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@redemmas.org
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Worker-owned radical bookstore and cafe in Baltimore, the greatest city in America

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Amaka Okechukwu @phdamaka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For those in Baltimore, I’ll be in convo with Matt Birkhold at Red Emma’s about his new book on October 22. It’s free but you can rsvp here redemmas.org/events/matt-...
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Matt Birkhold presents "Black Power Practice: Theory, Practice, and Activist Intellectuals in Detroit's Black Power Movement" in conversation with Amaka Okechukwu
BLACK POWER PRAXIS shows how four groups of activist-intellectuals—James and Grace Lee Boggs, Richard and Milton Henry, Reverend Albert Cleage, and a group of college students called Uhuru—shifted the...
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Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
📣 Thursday event in Baltimore 📣 Tejasvi Nagaraja — talks with Stuart Schrader on Tej's new book — "Troop Movements" Thurs, Oct 1 at 7p — at Red Emma's @redemmas.org @tejnagaraja.bsky.social @stschrader1.bsky.social RSVP today — and come through on Thursday! redemmas.org/events/tejas... 📕📕📕
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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 29/09/2026
Continuing our quest to promote book events without the computer, this month with a beautiful bonus essay about Baltimore on the flipside from @margaret.bsky.social
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E G @edgy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yes 👯‍♀️👯‍♀️ bmore queenside 👯‍♀️👯‍♀️ this Sunday at red Emma's 2-4pm one FAQ: are trans men welcome? YES. As are non-binary folks. Bmore Queenside is meant to be a safer, more welcoming environment for LGBT+&women than traditional chess clubs can be.
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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Red Emma's is hosting me and the inimitable Tash Lennard to talk about her holy anticipated new essay collection ✨✨
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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What an honor it was for Mahmoud Khalil to start his book tour here in Baltimore this evening, for @redemmas.org to host it, and for @premthakker.bsky.social to moderate such an inspiring conversation for us to witness
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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 25/09/2026
Getting started with Mahmoud Khalil’s book event, in conversation with @premthakker.bsky.social, at the beautiful Parkway Theatre.
An incredible old movie palace, restored in ways that preserve the traces of time. Two men sit on the stage, with the words “no land to stand on: notes from detention” projected behind them
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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Do I know anyone in Baltimore? I'm not sure. But I'd love to meet you if you're there! Please join me and brilliant @reproutopia.bsky.social to discuss my book, On Un/Certainty ( @versobooks.bsky.social ) & more, at @redemmas.org 10/21! redemmas.org/events/natas...
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Natasha Lennard presents "On Un/Certainty: The Uses of Doubt in Dangerous Times" in conversation w/Sophie Lewis
We live in uncertain times. But what does uncertainty mean for our ability to act?
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
this week's post is about talking to @mollycrabapple.bsky.social at the baltimore book festival, and about the idea that social movements offer us culture, from the haymarket anarchists to the labor bund to the baltimore book festival and @redemmas.org. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/the-greate...
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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 23/09/2026
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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 23/09/2026
The book festival kicked our ass, and we have a big offsite event to run, so in the interest of giving ourselves as workers a little rest, we are going to be closed on Thursday, 9/24.
Mostly what it says in the post, but also with a cute doodle of a little cat.
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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Very excited to dig into @tejnagaraja.bsky.social’s new book Troop Movements! We will be in conversation at @redemmas.org next Thurs 10/1.
Troop Movements book
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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
People are hiding at home, afraid to go outside and encounter ICE. They're struggling to find food and holding kids out of school, as friends and family are disappeared in bunches. This is now the reality of daily life across the U.S., and I took a snapshot of what it looks like in one community:
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“We're Afraid on a Daily Basis”: How a Maryland Sheriff Targeted Immigrants Long Before ICE Raids Spiked - Bolts
Frederick County’s sheriff turned his office into a force multiplier for ICE before such collaboration became commonplace. As he again faces voters this year, the harm to immigrant communities is impo...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
we have a story coming out tomorrow I hope every one in Maryland reads, to know about what’s happening in their state
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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 21/09/2026
Excited to announce that @premthakker.bsky.social will be joining Mahmoud Khalil in conversation at our event this Thursday at the Parkway Theater—if you'd like to attend, we have a waitlist going and will be letting people in until every single seat is filled: withfriends.co/event/291584...
