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@cleanairclub.bsky.social
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Providing free air purifiers to Chicago artists, organizers, and touring musicians. linktr.ee/cleanairclub

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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
We're sending this cute sticker sheet to anyone who sends us $15 or more!
A sticker fundraiser showing the sticker sheet available. It includes 5 anthropomorphic PPE stickers, including a mask, saline rinse, rapid test, uvc light, and air purifier.
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Smart Air @smartairfilters.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
This is what community care looks like! Our purifier is helping @cleanairclub.bsky.social keep the air clean for artists and organizers across Chicago.
Three masked volunteers pose next to a white boxy air purifier in an outdoor courtyard with a brick wall behind them.
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
🩵 Support request! 🩵 Our lending library has outgrown what our volunteers can do in their free time. Please help us hire someone who can improve library logistics and communication. Borrowers deserve a smooth experience and we want to make that happen! gofund.me/48d53453
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Donate to Fund the Next Step for Our Free Purifier Lending Library, organized by Emily Dupree
Hello! We are Clean Air Club, an organization dedicated to prov… Emily Dupree needs your support for Fund the Next Step for Our Free Purifier Lending Library
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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
“…in the most pronounced part of my vocal loss…I could not listen to beautiful voices. The ache that I felt listening to singers sing was…it felt like having my heart shattered over & over, every day.” as someone who also lost musical ability to chronic illness, this pain is why i center mitigation
It was unlike any flu I've ever had. It was unlike anything else I had ever experienced. And in the weeks that followed, there was this external chaos of all of us trying to understand what was happening with the pandemic, and externally, our world was becoming very strange to us. And within my own body, that experience of strangeness was also very present. My voice changed dramatically. It started to shake. The top half of my range became inaccessible, and I began to feel like a stranger in my own body as well.

Greta Morgan was a touring member of Vampire Weekend. | Amy
Harris/Invision/AP
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
It’s time for purifier maintenance! Come help us care for the purifiers that keep our community gatherings safer 🩵 📍 Where: Chicago Tool Library (4015 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60624) 🗓️ When: Saturday, April 12 ⏰ Time: Drop in anytime between 12–3PM
Clean Air Club logo, air purifier cartoon
“You’re Invited!
PURIFIER MAINTENANCE EVENT
Saturday, April 12, 12:00 - 3:00 PM Chicago Tool Library (4015 W Carroll Ave)
Help us keep our purifiers in good condition for another year of clean air events!”
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Air purifiers become less effective the more their filters become clogged with the crap they pull out of the air. We highly recommend reading up on the signs that it's time to replace the interior filters ⬇️
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Every time we change the filters on our machines we're reminded EXACTLY why we do this!!
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
We're giving away a @visible_health wearable arm band plus a full year membership to their app!! Head over to our IG to enter 💙 www.instagram.com/p/DH_bRqGpmj6/
Visible giveaway! Activity-tracking armband and one-year membership. There is black armband front and center on a cloudy sky background. The Clean Air Club cloud logo is in the bottom right.
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The idea that acknowledging a threat automatically makes you "afraid" is one of the most annoying conflations that "Covid is over" people make.
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
"It’s clear that not all of us are paying equally for the risks taken by some; those of us with Long COVID have to pay with our health, bodies, careers, dreams, savings, and futures for the nights out and indoor dining of those who are still abled." www.thegauntlet.news/p/the-great-...
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The Great Abandonment
What's worse: Long COVID or the isolation?
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Re mask bans: sunglasses conceal people's identity more effectively than masks do, but everyone would object to a sunglasses ban. The difference is that sunglasses are completely normalized accessibility devices, while masks have been pathologized as part of the total erasure of the pandemic.
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Re. the Columbia mask ban: imagine how absurd it would be for them to ban sunglasses worn "to conceal identity" but not "for medical reasons." How could that even be enforceable? Who determines intent? What would count as a medical reason?
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
It's so important to prioritize schools that have poor air quality due to environmental racism! The closer schools are to highways, which historically run through neighborhoods of color, the worse the air. Air purifiers are a racial equity issue.
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We're loving this recent article on the Covid-cautious ecosystem in Chicago! www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
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With long COVID health risks, Chicago organizations create safe spaces, events for vulnerable communities
Five years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, people who are still vulnerable to the virus have found safe ways to be in community.
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
👀 (designed by @_copy_of_a_copy on X)
Bold font that reads, "The pandemic isn't over just because you're over it." Below we can see a graph of wastewater data for Covid from 2020 to the present day, with fluctuating levels. Most of the post 2021 peaks exceed the peaks of 2020 and 2021.
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
🌏 Listening to the many voices of people with Long Covid is essential to understanding the ways that LC can impact every facet of a life. Here's a database of global LC orgs, podcasts, influencers, & support groups so you can diversify your feed: bit.ly/LCvoices
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Airtable | Everyone's app platform
Airtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes. Get started for free.
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Kids deserve clean air at school!
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Lots of people find replacing the Sip valve way too $$. Luckily there's a different supplier for the replaceable valve and it's WAY cheaper 😈 www.webstaurantstore.com/tablecraft-1...
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Tablecraft 1SV Clear Valve for InvertaTop Squeeze Bottles
Use this Tablecraft 1SV clear valve for InvertaTop squeeze bottles to replace the valve that came with your original squeeze bottle (sold separately). The valve top allows you to effortlessly drizzle ...
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Air purifiers are maybe the cheapest way you can protect the long-term health of babies and children. We 💙 clean air!!
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
how your email finds us (masked, angelic) 🌈 👼🏻 (pic by @/puthyriot on IG)
Overhead shot of a masked person wearing rainbow clothes and a heart-shaped satchel making a snow angel in the snow.
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
For Long Covid Awareness month this year, we're redistributing 100% of donations we receive to mutual aid fundraisers for people living with LC. Links in bio to donate or submit a mutual aid fundraiser that you'd like us to support!
Long Covid Awareness Month: March 2025. The Long Covid teal and gray ribbon is pictured against a cloudy background.
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Another Clean Air Club air-purified show, this time with @abraycadabra.bsky.social 😍
Masked musicians perform in red lighting. Screens in the background show indecipherable graphics.
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Mask-required, air-purified events in Chicago this week!
Covid safer events, with HEPA air purification:

