Wounds We Won't See
From Surviving Leviathan with Peter Gelderloos
Is it a bad sign when CNN publishes a better take on mental health than one commonly finds in the movement? Yeah, I'd say that's pretty bad.
From Surviving Leviathan with Peter Gelderloos
Is it a bad sign when CNN publishes a better take on mental health than one commonly finds in the movement? Yeah, I'd say that's pretty bad.
from Mental Hellth
Most people who have spent enough time organizing know it can be a thankless job. The planet is on fire; millions of people don’t have their basic needs met, and are experiencing housing and food insecurity; a global pandemic has killed more than 4 million people worldwide; and fascism is on the rise. Everywhere, people are navigating how to survive each day. Basically, the world is pretty bad right now, and activists are fighting tooth and nail to change that.
A Conversation with John Zerzan on Direct Action, School Shootings, Authenticity, Veganism & More
I reached out to Zerzan by email with 4 long questions to help prepare for a different conversation with an anti-industrialist, plus the suggestion that I could post our Q&A text interview around a few places to help clarify his political theory and promote my critique of primitivism. But he offered to voice chat instead, which was a pleasant surprise.
So I'll post the video and transcribe our conversation here. I edited the text slightly for clarity’s sake, just to remove filler words and put anything I forgot to say in, but I ran the updated version past Zerzan and he’s happy his answers still suit the questions asked.
Some days ago, a ship got stuck and it caused a bit of a fuss.
It was stuck for a while and lots of memes got made basking in the serendipitous brilliance of what resulted from a combination of weather conditions and good old fucking up.
Anti-psychiatry is the topic of three of these seven episodes: "Fucked Off, Not Fucked Up," "It's Time for 'Mad Anarchism,'" and "Descending Into Madness: An Anarchist-Nihilist Diary of Anti-Psychiatry." We learn ways to anticipate and recognize trauma and to build resiliency into our affinity groups, in "Mutual Aid, Trauma, & Resiliency," based on the experiences of the Jane Addams Collective in New York City.
by bugs
CW: Suicide, extreme mental health hardship
Like many of you I’m sure, I’ve been considering the idea of “normal” recently. While at the moment people in North America are calling for a “return to normal” with about as much creativity as is to be expected from this continent, I would assert that most people's lives haven't changed all that much.
From Emotional Anarchism
This last weekend Emmi and Jahed gave a talk at the queer anarchist biohacking conference called Please Try This at Home about personal, interpersonal, and biochemical approaches to mental-emotional well-being in radical politics.