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9/24 - Mahmoud Khalil presents "No Land to Stand On: Notes from Detention" in conversation with Prem Thakker by Red Emma's
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Greater Baltimore DSA @baltimoredsa.org · 21/09/2026
Apartheid Free Baltimore will present on the US-backed occupation of Palestinian lands and its parallels to the US occupation of Puerto Rico and Baltimore! Join us at the Diaspora Pa'lante Collective and Black Alliance for Peace's panel and community discussion this Fri, 9/25 at 6pm at Red Emma's.
Resisting U.S. Occupation of Our Land: From Puerto Rico to Baltimore to Palestine. Friday, September 25th, 6pm. Red Emma’s 
3128 Greenmount Avenue, Baltimore. Join us for a conversation to resist the U.S. interconnected occupation of our lands: From Puerto rico to Baltimore to Palestine! Logos for Black Alliance for Peace and Diaspora Pa'lante Collective. In the background is an image of protestors with their fists up and people holding a Puerto Rican flag.White background with light blue and red candles and map of Puerto Rico. Hurricane Maria Vigil. Join us in honoring the thousands of Puerto Rican and Caribbean lives lost to Hurricane Maria. Invitation to bring flowers, photos of loved ones, and other offerings for our collective altar. Friday, September 25th, 6pm. Red Emma’s, 3128 Greenmount Ave, Baltimore, MD. Logos for Black Alliance for Peace and Diaspora Pa’lante Collective at the bottom.
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Maximillian Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Such an honor to know & be in the struggle for truth, life, & beauty with the great @mollycrabapple.bsky.social & @gilduran.com Read their books now! Thank you @redemmas.org & Baltimore Book Festival for bringing us all together, & thank you to everyone for coming out! We love you, & we will win ❤️✊🏽
Photo of Max (left) with Molly Crabapple (center) and Gil Durán (right) at Red Emma’s in Baltimore
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donnaenn.bsky.social @donnaenn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Great haul of books from @redemmas.org at the #BaltimoreBookFestival
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Jaisal Noor @jnoor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Tomorrow @redemmas.org‘s Book Festival Tent— learn the buried history of freedom fighters that wanted America to live up to its founding ideals— and were targeted by their own government
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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 19/09/2026
Kim Phillips-Fein and @lkspence.bsky.social talking about “A Country of Lords” and the long history of U.S. elite flirtation with the embrace of inequality
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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 19/09/2026
see yinz at 6pm!!
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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 19/09/2026
Buddies!! @intifadabatata.bsky.social is stuck in a travel snafu, so we are moving this conversation with @rahnealexander.com to 6PM today, Saturday, September 19 at Red Emma's! Come through and lets talk about queer Palestinian storytelling!! #homosexualintifada #freepalestine
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Maximillian Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Baltimore! So many incredible events happening this weekend at Baltimore Book Festival / @redemmas.org. Come down for all of it! And don't miss my Sunday (2pm) discussion with @gilduran.com on his new book THE NERD REICH: SILICON VALLEY FASCISM AND THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY. redemmas.org/events/gil-d...
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Gil Durán presents "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy" in conversation w/Maximillian Alvarez
A fearless and urgent chronicle of the tech-authoritarian movement from its early days in San Francisco politics to its current moment on the international stage, exploring the wild and dystopian ambi...
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My mother's family is from Baltimore. I've always considered Charm City a second home. Excited to bring #SaveASeatForMe to the Baltimore Book Festival, and especially to be in conversation with one of my fave thinkers, the Brilliant Jessica Marie Johnson. Thanks to the good folk at @redemmas.org.
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Baltimore Beat @baltimorebeat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
For more than 10 years, Baltimore’s Youth Poet Laureate Competition has empowered young people to speak their truth baltimorebeat.com/for-more-tha...
