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  • Abolitionist Playdate/Book Swap

    • August 4 @ 5:30 PM
    • until 7:30 PM
    • Horner Park Nature Play Space
    • near California Ave. & Belle Plaine

    Abolitionist Playdate/Book Swap Join us for cultivating a future focused on dismantling systemic inequalities and building collective capacity for change, while the kiddos play! This time we’ll swap books (any genre, for kids or adults). 📆 Monday, August 4th ⏰ 5:30-7:30 PM 📍Horner Park Nature Play Space (near California Ave.... Read More

  • TEACH-IN Divesting Our Money

    • August 4 @ 7:00 PM
    • Pilsen Community Books
    • 1102 W 18th St Chicago IL

    TEACH-IN Divesting Our Money From The Gaza Genocide Monday 8/4/25 7PM Pilsen Community Books 1102 W 18th St Chicago IL #DEFUNDfacebook

  • Replace the State: How to Change the World When and Elections and Protests Fail with Sasha Davis

    • August 5 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 8:30 PM
    • Pilsen Community Books
    • 1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608

    In the current political atmosphere of cruelty, repression and irrationality, many have pleaded for the urgent development of social movements to counter the rampage of the federal government and their oligarch allies. But what should these movement look like? And how should we build them? Imagining just such a grassroots movement is the goal of a new book from Sasha Davis.... Read More

  • Transatlantic Antifa: The Rise of the Far Right and the History and Challenges of Antifascist Movements

    • August 6 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 8:00 PM
    • Pilsen Community Books
    • 1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608

    A conversation between activist/scholars from Germany and the U.S. about the far right movements in Europe, the U.S., and the possibility of international solidarity. Zeena Arndt is a researcher and activist from Berlin, Germany, who has been involved in antifascist/antiracist movements for over 25 years. Michael... Read More

  • Their End Is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition with brian bean

    • August 8 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 8:00 PM
    • Pilsen Community Books
    • 1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608

    Join us as we welcome brian bean to the store for an event in celebration of his new book Their End Is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition, a deeply reported analysis of the connections between policing and capitalism, centering global lessons of revolt and resistance. Where... Read More

  • Erotic Photography Workshop

    • August 9 @ 6:30 PM
    • until 8:30 PM
    • Leather Archives & Museum
    • 6418 N. Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626

    Learn how to shoot bold, sensual, and kink-inspired imagery. Led by Kristopher Daniel of La Petite Mort Photography (www.lapetitemortphotography.com), this hands-on workshop covers lighting, posing, and working with erotic themes using live models. All skill levels are welcome. The second hour is open shoot time to practice what you’ve learned using Kris’ lighting setup.... Read More

  • Quimby’s Show & Tell: Marc Fischer of Public Collectors

    • August 9 @ 6:30 PM
    • Quimby's Bookstore
    • 1854 W. North Ave Chicago, IL 60622

    Join Chicago-based publisher Marc Fischer of Public Collectors to discuss his latest Public Collectors publications, and read from the recent booklets: “Why Self-Publish Under Fascism?” and “Who Shares the Restroom Code with ICE Agents?“ Marc Fischer is the administrator of Public Collectors, an initiative he formed in 2007.... Read More

  • Rogers Park Seed Library Open Hours

    • August 10 @ 3:00 PM
    • until 4:30 PM
    • PO Box Collective
    • 6900 N Glenwood, Chicago IL

    Rogers Park Seed Library Open Hours are every second Sunday 3-4:30 pm and every third Tuesdays from 6-7:30pm. This is the time to pick up new seeds (free!), gift your surplus, or just hang out and talk seeds!

  • Pass the Aux: A Collective Sharing and Listening Session

    • August 10 @ 4:00 PM
    • until 5:30 PM
    • Unity Park, at the pergola
    • 2636 N Kimball Ave, Chicago

    Pass the Aux: A Collective Sharing and Listening Session August 10 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm “What are we listening to these days, and why?” Prompted by this and other questions, Josh Rios invites you to this all-ages gathering to share and reflect on music in an open, collective setting.... Read More

  • NEW YORK CITY INFERNO: A Bijou Video Screening at the Leather Archives & Museum

    • August 10 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 9:00 PM
    • Leather Archives & Museum
    • 6418 N. Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626