02/27: Mask-Required Speed Dating @hotpotatoheartshotpotato / Dandy Crown @thedandycrown (MASK REQUIRED) (WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE)

03/01: Worthy: An Educational Community Symposium @melissakreider / @centerformadculture (MASK REQUIRED) (WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE) (VIRTUAL OPTION AVAILABLE)

03/07: “abun(DANCE)” - An After Party Event @swopchicago, @blackskrippabrigade / Cole’s Bar @colesbar (MASK REQUIRED) (WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE)
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
We're thrilled to share our interview with Sunaura Taylor - artist, professor, environmentalist, & critical disabilities scholar. Click to read about abandonment, vulnerability, a crip reading of Darwin, injury environmentalism, and disabled imagination. bit.ly/taylorCAC
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Against Abandonment
An interview with Sunaura Taylor
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Another guide on purifier usage, this time on PLACEMENT! Read once, get it right forever. (We often have to remind borrowers to stop backing purifiers up against the wall when it needs airflow back there! A chart in this thread shows it reduces efficacy by 95% 😬)
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
♥️ Care is a verb ♥️
An airbrushed drawing of a rose next to a polaroid of a heart, against a gradient pastel rainbow background. In blue text, it reads "Roses are red, violets are blue, I wear a mask, because I care about you." Sparkles are everywhere. Clean Air Club cloud logo is in the bottom right.
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Once again asking white people to confront the fact that their choice to not wear a mask anymore is directly tied to white supremacy www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
A chart showing the frequency of mask wearing by race.

