Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness

Summary This October on Strangers we have our monthly feature The Devil Lives Here by Margaret Killjoy, a short story about things teenagers find in the woods. The word of the month is about dispossession. Stick around after the feature for an interview with Margaret about adolescence, wandering around in the foods, and weird supernatural shit. Read along for free at Tangled Wilderness.org and che...

Episode Summary This time on Strangers we have our September feature, Decanting by B. Garden. Decanting is a short story about being a sommelier on a starship with the dregs of humanity. Read along for free at TangledWilde TangledWilderness.org rness.org . Get copies of the monthly feature by signing up for the Zine of the Month Club on our Patreon . Guest Info B is a sommelier, writer, and aspiri...

Episode Summary This time on Strangers we have our August feature, Diva Down , a short story by our own Io Asunder about the revolutionary potential of someone who has been conscripted. Read along for free at TangledWilderness.org . Get copies of the monthly feature by signing up for the Zine of the Month Club on our Patreon . Guest Info Io can be found on Twitter @ Bum_lung or on Instagram @ Bum....

Episode Summary This time on Strangers we have our July feature, Brokeback Mount Doom , by our own Inmn Neruin. Brokeback Mount Doom is a short play that reimagines Lord of the Rings and Brokeback Mountain smashed together in glorious harmony. It was originally written for the stage as part of Shakesqueer Theater's production Ten Minute Movies. The feature was recorded as a radio play with the ori...

Episode Summary This time on Strangers we have our June feature (almost in June), Mallacht an Ghiorria by Sean Fitzgerald. Mallacht an Ghiorria or "Curse of the Hare" explores folklore and history around the Derryveagh evictions of 1861 in County Donegal, Ireland. Afterwards there's an interview with Sean about hares, curses, the hidden effects of colonization, and being a squatter punk...

Episode Summary This time on Strangers we have our May feature (I promise we're catching up), Talking to Rural Conservatives and How It Can, Surprisingly, Help Your Mental Health by Celeste Inez Mathilda, and it's a helpful guide about building communication skills, how to talk about politics with people we don't always agree with, and why that's important! Read along for free at TangledWilderness...

Episode Summary This time on Strangers we have our April feature zine (in June), Near Death by Hex. Near Death is a short collection of personal essays by Hex about getting shot by a Trump supporter and pulling life back together. You can read the zine for free at tangledwilderness.org Guest Info You can find Hex' writing at http://write.as/hexmhell/ Host Info Inmn can be found on Instagram @shado...

Summary This month on Strangers we have “Hurrah for Anarchy: a history of Haymarket, May Day, and the Chicago Anarchists” by Margaret Killjoy, which is a short historical article about…May Day. If you want to hear Inmn interview Margaret and Io about applying the lessons of the Haymarket Martyrs to the repression we're facing today, then check out Live Like the World is Dying. If you want to read...

Episode Summary This month on Strangers, we have a collection of poems from the road called Road Soda by A.A. Zatarian. The word of the month is about birds. Read along for free at TangledWilderness.org . Guest Info A.A. Zatarian (she/her) is a Mexican-American poet who spent most of the last twenty years traveling the United States. Her work focuses on discard and overlooked instances within the...

Episode Summary This month on Strangers, we have Additional Persecution Likely a translation by Oksana Mironova and Ben Nadler of selected sections of Delo Truda a Russian and Ukrainian anarchist newspaper published in exile in the wake of Russian Revolution. The word of the month is about a town in Ukraine. Read along for free at TangledWilderness.org . Guest Info Oksana Mironova was born in one...

Episode Summary This month on Strangers, we have "Beethoven on Bloor Street" by K. Zimmer. It's memoirist essay that is the first chapter of our newest book, "Up:Rising: a collection of rebellious imaginings from authors with lived experiences of mental health and addiction." The word of the month is about being transported. Read along for free at TangledWilderness.org . And co...

Episode Summary This month on Strangers, we have a short story by Margaret Killjoy titled Mary Marrow. It's about a witch and her cult, who hide in the woods and do...questionable things. There's an interview with Margaret after the feature about witches, fairy tales, and a bunch of other stuff. The word of the month is, unsurprisingly about magic. Read along at TangledWilderness.org for free. Als...

