Solidarity Market and Skill Share
In the face of this moment, where corporate monopolies and capitalist consumerism drain our neighborhoods of wealth, culture, and power, we want this Solidarity Market and Skill Share to serve as both protest and practice. Especially during the holiday season, it is a collective refusal to pour our resources into systems built on exploitation, and a recommitment to investing in each other.
By sharing this time and space together, we can exchange skills, knowledge, and care. Through art, conversation, and collective learning, we can dream and put into practice seeds of care and liberation.
Our goal is to uplift and prioritize makers, growers, and creators who hold deep commitments to the collective freedom of Queer, Trans, Disabled, Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Southwest Asians, and North Africans (SWANA), and people of the Global Majority whose lives and work are rooted in liberation.
We hope this marketplace serves as more than a place to buy; that it offers a small vision of what is and what could be—a reminder that we are stronger together.
We’ll have the following vendors and resources on site:
Chicago Abortion Fund will have information and zines available
Fiber arts by Yard Sales Against F4scism (@yardsalesagainstf4scism on Instagram)
Henna by Khat (@hennabykhat on Instagram)
K.V. Ceramics (@k.v.ceramics on Instagram)
Saboona Soap (@saboonasoap on Instagram)
Learn A Skill:
Raeghn Draper of the CHAAD Project will be showing folks how to make buttons and design lighters!
Gaby from The Groove Chicago will be sharing some somatic skills and grounding techniques!
Photo: Raeghn Draper
Photo: Mathilde Langevin
Vibe Check:
We’ll have homemade tamales available for purchase from a Rogers Park grandmother who can no longer vend due to 🧊
Immigrant and refugee farmers from Global Gardens will be selling homemade Burmese food
Our bestie, DJ Shey Bae (@sheybaedj on Instagram) will have curated tunes going the whole time 🎶🎧
😷 We are requiring folks to wear masks indoors (vendors and attendees). Free masks will be provided! 😷
This event is brought to you by Chicago United Solidarity Project (CUSP), Watermelon Sisters, and Women Unite!.
The event is free. Any and all donations received during the event will be distributed evenly among all three organizations.
CUSP creates radical and holistic systems of care to meet people’s basic needs while building solidarity and political power in and across Chicago’s frontline communities.
Watermelon Sisters has been providing aid to families and children in Gaza since October 2024. They’ve distributed 466,000 liters of water, 26,832 meals, 3,390 bottles of baby formula, and $9,600 in cash.
Women Unite! provides free and sliding-scale capacity building services to nonprofits and grassroots organizations committed to making our world a more just, more compassionate place.
