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QZAP - The Queer Zine Archive Project @qzap.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Heyo! We'll be at the Fox Cities Zine and Book Arts festival this Sunday, October 4. NEENAH PUBLIC LIBRARY 240 E. WISCONSIN AVE NEENAH, WI SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: Artist Booths, 12:30-3:30pm Zine Making Workshop, 12:30-3:30pm Panel Talk, 1-2pm Show & Tell, 2:30-3:30pm

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New zine dropping next week at #JCLC2026 (the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color) in Spokane. If you'll be there, stop by the Program for Cooperative Cataloging booth in the exhibit hall to pick up a copy! #critcat 🎵📚😎

Zine cover with an image of an album record and the text "Fixing the Record: A PCC Playlist of DEI in Metadata".

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sometimes I think about where we would be as a culture today if #MeToo in 2017 had radicalized more straight men into fighting sexual abuse instead of creating a culture of "oh god don't get me CANCELED" and "fake accusations" paranoia and resentment

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP

EP • Stevie Wonder

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you've got some time in the next few days, the September #Wikipedia editathon to show solidarity with the new Wikimedia union is behind its goal of editing 10,000 articles. You can help by registering, finding a relevant article, & making it a little better! 📚 meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:W...

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Event:WikiProject Organized Labour Month Online Campaign - Meta-Wiki

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Nashville Comic Arts Festival @nashcomicartfest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Our first workshop, led by special guest @oheysteenz.bsky.social - Gender Self Determination Zines: What does queerness mean to you and how does it affect your identity? How can we spread education on gender affirming care? Tell your story and come together as a community to make identity zines!

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 26/09/2026

You can help build the library. 🏛️ Have digital materials you’re allowed to share? Upload them to the Internet Archive so other people can discover and use them. 📷 A photograph. 🎙️ A recording. 📄 A document. 💾 A piece of digital history. Upload your first item 👇 archive.org/upload 🧵

Four "Tools You Can Use" Upload campaign tiles arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top left, a cream and yellow tile with a folder icon reading "Upload" and "Contribute digital materials that you have the right to share." Top right, a cream tile with bold black text: "Upload digital materials to help preserve and share knowledge with people around the world." Bottom left, a cream tile with a screenshot of the Internet Archive's Upload files page, with the "UPLOAD" nav link and "Choose files to upload" button circled in red. Bottom right, a cream tile with bold black text, "Contribute digital materials that you have the right to share," and a small multicolor line-art icon of the Internet Archive's columned building.

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Training rare book catalogers like I’m leading an insurgence when I tell them we aren’t restricted to whatever the fuck is happening at LC and we can use a lot of credible thesauri and CVs like homosaurus and RBMS

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Amelia Smith @nturavrgcistory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In the 1970s, the Canadian Gay Archives was approached by the Ontario Archives to take over some of the CGA's material. It was a moment of deep reflection. In the end, they chose to reject the offer out of fear that a homophobic government would decide to eliminate it, a la Nazi Germany.

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University of Toronto Press @uoftpress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New season, new reads. Our #BacktoSchool Sale is happening now! 20% off our entire website + free shipping through Sept 30 (textbooks excluded). Shop now and start your fall reading list with savings: bit.ly/4hlTlx1 #CanadianBooks

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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

OTTAWA: i'll be doing two launch events for The Politics of Lonely, both on Saturday, October 24: ✨ signing at @octopusbooks.ca ✨ launch/reading/convo with @alexisshotwell.bsky.social and Adrienne Row-Smith at The Grove (location changed for capacity reasons!) sheerspite.ca/blog/2026/08...

saturday October 24 11 am - 1 pm - Ottawa Book Signing
I'll be sitting out front of Octopus Books (116 Third Avenue at Bank St.) to sign books and chat. Come say hi! Rain date Sunday October 25, 11-1.

saturday October 24, 5 -7 pm
Ottawa Book Launch & Friendship Forum with Alexis Shotwell & Adrienne Row-Smith
NEW LOCATION: The Grove, 18 Louisa Street Unit 280
fundraiser for the Ottawa Trans Library
registration not required to order the book or anything else for pickup, use code OTTAWALAUNCH at sheerspite.ca :)

Alexis Shotwell is a queer SF nerd, functional potter, teacher, and writer, currently living on unceded Algonquin land. Author of Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times (about why purity won’t save us) and the forthcoming Liberation is Other People (about getting together to solve big problems in which we are complicit), she is also finishing a book about Ursula K. Le Guin’s anarchism and why it’s so great.

