In getting enthused for the upcoming 3-day holiday of anarchist bookfairing—my first time at @ACABookfaire—I was reminded of one of the biggest bonding exercises among all the anarchist tendencies in attendance at this past May’s Montreal Anarchist Bookfair: anarchic bingo! Nothing like collectively engaging in a humorous adventure to help everyone set aside differences and savor some playful cooperation.

Somehow it feels like this risograph-printed bingo, dreamed up and designed by a crew in Montreal that only does paper media, no social media, could easily be repurposed for the ACAB gathering in Asheville starting this Friday. So I’m sharing my bingo card, unmarked because it was pregame for me, in case others want to have some additional fun with it.

Note: I had the honor of crossing off the tankie square first thing, before the bookfair officially opened, when some hammer-and-sickle folks thought they could rogue table (gifting me a second square to cross off), and on behalf of our bookfair collective, I got to shoo them away—though not without going from friendly anarchist to not-so-friendly one when they went from friendly Marxist-Leninists to belligerent and loud-mouthed ones.

But whether there’s bingo or no bingo this weekend, I already know this bookfair is going to be a winner. See the awesome schedule at:

https://acabookfair.noblogs.org/

#BingoNotBorders
#GamesNotGovernments
#PlayNotPolice