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Posted on June 26, 2025June 26, 2025

New Article: The Summer’s Hottest Trend is Resisting State Repression

I wrote something for them about how we need every single person to join in the fight to care for each other and resist our opponents’ nightmare world, and how to get started.

Posted on March 4, 2025

New Article in Feeld’s A F_cking Magazine

Click here to read the interview!

Posted on February 25, 2025

Mutual Aid 101 Workshop

Shareable recently hosted me for a Mutual Aid 101 workshop and posted the video publicly.

Posted on December 9, 2024

New Interview with Gender Reveal Podcast

Such a treat to talk to Tuck and Ozzy about my new book, the dangers facing trans people during a second Trump administration, how we fight back and survive, and much more.

Posted on June 18, 2024June 18, 2024

New Tool: Cultivating Solidarity in Times of Escalating Repression

I’ve been working on this new tool about how to respond to escalating repression without falling into classic anti-solidarity traps with Community Justice Exchange, Jocelyn Simonson, PIlar Weiss, Atara Rich-Shea and Zohra Ahmed since last year, and we’re excited to share it! You can find the entire tool at bit.ly/cultivatesolidarity. Check out the video from our launch event below.

Posted on October 30, 2023

New Essay about Criminalization of Mutual Aid and #StopCopCity

It was a pleasure to work with the Atlanta Press Collective on this piece about the history and contemporary realities of the criminalization of mutual aid, in light of the indictment of 61 forest defenders working to stop the construction of a new police training facility in Atlanta.

Posted on October 30, 2023

New Interview about Abolition and Infrastructure in Radical History Review

Freshly published: Rachel Herzing, Bench Ansfield and I had a conversation about abolitionist questions of infrastructure, focusing on what transformative justice means, how abolitionists debate questions of state formation, and much more.

Posted on March 20, 2023

New Interview with Sad Francisco Podcast

It was delightful, as always, to talk with Toshio Meronek about nonprofitization, queer resistance, gentrification, cops and more. Check it out.

Posted on January 25, 2022

Grounded Futures Podcast Interview

I had so much fun talking to Carla and Liam from the Grounded Futures podcast. They really asked such interesting questions. Listen here.

Posted on May 24, 2021May 24, 2021

Video: Mutual Aid Workshop for CAT-911 with ASL Interpretation

I recently got to do a political education workshop about mutual aid for a group I really admire, CAT-911. They are working to build ways of responding to emergencies without calling the cops, and their work is very thoughtful and inspiring!

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