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SUMMARY:Madison Print & Resist Zinefest 2025
DESCRIPTION:We’ve been experimenting with print media here at Tone Madison\, so we’re thrilled to be a part of this year’s Madison Print & Resist Zinefest. The annual celebration of short-form print media features dozens of vendors from across the Midwest showcasing zines\, comics\, art prints\, and beyond. At Tone Madison‘s table\, we will be debuting a brand-new print issue that builds on one of our ongoing in-depth reporting projects. We’re not spilling all the details yet\, but you can expect a 12-page edition in half-letter zine format. It boasts a short guest essay we’re very excited about\, plus all-new design and illustrations from Tone Madison contributors Kay Reynolds and Andrew Mulhearn. \nWe will also have some free copies left of our December 2024 print edition\, which commemorates Tone Madison‘s 10th anniversary\, plus assorted merch. Stop by and talk with Tone Madison‘s editors throughout the day. And don’t be shy about sharing your feedback—it just might help us figure out where our adventures in print take us next. —Scott Gordon
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/madison-print-resist-zinefest-2025/
LOCATION:Central Library\, 201 West Mifflin Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Books,Culture,Politics,Tone Madison Events
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SUMMARY:"The Hivemind Swarmed" book talk at A Room of One's Own
DESCRIPTION:Tone Madison is excited to welcome oral historian and journalist David Wolinsky to Madison on Thursday\, March 6\, for a discussion about his 2024 book The Hivemind Swarmed: Conversations On Gamergate\, The Aftermath\, And The Quest For A Safer Internet. The event\, at A Room of One’s Own Bookstore\, 2717 Atwood Ave.\, starts at 6 p.m. and is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\nAt the event\, Tone Madison publisher Scott Gordon (that’s me!) will interview Wolinsky about this long-in-the-works oral history book\, and the work leading up to it. The Hivemind Swarmed draws on hundreds of interviews to bring together a multitude of perspectives about Gamergate\, an online harassment campaign\, which started in 2014\, and targeted women and minorities in the video gaming world. But it goes far beyond that episode\, exploring the depth of its impact and  implications for the wider world of culture and politics in the ensuing decade. (As the collapse of social media plays out in 2025\, part of the mourning should involve passing the mic to gamers\, who sounded the alarm over a decade ago.) Renowned documentary filmmaker Ken Burns blurbed the book\, writing: “Out of the transient and ephemeral effluvia of the internet comes something ivied\, revelatory\, permanent. Bravo.” \n\n\n\nI’ve known Wolinsky since 2008\, when we both worked at The A.V. Club\, and he’s also contributed to Tone Madison\, including a 2017 report about the local game-development world. Wolinsky\, who is based in the Chicago area\, has focused for more than a decade on independently holding up a much-needed mirror to the video game industry as a whole. His Don’t Die oral history series has gathered long-form interviews he conducted to surface conversations across a kaleidoscope of fields\, contrasting a wide array of game developers and player perspectives with those of journalists and other cultural figures. In 2016\, he self-published a series of in-depth reports on labor practices in the games world. (Full disclosure: I edited that series.) This was ahead of the curve: at the time\, not a lot of publications were interested in this kind of reporting. Today\, unions are a much more prominent force in video games. And it’s become more common to find great journalism about labor in games\, both in legacy media outlets and small upstart publications like the mighty Aftermath. One of the pivotal developments happened right in our backyard\, when workers at Middleton-based Raven Software successfully organized a union in 2022. \n\n\n\nSo\, we’ll have plenty to talk about. Even if you don’t pay much attention to video games\, chances are you’ll find the conversation about online subcultures and their sometimes frightful\, outsized power interesting. (Especially if you’ve been concerned about questions like\, “What is the internet doing to us?”) We hope you can join us. For now\, if you’re curious to learn more\, you can also listen to Sara Gabler’s October 2024 interview with Wolinsky for WORT-FM’s A Public Affair. —Scott Gordon \n\n \nWORT 89.9FM Madison · Searching for Accountability in the Gaming Industry
