Full list of Articles

A Variety of Experiences

Writing Styles

Personal solutions to complex community organising

 

Writing Styles

 

Zines based on similar personal experiences with anarchism

i am no hero and neither are you thoughts on how our histories of abuse inflect our anarchist practice + i am no hero (text version)

Point of no return + point of no return (text version)

Cracks in the Pavement

 

Misc

Our Greatest Political Novelist?

The Jaguar Smile by Salman Rushdie

Radical Writing Markets

‘Then It All Came Down’: Truman Capote Interviews Bobby Beausoleil. San Quentin, 1973.

Resources & Links

16 Nonfiction Forms And How To Write Them

Calais Migrant Factgasm

When Kerouac Met Dostoyevsky

 

Hitchens’s Cosmopolitan journalist ideal

Hidden Hitchens

Hitchens on trail

Access Journalism

Letters to a young contrarian

Unacknowled Legislators

Is Political Satire Dead?

 

Anarchist Theory

 

Anarcha-Feminism zine

Bash Back! is Dead Bash Back Forever!

Mass The Left And Other Walking Fossils

Lifestyle Politics and Radical Activism By Laura Portwood-Stacer

#JeNeSuisPasLiberal: Entering the Quagmire of Online Leftism

Chasing After Ghosts: A critique of anarchist organizing, and it’s worst contradictions, in the North American context

Everything is Problematic

Simon Critchley’s Politics of the Sacred

boredom / happiness studies: adorno on the fetishism of suntanning & Schopenhauer

The problems with conspiracy theories

Demoralizing Moralism the Futility of Fetishized Values – Jason Mcquinn

Fighting in the new terrain

Improvisation as anarchist organization

The Left’s Self-Destructive Obsession with Shame

Anti-Oedipus

 

Spectacle

Empire, Biopower, Spectacle: Notes on Tiqqun

The Problem of the Head

Pussy Riot and the Spectacle of Protest

The Society of the Spectacle Reconsidered Good Marx or Bad Marx?

Crap towns

 

Counter-spectacle

No Escape From Patriarchy: Male Dominance on Protest Sites

Communism and Anarchism – Kropkin

 

Direct Action

Violence

Christian Terrorism

Email from Norway by Pamela Geller

 

Libertarian Vigilantism

Extrajudicial Violence and American Vigilantes

Queer Ultraviolence; A Bash Back! Anthology

DANGEROUS SPACES Violent Resistance, Self-Defense, and Insurrectional Struggle Against Gender

Toxic Masculinity and gun control

Hell’s Angels A Strange and Terrible Saga

Hunter S. Thompson talks with Studs Terkel on WFMT ; 1967

 

Examples

Caleb ‘Kai’ MacGilvary

Aileen, Life and Death of a Serial Killer (Transcript)

Italian anarchists kneecap nuclear executive and threaten more shootings,

Paris gun suspect identified as fantasist linked to ‘anarchist Bonnie and Clyde’

Letters from Aileen Wuornos

 

Ecology

 

Wild Fermentation Sandor Ellix Katz

Edible Wild Plants Of West Michigan Volume 1 by Sprout Distro

Primitive Toothcare – Rowan Wolf

Towards An Anarchist Ecology by Knowing the land is Resistance

Radical Mycology; an SLF Primer by Radical Mycology

Chickweed london anarcha feminist kolektiv

Roadkill chef wild food for a year

Creating a flower meadow – Yvette Verner

The Complete Urban Farmer – David Wickers

The Good Life – Helen and Scott Nearing

 

Rewilding/ Preservationist

Creatures of Empire; How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America

Ecocriticism: The Essential Reader

Decolonizing Nature, Strategies for Conservation in a Postcolonial Era

 

Mental Health

 

When Rabbit Howls, by the Troops For Truddi Chase.

letter to friends Excerpts from I’ve Got Angels in my Head

Witch Hunt By Annie Anxiety

Mentally Ill Sometimes Things Get Confusing When You’re Mentally Ill

Surviving Love A Mad Journey In Extreme Romances And Lovingness by Jak Dark

Transgressive Ability

Dyscalculia the social math of multiplicity

 

Nomads

 

Learning from life

Why does society need people who go on crazy, stupid, arduous adventures?