Adrienne Row-Smith (she/her) is a Queer Black visual specialist based in so-called Ottawa, working across photo and video to create bold, impactful imagery. Rooted in a deep commitment to authenticity and accessibility in media, she co-founded The Grove, which is an interdisciplinary art and community space offering affordable rentals and sliding-scale events. Through both her creative practice and community work, Adrienne aims to build a space and working body that reflects the elements of care, resistance, and belonging, where disenfranchised voices are not only heard but celebrated.

Lee Arden is the author of The Politics of Lonely: Why Is Friendship So Hard?, a book that takes friendship out of an individualistic context and argues that we’re struggling with our friendships because we live in the decaying ruins of colonial capitalism. Lee also runs the small press and zine distro Sheer Spite Press and has written lots of zines, including PALS: The Radical Possibilities of Friendship, which formed the basis for this new book.

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Milo @miloblue.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I saw that UWM is hiring a Public Services Librarian to work in the American Geographic Society Library on our campus. It's a really cool space and collection! Milwaukee is neat! www.higheredjobs.com/admin/detail... #librarians #libraryjobs #glamjobs

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May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Tomorrow! My book launch for My Hungry Ghosts with CA Poet Laureate Lee Herrick at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social 9/22/26 at 7 pm PT: www.eventbrite.com/e/may-lee-ch...

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May-lee Chai in conversation with Lee Herrick

May-lee Chai discusses her new book "MY HUNGRY GHOSTS: ESSAYS & INCANTATIONS"

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We are hiring for several positions in the UW Information School, including a tenure-track position in Library and Information Science. Please share with anyone interested in these areas! Deadline October 30. Job: apply.interfolio.com/192127

Screenshot of job ad that reads: "The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to our Library and Information Science (LIS) research, with areas of relevance including, but not limited to:

Libraries - Academic, Digital, or Public

Librarianship - Leadership, Innovation, or Education

Information Technology - Ethics, Public Interest, and Justice-Oriented Approaches

Data - Archives, Public / Open, and Humanistic or Scientific Applications

Artificial Intelligence - Public Interest, Library or Cultural Heritage-Centered, Open-Source Applications in Information Institutions "

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Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 19/09/2026

Citing queer histories, radical theory and personal anecdotes, Lee Arden’s “The Politics of Lonely” delves into the structural causes of our loneliness. xtramagazine.com/culture/book...

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How do we sustain friendships in a world on fire? | Xtra Magazine

Lee Arden’s book “The Politics of Lonely” delves into the structural causes of our loneliness

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Muppets have to put on a show to save the Kennedy Center. There you go, Disney, that's your premise.

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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Tomorrow at 9:30am, we will gather in the Council Chambers at Minneapolis City Hall (350 S 5th St, Minneapolis, MN 55415) to honor the life and legacy of Karen Clark, the first openly lesbian member to serve in the Minnesota Legislature, and a fighter for LGBTQIA+ rights, environmental justice,.. 1/

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Christopher Wilde @chrisqzap.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is one of my all-time favourite queer zines! ❤️‍🔥

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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Librarians! Zine-Makers! This new Temporary Services zine (made with @doormouse12.bsky.social) is for you! We interviewed 4 public librarians that maintain zine collections and the result is a beautiful 44 page booklet. See and learn how they do it! $10.00 (or $3.00 PDF) from www.halfletterpress.com

From the front and back cover of the booklet:

Public Librarians Discuss Zine Collections

We asked librarians at four public libraries to talk about their library’s zine collection. What advice can they share with zine makers that want to get their work into a public library, or librarians that want to start a collection at their library? Was it hard to convince others that zines are a resource that the library should collect? What collecting models did they follow? How did they build the collection?

Interviewees:

Tim Devin / Somerville Public Library
(Somerville, MA)
Angi Brzycki & Ziba Pérez /
Los Angeles Public Library
(Los Angeles, CA)
Alicia Tate / Multnomah County Library
(Portland, OR)
Alina Josan / The Free Library of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA)

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Wisconsin Watch @wisconsinwatch.org · 14/09/2026

🧵 Wisconsin voters will see three proposed constitutional amendments on their Nov. 3 ballots — covering the governor’s partial veto power, religious gatherings during emergencies and diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Read our guide or follow below ⬇️ : wisconsinwatch.org/2026/09/wisc...

Announcement encouraging voters to learn about three Wisconsin constitutional amendments on the Nov. 3 ballot, showing a governor signing a document at a desk while children and adults look on.

