Last call for my mini-fundraiser for @ratzonpgh and @pinkpeacock—while my dwindling supplies of these four books last.

Yesterday, I tried to mail two packages of some of these titles to two kind contributors to this sliding-scale funder. I walked through a downtown bedecked in red-and-green Xmas decorations while the Muzak lyrics of “Christ the savior is born” blared out of public loudspeakers at me until I finally reached the post office, only to find that Monday was a “legal holiday.” All that not only underscored the need for an ongoing “war on Christmas”—even after it’s allegedly over—and its Christian (fascistic) hegemony but also, in counterpoint, the need for illegal or at least subversive holidays and spaces that embody dreamy-queer, anarchistic-liberatory lifeways. Like Ratzon, a center for healing and resistance in Pittsburgh, and Pink Peacock, a pay-what-you-can-down-to-nothing Yiddish anarchist café and infoshop in Glasgow—both self-organized and collectively rebellious projects.

Hence my second round of this fundraiser: because such spaces are precious and fragile. They show us a glimpse of the world to come in the here and now. And especially because the here and now is so absurdly difficult, making many of us feel all-too-fragile, even the idea that such spaces are doable and possible and beautiful—even if one isn’t in Pittsburgh or Glasgow—is heartening.

And if nothing else, I hope this pretty arrangement of the books on offer warms up your day a bit.

All proceeds, minus my actual costs, will be divided between these two projects. So, decide which book(s) you want, DM me and name your price from the range below, I’ll let you know the media mail cost ($3-5), and soon the books will be on their way to you.

Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief (AK Press): $9-16

Deciding for Ourselves: The Promise of Democracy (AK Press): $9-15

Anarchism and Its Aspirations (AK Press): $6-9

Try Anarchism for Life (Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness): $8-15

(Note: All of these books, and others by me, are always available at akpress.org, including ebook versions)

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