Imperialism Militant Anti-Imperialism and Liberal Anti-Imperialism: A Demarcation "Drawing this line can help to offer clarity on where each one of us may stand. It helps us to develop a more effective strategy in order to defeat imperialism."
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."
Trans Liberation Transphobia is a Respectability Politic: Thoughts on Black Community Defense "Contrary to some popular takes, centering the most vulnerable actually makes it easier (and is the only way) to fully account for all the struggles our people face as a totality."
History How We're Trapped in the Spectacle of Liberal Democracy "When picturing the revolutionary in the Sudanese Revolution, in Syria, in Chile, or in anywhere else in the world, don't forget to imagine how difficult it would be for them to adapt to American activist spaces because of our lack of collective tenacity."
Organizing Anarchism and Black Struggle "We change, our struggles change, and yet white allies tend to stay the same. We must thus either create anew or take tactile action. What we do represents what we think."
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."
Feminism Policing Black Feminism is Pig Work "[The colonized struggle] with one another for failing to meet the standards of gender behavior imposed on us by colonial oppressors."
Neocolonialism WHERE TO FOR PAN-AFRICANISM? - Entrenchment of Class Struggle & Neocolonialism in Africa "The prerequisite of a correct and global strategy to defeat neo-colonialism is the ability to discover and expose the way in which a state becomes neo-colonialist. It is this absence of ideology which poses a great danger to the ultimate liberation of the African people..."
Criticism Dragging White Leftists, Part Two: Fred Hampton Don’t Know You "If white leftists wanna imitate Fred Hampton, then maybe they should try merging their organizations with the Black mobs in Chicago – but we’ll wait til the ice caps melt completely before that happens."
Crime The Lumpen Factor “It’s not armed 3%’ers or Klan members we should be worried about — it’s those who can mimic the oppressed.”
Climate Change Burnin’ Down Massa’s House: Notes Toward a Black Radical Ecology "We need an ecological science...that is revolutionary and anti-colonial. [One] that reveals how the ecological problem is not an apocalypse, but is about the need for Massa’s house to burn."
Education Dragging White Leftists: My Anti-Drug "Today, if you are in good faith, you should do like Sartre did with Fanon and ask what, in spite of all, you can learn from our voices, now that we no longer address ourselves to you, but rather, to one another about you and beyond you."
Criticism Bad Faith and Afropessimism: Notes Toward a Debate "...the social world is not a product of natural laws, but is sustained by free human activity... voluntary human attitudes can make a difference in shaping the structures and outcomes of that world."
Surveillance Security Cameras on the Streets: Overtown, Miami FL "...British Home Office Study reported in 2005 that their cameras neither reduced crime nor fear of crime."
Criticism Identibuy "But something went wrong. Now the point is no longer to make a world where nobody has to be oppressed; now the point is to use 'oppressed' as a marketing demographic."
Gentrification FUCK THE STARBUCKS IN BED-STUY & HERE’S WHY: "...Despite developers, the sell-out politicians and their supporters believing that all these changes to the neighborhood are for the better, I still am asking 'better for who?'"
Criticism If the Masses Don’t Trust You, they Gon’ Shoot You — Still. "...Many Communists make the mistake of sequestering themselves in libraries and among their own clique or circle of friends, using them as a sort of stand in for the masses."
Ethics Given Morality vs Critical Ethics "...We, as revolutionaries, seek to do what’s right. Why, then, don't we have an ethical theory?"