    Get your tickets here: https://events.humanitix.com/new-york-city-inferno-a-bijou-video-screening-at-the-leather-archives-and-museum Come early for sex and love life tarot reading by oracle Jessika Cutts. Plus so much more to be announced! Structured around the journey of Jerome (hairy, uncut Christopher Dock) in search of his lover, this French production also serves as a study of NYC's gay sex culture/locales and includes, along with its truly hot sex scenes and story, an interview with a gay political activist and performer/poet Camille O'Grady fronting a punk band in the film's epically wild orgy scene shot in the infamous Mineshaft! Raw, gritty, kinky, occasionally bizarre, this artfully made, historically significant classic is a major film of the '70s French gay porn boom. New... Read More

  • Fetish, Erotic and Kink Figure Drawing

    • August 12 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 9:00 PM
    • Leather Archives & Museum
    • 6418 N. Greenview Ave

    Join us on the 2nd Tuesday each month for a studio drawing class where you can practice your figure drawing skills individually. We'll provide the sexy fetish models, tables and chairs.... you provide whatever materials you want to use for your art. This... Read More

  • Bondage with the Persian Prince

    • August 14 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 8:30 PM
    • Leather Archives & Museum
    • 6418 N. Greenview Ave

    Learn techniques and skills, and practice your ties with an expert. All experience levels are welcome. Thursday sessions are scheduled for June 26, July 17, July 31, Aug 14, and Sep 4. $5.00

  • Film Screening “The Body Electric,” Six Films By Paul Sharits” by Tone Glow

    • August 14 @ 7:00 PM
    • International Museum of Surgical Science
    • 1524 North Lake Shore Drive Chicago, IL 60610

    Tone Glow is excited to announce a special screening of an film Paul Sharits! Tone Glow Presents “The Body Electric: Six Films By Paul Sharits” August 14th, 7:00pm-9:00pm Doors: 6:00pm Tickets: $15 GA Presale $10 Student Presale (Use code STUDENT at checkout) $10 IMSS Member Presale (Use code IMSSMEMBER at checkout) -$20 at Door $15 Student at Door $15 IMSS Member at Door Tone Glow is excited to announce “The Body Electric,” a program highlighting six films by the visual artist and filmmaker Paul Sharits (1943-1993).... Read More

  • Rogers Park Seed Library Open Hours

    • August 16 @ 6:00 PM
    • until 7:30 PM
    • PO Box Collective
    • 6900 N Glenwood, Chicago IL

    Rogers Park Seed Library Open Hours are every second Sunday 3-4:30 pm and every third Tuesdays from 6-7:30pm. This is the time to pick up new seeds (free!), gift your surplus, or just hang out and talk seeds!

  • Join 505051: No Camps / No War / No 1984

    • August 23 @ 12:00 PM
    • until 2:00 PM
    • TBD!
    • Chicago, IL

    On August 23rd we will gather to demand an END to the concentration camps, END to the wars, and END to the march towards fascism. Silence serves the oppressor, so come get loud. We will release more details soon! Please note, we will be holding this event instead of an event on August 2nd.

  • Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help: Jarrod Shanahan in Conversation with Lake Effect Collective

    • September 3 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 8:00 PM
    • Pilsen Community Books
    • 1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608

    Join us in celebrating this long-awaited collection by Chicago author and agitator Jarrod Shanahan, who will appear in conversation with members of Lake Effect Collective. Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help (PM Press, 2025) collects a decade of reflections on recent US struggles—Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and the George Floyd Rebellion—alongside accounts of the rise of Trumpism, the alt-right, and an apocalyptic shift in popular culture, to paint a dense and complex portrait of a decade of protracted social crisis. Jarrod... Read More

  • Bondage with the Persian Prince

    • September 4 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 8:30 PM
    • Leather Archives & Museum
    • 6418 N. Greenview Ave

    Learn techniques and skills, and practice your ties with an expert. All experience levels are welcome. Thursday sessions are scheduled for June 26, July 17, July 31, Aug 14, and Sep 4. $5.00

  • Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth is Saving Us from Our Illusion of Separation with Eileen Flanagan

    • September 8 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 8:00 PM
    • Pilsen Community Books
    • 1102 W 18th St Chicago, IL

    Join us as we welcome Eileen Flanagan to the store for an event in celebration of her new book Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth is Saving Us from Our Illusion of Separation. As heat waves, wildfires, storms, and floods become ever more deadly, it has become apparent that we have a shared stake in protecting the air, water, and climate—for ourselves and for future generations.... Read More

  • Fetish Film Forum - Queen Bee Empire (2014)

    • September 20 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 10:00 PM
    • Leather Archives & Museum
    • 6418 N. Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL 60626

    This raunchy and campy DIY film is about the sexcapades of friends Tracey, Stacey, Lacey, Kacey and Macey over 24 hours during a hot and sweaty summer. Single Tickets can be puchased in advance and cost $10 per screening, or $8 for LA&M Members & Students.... Read More