Live Like the World Is Dying
It’s a bittersweet challenge these days to figure out, much less practice, what it means to “live like the world is dying.” After nearly three pandemic years, given how much … Continue reading
Rainbows in the Rubble
Truth be told, it’s been hard to get out of bed this winter. More pointedly, it feels hard to find reasons to get out of bed. Some call that depression, … Continue reading
Not My New Year
Not my New Years. Not this date established by a dictator, Julius Caesar, and his empire, then reaffirmed by the Papal State, and now upheld by capital and its food+alcohol … Continue reading
Hanukkah 5783: Ritual as Resistance
NIGHT 1 There’s nary a Jewish holiday or ritual that isn’t about sorrow as well as joy. They are as inseparable as the braids in a challah loaf or havdallah … Continue reading
Recording of Beautiful “Try Anarchism for Life” Event Hosted by Firestorm Books
For those who missed @firestormcoop’s lovely offering of (cyber)space for a celebration of my new book, Try Anarchism for Life (@tangled_wilderness), here’s the video for your leisurely viewing. What I … Continue reading
I Saw Someone Die Today
I saw someone die today. It was toward the end of an hourlong walk that I had to force myself to do because it’s so bitterly cold and dismal outside. … Continue reading
Dreaming of Anarchist Infrastructure for COVID-Careful, Full Lives
As we enter winter #3 of pandemic times, it’s a wonder—wearily so—that anarchists on the whole haven’t been far more inventive in crafting all sorts of imaginative, self-organized, DIY-style infrastructure … Continue reading
Circles of Care
Care packages aren’t just beautiful on the inside—for what they contain as gifts, as sustenance, as rebel “love letters” to each other. (Though getting a no. 10 envelope filled with … Continue reading
Pausing for Queer Joy
Pausing for a moment of queer joy. This world is stone-cold hard. It’s too easy to sink into that grayness. To see nothing but what paves over all we love, … Continue reading
I’m Tired …
Feeling this today: I’m tired of seeing “The Jews” trending on Twitter for what is now, at least on my computer screen, going on two weeks. It’s never good. It’s … Continue reading
Outside the Circle 