Episode Summary This time on Strangers, Casandra talks to Inmn about how to mediate a conflict. This episode started as a Live Like the World is Dying episode and got turned into a zine called Pocket Guide to Conflict Mediation. 1 Conflict happens, but it doesn’t have to be a disaster. Having the knowledge and tools on hand to deal with conflict before it happens is one of the best things we can d...

Episode Summary This month on Strangers, Miriam talks with Andy about his zine and the state of the world that inspired it. The title says it all. Find the zine at www.tangledwilderness.org. Guest Info Andy works with the Chosen Family Law Center, which offers free legal services for non-nuclear and LBGTQ families. Chosenfamilylawcenter.org @andyeyeballs.bsky.social Host Info Miriam can be found m...

Episode Notes This time on Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness, we have Into the Terror Castle: Gabby and Cuervo 1 by Jackson Culpepper. Into the Terror Castle is a piece of short fiction about urban exploring, the horrors of Capitalism, and cryptids. And if you like it, it’s a series! And you can find more from Jackson at linktr.ee/jcculpepper . Read along for free tangledwilderness.org . The word...

Episode Summary On This Month in the Apocalypse, James, Miriam, and Inmn talk about everything that happened in June, including a dive into the wildfires in Canada, an update the state of immigration enforcement, and a bit about a contentious election in NYC. Also, friend of the pod, Kneecap makes another appearance. Here's a link for the fundraiser James mentions for Primrose: http://gofund.me/dd...

Episode Notes This time on Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness, we have part two of a crossover episode with the Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness podcast, with our monthly feature zine Martyr Culture by Sara Blum., which is an essay about martyr culture within the Kurdish Freedom Movement. In the last episode we had an audio version of the zine as well as an interview with Sara about the piece and...

Episode Notes This month on Strangers, we have a crossover episode with Live Like the World is Dying, for our monthly feature zine Martyr Culture by Sara Blum., which is an essay about martyr culture within the Kurdish Freedom Movement. We have an audio version of the zine as well as an interview with Sara about the piece and her time with the YPJ. But, if you’d like to read along then check out o...

Summary This month on Strangers, Miriam and Inmn continue their talk with Olsen about how to organize and put on DIY shows and events. They go over some of the information in this month's feature zine "Hey Gang, Let's Put on a Show." You can read the zine here . There's no audio feature this month, because most of the information gets covered in the interview. And Inmn forgot to do a wor...

Summary This month on Strangers, Miriam and Inmn talk with Olson about how to organize and put on DIY shows and events. They go over some of the information in this month's feature zine "Hey Gang, Let's Put on a Show." You can read the zine here . There's no audio feature this month, because most of the information gets covered in the interview. And Inmn forgot to do a word of the month,...

Summary This month on Strangers, we have The Memory Shop by Melissa Ren, a short story about grief, belonging, and memory alteration. The word of the month is about deep care…and also deep anxiety. Read along at Tangledwilderness.org Guest Info Melissa Ren (she/her) is a Chinese-Canadian writer whose narratives tend to explore the intersection between belonging and becoming. She is a prize recipie...

Summary This month on Strangers, we have Wax by Henri Feola, a story about disaster, cataclysm, and memory. The word of the month is about speaking loudly, and we have an interview with Henri after the feature. The interview is sadly cut short by technical difficulties, but is still quite enjoyable. Guest Info Henri Feola (he/they) is a writer, musician, abolitionist, and mutual aid organizer base...

Episode Notes This isn't a real episode. It's an advertisement, but it's an advertisement for a really cool thing, a new new book by Margaret Killjoy that we're Kickstarting. You can get so many deals and cool rewards and stretch goals that have already been unlocked, as long as you're listening to this before March 21st at 9am est. If you're listening after that, then you can probably just go pre...

Summary This month on Strangers we have The Dandelion Gatherers: On Italian American Foodways, Anarchism, and Assimilation. This piece is a historical exploration of Italian American foodways, anarchism, and assimilation through folklore, newspaper stories, and accounts of women who gathered dandelions by the roadside.. The word of the month is about everyone's favorite revolutionary musical, besi...

Episode Summary This month on Strangers, we have a Live Like the World is Dying crossover episode because the feature is a Live Like the World is Dying Skill Series zine. Casandra talks with Aaron, the host of the Propaganda By the Seed podcast about edible perennial plants that you can grow. You can read the zine here or get a free PDF of it at www. Tangledwilderness.org . Guest Info Aaron Parker...