baltimore by BCP Digital. Come help us launch this on 6/25 w/@rahnealexander.com, or swing by our tent tomorrow at Trans Pride to grab one!
This Wednesday, join us for a happy hour dedicated to sustainably farmed wines—$5 a glass or $20 for a bottle, while supplies last! 5-8PM
"With a broken heart mended together with a sewing needle made from a battery and a string pulled from the elastic waistband from a jumper, reinforced with blank mail labels and a rubber band. With my head up high, teary eyes, & this broken heart full of love." Free Des freedes.net/https-freede...
Jul 7th, Des’s Statement from Federal Prison in Fort Worth, Texas – ZINES ARE NOT A CRIME!
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Reading Talitha LeFlouria’s “In Search of Jane Crow” in advance of her event @redemmas.org in August and this sentence is messing me up: “In Maryland, where post-Emancipation slave sales seemed to occur regularly…”
Mark your calendars for @virginiaeeubanks.bsky.social on 8/12! withfriends.co/event/286926...
8/12 - Virginia Eubanks presents "A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving: Lessons on Love, Care, and Survival: A Memoir" in conversation w/Marion Winik by Red Emma's
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I have three upcoming events in Maryland this month! GMIC July 23-25: www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-graph... Red Emma's Bookstore, Baltimore, July 25 evening: withfriends.co/event/286165... People's Book in Takoma Park July 28: withfriends.co/event/282637...
The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti
NEW: Full report > Then They Came for the Anarchists: Prairieland Defendants Sentenced to 562 Years unicornriot.ninja/2026/then-th...
Then They Came for the Anarchists: Prairieland Defendants Sentenced to 562 Years - UNICORN RIOT
According to federal prosecutors, the defendants were the members of a murderous “North Texas Antifa Cell.” The Prairieland defendants received over 562 years in federal prison -- the longest sentence...
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July 4th is nothing to celebrate. 20% of all book sales today, in the store and online, will be donated to the legal support funds for the Prairieland defendants and the Minneapolis 15. Bookstore and cafe open until 4pm today, come through if you are feeling unpatriotic!
“With the Prairieland defendants, Minnesota 15, & others hit by the Trump regime’s anti-radical crackdown, we need to defend those targeted despite political differences, to practice ‘non-sectarian defense of other anti-fascists’” New from @threewayfight.bsky.social threewayfight.org/demonizing-a...
Demonizing Antifa: Federal Prosecutions Target Radical Organizers
With the court cases against the Prairieland ICE protesters and the Minnesota 15, the Trump administration has ratcheted up its authoritarian power drive. The regime is trying to criminalize radical…
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The American government is waging war on dissent. People who have dared to oppose the deportation machine and the camps are being targeted and punished by the state. This July 4, we stand in solidarity with them.
