Katjusa Cisar

Freelance writer/reporter, @IATSE union stagehand, thrift hound, mom to twin preschoolers. Call me Kat.

[Katjusa Cisar @Katjusa]

@MonsterRatPack @clhubes Ew. No. That would never fly in my group! In fact, we have a whole rule about how "everyone is worthy" and no one needs to prove their need/hardship, either in an ISO or when picking a recipient.

[Katjusa Cisar @Katjusa]

@jrburns @HappyWoman9 Immediately thought of you when I saw she had a memoir coming out. Looking forward to reading it.

[Katjusa Cisar @Katjusa]

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. 🤷‍♀️

[Sonia Weiser weischoice.bsky.social @weischoice]

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! https://t.co/5TYEfYDe7e

[Katjusa Cisar @Katjusa]

@scottgordonwi @CapTimes Lol 😇

[Katjusa Cisar @Katjusa]

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!).

[The Capital Times @CapTimes]

Call it freecyling, hippie Christmas or Buy Nothing — an underground economy with thousands of participants is flourishing around Madison. https://t.co/O3FR5bEtrb

[Katjusa Cisar @Katjusa]

"Whenever people ask me 'What's the best thing you ever found?"... I can say, 'My husband.'" #relationshipgoals

https://t.co/UWa2OSGgUc

[Taniel @Taniel]

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.”

https://t.co/dlpoNx19XK

[Katjusa Cisar @Katjusa]

Classic group text from the kids' 4k teacher this morning 🤗 🥴

[Katjusa Cisar @Katjusa]

I wrote for @BoltsMag about GOTV efforts in Milwaukee for the April 4 #WISupremeCourt election: https://t.co/igs9K4kxE2 Very grateful to editor @taniel for his shaping of this piece.

[The Badger Project @TheBadgerProj]

Judge sides with The Badger Project in public records lawsuit against #Wausau PD

#SunshineWeek
https://t.co/CZTUndfuma

[Katjusa Cisar @Katjusa]

February was a good month for #buynothing in this house https://t.co/WIbLUrOuuc

[Katjusa Cisar @Katjusa]

I wrote about weed and taxes for the @Badger_Project_, citing research from @WisPolicyForum, @MULawPoll & @OSULawDEPC.

https://t.co/Rtn5L71xIL

[Katjusa Cisar @Katjusa]

@farwent Because you're offering a scenario with reasonable concessions/allowances that he can accept or not accept. You're not demanding. (Also imo life cannot grind to a halt for every sniffle. We have tools at our disposal to mitigate risk.)

[Katjusa Cisar @Katjusa]

@farwent No.

[Katjusa Cisar @Katjusa]

@garrettbucks When I was 8 or 9 ('89 or '90), I was so into Prairie Home Companion that I would record it onto a cassette tape on my boombox. To listen to again later, I guess? Idk 🤣

[Katjusa Cisar @Katjusa]

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.

[Melissa Sanchez @msanchezMIA]

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.

https://t.co/Akr49iCDAq

[Katjusa Cisar @Katjusa]

@MauraJudkis We had one of these tables with two seats for our twins. They used it for two years. SO easy to clean. Hands-down the best baby gear purchase (OXO Perfect Pull wipes dispenser is a close second).

[Katjusa Cisar @Katjusa]

@sj_barlament @MauraJudkis Haha, classic clickbait! And when it comes to free shit, we all have to draw the boundaries that make sense for us. I would be a HARD pass on that animatronic monkey. 🙈

[Katjusa Cisar @Katjusa]

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:
https://t.co/6zptHlgyky

[Katjusa Cisar @Katjusa]

@FlakPhoto Yup, every day for groups like Buy Nothing 🙂