Suspended Life
Here in Michigan this morning, toggling between the dilemmas and dramas related to two sick parents whose lives are never going back to wellness, and trying to self-manage (badly right … Continue reading
Anarchic Ethics
One of my sisters, who is also a good and insightful friend to me, asked me this evening, “What’s standing in your way of writing?” Her paid job is helping … Continue reading
A Review and Sort-of Review of “Duets for Abdelrazik”
The scary part about “finding” a review on Facebook of “Duets for Abdelrazik”(http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/duets-abdelrazik-art-political-action) some ten minutes after I’d popped the CD into my computer is how quickly the tiny little … Continue reading
Paths toward Utopia: Asserting the Commons against Enclosures
Workshop presented at the Mobilizing and Organizing from Below Conference in Baltimore, MD, June 1-3, 2012. For more coverage, go to http://indyreader.org/mobconf.
Paths toward Utopia: YouTube Explorations of Everyday Anarchism
I can’t vouch for this YouTube rendition of the Paths toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism (PM Press, 2012) presentation that Erik Ruin and I did about our book … Continue reading
The Gift
[Text from Paths toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism (PM Press, 2012), a collaborative book of picture-essays by Cindy Milstein and Erik Ruin, with a foreword by Josh MacPhee, … Continue reading
Inside Out
In concept-fragments, texted and emailed to myself, I seem to be stockpiling essays that are stuck inside me, swirling around in my head, waiting to be written. The list grows … Continue reading
Messy — This Is What Democracy Might Always Look Like . . . But It’s Worth It
If it seems challenging at times to slog through process in anarchist collectives, if it was challenging much of the time to remain patient and compassionate during general assemblies within … Continue reading
Alone in This, Together
November 23, 2012 For those who know me, for those who’ve read my Anarchism and Its Aspirations, you’ll know that I’m fond of putting “self-” in front of a whole … Continue reading
Dispatches from Hurricaned NY: Mutual Aid Is a Social Relationship
Note: If you’re looking to lend some love and mutual aid in post-hurricane NY and NJ, look no further than http://interoccupy.net/occupysandy/. And even if you don’t end up pitching in … Continue reading