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Samantha Puc 🍉 @theverbalthing.com · 13/09/2026

DENVER ZINE FEST IS TOMORROW! 11-5 at Denver Public Library. I'll be there with zines, stickers, and free resources! Come say hi!

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Big congrats to Jamez Terry! grief poet, reverend, and devoted zinester See You In the Mail (out yesterday!) is your perfect last soft summer read

See You In the Mail
Jamez Terry

cover: a man is seen checking his mailbox while another reads a letter

"I am absolutely enamored with this book. A tender tribute to zine culture and punk community, it is accordingly a meditation on creativity, queerness, and slowing down enough to appreciate not just love through snail mail but all the small, beautiful details of our world. I never wanted to leave its soft, inspiring embrace."
-ANITA KELLY, author of Something Wild & Wonderful

As long as Greg has a typewriter, strong coffee, and a pocket full of postage stamps, he's alright with the world. His zine, LONG WALKS ON THE BEACH, parodies Craigslist personal ads an ode to the sweet absurdity of public declarations of desire. But hidden somewhere in each issue, there's one quiet ad that reveals something of Greg's actual self. No one has ever found him there. Until a letter arrives from a reader called "M."

Their correspondence swiftly becomes the most honest relationship Greg has ever had, but M, a musician, seems to retreat when Greg suggests they meet. As Greg gets closer to the truth, he's forced to confront the walls around his own heart. Set in the halls of mid-2000's zine festivals, at underground music venues, and on the rocky, moody coast of Maine, See You in the Mail is a feel-good queer romance about the radical intimacy of being truly seen.

"A slow-burn love story about falling for someone who really sees you.

Beautifully intimate and inventive."

-KIRKUS REVIEWS

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Gina Murrell @ginamurrell1.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

Today at work, I got a free zine: George Jackson Speaking: From Dachau, Soledad Prison, California. It’s a piece by Jackson, “smuggled out on roll-your-own cigarette paper at great risk to the prison’s one sympathetic guard” and originally published in the Village Voice, Sept 1970. #abolition #zines

A black and white zine titled George Jackson Speaking: From Dachau, Soledad Prison, California. The cover art—Jackson’s smiling face next to two rows of solemn African faces—is “Flowers for George Jackson” by Elizabeth Cattlet, 1975.

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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

it's not a self-help book, but it is pretty opinionated. The Politics of Lonely: Why is Friendship So Hard? is officially out today! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

$Three pieces of advice from The Politics of Lonely (swipe to see one more that got cut from the finished book) - “Each of us needs a lot of people, and we need them very badly.” - “It is worth considering whether you might let your friendships inconvenience you a fraction as much as your job does.” - “Kill the Margaret Thatcher in your head” out today, 2026-09-10$

stated reason for not writing a self-help book: “I believe that the message that you can fix all your problems on an individual level implies that they’re your fault to begin with.”

actual reason for not writing a self-help book: i do not give good advice :)

screenshot from the book manuscript, where i have written "have sex with one of your friends! just kidding.... unless?", with a comment asking "too unhinged?" and my very patient editor replying "probably, haha!"

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You know what I'd like? I'd like cis Democrats to say "thank you." "Thank you for being the moral center of our movement." "Thank you for refusing to go quietly." "Thank you for fighting ICE. Thank you for forming coalitions with other communities under threat."

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Kat Rohn @rohnkat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

There are 25.6 million LGBTQ+ adults in the US including roughly 5 million gender diverse folks. We are real voters. We're also real people. And we deserve candidates, campaigns, and parties that treat us as such - not as disposable talking points. We can help you win. And we will. Stand with us.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 60th anniversary to the brilliant universe of Star Trek, and all who made it possible. Live long and prosper. 🖖

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

📣 Brand new zine published to celebrate Labor Day: "Don’t Cross the Picket Line : Strike Solidarity for Beginners." Free to print or read online at violetbfox.info/dontcross/. This 24-page zine was created for anyone who's *not* part of a union and doesn't know much about unions or strikes.

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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

book is out this week! if you know anyone in halifax tell them to come say hi! tabling at the halifax art book fair friday and saturday! sunday is my FIRST BOOK LAUNCH with cherished friend @theghostpine.bsky.social at @venusenvyhfx.bsky.social! venusenvy.ca/collections/...

Halifax!

Friday Sep 11, Saturday Sep 12, 11-6: tabling at halifax art book fair.

saturday sep 12, 10-6: Halifax Anarchist Book Fair: I won’t be there but Fernwood will have my book and Venus Envy will have my zines :) I bet it will be nice!