Matters of Independence: A Study of Self-Reliance in Into the Wild

A Girl and Her Thumb

Moxie Marlinspike

Tom’s bike trip

You Are All Tourists

 

Organising

 

Dis-identification

 

Going beyond activism

Give up Activism: Postscript

The Tyranny of Structurelessness

Queer Disidentification

‘‘Give up Activism’’ and Change the World in Unknown Ways Or, Learning to Walk with Others on Uncommon Ground by Paul Chatterton

 

Agency

 

New Perspectives in Political Ethnography

Agency in the Margins: Stories of Outside Rhetoric

Militant Ethnography: Political Engagement and Social Movements Research

You’re not going to right about this are you?

Chicana Feminism and Postmodernist Theory

Performance Ethnography: Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Culture

Handbook of Critical Psychology edited by Ian Parker

Teaching Critical Thinking in Psychology A Handbook of Best Practices

 

Personals

 

Not Afraid of Ruins, Not Afraid of Ruins #2, Not Afraid of Ruins #3, Small Victories

Some Justice

For a Class Struggle Feminism in Liverpool

Ruth DeSouza

What is cultural appropriation?

 

Philosophy and Education

 

Camus – The Rebel, The Myth Of Sisyphus, From Solitude to Solidarity How Camus Left Nihilism Behind

Martha C Nussbaum – Therapy of Desire; Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics

Martha Nussbaum – The Fragility of Goodness Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy

Andrew Fiala – Tolerance And The Ethical Life

The Politics of Postanarchism by Saul Newman

 

Free will: Wage slavery vs Leisure work

The emergent working society of leisure

Surfing Liquid Modernity, Albanian and Romanian Male Sex Workers in Europe.

New Age Travellers: Uproarious or uprooted?

Strivers vs Skivers zine

Why the Sex Positive Movement is Bad for Sex Workers’ Rights

Reclaiming Work Beyond the Wage Based Society

Farewell to the working class, an essay on post-industrial socialism

 

Buddhism

The Selfless Mind Personality; Consciousness and Nirvana in Early Buddhism by Peter Harvey

Buddhism and Modern Psychology by Robert Wright (Playlist)

Sick Progeny? Buddhism and Psychotherapy

Moonshadows, Conventional Truth in Buddhist Philosophy by The Cowherds

 

Self-theory

Feral Children and Clever Animals Reflections on Human Nature

Street Smarts and Critical Theory Listening to the Vernacular By Thomas McLaughlin

Critical thinking as an anarchist weapon

Between Borders: Pedagogy and the Politics of Cultural Studies By Henry A. Giroux, Peter McLaren

An Ethics of Improvisation: Aesthetic Possibilities for a Political Future By Tracey Nicholls

The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender and Culture

An Anarchist Psychotherapy: Ecopsychology and a Pedagogy of Life

 

Bigoted Atheism

12 Essentialist Oversimplifications About Religion Badly in Need of Theory

Bill Maher’s Dangerous Critique of Islam

End Times by Robert Wright

Richard Dawkins Defends ‘Mild’ Pedophilia, Again and Again

 

Against exporting secularism

Saba Mahmood – Politics of Piety

Beyond Free and Equal; Subalternity and the Limits of Liberal-Democracy

 

Post-traumatic growth and Resilience

 

Table of Contents

About Consent

Resources for survivors of sexual assault

Resources for People Called Out for Sexual Assault

Resources Specifically for Male-Identified Perpetrators

Recourses Specifically for Female-Identified Perpetrators

Accountability Processes, Communities Responding to Sexual Assault

About sexual assualt, rape, sexism and racism

Radical zines

Mental Health

Community Struggle – Empowerment

Toolkits and personal stories of winning

Sex Militant

Sex Critical

Sex Positive

 

About Consent

 

Ask First and Empower Yr Sexy Self: A Workbook by cheyenne neckmonster

Learning Good Consent and Support Zine By Cindy Crabb of Doris Zine

Not Without My Consent by Bullet Girl and the Enforcer Summer 2004

Lets Talk About Consent Baby by the Down There Health Collective.

