Perspectives on Anarchist Theory‘s 33rd issue, Transformations, published by the Institute for Anarchist Studies, is available directly from the IAS, as well as from AK Press, Powell’s Books, or a bookshop near you! Click here  to order a copy for yourself, or for your local library, friends, comrades, and family. The new issue is over 200 beautiful pages. Charles at Eberhardt Press in Portland strikingly designed the issue and handcrafted, through offset printing, each copy. Perspectives Transformations features the Abolitionist Tarot cover and inside art of Kai Lumumba Barrow. Describi ..read more

“We Begin with Play,” Kai Lumumba Barrow   Gallery of the Streets is a network of autonomous artists, activists, and scholars committed to abolitionist movement-building. Led by queer Black feminist politics, our work is created by people who live, love, fight, work, and play in the margins of racial and gendered capitalism, carceral control, and environmental violences. To learn more about Gallery of the Streets and/or to donate to our work, please check us out by clicking here!   “On Palms and Bone,” Holly Hardin   “Shoe Shine,” by Coriander Davenport   “Shoe Code ..read more

“Hello Ahmed, can you hear me?” I half-shout into my laptop, which is precariously balanced on two couch cushions. Our geriatric mutt, Tucker, is gently snoring in the background, only his two grizzled ears visible against the red and black blanket. I see Ahmed, a mustachioed elderly man with kind eyes, through the ubiquitous Zoom app, looking down at what I presume to be his phone, waving at me, smiling, but no sound comes. Well, fuck. I take a look at the participant list in our conference call, which happens to include just the two of us and happens to also reveal the answer: Ahmed does not ..read more

As the new issue of Perspectives is at the press, we are distressed to learn that long-time social justice activist, dear friend, and co-founder of Agency: An Anarchist PR Project, is in the hospital in critical condition after being attacked in a robbery in Oakland, CA. Friends on a Caring Bridge site for Jen Angel shared the following information (2/8/23): “For any of you who haven’t heard, Jen was severely injured during a robbery on Feb. 6th in downtown Oakland. She sustained severe injuries and was taken to Highland trauma unit. She is receiving great care. Jen was initially stable ..read more

The Institute for Anarchist Studies is grateful to be partnering with Anarchist Agency – An Anarchist PR Project (Agency) for our current 2022-23 grants program! For a quarter of a century, the IAS has funded creative work that furthers anarchist ideas and makes them accessible to a broad audience. This year, the IAS has joined forces with Agency to boost grant funding, specifically for multimedia-focused projects such as podcast, video production, and livestreams. Agency promotes contemporary anarchist perspectives through commentary, media relations, and educational campaigns.  Learn mo ..read more

There is a centuries-long conversation on how best to achieve transformational change, taken up here in a dialogue between authors with insight and ideas for today’s political revolutionaries. Almost 150 years ago, the Farmers Alliance organized two million people in the United States by rallying an army of unpaid lecturers–forty thousand of them–and starting a thousand newspapers. Let’s sit with this for a moment. With communications methods that we would now call “antiquated” or limited, the Farmers Alliance organized more than three percent of the US population. Clearly, there is still much ..read more

If 2020 brought anything to my hometown of Portland, Oregon, it was the opportunity to be exposed to chemical weapons. Protesters, residents both housed and unhoused, bystanders, and workers throughout the city have been caught off guard by law enforcement’s prolific deployment of tear gas, pepper spray, and the like. Sometimes, the surprise has been in the timing or quantity–but other times, the chemical weapons (CW) used have changed from night to night, with differing colors or distinct effects. These tactics serve to spread fear and alarm, dissuading people from participating in the resist ..read more

Sarah Mirk is a comics journalist, author, and teacher. She works as an editor at The Nib and as a digital producer for Reveal. Her most recent book is Guantanamo Voices: True Stories from the World’s Most Infamous Prison, available here. This is her documentation of the Portland protests for Black lives of 2020, from the Power issue of Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, available here!                       Sarah Mirk’s website!       ..read more

“Fascism has temporarily succeeded under the guise of reform. The only way we can destroy it is to refuse to compromise with the enemy state and its ruling class.” — George Jackson, Blood in My Eye   “A politics of abolition could never finally be a politics of resurgence, recovery, or recuperation. It could only ever begin with degeneration, decline, or dissolution.” — Jared Sexton, “The Vel of Slavery”   The murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police Department on May 25, 2020 sparked a summer of rebellions and mass mobilizations at a scale unprecedented in the US, with rever ..read more

Can you support the IAS in 2022? Giving Tuesday kicks off our end of year fundraising, and your solidarity helps anarchist creators and writers grow! Make a donation, and you’ll support grants for media makers, podcasters, and artists. Share our work, and you’ll support a new author or artist in our journal, Perspectives on Anarchist Theory. Buy a hoodie, and help get a new book to the publisher. You can make a donation via Facebook, our website, or send us an old fashioned check: IAS, PO Box 90454, Portland, OR 97290. Purchasing any of our books, journals, hoodies, tees, or other merch in our ..read more