Coffee with Comrades

Today, we're sharing an interview with an Ashville-based collective called Firestorm Books. For those not already acquainted with our Appalachian comrades' work, Firestorm Books is a queer, feminist, anarchist collective operating a co-op bookstore and social movement space. Esmé, Ash, and Libertie sat down with me this past week to talk about starting up their cooperative business, the tensions a...

In this week's special, collaborative episode of Coffee with Comrades , Parker from Overcritical joins me to discuss the "most watched" television phenomenon of all time: Squid Game (2021).  Follow Overcritical on Twitter and Instagram . While you're at it, follow Parker , too! Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon , follow us on Twitter and Instagram and Mastadon , and visit our website . Pick...

In this edition of Coffee with Comrades , we talk with Dr. Mixæl Laufer about Four Thieves Vinegar Collective's most recent DIY, autonomous medicine shenanigans. Mixæl walks us through abortion pills that've been transposed to business cards. We talk about 4TVC's revamp of the Microlab Suite, which now features an intuitive system for researching medicines and helping you diagnose your own symptom...

Today, we're sharing an interview with Tallahassee-based poet, essayist, and social ecology community organizer, Adrien. You might know Adrien better by their pen-name, Cybele. Recently, Adrien put out a new essay called (Re)Growing Communal Life: Preparing the Soil for Revolution . I'd recommend checking it out, if you got a sec. The essay is pretty short and a brisk, lovely read. I've appreciate...

Today, I'm joined by labor organizer Tom Wetzel, author of the new book  Overcoming Capitalism: Strategy for the Working Class in the Twenty-First Century .   Pick up a copy of Tom's book,  Overcoming Capitalism .  Support Coffee with Comrades on  Patreon , follow us on  Twitter  and  Instagram , and visit our  website . Pick up a Coffee with Comrades shirt or coffee mug at  our official merch sto...

In this edition of Coffee with Comrades , we sit down with Kristian Williams, author of the new book Gang Politics: Revolution, Repression, and Crime . Kristian and I explore the long history of counterinsurgency, the emergence of gang-style political formations in the imperial core, the efficacy of community armed self-defense, and so much more.  Pick up a copy of Kristian's latest book, Gang Pol...

I recently sat down with Bruce E. Levine to talk about his new book A Profession without Reason: The Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry Untangled and Solved by Spinoza, Freethinking, and Radical Enlightenment . In my conversation with Bruce, we touched on a whole host of things: freethinking, care work, peer-to-peer mutual aid groups of psychiatric survivors, horizontal versus hierarchical modes of...

This week, we sat down with Dr. Alisha Gaines to talk about racialized empathy, the failures of white liberalism, collaborative pedagogy, and authentic solidarity. Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon , follow us on Twitter and Instagram , and visit our website . Pick up a Coffee with Comrades shirt or coffee mug at our official merch store . Coffee with Comrades is a proud member of the Channe...

Today, I'm very excited to share a conversation with you that I had with Peter Gelderloos, author of the new book The Solutions Are Already Here, available now through Pluto Press. Peter and I talk about why "climate change" doesn't quite capture the urgency of ecological catastrophe, why a fixation on "fossil fuels" is a strategic error, the kinship relations that inform our intricate and intimat...

In this week's edition of Coffee with Comrades, I'm joined by writer, artist, and game designer Gareth Damian Martin, developer of the new indie RPG Citizen Sleeper. Gareth and I talk about Citizen Sleeper's systems, structures, and mechanics, its vast cast of NPCs, themes of precarity and symbiosis, and the importance of mushrooms. Like Gareth's game, neither of us came up with many answers for h...

Chris, a psychotherapist with sixteen years in the field, joins me to critique the psych profession. We explore the history of psychology and psychiatric coercion, the violence and carceral logic implicit in locking away the "insane." We discuss the ways in which neurotypicality is constructed to serve the hegemony of the ruling class. Chris and I examine the ways that capital and the state regime...

On this week's edition of Coffee with Comrades , I am joined by carla bergman to discuss the pamphlet she co-authored with scott crow, Just anarchy . carla and I explore intergenerational struggle, burnout, the general utility of peer-to-peer mentorship, anarchist conceptions of authority, trusting kids, cultivating kinship, and a whole lot more.  Follow carla on Twitter , visit her website , chec...