  • Questions to think about from see no speak no hear no by Cindy Crab and Adrianne
  • Sexual Offense Prevention Policy
  • Educatin Coordinator / Advocate Sexual Offense Prevention and Survivors’ Advocacy Program Antioch College, Yellow Springs OH
  • Questions to think about from see no speak no hear no by Cindy Crab and Adrianne
  • We are all Survivors, We are All Perpetrators. By crimethinc Rolling thunder
  • Communicating About Sex – Our Bodies Ourselves, Chapter 12 – Sexuality ourbodiesourselves.org/book/excerpt.asp?id=19
  • College students’ perceptions of women’s verbal and nonverbal consent for sexual intercourse Jason J. Burrow, Roseann Hannon, and David Hall University of the pacific Burrow Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality, Vol. 1, Sept. 15, 1998 http://www.ejhs.org

Let’s Talk Consent by the Hysteria Collective

Consent by Philly’s Pissed and Philly Stands Up

A Streetcar Named Consent by Sassy Sophia

Don’t Rape Each Other! brought to you by the Olympia Street Medics Collective

Empower Yr Sexy Self: A Workbook

Example Consent Policies from Medic Wiki

Archive

An Interactive Introduction to Consent by The Clit Collective (Consensual Liberaion through Intimate Tactics) Take back the Night Riverside CA

 

Resources for survivors of sexual assault

 

forgiving myself and Healing Tips Excerpts from I’ve Got Angels in my Head

I will Survive: the African American Guide to Healing from Sexual Assault and Abuse by Lori Robinson

Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network

Soul Speak Out: Share your Survivor Story Support New York: A Direct Action Survivor Support Network

The Sexual Healing Journey: a Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse by Wendy Maltz

The Survivor’s Guide to Sex: How to Have an Empowered Sex Life after Child Sexual Abuse by Stacy Haines

Herbs for Trauma by Becca with lots of help from Katie

An Activist Guide to Domestic Violence Basil and Erika Maria Planting Seeds

De Ja Vu #1 From The Society for Community, Self and Earth.

On the Table: My Sexual Assaults by Mel

Silence = Death Provided by the Overground Distro.

My Body My Pleasure My Choice by Generation Five.

Let’s Talk: Feminist Communication… By Kate, Lauren & Lee, Radical Sex NY Fuckin’ A Support New York Illustrations by Elvis Bakaitis and Ellice Litwak, Cover by Hayley Danger Hunt

Strategies For Survivors by Philly Survivor Support Collective 2012/2013 Illustration by Robin Markle

And Still I Rise by Caitlin Grusauskas Arise for Social Justice

If I Could Live in Hope Sexual Abuse and Survival by kisha

Vancouver Rape Relief Does Not Support All Survivors by Homomilitia

Archive

your beautiful brusied legs Issue #1 by Jeana Harris. Last known address amindfullofyou.tumblr.com

 

Resources for Supporters of Sexual Assault Survivors:

 

A Peer Counseling Primer by Basil

Active Listening Skills for Sexual Assault Survivor Support- from Medic Wiki

Supporting a Survivor of Sexual Assault: a Primer a collective effort by Ubuntu and MARC (Men Against Rape Culture), published by BrokenBeautiful Press.

 

Resources for People called out for Sexual Assault

 

What to Do When

“What To Do When Someone Tells You That You Violated Their Boundaries, Made Them Feel Uncomfortable, Or Committed Assault (A Start).”

