Reading list
Shortform reading
This is an incomplete list of the shortform reading (and listening and watching) I’ve been doing lately.
One Practical Thing: Protect Information
The enemy of control is information. Book bans (historically book burning), data purges, the wiping of websites and logs are all common acts by those who seek to re-write and overwrite a history that does not support their actions.
Knowledge, history, community discourse and our recorded narratives are all critical elements to a free and participatory society.
A Right-Wing Brawler Asked a Court to Protect Him From an Antifascist's Tweets
Adam Kiefer got a restraining order against an antifascist researcher who revealed that he was at the Capitol on Jan. 6. It might have been a costly mistake.- Morris writes about decades of misogyny and abusive behavior within radical leftist organizations, and about how some of the men responsible for it have been infiltrators and informants.
#anti-fascism · #feminism · #gender · #policing · #race
- Hacktivism has experienced a resurgence recently, and particularly in the last few months. Noone researches what's caused the resurgence, how it differs from the "glory days" of Anonymous around 2010, and what ideological and political movements are benefiting from it.
Meet the gun-toting 'Tenacious Unicorns' in rural Colorado
I stumbled across the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch on Twitter in March, when they were asking for donations to fund protective measures (fencing, floodlights, etc.) against local militia that were threatening the people who live there. It's worth a follow for the alpaca (and dog and other livestock) photos alone, but it's also such a cool idea, and I love their futuristic "earthship" building. I sought out an article to learn more about the group and found this profile by a Colorado journalist. Immediately drawn in by the photographs and the quote about geodesic domes ("They are weird but useful, which is the essence of queer."), I loved reading about how they made a home for themselves even in an area that had become a "cauldron of right-wing conservatism" and galvanized other progressives. This was published before the heightened harassment by militias and other members of the right-wing, but discusses many of the challenges they've faced with local groups who challenge their right to live and farm in the area. It also informed me about Mission: Wolf, another countercultural community in the area that is focused on creating a wolf sanctuary, which I am interested to learn about.