Dan Sinker
Dan Sinker — Writer, designer, and maker
Writer and multimedia artist on journalism, community building, and indie media.
dansinker.comDan Sinker writes about community building, grassroots organizing, and the things that happen when people decide to make something together. His blog is hands-on and personal — recent posts document everything from designing alert systems for neighborhoods to navigating the logistics of DIY manufacturing. He writes like someone who believes in showing up and doing the work, not just talking about it.
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On Joy and Resistance
That's what I'm fucking talking about. As she was leaving the ice after her gold-medal winning performance this week, figure skater Alysa Liu turned to the camera that was inches from her face and, beaming, yelled "That's what I'm fucking talking about." It was a moment of pure, unadulterated joy. The joy of accepting who you truly are, of no longer conforming to the boundaries that have constrained you. The joy of being free. Liu's story has been told so many times now that I probabl...
Whistle Up 2: Rise of the Whistle Goblins
This is about 300 tiny Penne whistle printed in three colorful batches, plus a heart. Last November, as the federal occupation of Chicago was winding down and the occupation of Minneapolis had not yet begun, I wrote a piece called "Whistle Up," about the strategic use of whistles by anti-ICE observers and organizers that included advice on how to procure whistles for your own community. This post serves as a sequel and update, written three months later. You've heard the whistles by...
Foundational Texts: Jenny Holzer's Truisms
Words all the way up. (pic CC by beggs ) Foundational Texts is a new monthly essay series for 2026 looking at some of the culture that shaped me and how it still resonates today. This is the first of 12 monthly installments. I still remember standing there, watching words scroll by on a long LED display: ALL THINGS ARE DELICATELY INTERCONNECTED / ALWAYS STORE FOOD / ANGER OR HATE CAN BE A USEFUL MOTIVATING FORCE / ANY SURPLUS IS IMMORAL ... on and on, blue LEDs reflecting on the floor below th...
We Are All We Have
A peek into the printer that runs for 15 hours a day in my basement. In the early days of Covid, when nobody knew anything—when we washed our mail, when everything seemed dangerous, when nothing was available—I made masks. Hundreds of them, a sewing machine permanent on the only table in our small house. I'd bag them and take them to friends and neighbors, tossing them onto their porches and stoops. Eventually, when I felt OK going into the post office, I'd mail them to groups that needed them....
Strength and Hope Amid the Year’s Cold Start
Hey, maybe you are struggling here at the beginning of the year, a year that has not started easy after a year that never let up. I know I am. Every day feels like a fresh hell and every day it's more and more clear that the only ones who are going to stand up for us is us. Same as it ever was, for certain, but it feels all the more stark in the cold of mid-January made colder still by the ICE killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis last week. But here's the thing to remember, even amidst all this:...
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