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"A Clean Hell" by Eric King arrived today
Looking forward to reading @/SupportEricKing’s book after listening to him talk at Seattle Anarchist Book Fair and be interviewed for the press tour.
PM Press sends a whole bunch of little treats to go along with their orders! Which was a nice surprise.
Eric King A Clean Hell opens the doors of America’s most secretive prison and lets the reader step into the cell to experience all the horro
The @/FreedomForFelons_ podcast interview released Dec. 19 is a standout for being about to talk about aspects of prison life with a level of immediate mutual intelligibility that is impossible without lived experience.
The reminder of the Rattling the Cages oral histories that King edited with Josh Davidson was good to have, and would make a good next read, but like King and the hosts were saying, people who haven’t lived it find it hard to believe that prisoners talking about personal and systemic abuse by guards is real. Rikers: An Oral History by Graham Rayman and Reuven Blau was comprehensive and beyond persuasive, but a huge part of that was guards also admitting it.
With @/Anark (Daniel Baryon), King also spoke to the realities of how you hold onto your principles amid systems that don’t give you agency for ideological purity (e.g. being forced at higher security prisons to only associate within-race, therefore with white supremacists) or what battles you fight for your principles (e.g. veganism).
The conversation on what prisoner support really looks like and how letter writing should not be viewed as charity but mutual exchange between people was also really insightful, esp. “send me the books I like to read, not the ones you think I should read”. That wasn’t primarily a lesson on anarchism but worth remembering: even people who are in the most vulnerable circumstances deserve better than you thinking you know what’s best for them rather than themselves. And the @/SeekingWitchcraft podcast was a really good conversation on many of those same things but with the added focus on what following a personal, non-Christian and specifically pagan practice looks like inside a culturally Christian institution meant to dominate and destroy your body and spirit.
Ashley sits down with Eric King, author of A Clean Hell: Anarchy and Abolition in America’s Most Notorious Dungeon. Eric is an anarchist who
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Again, have not yet read the book itself, but really excited to, based on all these things so far.
Lesbianism Means Giving Women Primacy
"The long memory is the most radical idea in this country. It is the loss of that long memory which deprives our people of that connective flow of thoughts and events that clarifies our vision, not of where we are going, but where we want to go." -Utah Phillips (RIP), Signal01
"Signal is an idea in formation. It is a response to the myopia of contemporary political culture in the united states, our blindness to most things beyond our national boundaries, and our lack of historical memory." -Signal01
These are just a few of my favorite panels and quotes from Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Cultures
It is edited and curated by Alec Dunn and Josh Macphee of Half Letter Press, find it and their other publications here.
Did you know that more than 40% of SHE IS HERE is an original novella, "Many Things In Dumnet," that will form part of a *delicious* sword-swangin' alt-history fantasy lathered with love and lust, loss and longing, and lusty lesbians using music (and sex and swords) to save the world? You do now...
This Is a Message to Persons Unknown: The Story of Poison Girls
published by PM Press
A labor of love and beautifully designed, This Is a Message to Persons Unknown: The Story of Poison Girls has been years in the making... and has at last arrived!
Author: Rich Cross • Designed by Alec Dunn • Edited by Erin Yanke ISBN: 9798887441368 Published: 11/25/2025 Format: Softcover Size: 8 x 10 Pages: 320
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Beezus B. Murphy • Tatiana Gill A unique coming-of-age tale told by a self-described dyslexic-asexual-lesbian-feminist teenager and illustra
My Mom Had an Abortion is a unique coming-of-age tale told by a self-described dyslexic-asexual-lesbian-feminist teenager and illustrated by body-positive comic artist Tatiana Gill. We follow our protagonist Beezus B. Murphy as she chronicles her evolving understanding of menstruation, reproduction, and abortion and finds her place in a confusing world. Initially influenced by harmful narratives in pop media such as the “the pregnant teenager” cliche, we watch Beezus’s ideas change as her body changes and as she learns more about the intricacies of her family history and her mom’s own reproductive experiences. She grows from a confused, out-of-place kid into a self-assured, empathetic, and strong-willed activist teen. As Beezus says, “People shouldn’t be shamed for getting or not getting abortions. Young people absorb the information that we gather from our surroundings. Sometimes it’s good information and other times it can be harmful. But now I realize abortion is perfectly normal and should be kept safe and legal.” Sprinkled with pop culture references, hilariously apt descriptions of unwanted body changes and menstruation like the chapter “Blood, Bath, and Beyond,” and instantly understandable revelations of growing-up, this beautifully illustrated short graphic novel crucially fills a cultural gap around complexities of abortion, pop culture, body changes, and finding out where we fit in.
The world’s first English ABC story book about Palestine with stunning illustrations. | Check out 'P Is for Palestine: A Palestine Alphabet
"P Is for Palestine: A Palestine Alphabet Book and Counting up the Olive Tree: A Palestine Number Book are needed now more than ever. These colorful and empowering books for children of all ages showcase the power of cooperation and the geography, beauty, and strength of Palestinian culture.
Help get these Palestinian kids books into as many hands as possible, including schools, libraries, bookstores, and community centers and wherever books are banned.
...You can preorder the books, get combo packs with other resources, help donate copies to libraries and community centers, and pick up the new Free Palestine Soccer Jersey, which is a benefit for Librarians and Archivists with Palestine (LAP).
Thank you for the support. Help share this project far and wide. Free Palestine."