Inga

BACK IN STOCK! via a second edition + stunning printing by the dear homies at @neutral_colors_magazine via Yokohama 🫆 🪢 🖨️ Mimeograph Chronicles 謄写版クロニクル by Bruno Ruiz Nava Published in collaboration with Red de Reproducción y Distribución (@erreerrede ) 🇲🇽 👹 🇯🇵 🌀 a result of research on the origin and uses of the mimeograph, or gariban and toshaban as it is known in Japan, during a residency at and with generous support from the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum. The mimeograph tool is a simple, portable press made of wood and shaped like a briefcase, containing inside a mesh frame and a roller. Easy to transport and ideal for small organizations—schools, offices, or political groups—it enables mobility and autonomy in printing, allowing its users to produce materials and grassroots communication quickly. 📄 🧰 ♻️ Originally introduced at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago by Thomas Edison, whose Japanese counterpart Shinjiro Horii's concurrent contribution’s were overlooked as an essential part of the process, having developed within the context of Japanese paper making the stencil paper needed for the use of the machine. Through a visit to the Daito Tosha-Technical Archive Museum in Gifu Prefecture, a museum which exhibits an extensive collection and history of and history of mimeograph printing, the pamphlet recounts the history of gariban in Japan as an industrial, artistic, and pedagogical tool. In the latter half of the book, and referencing the writing of KuroDalaiJee, the work of 1960s Japanese underground artist Asai Masuo is featured, a pioneer of hippie communes and what’s known as the mini-komi zine community—“a pre-digital social network.” 🪨 🖨️ Asai’s work with coal mine labor movements and his pedagogical approach to children’s art, such as via the publication series Kuroi kaku (Black Core, 1962), is highlighted. We fight our own fight. Rejecting all interference from adults We stand on autonomous ground We continue fighting To fulfill our promise of destruction and creation Rooted in the children’s own fundamental desire – “Itan no kodomo tachi no sengen” (Manifesto of the Heresy Children) by Asai Masuo, 1963

newly arrived books and beloved restocks 🆕 📚 ➕ ♻️ Fridays* and Saturdays 1-7pm *closing a little early, at 6pm today

Open today/Saturday 1-7pm 🪁📓🔡🌀with photos of two typographical expansive @inventorypress titles - A Queer Year of Love Letters: Alphabets Against Erasure by Nat Pyper, a toolkit for writing and remembering queer and trans histories through the printed traces of countercultural queers + Clara Istlerová: A Life Among Letters, the first publication in the US to delve into the design landscape of the former Czechoslovakia through the lens of Czech designer Clara Istlerová (born 1944). @natpyper @anezka_minarikova

closed for may day (friday) 🚩 1pm union park

👋 Swing by for independent bookstore day at Inga 📚🐛 ~ today only $20 for Paulo Freire inspired “reading the world” Inga hats🧢 & a special discount for in store shoppers. Cookies are gone but plenty of publications and people for company!

newly arrived books and beloved restocks 🆕 📚 ➕ ♻️ Fridays and Saturdays 1-7pm 🌱 🛖

THIS WEEKEND: two midwest events, i’ll be reading from my forthcoming sci-fi novelina Zurdo..! soon to be published by specific.place. on sunday i’ll be reading with @doyounoapoet and @tongue_and_liver , very excited!! details below: Zurdo..! is a science fiction fantasy about a loser looking for a lost Vaginal Davis film in a post-literate society. Edited by @d_m_st_an and @_acertainparty . Art by @tongue_and_liver for the cover 💋📕 SAT, APRIL 18 2 PM The Green Gallery @thegreengallery 1500 N Farwell Ave, Milwaukee, WI Readers to be announced SUN, APRIL 19 5 PM Inga Bookshop @ingabooks 1740 W 18th St, Chicago, IL Readings by Noa Micaela Fields & Silas Chen

🆕 📚 ➕ ♻️ newly arrived books and beloved restocks, Fridays and Saturdays 1-7pm 🌱 🛖

Join us! on April 18th, 7pm at Inga Bookshop where we are hosting a film screening of LAS MUERTES MÁS BELLAS DEL MUNDO, a documentary film that tells the story of the Salvadoran diaspora in Washington, D.C. through the eyes of Salvadoran artists who make art out of war. 🦋👺 The film follows a poet’s journey to find acceptance and healing through his writing, interweaving a collection of artist portraits—a photographer, a dancer and musicians—with a wider collective of voices and archival images to tell a compelling and intimate narrative of a community resolving trauma and finding identity, salvation, and joy. 🇸🇻 $5-10 suggested donation for solidarity organizations in El Salvador 🪢

CLOSED this Friday OPEN on Saturday (1-7pm) 🛖 📚 🌱

🌞🛖📚🌱 1-7pm #fridays #saturdays

We are very happy to be hosting an in-person Film Screening and Fundraiser for the Revolutionary Women’s League in Chicago! FILMS: It Still Rotates (1978) and The Hour of Liberation has Arrived (1974) Support them as they prepare for the commencement of their youth program: The Young Stars ⭐️ Saturday April 4th from 7-9pm With our dear friends at Inga Books! 1740 w 18th St RSVP at the link in our bio with a suggested donation of $5-$20. ‼️$30 includes food and a booklet of poems and speeches from members of the CP(M)K along with reflections by members of the supporting organizations :) Registration is not required for this event! Only suggested. Hope to see you there!!!!