General Leftism
I believe that there cannot and should not be anarchism without communism. Mutual aid should be the main goal of everyone everywhere in the short term. That said, I like to learn from different kinds of leftists.
Resources
- International Workers of the World
- Athena
- Better Future Program's Liberation Library: I was recently made aware of this, and haven't dug into it yet.
Good Sites
- The Anarchist Library
- It's Going Down
- Crimethinc
- Marxists Internet Archive
- sub.media
- Anarkismo
- A Brief History of Japanese Anarchism
- Second Thought
- NonCompete
- StepBack History
- azureScapegoat
- Bad Mouse Productions
- Renegade Cut
- Thought Slime
Recommended Reading
- Why Liberals Pretend They Have No Power
- Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
- Read Settlers
- che.lat
Antifascism
Resources
News
Decent News Sources
- Unicorn Riot
- The Intercept
- First Thought News
- The Majority Report
- Some More News
- Hope For the Planet: Fighting Environmental Despair
- Unseen Japan
Prison Abolition
Help Prisoners Directly
Resources
Recommended Reading
- Prison Abolition Resource Guide
- A Brief History of Slavery and the Origins of American Policing
- Interrupting Criminalization
- Critical Resistance
- Abolition Journal
- A World Without Policing Study Guide
- Resource Guide: Abolition, Policing & the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC), and Transformative Justice
- Yes, American police act like occupying armies. They literally studied their tactics
- How Police Became the Go-to Response to Domestic Violence
- Prisons Are a Public Health Crisis
- Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop
ICE and Anti-Immigrant Oppression
Resources
- #FreeThemAll: Toolkit to Support Local Demands for Mass Release of People in ICE Custody
- The Immigrant Children's Shelters Near You
Anti-Racism and Indigenous Rights
Resources
Recommended Reading
- Black and Asian-American Feminist Solidarities: A Reading List
- Autonomously and with Conviction: A Métis Refusal of State-Led Reconciliation
- "Cohost So White: A Comprehensive Record of the Matter of Race on Cohost.org" by Alyaza Birze
- What is the Ethical Way to Climb Out of Hell?
Mental Health
See also my OCD page.- How mental health became a social media minefield by Rebecca Jennings
Environmental Activism
- So much tear gas has been sprayed on Portland protesters that officials fear it's polluted the water
- "How Trapped Palestinians Fell in Love With Bird-Watching" by Marta Vidal
Feminism
Sex
See also: Kink resources.- "Science Stopped Believing in Porn Addiction. You Should, Too"by David J. Ley
- The Trans and Autistic Guide to Crusing by Dr. Devon Price
LGBT Community
- Nobody Left to Believe: Why are gays so afraid of Freddie Mercury?
- Does the Title of “Queer” Still Promise a Radical Book?
Japanese LGBT Rights
Bisexuality
Antitransmasculinity
Readings on antitransmasculinity as a force in society, overwhelmingly wielded by cis people, against people perceived to be transmasculine.
I strongly disagree with the usage of the words "transandrophobia" and "transmisandry" as they imply that misandry is real. Instead, I think transmasculine and transfeminine people face equal, though sometimes different, types of violence and transphobia.Required Reading
- On “Male Socialization” and the “Trans Masc Versus Trans Fem” Discourse™ : On transmasc misappropriation of transmisogyny and the current culture war of "TME vs TMA".
- How the Criminalization of Testosterone Attacks Gender Variant People
- Op-ed: Trans Men Experience Far More Violence Than Most People Assume: Study is mentioned where it was found that "...transmasculine individuals were actually more likely to be victims of childhood sexual assault, adult sexual assault, dating violence, domestic violence, and stalking than were transfeminine individuals".
- Making Sense Out of the Murders of Trans Men: "The common misgendering of trans murder victims obscures any remotely accurate numbers we could quote about the actual prevalence of this phenomenon.".
- : "...trans men’s relationship to gender cannot be understood by adding the privilege of maleness to the oppression of transness; the interaction between these axes substantively transforms both such that it generates an experience qualitatively different from either alone."
Recommended Reading
- "Irl we just kiss" / antitransmasculinity: 'transmasc vs transfem' discourse & reactionary 'boys vs girls' politics in trans spaces
- Transunitism Manifesto
- How Do I Know if I'm Transmasculine?
- Invisible Men: Female-to-Men And Homelessness In Toronto
- There is a hidden epidemic of violence against transmasculine people
- Archive of Violence Against Trans Men: Obviously very heavy stuff, but important.
- A Tale of a Trans Man in Pakistan
Paganism and Politics
Cults
- Stepping Into the Uncanny, Unsettling World of Shen Yun
- The Cult-Like Following Of Lululemon Is Stronger Than Ever — Despite Controversies
- Lululemon's Cult Culture: Get Fit or Die Trying
- Yoga, spinning and a murder: My strange months at Lululemon
Old Web
- The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again by Anil Dash
- Tech Workers Rebel Against a Lame-Ass Internet by Bringing Back ‘GeoCities-style’ WebRings by Eli Motycka
- Neocities celebrates ‘the old internet,’ offering relief from 24/7 social feeds by Rosy Hearts
- The Windows 3.x Showcase
Miscellaneous
- Down the Rabbit Hole: The world of estranged parents' forums: This is a collection of curated Windows 3.x software, meant to show the range of software products available for the 3.x Operating System in the early 1990s.
- Social Media Is Not Self-Expression by Rob Horning