What Do We Do When? #2

What Do We Do When? #3

We Are All Survivors, We Are All Perpetrators from the Crimethinc publication Rolling Thunder

Taking The First Step Suggestions To People Called Out For Abusive Behaviour

 

Resources Specifically for Male-Identified Perpetrators

 

Men Unlearning Rape

Men Can Stop Rape by the Kansas Mutual Aid Collective

On The Road To Healing #1

On The Road To Healing #2

Philly Dudes Collective: Year One

Interview with Philly’s Pissed and Philly Stands Up From Heartattack zine.

Dealing With Our Shit: Six Years of Men’s Group and Accountability Work This zine is by Dealing With Our Shit, a men’s group for men and male-identified people from the Twin Cities.

As If They Were Human: A Different Take on Perpetrator Accountability This zine contains three articles by Tod Augusta-Scott

Men Speaking Out on Men and Sexism

Sex and Men

Don’t be a Dick

Beginners guide to responsible sexuality by a Denver Collective

 

Resources Specifically for Female-identified Perpetrators

 

Girl on Girl Hate

 

Accountability Processes, Communities Responding to Sexual Assault

 

Accountability Process Suggestions for People Working on Patriarchal or Sexually Abusive Behavior

Communities Against Rape and Abuse

Philly Stands Up- An organization that works on ending sexual assaultthrough spreading consent and restorative justice

Responding to Sexual Assaults at Mass Mobilizations from Medic Wiki

Taking the First Steps: Suggestions to People Called Out for Abusive Behavior

Thinking Through Perpetrator Accountability (from Rolling Thunder #8)

World Without Sexual Assault: For A Community Response to Sexual Assault by the World Without collective based out of Melbourne. World Without distro

The Broken Teapot by Art Glia

If a Man Commits Rape…

Betrayal by Words to Fire Press

Accounting_For Ourselves by crimethinc

Conflict Resolution Circles.pdf

Conflict Resolution Circles.doc by the Rock Dove Collective

Revolution in Conflict: Anti Authoritarian Approaches to Resolving and Transforming Conflict and Harm (transcript)

http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/26976

Workshop by Danielle founding member of the Rock Dove Collective – 2008 NYC Anarchist Bookfair

The Revolution Starts At Home Confronting Partner Abuse in Activist Communities

Produced by Denver On Fire edited by Ching-In Chen, Dulani, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Includes submissions from members of CARA, Philly’s Pissed, The Northwest Network, UBUNTU, INCITE! and more.

Towards Transformative Justice by Generation FIVE

Accountability Process Suggestions for People Working on Patriarchal or Sexually Abusive Behavior

Communities Against Rape and Abuse

Philly Stands Up- An organization that works on ending sexual assaultthrough spreading consent and restorative justice

Responding to Sexual Assaults at Mass Mobilizations from Medic Wiki

Thinking Through Perpetrator Accountability (from Rolling Thunder #8)

World Without Sexual Assault: For A Community Response to Sexual Assault by the World Without collective based out of Melbourne. World Without distro

 

About sexual assualt, rape, sexism and racism

 

Brutal from Slug and Lettuce.

Ladders and Hips: An Open Letter to the Boys in My Life by Kyla 14th march 2008

No! The Rape Documentary

Rape, Consent and Patriarchy

Philly’s Pissed and Philly Stands Up Collected Materials

Philly’s Pissed – Philadelphia Survivor Support Organization

Punk vs. Sexism and Rape – from Profane Existance

Rape is… (an educational video about rape)

Sex, Language, and Power by David Frazee and Suzanne O’Brien from the Stanford Rape Education Project

With Allies Like These Reflections on Privelage Reductionism

Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex

Social Detox 1

Said The Pot To The Kettle Feminist Theory For Anarchist Men

Lines in Sand

Dangerous Foundations

Dismantling the Boys Club

A Compilation of Anti Oppression Resources

Abolish Whiteness

An Anarchist Introduction to Critical Race Theory

Hot Pantz DIY Gynecology Herbal Remedies

Queering Anarchism

Socialism, Anarchism and Feminism

Understanding Patriarchy

White Privilege Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

Clean, Green and Cruelty Free The true story of animals in New Zealand

Seen not heard

What Happened to Sisterhood?

