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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?
Shuli Branson
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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