Manifesto for a Simple Life

a poem from Twm Gwynne

Cultural Commentary, Environmentalism, Land, Poetry, UncategorizedTwm GwynneMay 8, 2018earth, life, LoveComment

Fighting “against the genocide of black people, and its derivations, such as the prison enterprise which drives forward the process of African enslavement; outstanding in memory, history and in the bodies of black people in Brazil.”

Colonialism, Cultural Commentary, Decolonization, ReclaimingGods&RadicalsApril 9, 2018portuguêsComment

The Identity Politics Glitch

“When neoliberals ask for “diversity”, or more opportunities for the disenfranchised to franchise themselves, what they want is to hand out “white masks” to people of colour as if it’s charity.”

Colonialism, Cultural Commentary, Decolonization, Editorial, Reclaiming, UncategorizedMirna Wabi-SabiMarch 31, 2018Comment

The Caricature of Discomfort

A powerful and painful declaration of the reality of living with disability.

Community, Cultural Commentary, DisplacementGods&RadicalsMarch 12, 2018português, disabilityComment

Insurrection as Resurrection

"It's too late to put flowers in gun barrels" (From Jonathan Ray)

Why Are We All In This Handbasket?

The crust peels back and all-women are looking into a burning pit of rage…

Community, Cultural Commentary, PoetrycrowjudithFebruary 28, 2018#MeToo, behaviour, hopes, humanity, life, Work Comments

Assigned Faggot: Gender Roles, Sex, and the Division of Labor

Sophia Burns looks at gender roles on paper vs. in practice, and the division of labor underlying both.

A New Luddite Rebellion

From Rhyd Wildermuth

The Striptease That Was Blamed on Abū Bakr’s Naughty Son

In an age where all our movements and words are tracked, and in which internet call-out culture and aggressive trolls make it difficult for any would-be dissident to express viewpoints that fall outside of party lines, it seems timely to be reminded of the poetry of Al-Andalus and in particular that of arguably its most saucey knave

Cultural Commentary, Poetry, PoliticsGods&RadicalsFebruary 13, 2018Al-Andalus, Arabic Literature, Christianity, Islam, Islamophobia, Muslim, sexComment

The Horror Of Homelessness

“The homeless are seen as an entity, some dirty mass of otherness"

The Wyrd of the Weorld is to be Mere-Deap: The Return to Mythic Time

There is a feeling of strangeness that has come over the world. We have a sense, scarcely articulated, that something is coming. And that the world we have become familiar over hundreds of years of capitalism and industrialism, has suddenly become surreal and bizarre. We suddenly become aware of the shadow that walks alongside us.

Class and Identity: Against Both/And

The conflict between social democracy and "identity politics" is a red herring.

Notes on Rojava

An opinion piece on the problematic aspects of the Rojava hype.

When is Paganism not Paganism?

What Capitalism tries to hide from the seeker is that Paganism is free.

White Privilege in Dutch Anarchism

From Mirna Wabi-Sabi, on race, colonialism, and identity.

Anarchism, Colonialism, Cultural Commentary, DecolonizationMirna Wabi-SabiAugust 17, 2017Brazil, Netherlands, whiteness, PrivilegeComment

Catharsis Is Counter-Revolutionary

From Sophia Burns: "catharsis politics isn't just unhelpful. It's actively destructive."

Safe Spaces

Cultural CommentaryPatacelsusAugust 8, 2017Comment

The Ointment: Thoughts on American Exceptionalism

After my experiences in Europe, that illusion had been shattered, and all I could see was the horrid realities of a deluded nation in which the vast majority of citizens were kept under a spell, believing with all their might that they were living the best lives possible while in reality their average standard of living pales in comparison to most of the Western world

Cultural CommentaryAlley ValkyrieJune 14, 2017 Comments