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/the-hivemind-swarmed-book-talk-at-a-room-of-ones-own/
LOCATION:A Room of One’s Own\, 2717 Atwood Avenue\, Madison\, 53704\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Culture,Politics,Tone Madison Events
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SUMMARY:WisCon 46 at Madison Concourse Hotel and Central Library
DESCRIPTION:WisCon launched in 1977\, with the goal of tackling “feminist and pointedly left-leaning topics” in science fiction\, that other sci-fi gatherings barely acknowledge. Over the years\, it has welcomed to Madison several of the all-time great sci-fi and fantasy writers: Octavia E. Butler\, Samuel R. Delany\, Nnedi Okorafor\, Kim Stanley Robinson… and the list really does go on. Just as importantly\, WisCon has become a community in and of itself. Attendees from all over gather in Madison annually over Memorial Day Weekend for readings\, panels\, workshops\, and the bestowing of the annual Otherwise Award. It was abundantly clear just how many people in how many places care deeply about WisCon when\, in 2021\, organizers held an emergency fundraising campaign. The fundraiser succeeded\, with vocal support from across the diverse ranks of SFF writers working today. \nSince then\, convention organizers have worked to make the convention more inclusive. They’ve also announced that the con will take a break in 2024 to let its all-volunteer leadership recharge for the future. But for 2023\, the schedule is packed with sessions in the Madison Concourse Hotel’s conference rooms. This year’s WisCon will also keep up the tradition of an opening-night reading\, featuring two guests of honor\, that is free and open even to those who aren’t registered for the con proper. That’s Thursday\, May 25 at 6 p.m. at the Central Library.  \nThis year’s guests are Rivers Solomon and Martha Wells\, and I’m particularly excited to finally get to hear Solomon read. Their 2017 debut novel\, An Unkindness Of Ghosts\, takes place on a generation ship where theocratic tyrants rule over a stratified society of rich whites and a brutally exploited Black underclass. It’s very explicitly the antebellum South in space—humanity recommitting to hierarchy\, cruelty\, and control even as it seeks a second chance among the stars. Its protagonist\, Aster\, is a queer\, neurodivergent outsider among the oppressed\, rebelling against the ship’s viciously regimented social order. It’s devastatingly powerful. So are the two novels that followed An Unkindness Of Ghosts\, 2019’s The Deep (great as a standalone book\, also great as part of a multi-media collaboration with hip-hop group clipping.) and 2021’s Sorrowland. Wells’ body of work spans dozens of sci-fi and fantasy novels\, including the Murderbot Diaries series\, whose 10th installment\, System Collapse\, is due out in November. \n—Scott Gordon \n \nPhoto of Rivers Solomon by Wasi Daniju.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/wiscon-46-at-madison-concourse-hotel-and-central-library/
LOCATION:Madison Concourse Hotel\, 1 West Dayton Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Culture
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SUMMARY:Storytelling As Advocacy In The Beloved Community at A Room of One's Own
DESCRIPTION:Madison-based author Tegan Nia Swanson’s 2022 debut novel\, Things We Found When The Water Went Down\, starts with the basic elements of a murder mystery: a body\, the cops\, a suspect. From there\, Swanson spirals into the tangled lore of a family and a place. The decaying mine town of Beau Caelais and the Inland Sea it sits on are familiar stand-ins for any number of post-industrial places along the Great Lakes. The map Swanson provides in the book will also remind Madisonians of a less-great but still beloved lake.  \nSwanson fills this setting with an uncanny blend of small-town grudges and righteously wrathful magic. As teenage protagonist Lena Abernathy tries to understand why her mother was arrested for the murder (then escaped from jail and disappeared)\, she uncovers her share of petty human secrets\, but connects with forces far more vast and terrible and beautiful. Swanson’s non-linear storytelling approach lets the reader get richly immersed in the book’s overlapping themes: deep-seated cultures of misogynist violence\, environmental degradation\, and the resilient chosen families queer people build in a hostile world. \nThat’s all just a hint of the depths\, and the depths beyond the depths\, that the novel explores. Things We Found When The Water Went Down reads like a scrapbook of its own mythology. Between passages that Lena narrates in first-person\, other characters leave behind interview transcripts\, newspaper clippings\, cryptic notes\, stately poetic declarations. It’s an approach that may gradually draw in readers who enjoy fantasy novels\, or immersive piece-together-the-story video games like Gone Home and What Remains Of Edith Finch.  \nAt this event\, a fundraiser for Freedom Inc. and UNIDOS (a Madison non-profit serving Latino survivors of domestic violence)\, Swanson will take part in a panel discussion with Freedom Inc.’s Jessica Williams\, UNIDOS’ Virginia Gittens Escudero\, and City of Madison Poet Laureate Angela Trudell Vasquez. Swanson and Vasquez also both work at End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin. The panel\, titled “Storytelling As Advocacy In The Beloved Community\,” will likely draw connections between the novel’s exploration of violence against women and all the panelists’ day-to-day work.  \nOn May 18\, a Room of One’s Own will also be donating 10 percent of all its in-store and online sales to Freedom Inc. and UNIDOS. \n—Scott Gordon \n \nWORT 89.9FM Madison · Madison Book Beat: Tegan Nia Swanson on “Things We Found When The Water Went Down”
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/storytelling-as-advocacy-in-the-beloved-community-at-a-room-of-ones-own/
LOCATION:A Room of One’s Own\, 2717 Atwood Avenue\, Madison\, 53704\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Culture
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SUMMARY:Madison Print & Resist Zinefest 2023 at Central Library
DESCRIPTION:Resisting with printmaking\, Madison Print & Resist Zinefest is back for its 20th year. Regional artists\, writers\, and printmakers will gather to celebrate the importance of creative and political expression in an array of print media. The event is hosted these days by Communication\, the Madison Public Library’s Bubbler program\, the creative agency UnderBelly\, and ArtWorking\, a local non-profit that works with artists with disabilities. It’s the latest iteration of a pointedly radical print expo that’s evolved through various names\, venues\, and organizing teams over the years. \nAmong the more than 60 exhibiting presses and artists this year are body books\, which creates gender-inclusive and trauma-informed zines in Madison; Late Night Copies\, a Minneapolis-based micro-press that centers queer voices; and Rooster Cow Media\, a micro-label and small press based in Chicago. \nThe individual artists present include Rachel DL\, who writes about disability and chronic illness;\, Dullahan Daydream\, who draws funky little creatures; and Ty Springer\, who creates queer comics. \nThere will be a Zinefest Afterparty at the Bur Oak on April 22  at 7 p.m. with music from Nate Meng & The Stolen Sea and alt-queercore musician Doug Rowe of Woke Up Crying. Admission to the show is on a $5 to $15 sliding scale. \nMadison Print & Resist is also still asking community members to look out for each other’s safety: “Even if not mandated at the time\, there will be strong encouragement for social distancing and masking\,” the event’s website notes. \n—Hannah Keziah Agustin \nPrint & Resist poster art by Jaundy Brunswick.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/madison-print-resist-zinefest-2023-at-central-library/
LOCATION:Central Library\, 201 West Mifflin Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
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SUMMARY:Michelle Zauner at Barrymore