Archive

Trapped by the sex worker solidarity collective

 

Radical zines

 

Moral Revolution

Voices from the Friction Lines

OutLaw Vision: Reclaiming, Truth, Power and Justice For Ourselves .

The Watermelanin Remix

Such a Fucking Problem

S.exual E.xperience X.posed

Double Conciousness

Black Leaders: Misleading the Black Community

Infection Confirmed

Learn Cursive

My Name is Me

Keeping it real

Hope and Vision The Persuit of Happiness in Times of Crisis

Co/modified Bodies: A Collaborative Zine About Transformation

MPressed The YESPP! We Can Edition

Gender Agender Lent 2012

Gender Agenda 2014

Gender Agenda Michaelmas 2014 BAD

Anarchicide

Playing with Fire

The New Connections Manifesto

Anti-Drug Mun Meetz His Match Drug Duel Comix

I want to let you in……to the shower of my heart.

from the Institute Experimental Freedom / Liam Sionnach

rob’s revolting #2 eugene – city of doom!

six letters addressed to you

http://patrokolos.tumblr.com

the year of the fire

Ruckus UW Seattle Disorientation 2011

Carcass in Our Heads, The A Mic Check

ChimpanZine

Do You Suffer From Alienation?

Nonviolent Communication Zine

Teenagers Wake Up

 

Community Struggle – Empowerment

 

Womens Self Defense #2 by anel clemenzi

Thoughts About Community Support Around Intimate Violence

How To Put Together Your Own Consent Workshop

Fighting Back: Self Defense for Women and Girls by Izy (Morganmuffel)

Community How To by Sage 2010

Tiqqun – Theses on the Terrible Community

 

Toolkits and personal stories of winning

 

Start Something Fierce: A Young Woman`s Guide to Grassroots Organizing – 2nd Edition

Indigenous Young Women Lead: Our Stories, Our Strengths, Our Truths. Edited by the Native Youth Sexual Health Network by Native Youth Sexual Health Network

I Am Here: A compilation of girls’ and young women’s experiences and thoughts on immigration

Our Communities, Our Words: Stepping Up for Racialized Girls’ Empowerment

Start Something Fierce: A Young Woman’s Guide to Grassroots Organizing

Zine Northern Pride and Women’s Power: Collaborating for girls’ empowerment

Zine Thrivin’

Make Some Noise

Zine Step It Up: The Young Women’s Guide to Influencing Public Policy

Look Closer: Girls and young women taking action against poverty

Zine Dreams to Action (2005)

 

Sex Militant

 

this is about more than who we fuck (and who fucks us)

  • For Lovers and Fighters by Dean Spade
  • A new way of doing this shit by Caytee
  • Fuck free love by Olivia
  • one ring to rule them all: Impossible promises and pragmatic politics by Liam
  • A comic on communication by Jess B.
  • open letters
  • Some thoughts on being/feeling ‘secondary’ SAFER SPACE MEANS ATTACK (or: creating strength and courage within emotionally vulnerable relationships by Maria and Dave

This is about more than who we fuck (and who we don’t) #2 REAL

  • Manipulative Friend by anonymous
  • Bromance A Love Story by Caytee
  • Untitled by Olivia
  • Open Relationships
  • Encrypted Emails by Boskote
  • Love Letters by anonymous

DANGEROUS SPACES: Violent Resistance, Self-Defense, and Insurrectional Struggle Against Gender by Untorelli Press

Toward The Queerest Insurrection

Negative feminism, anti-social queer theory and the politics of hope

‘Do We Scare Ya’ Cuz, We’re Not Afraid To Fuck’? Queer-feminist Punk Countercultures, Theory, Art and Action

Archive

For a Safer World by the sali distro project

Enemies Rapists and Delete me, I’m so ugly. i am no hero, and neither are you thoughts on how our histories of abuse inflect our anarchist practice from the Institute Experimental Freedom / Liam Sionnach

