Talk about real abolitionist work! This took me a steady three months to read and I was struck by the collaboration needed to put this fine specimen of literature together. The social justice realm has a goodie to add into its library. Draws on fantasies I’ve had of living an anticapitalist lifestyle, engaging in ancient ways of bartering goods, creating a compound with friends & family, organizing a co-op farm and surviving off grid. Oh but a fantasy as the luxuries of our current time seem to have burst that bubble and ambition for me years ago. I digress. If anything this collection of writing highlights that “we are all much more simply human than otherwise” (thanks for that reminder Harry), and the ways in which power and difference keep vulnerable populations at each other’s throats opposed to merging forces together towards dismantling archaic systems rooted in miserly forms of oppression. “Cross racial feminist solidarities present as a keystone towards radical possibilities towards developing a different global society” as noted in the text. Bravo to the authors and editors in carving out a platform for front line activists to storytell and express their point of view concerning organizing in our current era.
SHARI’S CORNER
Currently Listening on Repeat: Wale-Watching Us, Ebo Taylor-Love & Death, Swizz Beatz Takeover-Soulection Show #714
Card of the Year: 9 of Chalices
Herb I’m Playing With: Hawthorn
Currently Watching in the Background: AFCON 2025 Senegal vs Morocco
Present Thought on Repeat: Should I give my nephew my nintendo password or not?
