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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:Day Of Resistance To Trans Genocide March and Resistance Rally at Capitol Square
DESCRIPTION:This preview is adapted from “Now\, Not Later\, Is The Time to Speak Up For Trans People\,” initially published in Emily Mills’ newsletter\, Grist From The Mills. \nIf you’re in the Madison area on Saturday\, March 18\, a grassroots group of people is organizing a Day Of Resistance To Trans Genocide that aims to raise awareness and drive action to oppose the onslaught of anti-LGBTQ\, particularly anti-trans\, legislation and rhetoric that’s begun to swamp our state and country. \nThe event will begin at or near the Wisconsin State Capitol with a march at 2:30 p.m.\, followed by a rally with trans and non-binary speakers. It’ll be a great way to show solidarity\, get connected with other people engaged in the work\, and find resources and support. Here’s the Facebook listing for the event—which is worth checking up on because the final route of the march and exact location of the rally is still to be determined. And here are some notes about safety: \n\n Wear a mask if at all possible. There’s still a pandemic on\, and we want to help protect our immune compromised and disabled community. Masks can also help prevent having your picture taken by possible anti-trans counter-protesters who could use your image for making threats/harassment/doxxing.\nHaving a protest buddy is always a good plan. Someone you can check in with before\, during\, and after the event to make sure everyone is accounted for and for moral support.\nSome masks\, water\, snacks\, etc. will be provided for by organizers but also please bring your own and/or some to share if you can. Wear comfortable shoes or boots for walking\, and/or plan for transportation through a short (~1 mile) march.\nIn the unlikely event of disruption or police involvement\, have your phone’s biometrics switched off (police can make you use the thumbprint unlock option to get into your phone but they can’t force you to use your PIN)\, and keep the number of a legal help group written down in your pocket/on your person.\nDo not engage with counter-protesters\, when possible\, or if you do–keep it positive: the focus should be on the message of LGBTQ resistance\, rights\, and joy. \n\nWhether or not you can make this particular event\, I strongly implore you to seek out any and all ways of getting involved: speak out\, contact your legislators\, support LGBTQ-led organizations doing the work (with your time\, your money\, your skills\, or whatever you can offer). This is a nationwide and also deeply local issue. And it is URGENT. \nOne specific (and fun!) way to help? Tune in for and donate to my friend Mercury Stardust’s upcoming Tik-Tok-a-Thon to raise money for trans healthcare. The event runs March 30 through 31\, but you can donate in advance here (and learn more about what the money will do). Then be sure to tune in via the Tik Tok and/or Instagram accounts of Mercury or her co-host\, Jory\, for the livestream! \n—Emily Mills
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/day-of-resistance-to-trans-genocide-march-and-resistance-rally-at-capitol-square/
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CATEGORIES:Politics
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SUMMARY:Greater Madison Music City Music Recovery Framework Release Party at Café Coda
DESCRIPTION:The Greater Madison Music City (GMMC) project grew out of years-long efforts to address racial disparities in the local music community\, especially the lack of resources and opportunities for hip-hop artists and musicians of color. Under the GMMC banner\, Madison’s Urban Community Arts Network (UCAN) and the consulting firm Sound Diplomacy have collaborated over the past couple of years on a first-of-its-kind study of music in Madison and Dane County\, with funding from the City of Madison and Dane Arts. More specifically\, GMMC is focusing on the economics and policy landscape at play in local music.  \nGMMC’s first report\, released in summer 2021\, provided an overview of the economic impact of music in the area\, and painted a stark picture of who benefits and who misses out. On December 8\, GMMC will release its latest report\, which makes a number of recommendations for improving the economic lot of musicians\, building up music-driven tourism (arts funding and tourism are very intertwined in city government\, for good or ill)\, and leveling the playing field for marginalized audiences and artists. \nAt this Café Coda event\, GMMC will be presenting the report\, and hopefully initiating a lot more conversation—and of course there will be music\, from DJ M. White. The details of the report don’t become public until the start of the event\, but its findings and recommendations will be worth grappling with. Look for more detailed coverage from Tone Madison once that’s out. \n—Scott Gordon \nIllustration by Shasya Sidebottom.
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/greater-madison-music-city-music-recovery-framework-release-party-at-cafe-coda/
LOCATION:Café Coda\, 1224 Williamson St\, Madison\, WI\, 53703\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music,Politics
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SUMMARY:A Community Conversation And Performance: What Is A Woman? Reconstructing And Redefining at Memorial Union Rathskeller
DESCRIPTION:UW-Madison’s Social Justice Hub and the Trans Advocacy Madison group aim to unpack “how socially constructed definitions [of gender] are counterproductive” at this event\, which will combine a facilitated community discussion and an open mic. (Those interested in participating can reach out to the event’s organizers at sjhevents@studentaffairs.wisc.edu; the event is open to “performances of any type”). While the organizers didn’t want to simply put on a reactive event\, this one is especially welcome in light of the rash of transphobia Madison and the campus have experienced over the past year. From a full-on TERF conference to bigoted chalk messages to fascist goon Matt Walsh’s October visit to UW-Madison\, the need for community and solidarity is as urgent as it’s ever been. The poke at Walsh’s grossly manipulative propaganda film is hard to miss in the event’s title\, but the spirit of the event is more proactive than just a response. \n—Scott Gordon
URL:https://tonemadison.com/event/a-community-conversation-and-performance-what-is-a-woman-reconstructing-and-redefining-at-memorial-union-rathskeller/
LOCATION:Memorial Union Rathskeller\, 800 Langdon St\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Culture,Politics
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