Disability Day of Mourning
Ableism doesn’t only affect disabled people but affects everyone: we are all being judged on our ability/inability to be a good productive and obedient worker for the capitalists/fascists.
The Rights of Spring
“Don’t Tread On the Grass…” A poem to celebrate the release of Philip Kane’s book, The Decipherment of Nature
The Sound of Less
What if the anthems we orchestrate to lead us out of the echo chamber of our times are ensuring our permanent residence there?
THE TIME TO STAND UP IS NOW
Fascism can no longer be considered "a detail of history" that World War Two consigned.
Announcing: The Going Down, by Duncan Barford
A new esoteric novel from Sphinx and Sul Books
Psychotherapeutic Access and the Contradictions of Progressive Neoliberalism
You can’t use capitalist methods to provide free or accessible public services.
Folk, A Living Tradition: Plough Playing & Wassailing
Folklore connects us to one another and to the land where we find ourselves, but they also allow us to access the knowledge of those who came before.
The Second Time As Farce
“… to borrow the phrase my friend Alley Valkyrie is fond of using about every apparent “contradiction” within liberal democracy: “it’s not a bug — it’s a feature.” In other words, the problems that seem to keep the capitalist liberal order from making good on its claims can never be resolved, because it needs to create them in order to exist.”
On Falling
What I'm inviting is for us to take our psyches and our power back from derangement and doom.
Winter Solstice Musings: Howling in the Darkness
It’s not late, but the gloom of the late afternoon deepens. The morning star, or rather the evening star, Venus, is like a diamond shining bright, rising in the deepening darkness of the sky, even as the horizon is splashed with a fabulous orange light.
Stealing The Elephant
I am inspired by the example of those early socialists, descendants of revolutionary Romanticism, who saw no absolute divide between the struggle for a socialist society and contiguous efforts to heal the wound of human alienation from nature.
Why “the left” didn’t buy what the Democrats were selling
The Democrats failed to understand that some of us actually believe the things we say we do, and that we refuse to betray our deepest values no matter how much we’re threatened.