DESCRIPTION:It’s easy to forget that a book can be as lyrical as a song when one doesn’t have an audible melody accompanying the reading experience. Michelle Zauner’s 2021 memoir Crying In H Mart\, however\, proves the indelible\, inherent musicality of literature.  \nIn her debut book\, Zauner—known as Japanese Breakfast to legions of indie-pop fans—tells stories of growing up and subsequently growing distant from her Koreanness. When Zauner’s mother\, her central connection to Korea\, is diagnosed with terminal cancer\, she is forced to reckon with and reclaim her identity at age 25. \nCrying In H Mart will feel familiar to fans of Japanese Breakfast\, accustomed as they are to Zauner’s penchant for transforming the gravest feelings of love\, loss\, and regret into verse of complex sensitivity. Whether she is exploring what it means to be Korean in America\, the power of food to connect people\, mother-daughter relationships\, or the trials of adolescence\, attendees at this Wisconsin Book Festival talk (moderated by Emily Mills) are sure to recognize a form of literary talent that facilitates kinship across boundaries and social categories. \n“I remember these things clearly because that was how my mother loved you\, not through white lies and constant verbal affirmation\, but in subtle observations of what brought you joy\, pocketed away to make you feel comforted and cared for without even realizing it\,” she writes of her mother’s ability to remember just how much salt someone wanted in their broth\, or if they hated tomatoes.  \nThis Wisconsin Book Festival-presented talk will likely not be the last time people hear and indulge in the narratives of Crying In H Mart: Will Sharpe\, of recent White Lotus notoriety\, is slated to direct its film adaptation. As a Japanese-English filmmaker himself\, Sharpe told People that he found the memoir “universal in its specificity.”  \n—Alisyn Amant \n \nPhoto by Barbora Mrazkova.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/michelle-zauner-at-barrymore/
LOCATION:Barrymore\, 2090 Atwood Avenue\, Madison\, WI\, 53704\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books,Culture
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SUMMARY:Line Breaks Festival at Memorial Union and A Room of One's Own
DESCRIPTION:The annual Line Breaks Festival offers an ever-shifting testament to the bold visions of the students in UW-Madison’s First Wave program. Rooted in hip-hop and spoken-word\, First Wave attracts artists who tend to mix together all sorts of disciplines\, from theater to dance to fashion to visual art. As a result\, the alumni who’ve come through the program since it launched in 2007 cover extensive ground: Poet Danez Smith\, Black Arts Matter Festival founder Shasparay Irvin\, writer/musician Hiwot Adilow\, dancer/rapper/filmmaker James Gavins\, blisteringly focused MCs like Defcee and CRASHprez\, and that’s barely scratching the surface. \nThe Line Breaks schedule is a bit different each time out\, but you can always count on showcases of multiple works from current First Wave students\, alums\, and some exciting guests. Visiting this year from Chicago is poet and scholar Eve L. Ewing\, whose published works include the poetry/visual art collection Electric Arches and the nonfiction book Ghosts In The Schoolyard\, which examines the decimation of Chicago’s south-side public schools under the mayoral administration of Rahm Emanuel. Another can’t-miss guest this year is Chicago singer-songwriter\, poet\, and playwright Jamila Woods—if you haven’t heard her expansive take on R&B on 2019’s LEGACY! LEGACY!\, do yourself a kindness and catch up. \nRegistration is already full for a March 30 talk with Ewing and poet/UW-Madison professor Paul Tran at A Room of One’s Own—but you can still register for the waitlist. Either way\, don’t fret: The real heart of Line Breaks is the performance showcases\, taking place this year on March 31 and April 1\, both nights at 6 p.m. in the Union Theater. Across these two nights\, performers will include Diya Abbas\, Azura Tyabji\, Jackson Neal\, Shasparay Irvin\, Nate Marshall\, Woods\, and Ewing\, among others. Trying to succinctly sum up just what you’ll be seeing here is beside the point. Instead\, just set aside any expectations and get ready to embrace a remarkably fertile overlap of words\, movement\, music\, narrative\, and the myriad ways they can be combined. \n—Scott Gordon \nIllustration by Shaysa Sidebottom.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/line-breaks-festival-at-memorial-union-and-a-room-of-ones-own/
LOCATION:Wisconsin Union Theater\, 800 Langdon Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
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