Anarkata - Red Voice

The Last Shall Be First, Pt. III: Every Cook Is Still Governed (For CLR James)

"It is tantalizing to think of where [James's] theoretics might have gone, had he taken up the "anarchist" label proudly, and began re-examining his early writings on Black revolution and popular movements in their light."

Anarkata

Against Sex Class Theory: Some Notes On Science, Materialism, and Gender Self-Determination

"I want to put a critique of cissexism at the center of my analysis; this is what makes my thinking Black/Third World transfeminism as opposed to just a Black/Third World feminism."

African Liberation

The Wretched Shall Inherit The Earth, The Meek Shall Inhabit Our Worth: Some Parables for the Third World

These are four parables for those seeking a new way of being, in turning toward Autonomy, anarchy, abolition, full communism, gender/sexual liberation; toward African spiritual traditions, and a "root-grasping," revolutionary science, guided by material analysis.

Africa

My Gender is Marronage: A Revisitation

"A vulnerable soul... flies not because she is reducible to spirit or resistance but because she is a complex human responding to the conditions forced onto her."

Capitalism

Capitalism, Socialism, and Leftist Political Economy (Pt. 1): Basics of Capitalism

[Capitalists are] people who do nothing but skim profit by paying those who do all the work less than they are worth, and use this profit to control society.

Police

Community Control of the Police: Is It Neocolonialism?

"Black people can not have “power” over the police because under colonization Black people have no power. Insofar as power entails the ability to overdetermine and shape the culture of policing, power will always be reserved for the colonial policing state."

Anarkata

Not Fox, Not Wolf, But the Wildcat

"Where the fox is US liberalism and the wolf is US conservatism, the wildcat is the global Black/Pan African revolution. We do not have to and should not depend on ballots and billionaires when we can turn toward Black radical traditions."

Anarkata

Study, Solidarity, Spirit, Struggle: The Anarkata Turn, pt. 2

"Too much revolutionary community work of today has fallen victim to the capitalist habit of isolating certain variables from the totality they operate in..."

Interview

Clout Culture: Queer Liberation and Social Capitalism

"Revolutionary activity should be the conscientious expression of unconscious striving for liberation by the masses and the margins; but clout culture means we are simply involved because we are loyal to individual figures or formations."

Anarkata

Kickbacks, Ancestors, and Wildcats: The Anarkata Turn

"A group of kids in the hood did something anarchic without identifying as revolutionaries. A group of kids in the hood did something anarchic without even knowing who or what ‘the left’ or ‘Kuwasi Balagoon’ is."