To Our Community: Accountability and Marquis Bey (updated 2020-08-21) To Our Community, We are writing in response to social media messages we’ve received regarding Marquis Bey, the author of our just-released book Anarcho-Blackness. Someone on Twitter and Instagram has called him out as an abuser, and others have asked us to comment on the accusation. We had previously heard an allegation about abusive behavior […]

Memorial Day, 2020: Grief, War, and the Pandemic by Kristian Williams. in memory of Robert F. Williams On Friday, May 22, just after dinner, my father lay down for a nap and peacefully died. He died at a rather inopportune time, in the midst of a pandemic, one that had already taken more than 300,000 lives around the world. These circumstances prevented me […]

Resist Everything Except Temptation. An excerpt from Kristian Williams’s new book! We’ve just released Kristian Williams’s newest book, Resist Everything Except Temptation: The Anarchist Philosophy of Oscar Wilde. It’s an incredibly fulfilling read about a fascinating writer, in which Wilde’s wit, aesthetics, and politics come to life in ways we’ve never seen in a work of literary criticism. Below is a short glimpse that should give […] […]

Stop Lecturing Black People A statement from Aishah Shahidah Simmons. ———- A brief word. I do not want to hear another politician, entertainer, athlete or anyone else of any race/ethnicity, use the media or other platforms to lecture to Black people about how we should respond to the virulent and relentless violence happening. I ain’t heard nary an auntie, uncle, mother, or […] […]