the journey of departure begins early.

the opposite of despair is not hope (or even action in the activist sense of the word) but connection. bcz when we truly feel like we belong and are part of something, that is what has the potential to cure despair... then the rest follows............

Did you know that AK Press has audiobooks? You can buy and download them directly from our website, or you can find them on whatever platform you normally use (unless that's Spotify, sorry not sorry). Check out our audiobook releases here: www.akpress.org/audiobooks.h...

TODAY! 🎶 on #BandcampFriday artists get all the funds, so today's a good day to head on over to bandcamp and support your friends/ and or artists you love!

When war and genocide goes on for literal years, it can be easy to forget the lives that people lived before this horror started. Alaa @mamatwins.bsky.social has been trying to imagine rebuilding her life as an architect.

Solidarity with the the #SumudFlotilla: end the siege, feed the starving and end the genocide

Listen to Vicky talk with friends about her fabulous new book + more! And she also drops a hint about shiny caw merch coming soon!!! ✨

you're not a bad/undisciplined person if you don't feel hope/happy rn! fuck this boring trend of moralizing & controlling how folks feel moment to moment. we're ALWAYS in motion, never static! those who say they are, are cosplaying life. As Rilke says, no feeling is final... keep dancing!

yo! let's do this! (hint so-called-canada)

I am not saying you have to send me every video or meme related to Sisko or DS9 but I am saying that you should

for the hive-mind-heart ❤️‍🔥 I am looking to connect with a theory-mentor who is also a deprofessional in some ways... no big ask, right? but if you know someone/ or you are that person and you're like, yes me!! please, dm me! thx

“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” ― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

real talk. in our home alone the vibe is off the charts.

Grounded Futures on embracing the dance of chaos and change. Maybe it's about tuning into the many ways we can collectively imagine new worlds, charting out how it might be on the other end of the storms as we write ourselves into a future that is beautiful and free.... mailchi.mp/8d149d777e55...

(a subtoot) the year is 2026 and due to massive collective direct actions in the streets (despite fear mongering from many on line in 2025), the christo- fascists have fallen.

solidarity and love to the Bluestocking crew as they go through this hard process of ending ..... www.bluestockings.com

beautiful anarchy storytelling "For you can never, ever, ever/ You can never, never, never/ be the boss/ of someone else./ No, you can never, ever, ever/ You can never, never, never/ be the boss/ of someone else! anarwiki.org/wiki/Fraggle...

This thread was about Shymaa. It turned out she was shot by a quadcopter, and she may lose her leg. Im so so scared for her and her baby, I really need yall to support her if you can

In his recent article about Trump's potential terrorism designation for antifa, Chris Hedges uses the political moment to continue perpetuating falsehoods and slander about anarchists and antifa. Hedges’ work, however disguised, only serves the state. Read here: anarchistagency.com/a-response-t...

Trans people, Gazans, Palestinians, all ppl under genocides right now: I care about you. You make the world and my life better just being here. And while I would never tell you what to do, as long as you stay here Ill be fighting by your side, as best as I can, for as long as I breathe. 🫂💕✊️

A widening of concepts is necessary Another look at the future is required. Look and see the twin road vision light It is darker than the night.. It is the twin-road heraldry Vibrations of a different kind.. These kind vibrations are just the kind we need. (Sun Ra)

Donald Trump says kids in Baltimore are “born criminals.” But when a white boy from Utah grows up cradling rifles, blessed in church pews, and then murders a man on stage, the silence is deafening. open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...

FREE PALESTINE!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWBV...

circa TODAY: orca's sinking boats again -- be more like the orca. 🐳

if you have nothing snarky to say about a dead fascist then don't say anything at all. (or yknow get the fuck out of my face and my inbox!)

When a shooting happens in America, Black folks and other marginalized people always whisper the same prayer: “Please don’t let him be one of us.” But I flipped this into a satirical prayer from conservatives. open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...

I TRULY love creating spaces for folks to come together to make stories and share. collaboration is love.

hello new followers! 🖖 we're behind with shows, but we've been trying to stay afloat, surviving capitalism while busy with all the things that take us away from this passion project! BUT we will be back! for those new to RIF: we have 3 episodes up! @ayoub.bsky.social & @joyfulcarla.bsky.social

wow, im so glad i was well enough two days ago to get the signal meme responses but then too sick to read the apologists-lib crap by so-called leftists... scratch a lib and all that.

new piece by Shuli!! "People contain unknown possibilities that only blossom given the right situation. The possibility was latent, but then it comes out with the right people." www.cawshinythings.com/maybe-everyo...

the signal chats rn, given life. 🖤

"they are going to use this against us." where you been, they are murdering black people in the streets for selling CDs, they are rounding up hispanic people for being at a home depot, they are sending people to foreign torture prisons for tweeting about Palestine. The terrain is SHIFTED

lmao holy shit

With the words given to us by wonderful folks, we formed a poem, written in multiple voices, followed by a litany, a prayer for these times. Poetry knows more than we know, and in between the lines and voices, we hope you find somewhere to live and love 🌹 www.cawshinythings.com/this-is-how-...

i dwell in the impossible

Support in the documenting of the pleasurePortal An exhibit in Amsterdam, near the Red Light District, pleasure Portal—a multidisciplinary art installation exploring sexual liberation through the eyes of perimenopausal Black women—will open in December. www.voordekunst.nl/projecten/19...

don't postpone your joy. [collective joy emerges with and through resistance]. #Joyistance #thrivistance

on collaboration with nature: "it made me think about the cosmos because we’re made of starstuff and really I’m just borrowing particles for a few years and composing them into songs and writings then I’ll blow away." www.cawshinythings.com/conversation...

if i had a Molotov for every time someone on the Left told me anarchism is impractical and not good for the "revolution" well, empire would be on fire! #loveeachothernotthestate

this is happening in a couple of weeks!! there are a few spots left!! come write and weave spells together so we destroy empire! ❤️‍🔥 www.cawshinythings.com/summer-solst...

"Colonialism is an echo of death that keeps screaming. On the song Thingification with namebuddha produced by AwareNess I tried to show how Kant and Locke were the EBSCO and peer-reviewed journals of their day and seen as experts and how that power helped crystallize global white supremacy." ❤️‍🔥

🐦‍⬛ @joyfulcarla.bsky.social has conversations with word-weaving poets, spoken word artists, and rappers—may their words inspire you to take up the pen and the Molotov! First one features writer, poet, artist & rapper extraordinaire, @timeraps.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥 www.cawshinythings.com/conversation...

Hurricane Katrina, 20 Years Later, and “the long slow history of disaster…” with the wonderful scott crow greenandredpodcast.org/2025/08/30/h...

my 6 year old friend does this thing when i say something he doesn't like: "I am deleting those words , i deny them. Deny deny deny." and im like, this is the way.

"...speed and clarity beat polish and permission. Remix is a tactic, not a genre. You pull from the culture that raised you, you credit the people... you aim every frame at power, not at the people surviving it.' Franklin López #NOLA #Katrina amplifierfilms.ca/uploading-ra...

Introducing one of the 2025 Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant recipients: When The Window Opens is a collaborative card & mapping game designed to inspire collective action. Created by @caw-shinythings.bsky.social an anarchist journal of art and culture. More: anarchistagency.com/jen-angel-an...

ongoing... fuck you fascist and fuck liberals, ALWAYS FUCK EMPIRE! but dammit love your friends and community!! AND! so much EXTRA solidarity across all space and time ❤️‍🔥🌹❤️‍🔥 #LoveYou

poet friends = lifelines!

HI!! we will be back with a new episode, soonish.... 🖖