White: 2% wear mask all or most of the time, 8% some of the time
Black: 13% all, 23% some
Hispanic: 4% all, 23% some
Asian: 9% all, 23% some
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
🌊 Un nuevo ensayo sobre cómo las figuras de la salud pública y los políticos han fabricado el fin social de la pandemia incluso cuando su realidad biológica continúa sin cesar: emilysdupree.substack.com/p/fabricando...
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Fabricando el Fin de una Pandemia
Un juego de manos mortal
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SmarterHEPA @smarterhepa.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Picking the right sized purifier for your space doesn’t have to be complicated! Here's how to pick the right one in 3 extremely easy steps (plus a cheat-sheet at the end 😉) 🧵
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
There are clean air lending libraries around the country!! Two new ones just added to the map (Bay Area, CA and Boise, ID) bit.ly/cleanairmap
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☁️ Clean Air Lending Libraries ☁️ - Google My Maps
This is a map tracking all of the Clean Air lending libraries around the world! If you don't see one in your city, go to cleanairclub.org to download a guide on starting one yourself.
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SmarterHEPA @smarterhepa.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Support the grassroots organizations that are distributing free masks to folks in L.A., and connect your friends with them. 😷 @maskblocla.bsky.social @cleanairla.bsky.social @ktownforall.org Airgasmic LA The ACE Coalition
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
If the wildfires are reminding you that you need to get a purifier for your home, check out this list of state-by-state purifier discounts we compiled: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Purifier Discounts by State
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
☁️ FREE PURIFIERS ☁️ Do you live in Boyle Heights, East L.A., or Commerce? The South Coast AQMD is giving out free air purifiers for your home to clear the air of wildfire smoke, pollution, and airborne pathogens. bit.ly/AQMD-purifiers
Free air purifiers for residents of Boyle Heights, East LA, and Commerce. Bit.ly/aqmd-purifiers. There are 2 white purifiers shown and the clean air club logo.
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SmarterHEPA @smarterhepa.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
We were honored to donate air purifiers to volunteers on the ground in L.A. working to clean the air at wildfire evacuation centers around the city. Working with Clean Air LA, Airgasmic LA, The ACE Coalition, and @cleanairclub.bsky.social, we got over 20 purifiers placed (and counting)!
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
We've been working the past 3 days on a purifier donation to Clean Air LA from our friends at @smarterhepa.bsky.social, and everything arrived yesterday! Many high-powered purifiers are now in evacuation shelters around Los Angeles, cleaning the air of wildfire smoke & airborne pathogens. 🩵
Two masked people stand in a courtyard assembling various white boxy air purifiers from Smarter HEPA. There are open cardboard boxes and purifiers in various states of assembly. The California sun is shining through the foliage.
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
🎸 Musicians in LA: 🎹 The Guitar Center Foundation is replacing instruments lost in the fires up to $1,500. Link to apply is below: guitarcenterfoundation.org/fires/
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Fires | Guitar Center Music Foundation
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
For @motherjones.com, I interviewed a Covid-19 mask organizer about his experience handing out masks to keep his community safe during LA wildfires–at a time when masks have become villainized. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Wildfire smog is deadly—but LA's Covid mask organizers have it covered
Angelenos are stepping in to make sure their communities can breathe.
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
If purifiers near you in LA are sold out, this is a good opportunity to get a discounted one faster than am*zon can ship it
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Imagine if part of the federal gov's early response to the pandemic was to get a HEPA and carbon air purifier into every household - those would be doing double duty right now in LA protecting people from Covid AND wildfire smoke. See how every problem intersects?
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Is now a good time to mention that last month over 25 Los Angeles schools rejected our offers of completely free air purifiers for every single classroom on their campuses?
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Once again, the people who study risk for insurance companies (whose bottom lines depend on accurate understandings of pandemic-related excess mortality) are pointing out that we're looking at 10 more years of covid and covid-related deaths. www.swissre.com/institute/re...
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The future of excess mortality after COVID-19 | Swiss Re
The future of excess mortality after COVID-19
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Attention abled people: it's time to step up and support our loved ones and comrades who have Long Covid and ME/CFS!! There are over 400 million people living with Long Covid today, and many millions more living with ME/CFS. Pick one or two from this list and make it happen!
50+ ways to show up for people with Long Covid and ME/CFS. Nobody left behind! The clean air club cloud logo is in the bottom right.
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
50 more artists have joined in the last few days! 🎉
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
If you're looking for covid-cautious artists to collaborate with in the new year, join our Artist Connect group 😀 Almost 500 artists around the world have joined already! airtable.com/appxqeWAid7w...
A drawing of two abstract semicircle shapes connected by a black squiggle line. It reads "Clean Air Club Artist Connect" The color palette is green and blue.
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
An article from Clean Air Club's founder: on pandemic "ends", capitalism, and getting us all back to work. emilysdupree.substack.com/p/manufactur...
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Manufacturing the End of a Pandemic
A deadly sleight of hand
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
"While abled people scoffed and continually listed the ways they differed from the dead, I never felt the need to do this. I still don’t. I simply mourn them. I think most disabled people do." A beautiful essay from @juliadoubleday.bsky.social
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
We donated another XL purifier to the Chicago Tool Library!! If we're ever fully booked, or your event isn't eligible for our library loans, head over to the tool library and borrow theirs. 💙
A smiling dog sits next to two white boxy purifiers sitting on the ground of a warehouse.
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
We're so proud of what we've accomplished this year! Through an entirely volunteer-led effort, we've purified the air for thousands of people, distributed masks and high-quality tests, and redistributed 10% of the donations we receive to our comrades with LC/ME/CFS.
A 2024 Wrapped, "A year of cleaner air" title page for Clean Air Club. There's a picture of two masked people closing their eyes and thrashing around in a crowd, clearly enjoying music.There's a picture of a laptop and a pluslife machine. Two masked people are pictured on the laptop screen. The stats read: $618 redistributed to Long Covid / ME mutual aid. 24 Pluslife and Metrix test kits redistributed to the community.A masked person stands at the mic next to a white boxy purifier. There are abstracted shapes collaged around them. The stats show: 686 purifiers booked at Chicago events. 1,800 free masks distributed. 240 pay-what-you-can molecular tests distributed.A group of masked people stand together and pose for a group photo. There are abstracted shapes collaged on the page. Stats read: 39% of bookings were mask required. 15% of bookings had a virtual option. 73% of bookings were wheelchair accessible. We are aiming for even higher numbers here next year.
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
We'll be on this app now, too!! Stay tuned for a steady upload of a lot of our past guides, threads, etc.
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Amelia Diehl (she/her) @adiehl.bsky.social · 24/05/2024
In my first piece for Yes! Magazine, I wrote about the grassroots clean air movement that began with @cleanairclub.bsky.social and has grown to more than 20 local air filter lending libraries! www.yesmagazine.org/issue/access...
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Reclaiming Our Air
While the government has declared the COVID-19 pandemic over, clean air clubs are still working hard to keep people safe.
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