Creativity and Culture
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Weirdos and Wild Ones
by: a mutant During the Summer Solstice hundreds of anarcho weirdos gathered for the annual Autonomous Mutant Fest (AMF), a 15 day long DIY renegade festival where money is imaginary and the police (mostly) don't exist, except where they assert fire codes, unable to...
Confronting Hate: An Urgent Call to Action for Lane County
Friends, neighbors, and comrades, You've likely seen them. They appear at the Saturday Market, brandishing anti-abortion signs at Planned Parenthood, and anti-gay rhetoric at Pride events. They set up their pulpits, one comically tall, and bring their own children to...
Beauty As Healing
Last night I dreamt that I was holding a baby. It was Candice's baby. In my dream, Candice was still alive, as vibrant and beautiful as ever, but having “a hard time.” So I was helping care for her baby. Often in my baby dreams, the baby has an unrealistic shape, or...
For Your Summer Reading List: A Graphic Novel of MVP Resistance
Released this spring, Holler: A Graphic Memoir of Rural Resistance offers a raw and personal look into everyday Appalachians and their decade-long resistance of the Mountain Valley Pipeline. Author and climate organizer Denali Sai Nalamalapu invites their readers into...
The Magic Touch
Life is to be lived. Felt. But increasingly, it takes place virtually, in cyberspace. Chronic internet use, for example, is a key factor in Daphne Simeon's Feeling Unreal: Depersonalization and the Loss of the Self (2023). A great distancing is rapidly taking place....
Poetry by Malik
IMU IMU just another side of the SHU as far as the dark side of the moon silent too segregation — torture abuse mental degradation hatred infused it’s what they do resistance seems moot what’s the use? — RESISTANCE see it’s ESSENCE it’s core to our belief in the...
Listen Up!
A sight for sore eyes, looking to the future, seeing the bright side. Nearly all the metaphors are visual. Seeing is believing, but don't believe everything you hear. In recent years, however, the long-running tyranny of the visual is being challenged. Hearing has...
Dread and Roses: How Surveillance Distorts Reality and Erodes Community
- Written by Solidarity Gardeners "Are we witnesses who confirm the truth of what happened in the face of the world-destroying capacities of pain, the distortions of torture, the sheer unrepresentability of terror, and the repression of the dominant accounts? Or are...
Mel’s Hovel: Part 3
Bits of dew still lay on the grass while steam departed at the behest of the sun. With a gentle breeze sending waves through the tall trees that surrounded, the day all but challenged Mel to find a fault. Though there were days she wouldn’t hesitate to take them up on...
Disabled Love: Community is Already Inside You – Conflict
“We found an old document explaining conflict in the community 20 years ago. I had to read it twice because the conflict was the exact same conflict we just had, but with different names.” We were in the garden, and I was resting on a blanket as my friend sat in a...