Roundtable: From “Another World is Possible” to the Possible End of the World, 1999–2019
The following conversation between myself, Aaron Lakoff, and Sharmeen Khan is from issue 21 of the Upping the Ante journal, and can be found for free online at https://uppingtheanti.org/journal/article/21-the-long-memory-is-the-most-radical-idea. +++ … Continue reading
BAR Book Forum: Cindy Milstein’s “Paths toward Utopia”
The conversation below was published as part of Black Agenda Report’s Book Forum, edited by Roberto Sirvent, on January 29, 2020, and can be found online at https://blackagendareport.com/bar-book-forum-cindy-milsteins-paths-toward-utopia *** In … Continue reading
Knitting with a Messy Ball of Yarn
Note: This piece was written for and is published in the 2020 edition of Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar, a joint fund-raising and educational project between outside organizers … Continue reading
Tree of Life “Mourner’s Kaddish”: 7 Days of “Backward” Shiva
[These musings were written and posted on my Instagram, after sunset, for the seven days leading up to the one-year anniversary of the Tree Life synagogue murder, in which 11 … Continue reading
Two Reviews of “Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief”
Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief, edited by Cindy Milstein (AK Press, 2017) *** Reviewed by Nadia de Vries, Mortality 24, no. 1 (2019): 116. How do we navigate the … Continue reading
Mutual Fire Brigade
In mid-November 2018, smoke from the hellfires of so-called California drifted to my home base, so-called Michigan, as humans and nonhumans on the West Coast struggled to breath, struggled not … Continue reading
Neither Day Nor Night, Hope Nor Despair
Yesterday I looked up, out from under the bundle of winter-clothing layers that cuts one off from the world, raising my eyes from constantly surveying the ice-bound sidewalks to find … Continue reading
Prologue to “Paths toward Utopia”
[Note: The essay below was written by me as a prologue for the picture-essay book Paths toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism (PM Press, 2012), a collaborative project between myself and … Continue reading
From an Alley to Unist’ot’en: Solidarity
The alleys of so-called Montreal (aka Tio’tia:ke) are a special joy, even in the dead of winter and capital/state-fueled climate catastrophe. They are spaces where people engage in decommodified life … Continue reading
Our Bones Remember the Pain
January 7, 2019/5779. Enforcers of colonialism and capitalism bear down, with menace, on the Wet’suwet’en territory in “an extension of the genocide that Wet’suwet’en have survived since contact,” to borrow … Continue reading
Outside the Circle 