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For more than 10 years, Baltimore’s Youth Poet Laureate Competition has empowered young people to speak their truth
On a rainy Saturday afternoon at Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse in late April, bustling with people eating, working, and socializing, Marcellus Vinson is talking about prescription drugs and…
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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 18/09/2026
getting ready to talk with George Abraham at the Baltimore Book Festival come to @redemmas.org tomorrow at 3pm and get a load of this phenomenal, heartbreaking, and inspiring collection: HOMOSEXUAL INTIFADA: A QUEER PALESTINIAN ANTHOLOGY, out now from @interlinkbooks.bsky.social
it's me, wearing my baltimore guillotine shirt and my "are you mad at me?" hat reading HOMOSEXUAL INTIFADA: A QUEER PALESTINIAN ANTHOLOGY
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Writers in Baltimore Schools @writersinbmore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Join us on Sunday, September 20 for the launch of DOWN THE HATCH, an anthology of work by our youngest @baltcityschools.bsky.social writers created by our YouthWorks interns! Thank you to @redemmas.org for hosting at the Baltimore Book Festival!
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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 17/09/2026
We're getting set for the Baltimore Book Fest this weekend, but tonight we've got a special event highlighting work from writers who can't be there—because they've been swept up in the US mass incarceration regime w/ @apwa-prisonwitness.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org redemmas.org/events/eliza...
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Elizabeth Hinton presents "Harm and Punishment: Incarcerated Writers on Violence and the U.S. Prison" in conversation w/Vesla Weaver and Uhuru Rowe
Drawn from the American Prison Writing Archive, a pivotal anthology of essays by incarcerated writers about the prison’s role in perpetuating harm
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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 17/09/2026
We're getting ready for the Baltimore Book Fest this weekend, but tonight we've got a special event highlighting work from writers who can't be there—because they've been swept up in the US mass incarceration regime w/@apwa-prisonwitness.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org redemmas.org/events/eliza...
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Elizabeth Hinton presents "Harm and Punishment: Incarcerated Writers on Violence and the U.S. Prison" in conversation w/Vesla Weaver and Uhuru Rowe
Drawn from the American Prison Writing Archive, a pivotal anthology of essays by incarcerated writers about the prison’s role in perpetuating harm
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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm doing a book event at the Baltimore Book Fest @redemmas.org this weekend! I'll be in conversation with SKIZ Fernando, who's published books about hip hop culture, Wu-Tang, and DOOM. Join us! Saturday at Red Emmas at 5pm! Should be fun.
Image is a multi-colored (light green, dark green, orange, forest green--I think?) flyer for a book talk at the Baltimore Book Festival with SKIZ Fernando. A headshot of me appears on the left and SKIZ's headshot appears on the right. They are below my name in large letters "In conversation with SKIZ FERNANDO."

The important information: Saturday, September 19, 5PM on the Red Emma's Stage appears in white lettering. The address 3128 Greenmount Ave / redemmas.org appears below that. To the right of this information is an image of my book.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Big thanks to @redemmas.org in Baltimore for giving us the perfect tote bag for the End Times Fascism book tour. Out today! @astra.bsky.social naomiklein.org/end-times-fa...
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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 16/09/2026
Everybody needs to read End Times Fascism!
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Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸 @elizabethweill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
One woman I met outside Delaney Hall told me men inside the jail -- including her husband -- are denied medical care and have resorted to drinking their own urine to try to address infections. truthout.org/articles/thi...
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This Back to School Season, Kids Face a New Fear: ICE Taking Their Parents
More than 200,000 children in the US are estimated to have had a parent detained by ICE.
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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 15/09/2026
Baltimore Book Festival alert! @intifadabatata.bsky.social will be presenting "Homosexual Intifada: A Queer Palestinian Anthology" in conversation with @rahnealexander.com withfriends.co/event/292024...