Today, we're sharing an interview with Jay Dragon and Mercedes Acosta, two of the developers, designers, and writers behind the brand new TRPG Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast which, as of today, is officially available to support on Indiegogo! We had a really lovely conversation about sanctuary, refuge, transgender characterization, seeing elements of yourself reflected back at you in your writing, twitt...

This week, I am joined by my friend and comrade Charli Ash to talk about, well, a whole helluva lot. In this dialogue, Charli lays out trans* history, including how transgender folks have been pathologized, how trans* folks have accessed medical care for transition, the pathologization of transness, and a whole bunch more. Then, we transition to looking at the current moment and the anti-trans and...

I recently caught up with Tim Holland Pacal Bayley, better known as Sole and DJ Pain 1, to chat about their forthcoming record, P o s t - A m e r i c a n S t u d i e s , out this week on the record label Emergency Hearts. Tim, Pacal, and I had a humorous, wide-ranging chat about the record, its themes, and the artists' shared musical history. Pick up a copy of Post-American Studies by Sole & DJPai...

On this week's edition of Coffee with Comrades , I sit down with Margaret Killjoy to discuss the new edition of A Country of Ghosts , an anarchist utopian fantasy novel.  Pick up a copy of A Country of Ghosts !  Follow Margaret on Twitter and listen to Live Like the World is Dying .  Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon , follow us on Twitter and Instagram , and visit our website . Pick up a Co...

In this episode of C o f f e e w i t h C o m r a d e s , T.L and Greg, designers of the forthcoming third edition of B l o c b y B l o c : U p r i s i n g join me to discuss the game's revamped mechanics, new and emergent gameplay, mutual aid, insurrection, and so much more. In many ways, this conversation functions as a follow up to an earlier episode of C o f f e e w i t h C o m r a d e s , E p...

This week, I'm sharing a conversation I had with my family about children's liberation and parenting as radicals. The dialogue is pretty wide-ranging. We talk about the "bedtime discourse" that sparked the idea for this episode, chat about unschooling, the limitations of "abolishing the family," parenting as anarchists, how to be good models as adults in kids' lives, the tension between individual...

Did you know that "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" is secretly a song about stealing from the rich? Did you know the "Lord of Misrule" was the original holiday party animal? Did you know solidarity and justice are the real reason for the season? "Bread Santa" is a holiday special, a people's history of Christmas. Liz, of Rebel Steps , joins us to discuss the pagan origins of Christmas in Yule and W...

This week, I had a chance to hang out with my pal, Amy, and talk about the benign anarchy of Alcoholics Anonymous. We talk about the beauty and allure of voluntary association, why coercion doesn't help addicts recover, why seeing addiction as an "individual failing" rather than a systemic healthcare issue is facile and vacuous, and levy a whole bunch of critiques at the organization for its regre...

Recently, I had the chance to read a wonderful graphic novel put together by my friends nicole and Hugh called Wonder Drug: LSD in the Land of Living Skies . I sat down with the two of 'em to discuss the history of LSD research, psychedelics, hippies, capitalism, therapy, and a whole bunch more. I think the comic is lovely and I hope you'll pick up a copy if you enjoy this dialogue between the thr...

This week, we don't have a new interview for you but we do have a bunch of rad announcements, some of which are time-sensitive. If you're a Coffee with Comrades Patron (or you've ever considered becoming one,) this is definitely a 13 min. episode you don't wanna miss! · Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon , follow us on Twitter and Instagram , and visit our website . · Pick up a Coffee with Co...

This week, we share an interview with communist rapper JJ Demon. We touch on a whole host of topics: the prison industrial complex, capitalism as capital murder, solidarity, intersectionality, class war, and JJ's new LP, ghost gun Red Menace .  Follow JJ Demon on Twitter and stream ghost gun Red Menace wherever you get your favorite music.  Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon , follow us on Tw...

Recently, all of anarchist Twitter lit up like the Minneapolis Third Precinct when AK Press shouted out the forthcoming comic book, Durruti: Shadow of the People . I had the good fortune to sit down with Brenton and chat about the graphic novel, as well as the life and times of Beunaventura Durruti, the struggles of the anarchists and socialists against the fascists in Revolutionary Spain, and why...

I recently sat down with Andy from The Poor Proles Almanac to discuss, well, a whole bunch of shit. We talked about firearms, guerilla gardening, permaculture, and raising chickens. Andy even had the audacity to defend the Pumpkin Spice Latte on a podcast called Coffee with Comrades . Truly, the nerve… Support Poor Proles' Almanac on Patreon, follow them on Twitter and Instagram ! Support Coffee w...