Another excerpt from Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. Red Schulte’s letter speaks to those organizing outside the law—a place more people of conscience will find themselves as authoritarianism tightens its grip.

“You’re a human being. Don’t treat yrself as disposable—that’s the logic of the deathmakers. Make yourself whole. You don’t just deserve healing & joy; you need those things. We need you here, on earth, in yr community, where you belong.” prismreports.org/2025/11/03/s... @mskellymhayes.bsky.social

My book came!!!! Couldn't have picked a better time. I'm completely exhausted after this morning. ICE showed up in LA, but so did we. Fuck ICE! And what a sweet letter from @mskellymhayes.bsky.social. Thank you!

I was interviewed for @convergencemag.com's Block and Build podcast about Read This When Things Fall Apart.

Here it is at our home, with EP acting as a prop! Looking forward to reading it!

Join us on the 138th anniversary of the execution of the Haymarket Martyrs by the state of Illinois as we mark the return to print of THE FAMOUS SPEECHES OF THE EIGHT CHICAGO ANARCHISTS, edited by Lucy Parsons & with a new intro by David Roediger. @akpress.org pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/48765

OUT TODAY 💫 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘍𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘈𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵: 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘴 edited by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social is an essential book for organizers & activists in times of crisis and struggle. Get the book, e-book, or audiobook now—and DL the reading guide too! www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...

Happy pub day to @mskellymhayes.bsky.social @akpress.org and everyone who inspired this beautiful and heartfelt offering. May it provide solace, clarity, and guidance in these truly scary and unprecedented times. I’m honored to have contributed a piece on grief, my great teacher and friend.

Happy pub day! A book for our times and beyond. Get a copy for yourself and 2 for others who might need it.

It's publication day for Read This When Things Fall Apart! So grateful to our contributors and to @akpress.org for making this book a reality. This is a strange time to be promoting a book, but I believe it's a text that has the potential to help us right now. Please get yourself a copy. ❤️

‘Solidarity is always the way forward’: In a Q&A with @adryancore.bsky.social, abolitionist organizer @mskellymhayes.bsky.social discusses her new anthology “Read This When Things Fall Apart,” (pub. Nov. 4 by @akpress.org) featuring encouraging letters from movement leaders, writers, & activists.

Distro Highlight✨ New from our friend and comrade, Dana Williams, comes Who Do We Trust?: Power, Solidarity, and Anti-Authoritarianism published by @plutopress.bsky.social Order a copy today from AKPress.org!

This book arrived at the perfect time. And since I ordered it from @akpress.org, it comes with an additional letter from @mskellymhayes.bsky.social herself. www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...

Lovely books, from Friends of @akpress.org subscription & the Dog Section Press crowdfunding, in the mail today! - Feminisms 👉 www.dogsection.org/product/femi... - Zaragoza Bound 👉 akpress.org/zaragoza-bound.html - Read This When Things Fall Apart 👉 akpress.org/read-this-when-things-fall-apart.html

"We can talk about best practices, like we can ask people to mask as a matter of safety, and remind people this will help prevent doxing for everyone. This will help make it harder to isolate people, and it will make it easier for people to responsibly capture images of the event." 🫂🫂🫂 - Kelly Hayes

STARTING SOON! 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘍𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘈𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵: 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘴 virtual book launch with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social & @boston-a-bookfair.bsky.social starts at 7pm EDT / 4pm PDT. Stream here: www.youtube.com/live/4m0kUkt...

Find us ONLINE today! And LIVE and in person, THIS WEEKEND Nov 1-2 at @boston-a-bookfair.bsky.social in Cambridge, MA! 📚🥳

Hurricanes Should Be Named After Fossil Fuel Firms: Mikaela Loach, Jamaican British Climate Activist

We designed a beautiful calendar to fundraise for Sojourners for Justice Press. Pre-orders end on Nov 16 so get yours soon. sojourners4justice.press/calendar/ - It will only be available through pre-orders cuz we're too broke to print it otherwise, lol.

I was interviewed by @reemasabrina.bsky.social about Read This When Things Fall Apart. "Fight for what is sacred to you. And if you don’t know what’s sacred to you yet, I suggest you get out there, amongst other people fighting the good fight, and I suspect you’ll find it."

LIVE NOW! Join @mskellymhayes.bsky.social in conversation with @shaneburley.bsky.social, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Atena O. Danner as they discuss the launch of Read this When Things Fall Apart. Organized with @akpress.org. Stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrpI...

We’re one week away from the Read This When Things Fall Apart release! Tune into the @haymarketbooks.org virtual event tonight, the @boston-a-bookfair.bsky.social event tomorrow, and the events coming up in November! 🎉 Chicago will have not one but two in-person launch events 🎉🎉

This is today at 4 pm CT!

