Excerpts from Direct Action: An Ethnography
In the words of a friend editing a rough draft of a project of mine, explaining the strength of his critique: “You’re playing with fire. It’s necessary, but it’s a very serious responsibility. You’re...
View Articlerecommended reading: Africa
The other kind of traveler kid. I’ve lived/traveled in several countries across Saharan and Sahelian Africa, as a student/researcher, an NGO worker, and just being a kid. My stories from those travels...
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recommended reading: Books on trauma
Summaries of books on post-traumatic stress and suicide intervention. Aftershock: Confronting Trauma in a Violent World: A Guide for Activists and Their Allies by Pattrice Jones At a recent Street...
View Articlebattles at home and abroad
So I’m reading the seminal work on post-traumatic stress, and the thing that is first jumping out at me here is that, in terms of brains processing traumatic events and having crazy longlasting...
View ArticleThe Mad Map
A regularly updated version of this post will be available here: http://www.anarchapistemology.net/trauma Soliciting comments with more tools and resources, and especially your own mad maps. It would...
View ArticleAnarchist and Radical Book Club
A couple of us are forming an online Anarchist and Radical Reading Group with the idea of reading a diverse range of anarchist/radical books at a slow enough pace that a bunch of busy people can...
View ArticleAnarchist & Radical Book Club update!
The Anarchist and Radical Book Club is getting quite active! Check it out and maybe join in? Current discussion: God and the State by Bakunin (full text) Upcoming discussion: The Revolution of Everyday...
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Book review: Green is the New Red by Will Potter
Green Is the New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege by Will Potter My rating: 4 of 5 stars First off, hoorah for this book and Will Potter’s reporting. This is a critical living...
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Book review: personal finance for variable income
See also my review of The Financial Peace Planner, a finance how-to guide for low-income folks. Yeah yeah yeah, “we vow to live in poverty just to spite what they’re selling” and all that. Regardless,...
View Article[diario roma] i migranti
Standing in line outside the immigration office on the outskirts of Rome (two buses and an hour later), under an awning but blown by the rain and the wind, appointment at noon and the hour approaching...
View Articleso you’re going to Mali
[copy of the e-mail I sent to a friend headed to Mali, West Africa, for a month] Music Bamako is famous internationally for it’s traditional music, but it also has a really fun hip hop/dance scene....
View ArticleHumanitarian Aid – Free Resources, Readings, Courses, and Certificates
I’ve been studying up on humanitarian aid work in my spare time, so I wanted to pass along some free resources I’ve come across for people who are interested in international humanitarian aid and for...
View ArticleCategorizing recommended reading on African countries
Some members of the Goodreads Great African Reads group are trying to populate the Listopia feature with books on African countries. This is the ‘groundwork’– many of these lists are nearly empty, but...
View ArticleAttn: Punks – Where There Is No Doctor, Ch. 15: Skin Problems
Sometimes living that punker lifestyle means you get scabies. Or bedbugs. Or hives. Or pack rash. Or abscesses. Or ringworm*. Why did no one share this brilliant chart for identifying innumerable itchy...
View ArticleFrom The Shadow of the Sun
From The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski: On the one hand, experience has taught me that situations of crisis appear more dire and dangerous from a distance than they do up close. Our...
View Article2,013 books. I wish…
Every year I gather together the best books I read that year to recommend and remember those that impacted my life or my paradigm somehow. Here are this year's, with links to the review I wrote of...
View ArticleJan-Mar: Decolonising the Mind by Ngugi wa Thiongo
In 2014, I'm leading a year-long, online reading project called "African Authors on African Issues," where we'll be discussing nonfiction theory, thoughts, and critique from African authors. Our first...
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Book Review: On Love by bell hooks
All About Love: New Visions by Bell Hooks My rating: 3 of 5 stars I read this book as part of my commitment to Michelle Alexander's call to action in The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of...
View ArticlePrepping for CAR 2: Studying up
With this post I want to share some of the stuff I've been learning about Central African Republic (CAR), but I also want to use the space to present my strategies for learning about a new country or...
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Book review: Trauma Stewardship, Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others by Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky My rating: 4 of 5 stars I brought this book with me to the Central African Republic, and...
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