Category: AK Authors!
Posted on May 30th, 2019 in AK Authors!, Happenings
Nora Samaran (author of the essay “The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture”) is launching a new book in June! Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture will be officially released on June 18. You can learn more here and preorder your copy. Nora will be heading out on tour soon […]
Posted on April 23rd, 2019 in AK Authors!, Happenings
Shawna Potter’s Making Spaces Safer: A Guide to Giving Harassment the Boot Wherever You Work, Play, and Gather comes out in May and she’ll be doing some east coast release events to celebrate! Mark your calendar: BOSTON: Sunday, May 19 at 4pm @ Armageddon Shop Boston—https://www.facebook.com/events/303908616971896/ NYC: Monday, May 20 at 7pm @ Strand Book […]
Posted on November 28th, 2018 in AK Authors!, Recommended Reading
AK Thompson’s newest book Premonitions: Selected Essays on the Culture of Revolt is back from the printer and available for purchase. It’s a powerful text, full of useful strategic and analytical insights about how our social movements work…and how they don’t. We had a short conversation with him to get him to share some of […]
Posted on June 19th, 2018 in AK Authors!, Current Events
This is a guest post from Shane Burley, author of Fascism Today. Shane has the last event of his east coast tour this evening in Washington, DC—see here for details! White nationalism is implicitly violent, it cannot exist without it. The proposition is, by its own merits, steeped in the most expansive and profound sorts […]
Posted on June 13th, 2018 in AK Authors!, Happenings
Shane Burley, author of Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It, will be on the east coast for a few days giving talks in three cities on, you guessed it, understanding today’s fascist forces and how to defeat them. Here’s the low-down, along with links to the events on Facebook: . . […]
Posted on May 16th, 2018 in AK Authors!, Happenings
As Black As Resistance will be released on June 5th, and we’re already getting excited! Here’s where you can catch the authors Zoé Samudzi and William C. Anderson discussing the book next month: Wed. June 6: 6:30pm @ Potter’s House, DC Thurs. June 7: 7:30pm @ Red Emma’s, Baltimore Fri. June 8: 7pm @ Wooden […]
Posted on April 13th, 2018 in AK Authors!, Happenings
May Made Me is hot off the press, and author Mitchell Abidor will be doing a series of launch events on the east coast of the US as well as in the UK! Here’s when and where you can find him discussing the book: April 17: 6pm @ Slought Foundation, Philadelphia April 22: 3:30pm @ […]
Posted on December 27th, 2017 in About AK, AK Authors!, Recommended Reading
We recently chatted with Shane Burley about his new book Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It. Given the current political situation, both the book and Shane’s strategic suggestions are important for all of us to consider, debate, and expand upon. —– Q: I know that you’ve been at this a while. […]
Posted on January 30th, 2017 in AK Authors!, Current Events
Call it the return of the repressed. Reviewing footage from the D.C. demonstrations on January 20, I couldn’t help but weep. Between the people locked down with PVC pipes in static blockades, the demonstrations that swelled to proportions so great that even journalists were forced to use adjectives like “historic,” and the magnificent meme-able resurrection […]
Posted on December 7th, 2016 in AK Authors!, AK News, Uncategorized
“Today more than ever anarchists, the romantics forever being vilified by every brand of realist, need to stake their proud claim to political far-sightedness and the cultural dignity of their tradition and to turn them into weapons, instead of tossing them overboard as jetsam.” AK Press has just released the first of ten volumes (Volume […]