We’re joined by the creator and star of the webseries, “Big Girl,” Katharine Scarborough! We talk about the art of clowning, co-opting fat liberation as body positivity, and y’all, at…
Posts tagged as “Chicago”
photo by vxla For the uninitiated, there’s a magical moment every Chicago Winter where the ethics of what is entitled to individualist labour is argued out over social media threads…
As vaccination rollouts continue in Chicago, Illinois, and the country as a whole many statistics are starting to emerge depicting accessibility of the vaccine as the virus rages on. Based…
photo by Chris Eaves In a recent letter published in South Side Weekly, Bobby Vanecko the [relation] to former Mayor Richard Daley wrote extensively on his [relation], the cultural ramifications…
Colectivo’s unionization effort started back in May, spurred by the pandemic to provide worker representation amid pandemic safety concerns. Now, management is starting to retaliate. Colectivo, a chain with locations…
Jesse Howard has been producing art in Chicago since the 1980’s and he hit a milestone on October 10th. His first solo exhibit, The Spirit of Community, premiered at the…
Workers at Colectivo Coffee, a Milwaukee-based coffee chain with five locations in Chicago, are attempting to organize a union. Workers started to organize right around March, “The pandemic was a…
As of today, 300 workers at UIC have been infected with COVID-19, and two have died. On September 14 members of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 73 who work…
Since the Stay at Home Order was initially announced, over 1000 evictions have been filed in Chicago. This is despite Governor Pritzker’s extension of the eviction moratorium originally put forth…
I hate New Year’s, but the one saving grace of this dreadful holiday are best-of lists all of which I, possessing the willpower of a robot chicken, click on. It…
Pictured above: Sarah Giovannetti (left), Max McKenna (center), and Kevin Greene (right) of Siblings at DZ Records // Photo courtesy DZ Records Instagram On May 13, 2019, Scapi Radio sat…
On July 9, 2018, Scapi Radio sat down with Kate Harrington-Rosen and K Rodriguez of Praxis Group. Some of the following article’s information derives from that interview. … Praxis Group…