Sunday sep 13, 6:30 pm: Book Launch & Friendship Forum with Jeff Miller, at Venus Envy Registration required Masks required & provided.

Pictures of Lee's book "The Politics of Lonely" and Jeff's book "Temporary Palaces", with a photo of Lee and Jeff hugging, each of them is labelled with their name and the caption "(WE ARE FRIENDS)"

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Lady Froldmagen (she/her) @zinelib.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The Library of Congress can move quickly when it wants to classweb.org/tentative-su.... This is from the September tentative LCSH list. They moved swiftly to overwrite Denali and the Gulf of America, too. So much for librarians being freedom fighters. 📚

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Michigan State University Library is hosting the second Common Knowledge Zine Fest on Sun Oct 18th during their Open Access Week. CKZF asks: what can #zines teach us about creating & sharing knowledge outside traditional channels? Apply by Sept 20th: www.cognitoforms.com/LICZ/CommonK...

Flyer for Common Knowledge Zine Fest, with a drawing of a brain and text reading "Applications open! 15+ spots for research and nonfiction zinesters".

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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

thrilled to announce that this winter, Sheer Spite Press will publish "Ghost Town Trips: By Rail, Canoe, Bike, & Thumb," a collection of writing by Reece Steinberg, originally published in his zine Q For Treason. sheerspite.ca/blog/2026/09...

coming this winter from sheer spite: Ghost Town Trips: By Rail, Canoe, Bike, & Thumb, by Reece Steinberg. The book's cover has a photo of an abstract weaving by the author, which includes images of ghosts and houses. Behind the book mockup are four issues of the zine Q For Treason, which are printed in classic black and white photocopy.

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Library Juice Connections @libjuiceconnect.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

New Recording Available! Des Alaniz, @violetbfox.bsky.social & @salem-zine-witch.bsky.social talk about #zines, #librarianship and the overlap of the two. (Also: plenty of tee-shirt slogan ideas and creative chicanery) libraryjuiceconnections.org/events/zines...

Recording Now Available: Zinesters as Librarians, Librarians as Zinesters

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton knew what it was like to struggle as she fought for working families her whole career. From providing free books to kids to giving working women our "9 to 5" anthem, she was an icon and an inspiration. Rest in power to our union sister. We will always love you.

A photo of Dolly Parton sitting at a desk and talking on the phone in a scene from the movie 9 to 5.

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Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If you are under the age of 80 this is your first day living in a world without Dolly Parton. Behave accordingly, she's counting on us now

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton

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Christopher Wilde @chrisqzap.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Saw this about ten years ago on the Internet and saved it because it is so lovely. Seems fitting to share today in the global outpouring of love for Dolly Parton. 💗

Dolly Parton pictured with butterfly wings against a background of leaves and trees. From around 2017 so not AI!

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Pee Wee Herman & Dolly Parton singing a duet? Here ya go...

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 18/08/2026

Minnesota doesn’t have an event to celebrate Black booksellers and authors, owner of Black Garnet Books Terresa Hardaway thought while attending a monthly Black Bookstore Coalition meeting. So she launched and curated the first Midwest Black Book Fair to honor stories of resistance and Blackness.

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Inaugural Midwest Black Book Fair will debut in north Minneapolis

Bookstores, publishers, authors and local organizations will be present for the fair. Tickets are free with registration.

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Christopher Wilde @chrisqzap.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Also love some zines with swear words in the title would advise readers “do not put (swear word) on the envelope please!”

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I am launching a Black Collectors in the 21st Century Zine Series. Here is the call for submissions. Deadline is January 31, 2027 - app.smore.com/n/8vry4

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Black Collecting: A Zine Series

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

They can lie about Amendment 3. They can try to confuse us and scare us and wear us down. But they can’t outwork a movement made up of Missourians who have already shown that they will show up and vote for our rights. Vote NO on Amendment 3. Let’s win this. Again. jesspiper.substack.com/p/deja-vu

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Déjà Vu

Abortion is back on the ballot

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 21/08/2026

Surprising fact: We are actually NOT seeing more food recalls this year compared with recent years. What we’re seeing is an increase in the number of illnesses caused by contaminated food. This is the largest ever cyclospora outbreak & third-largest foodborne illness outbreak of any kind on record.

Number of food recalls by year
There have been 162 food recalls posted this year by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture.

Chart shows yearly food recall numbers from 2017 to 2026.

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