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Should We Care About the Universities?
The university prepared the way for this assault against its own power. It isn’t the institution that must be defended.
Shuli Branson
Podcasts
The Breakup Theory Episode 21 - Breaking Up With Your Therapist w/ Shuli and Caroline
We may all need therapy to a certain extent—but when do we end it? Breaking up with a therapist is a kind of practice breakup: it’s a controlled environment where you can exercise your own determination and decision and face the consequences practically and emotionally.
antimídia
Antimídia - The Rule and Ruins of Trump – Shuli Branson – Anarchist Voices #15
Don’t forget what operates in the dark. Don’t forget the damage affinity groups can do. Don’t forget the spontaneous eruptions where people come together regardless of politics or identity markers to wreak havoc on the cities that try to contain us.
Podcasts
The Break Up Theory Episode 20 with Vicky Osterweil: What Happens After the End of the Constitutional Republic
We game out possible scenarios while the administration demolishes the constitutional state. Though our conversation does engage the fear and threat of the situation, we also discuss openings for us to take bold action that uses this moment of (bad) revolution to expand our collective power.
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The Unwanted Revolution
I want to destroy the state and I want to live.
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Becoming a Traitor
How can we support a dispersed yet powerful refusal by anyone who retains any shred of power within these systems to play their roles? How can we cultivate traitors?
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SWITCHPOINTS, or jumping timelines
There are moments when you feel the timeline jump. You are sitting there and there is a breach, a punch in the gut—breathless. Then the whole world reconfigures around something new that has jutted into this reality. These can be bad personal moments, shocks like an unexpected breakup, a
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Burn Down the Hot Take Machine
Logging onto twitter of instagram after the election involves confronting a series of reaction posts posing as political insight, which, in the typical memeified leftism/anarchism, usually functions through scolding, moralizing, or just simple “I told you so.” I don’t believe anyone who says they knew something would happen,
Podcasts
The Breakup Theory Episode 19 - Thinking Feeling Doing with Conner Habib
I got to talk to one of my favorite people to get into it with, Conner Habib.
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Bad History
I wrote this before Luigi Mangione shot the CEO of United Healthcare. Such an act, totally unpredictable but ripping open the seams of this world to instantiate possibility in the present, is a beautiful act—not historical, since it breaks with this world and cannot be contained by time. Why
For a Tranarchist Feminism: Transition as Care and Struggle
by Shuli Branson This is an essay I published last year (2023) in the free-access academic journal Coils of the Serpent. It fits in with some of the other writing I have done, but due to its academic context, I don't think it reached as many people--so I