Ask a Crow
Dear CAW, One of the obstacles I have in imagining getting past the current society is the relative comfort I have to offset the struggle of working to survive. For example, I know that something like coffee, so readily available for us, is a colonial export based on exploitative labor—
Thank you for joining us for our Launch Week! After today, we'll send out a roundup newsletter once a week. We're very excited to start offering seasonal gatherings for us to write together, starting with our first annual Summer Solstice CAW (Corvid Anarcho Witchcraft) Writing Circle
Before the 1950s, films were printed and distributed on strips of nitrate cellulose, a transparent material used industrially as a substitute for gunpowder. Nitrate film was extremely flammable. Because nitrate cellulose contains oxygen, the fires it causes are impossible to extinguish. Nitrate Fires is our next offering. It will be
A conversation between Shuli and Dean Spade, about his recent book Love in a Fucked Up World
Reading a book alone is all well and good, but have you ever talked about one with other people? While we get further lured into mediated isolation, we can still find escape from the enclosure through discussion groups around the works we love (or don't) that prefigure the
Happy launch week everybody, and welcome to the murder! Today we're extremely excited to announce and officially open the first of our full CAW features, our community discord server! Our server will be a home for hanging out, meeting one another, doing bits, mutual aid and community building.
It is finally here, these fledgling crows are officially taking flight (aka launching)! We have been building up to this moment, sharing writings and podcasts, so you can all get a sense of our regular offerings. Our plan is to become a reliable hub of anarchist and autonomous analysis, thinking,
a worker-run anarchist platform of art, culture, and all the shiny things we can find!
What do you all do when you are feeling the urgency to connect with more folks but also impatient with the process and time it takes for new people to come in?
Today I’m re-releasing a conversation I recorded for the Final Straw Radio with Joshua Clover in 2021. I wanted to present this conversation in memoriam of Joshua, who we learned last week had died.
With every terrible event, my mind can’t stop from focusing on its contingency: it didn’t have to be this way. It almost wasn’t. If we knew better, we could prepare.
Striking back at transphobes of any gender is just as much a part of our transition as taking hormones, wearing new clothes, changing pronouns, surgeries, access to trans social spaces . . .
Can we make sure our belief in anarchy and freedom is not just another faith that serves as an alibi and positions us above history nodding our heads? The Enlightenment runs deep, a most dangerous export of colonialism. When we concede to reason(s), we lose autonomy.
When Gaius Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River and entered the territory of Rome at the head of one of his Gallic legions, in 49 BC, he officially violated Roman sovereignty, broke the imperium, and began the civil war that would lead to the final collapse of the Roman Republic.
* This is an introduction to a series of essays about the women’s revolution in Rojava. Over the following weeks I will highlight different aspects of, and groups within, the women’s revolution and how western nations could learn a thing or two from them. Stay tuned… At the Iraq-Syria
Or, our enemy confuses the map for the terrain
Good morning sports fans! It's a great day for us sports lovers, at least if you're a total sicko like me and your preferred sport is line-go-down. Because, thanks to Trump's tariffs, the markets are absolutely on fire. For just one example: Bloomberg is
We are encouraged—and we often encourage each other—to wear our politics and our analysis like badges, as markers of distinction. When politics becomes something that one has, like fashion, it always needs to be visible in order to function.
The university prepared the way for this assault against its own power. It isn’t the institution that must be defended.
Yesterday, on March 31, Beijing announced that China, Japan and South Korea would pursue a collaborative strategy to respond to US tariffs. It can be hard, during the rapid-fire changes of the global far right power grab, to reflect on just how unimaginable a strategic anti-US economic alliance between those