.B.E.T.C.H. Rag Issue No. 2 by Austin ladies’ group B.E.T.C.H. (Beautiful, Educated Thunder Cunts from Hell

 

Sex Critical

 

Against uncritical liberation of desire (privileged hedonistic lifestyles)

FUCKED: on being sexually dysfunctional in sex-positive queer scenes zine

authentic desire and moral development

Ployamory off our backs

Against Essentialism

Against Separatism

“Feminine” Heterosexual Men: Subverting Heteropatriarchal Sexual Scripts? – Darryl B. Hill

Anarcha-feminism and the newer “woman question” – sallydarity

How-an-outdated-view-of-masculinity-ignores-the-needs-of-all-men/

Forever your girl

 

Sex Positive

 

Radical Slut Dis-covery: building and re-building our sexual selves

WHORECORE Fucking Queer and Getting Paid

 

Prisoners

 

Can’t Hear Me Scream

 

Relationship Anarchy

 

An Anarchist Project on Freedom and Love – by Mae Bee

Infinite Relationships: Relationships without borders or boundaries, love without limits, without ends and Infinite Relationships (less stylistic but easier to read format)

From issue #13 of Inside Front magazine, 2003.

Re-printed Jan 2010 by entarchy distro, fresno, CA (Yokuts territory)

Join the Resistance Fall in Love by Crimethinc

Playing with Fire by Montreal Counter-Information

Pleasure Not Duty: Open and Closed Families and Loose Cannons

Open and Closed Families by Colin Ward

Loose Cannons… Love relationships, jeolosy, rejection and liberation by Adam Bregman

Recipes for Disaster – Non Monogamous Relationships

Redefining Our Relationships Guidelines for Responsible Open Relationships by Wendy-o Matik

A pirated version by Wendy-O Matik.

Fiddle Faddle #1 – a new anarchist zine for deviants amd sexual libertines

  • Manifesto of the Sodom Liberation Army (the importance of being deviant)
  • Pegging a users guide
  • Bent bars collective
  • DIY Shibari
  • When do we fuck?
  • Interview with Erin of “Subversive Submissive” / Erin, Sabrina, Tom Kat, and Ergoat of Anarkink

Bound to Struggle: Where Kink and Radical Politics Meet by Simon Strikeback of ActorslashModel

Subversive Submissive #1 by Erin SubversiveSub

Transcending Anatomy #1 A Guide to Bodies and Sexuality for Partners of Trans People By Eli Transcending Anatomy

WHORECORE Fucking Queer and Getting Paid by the Sex worker open university

  • My Prostitot Journey:How I Became a Prostitute, My Steps Along the Way. By Princess
  • Thoughts On Sexuality from a Sex Worker: Musings from an Adolescort By Princess
  • Sex work and SavioursBy Jet Young
  • Sex Workers – A Queer Perspective By Thierry Schaffauser
  • PHONE QUEER VERSUS QUEER-QUEER by Cameryn Moore
  • Sex Therapist By Eric

Polyamory and Queer Anarchism Infinite Possibilities for Resistance by Susan Song

The short instructional manifesto for relationship anarchy by Andie Nordgren

Polyamory & Anarchy by Dysphoria

 

Archive

Fatty Fashions by miss shannon lee

 

Books

Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman – Sex, or the Unbearable

LETTERS TO NORA DECEMBER, 1909 by James Joyce

Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy – The New Bottoming Book

Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy – The New Topping Book

Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy – The Ethical Slut A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Adventures

 

Solidarity Activism

 

Thoughts on Saving the World

Charity or Solidarity?

The Spaniard

A huge mess, pt I

Alice in Addis Land

Dira Dawa ICS

Strawberry Fields Eco-Lodge

Calais Migrant Solidarity

Moroccon Border

US – Mexico border

 

Personal solutions to complex community organising

 

Political Ethnography as Art and Science

Hate Kills: A social justice response to “suicide”

Involving Others From Toolkit to Ethos for a Different Kind of Democracy