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9/19 - George Abraham presents “Homosexual Intifada: a queer palestinian anthology” in conversation with rahne alexander by Red Emma's
Get tickets and support Red Emma's by becoming a member
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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Anyone who has a chance to go to @astra.bsky.social and @naomiaklein.bsky.social book tour for End Times Fascism needs to go. As someone who’s been catching Naomi’s book tours for almost two decades now, the way they can weave our various crises into a cohesive throughline is just unmatched
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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 13/09/2026
Helping @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social launch their book End Times Fascism tonight, in conversation with @lkspence.bsky.social, and with hundreds of friends and comrades in the room.
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Treesit Blocks US-Mexico Border Wall Construction for Six Weeks in Arizona - new report this week unicornriot.ninja/2026/treesit...
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Treesit Blocks US-Mexico Border Wall Construction for Six Weeks in Arizona - UNICORN RIOT
Santa Cruz County, AZ – On a cool, cloudy morning in the San Rafael Valley in Southern Arizona, a young person popped their head over the edge of a platform in a tree, perched fifty feet above the rol...
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
An incredible night. A terrific crowd. Red Emma's is so iconic. Check out the book at prh.com/peopleshistorian
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John Duda @johnduda.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Seriously don't wait if you want to catch this talk, there are just 18 tickets left!
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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 11/09/2026
We've moved Mahmoud Khalil's 9/24 talk to the Parkway Theatre because we filled up to capacity at the store in a few hours after announcing it. But we're quickly heading towards capacity in the new venue as well, so don't wait to get your ticket: withfriends.co/event/291584...
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9/24 - Mahmoud Khalil presents "No Land to Stand On: Notes from Detention" by Red Emma's
Get tickets and support Red Emma's by becoming a member
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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 11/09/2026
The one and only @edgeofsports.bsky.social breaking down the outsized life of people’s historian Howard Zinn in conversation with @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social tonight
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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Solidarity to everyone in a cage, and solidarity to everyone trying to smash the cages.
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Baltimore Beat @baltimorebeat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Events you can’t miss in What’s Poppin’ baltimorebeat.com/whats-poppin...
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What’s Poppin’ Issue #087
Claudia Rankine presents “Triage” in conversation with Kaye Wise Whitehead, Parkway Theatre, 5 W. North Avenue, Saturday, September 12 2026, 6:00 p.m. snfparkway.org Claudia Rankine’s 2014 book…
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Tonight, 7pm, at the legendary @redemmas.org bookstore in Baltimore, I'll be speaking alongside @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social about Howard Zinn and his titanic legacy. Please come on through!
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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 09/09/2026
Can't wait to get to hear from @susanstryker.bsky.social on our stage at the Baltimore Book Festival! baltimorebookfest.com/event/susan-...
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Baltimore folk! Please come on out this Thursday to go to the legendary @redemmas.org at 7pm and see us chop it up about Howard Zinn’s life and its lessons for today! Or pass the link to your fave Baltimorean. withfriends.co/event/287414...
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9/10 - Dave Zirin presents "The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn" in conversation w/ Maximillian Alvarez by Red Emma's
Get tickets and support Red Emma's by becoming a member
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 05/09/2026
h/t @thebaltimorebanner.com: ICE agents used violent and aggressive tactics to clear protestors in Frederick, Maryland last night.
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ICE agents violently clash with Frederick protesters after 2-day stakeout
Federal immigration agents violently clashed with protesters in Frederick on Friday night, using their vehicles to clear sidewalks and dragging protestors from the front porch of a home they attempted to enter, city officials said.
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
You know it's a strange political moment when @naomiaklein.bsky.social and I are on the cover of the Financial Times. Our piece explores how climate change is fueling a new form of futureless fascism, and the public investments needed to shift course. Gift link: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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John Duda @johnduda.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just finished this in advance of Mahmoud Khalil’s talk at @redemmas.org later this month. Heartbreaking clarity about what this country has become, if you read one book in 2026 this should be it.
A book lying on a table, “No Land To Stand 
On: Notes from Detention” by Mahmoud Khalil
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Drinka McGinka @dmcginka.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I fucking LOVE it! @redemmas.org
broadsheet from Red Emma’s in Baltimore
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