Podcast: anarcho-tradwives

From radical love letters

A conversation with Margaret Killjoy, Hazel Acacia, & Raechel Anne Jolie

On a cold winter evening, my friend Hazel Acacia and I made a big pot of split pea soup and a spicy shredded carrot salad. As we chopped the veggies and stirred the broth, we got to talking about tradwives. In so many words, Hazel and I both admitted that—minus the fascistic parts—we kinda dig a lot about tradwife life. “I think you, me, and Margaret Killjoy need to talk about this,” declared Hazel.

Anarchist Author Margaret Killjoy Crafts Trans Worlds in the Woods

From Autostraddle by Nico Hall

Dressed in all black down to her ankles, dark hair in two braids, Margaret Killjoy let me into her house in the forested mountains, where she lives a hermit-like life with her companion, her dog Rintrah. A transfeminine musician, podcaster, and author of multiple fantasy books, Killjoy lives in the mountains of Appalachia in a home filled with instruments, books, art, and medieval weaponry. For an author who wrote an upcoming novel described as “an own-voices story of trans witchcraft,” her home met my expectations and then some.

Maria Nikiforova & the anarchist battallions in Civil War Ukraine

From Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Margaret talks with Robert Evans about the time that millions of Ukrainians rose a black flag and went to war against landlords, nationalists, and Bolsheviks.

Parts 1 & 2: The Common Ground Collective

From Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

The DIY Collective That Built Modern Mutual Aid

Margaret talks with Andrew Ti about the anarchists and former Black Panthers that came together to set up mutual aid in post-Katrina New Orleans.

S1E93 - Last Born in the Wilderness on Anarchist Public Health

From Live Like the World is Dying

This week on Live Like the World is Dying, Margaret and Patrick talk a lot about covid, public health, the role of anarchism in public health, and the weirdly similar origins of the names of two projects.

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