Aw thanks @akpress.org!! 🩷🩷🩷

Tomorrow, we have the first virtual launch event for Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. I will be in conversation with my friends @shaneburley.bsky.social, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Atena Danner. Register: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis (@akpress.org 2025) edited by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social couldn’t have come at a better time. I’m honoured to have words here alongside @thellpsx.bsky.social in a letter to fellow disabled people. www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...

I'll be making myself available this winter to participate in Zooms with book clubs and reading groups that are discussing Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. You can reach out through my website to arrange a convo with your group.

You can preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social here. www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...

“We're going to need a lot more in-person opportunities for us to expand our humanity,” says @prisonculture.bsky.social episode of @truthout.org's podcast on how we can express ourselves in less-surveilled way & cultivate in-person community organizingmythoughts.org/making-thing...

Distro Highlight✨ Love Rebels: How I Learned to Burn It Down Without Burning Out by @kittystryker.bsky.social and from Thornapple Press Order your copy at AKPress.org!

Over the years, I've created what I think of as a gritty and imaginative stash of things that will help get me through Hard Time. I'm adding this to the collection! (See comments for ordering info.)

Thank you for this @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and @akpress.org (and also @prisonculture.bsky.social for pointing your followers to the pre-order page) We need books like this to help us navigate through these chaotic times.

@lambdaliterary.org award-winning author @mbsycamore.bsky.social's newest book, TERRY DACTYL, drops Nov 11. 👅 Preorder it from our site: www.akpress.org/terry-dactyl...

If you would like to receive the extra letter I wrote for folks who preorder through @akpress.org and @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social, you still can! Order through AK or PCB before November 4, and you will receive the extra letter with your book. www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...

Not too late to preorder your copy...and get a letter from the editor with your order! 💌

Next week! Join @mskellymhayes.bsky.social in conversation with Shane Burley, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Atena O. Danner to discuss 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙁𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝘼𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩, a collection of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times. Register: bit.ly/4ngNHwQ

food banks have already been under pressure over the past several years, and with SNAP benefits expiring they're going to be the only safety net for a lot of people please donate what you can. $100 can feed several families for a month because of the discounts and purchasing power they have

“Many are mourning the fact that they can no longer pretend that things were okay enough just to vote, win an election, and keep going. No, this situation was already here, and the white supremacy we’re seeing was going to resurrect itself one way or another.” prismreports.org/2025/10/20/a...

on the birth of Ursula K. Le Guin -- imagine futures: "We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable."

Thanks to @mskellymhayes.bsky.social for giving us another wonderful book to read during this time and for an extra letter that arrived with this. @akpress.org did a great job packaging and delivering this on time. thank you all, I look forward to reading this and sharing this with my comrades.

Who's this getting into the fall spirit? Why, it's 𝘡𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘰𝘻𝘢 𝘉𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥: 𝘈 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘪 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘯 by Roberto Martínez Catalán (released today!). This is the first English-language book dedicated to the story of the Durruti Column during the Spanish Civil War. www.akpress.org/zaragoza-bou...

Distro Preorder Highlight! From the darlings that brought you the Lambda Literary Award-winning 2 Trans 2 Furious, comes... Sex Change and the City edited by @tuck.bsky.social & @nikostratis.com! Order now at akpress.org and have it by release day!

I'm honored my essay on alienation is in @mskellymhayes.bsky.social's wonderful "Read This When Things Fall Apart." I write that we can be "both surviving and flexible—surviving through our flexibility. And in our flexibility, we connect." Order it (@akpress.org)! www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...

We are very excited to announce that we are teaming up with @akpress.org to host a book release event w/ @mskellymhayes.bsky.social editor of the forthcoming Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis It will be on Zoom on 10/29 at 7pm EST RSVP here tinyurl.com/KellyHayesBABF

"The book is called, Read This When Things Fall Apart. I read it when things fell apart. It cradled me when I fell apart ... This book will have wisdom for you. May it hold you the way it held me."

Today's the 29th anniversary of the founding of the Institute for Anarchist Studies. Since 1996, we've promoted anarchist and abolitionist theory from revolutionary struggles around the world. Learn more at anarchiststudies.org

“It's not wrong to feel like the world is fucked up beyond repair, but... you can try to repair what you can, using whatever skills you might have.” 💜🌷 Rise in power, Miss Major.

Small anarchist publishing collective are a pretty good place to find literature.

The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major

Reading Miss Majors Speaks was an incredibly moving experience last year. I can't recommend this book enough for those unfamiliar with her work. Rest in peace 🖤