Freelance writer/reporter, @IATSE union stagehand, thrift hound, mom to twin preschoolers. Call me Kat.
Milwaukee, WI
Joined September 2008
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Love that @weischoice is bringing attention to this phenomenon. Managing ~stuff~ takes up an extraordinary amount of my time since becoming a parent. I also do nearly all my BN pickups myself. 🤷♀️
My piece on the gender imbalance of labor in Buy Nothing groups is up and guess what, moms bear the brunt of the work. Surprise! insider.com/facebook-buy-not…
"Whenever people ask me 'What's the best thing you ever found?"... I can say, 'My husband.'" #relationshipgoals
bbc.com/news/av/world-us-can…
For @CapTimes, I wrote about the "buy nothing" economy/community, along with a sidebar on touring the Dane County landfill (tours are free & open to the public — highly recommend!).
Call it freecyling, hippie Christmas or Buy Nothing — an underground economy with thousands of participants is flourishing around Madison. captimes.com/entertainment/c…
Katjusa Cisar retweeted
this quote has stayed with me since I read @Katjusa's reporting on grassroots canvassing in Milwaukee:
“If I feel safe enough, then I’ll bring up women’s rights.”
boltsmag.org/wisconsin-supre…
I wrote for @BoltsMag about GOTV efforts in Milwaukee for the April 4 #WISupremeCourt election: boltsmag.org/wisconsin-supre… Very grateful to editor @taniel for his shaping of this piece.
Katjusa Cisar retweeted
Judge sides with The Badger Project in public records lawsuit against #Wausau PD
#SunshineWeek
thebadgerproject.org/2023/03…
February was a good month for #buynothing in this house curbalert.substack.com/p/las…
I wrote about weed and taxes for the @Badger_Project_, citing research from @WisPolicyForum, @MULawPoll & @OSULawDEPC.
thebadgerproject.org/2023/03…
I lived just a few miles away when this happened and remember being devastated reading the short news item that appeared in the paper about it at the time. Such an important investigation by @msanchezMIA and @mrym_jml.
Last summer @mrym_jml and I began looking into the death of an 8-year-old Nicaraguan boy on a Wisconsin dairy farm. What we found was a story of an accumulation of failures in overlapping systems: immigration, labor, policing.
We hope you can read.
propublica.org/article/wisco…
Wellll, I'm outed in a national newspaper of record as a "complete Buy Nothing freak" who wears used underpants... ☠️ This story by @MauraJudkis was fun to read:
wapo.st/3liDSUI
Fascinating & nuanced story about shoplifting by @mrjdwalsh (found via @annehelen's newsletter): curbed.com/article/walgreens…
Read this when I was awake with insomnia at 2 a.m. and couldn't stop thinking about it. Scroll through all 81 pics and captions for the full ~experience~ ... it is a ride. vogue.com/slideshow/justine-…
Breaking my Twitter silence to let you know:
I started a @substack newsletter a while back about everyday thrifting in late-stage capitalism, and a new post went out today. Don't know where I'm going with it, but it's helping me think through life rn.
curbalert.substack.com/
From @KJezerMorton on what worries her about making a family into a brand: mothersundertheinfluence.sub…
* silent scream *
"Oh, and I love how you just assume that everyone has [HEALTH INSURANCE/RELIABLE WI-FI] and can easily [SEE A DOCTOR/LOG ON TO ZOOM] if they [GET SICK/HAVE AN ONLINE CLASS]." mcsweeneys.net/articles/here…
"Biden said to just simply Google tests near you. But that led me to what I experienced. And it’s not that simple. ... I don’t think every test center is created equal." usatoday.com/story/news/nati…
Katjusa Cisar retweeted
Can anyone explain to me — other than just basic Covid theater — why people are still "deep cleaning" as part of their Covid protocols
